BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!

Subject: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: GUEST,Keinstein
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 04:12 AM

Look at the detail of this beautiful image of Jupiter from the New Horizons space probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, launched 18 months ago.

It makes me so frustrated that the Universe has imposed that arbitrary speed limit (only 670 million miles per hour) and it would take us years to go and see distant solar systems for ourselves.

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:49 AM

thought it was about the Faith Jupiter guitar. I think they're wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 12:01 PM

For many, many more images that will make you frustrated at the limitations of we poor mortals, see Astronomy Picture of the Day at NASA's site...

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 01:20 PM

Absolutely fascinating! Glorious photo of Jupiter. Thanks for posting that, Keinstein.

And thanks to Bill for posting that NASA picture link. There's my supply of desktop wallpaper for a long time to come (I'm particularly fond of such photos for desktop wallpaper).

While browsing through some of them, I ran into this:   CLICKY.   Scroll down and read the "explanation." That sure gets the imagination galloping!

Could it be that this is where Dejah Thoris and Tars Tarkas are hanging out?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 02:11 PM

That's a pretty BIG hole, Don!

Thanks, Keinstein, for the link. It looks like a black and white of one of my old marbles.

Bill, thanks, to you, too. I keep forgetting to go there each day and take a look. That one of the Tetons is incredibly beautiful.

THIS ONE inspired me to make a tile of it in an enamelling class I was taking at the time. Turned out pretty neat, too.

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 03:23 PM

I have LOTS of wallpaper from that site, Don. It rotates every hour or so....it's amazing every time I see it.

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:27 PM

Re:   the hole(s) in Mars (apparently, seven of them discovered so far).

Curiouser and curiouser!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:34 PM

This is one of the rare times that I wish I could live a lot longer. As a teenager I expected that space travel would be as easy as flying to LA by the time I reached 50. It isn't and it won't be. SIGH. Very frustrating.

And yes, it is very beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Mickey191
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:57 PM

Sunday Night-unto morning I kept looking for the "shower" we were promised. Nothing appeared but a few stars. Though I'm on a wee mountain with nothing that would interfere. Disappointing.

Bill D.Thanks for the beautiful NASA pixs. The Dotted Dunes of Mars-sounds like a song title. Kat, that is one breathtaking site you chose. AWESOME!

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 08:48 PM

I thought this thread was about "The Marrow Song"...

Oh, what a beauty!
I've never seen one as big as that before!

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: GUEST,Bert on Kelly's machine.
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 09:25 PM

Great site Bill, I think I'll have the macaroni spirals with pesto sauce here

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 09:53 PM

wow, Bert...that is one image I had missed, since I usually get into the Galactic stuff first! But that is amazing...

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: open mike
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 11:23 PM

i saw loads of shooting stars sunday night...here on this mountain.

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 12:49 AM

I agree with Don--great desktop stuff here! I'd already saved a shot of the stars over the Tetons before I read his remark. Thanks, Bill D!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 10:47 AM

Thought this was pretty neat:

Telescope films 'comet' star that leaves planets in wake

ASTRONOMERS have recorded a previously unknown galactic phenomenon - the first distant star with a comet-like tail powerful enough to form planets.

The trail of carbon, oxygen and other cosmic matter behind the giant red star Mira, named after the Latin word for wonderful, is 13 light years long - about 20,000 times the distance from Pluto to the Sun.

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer photographed the extraordinary spectacle, providing researchers with further clues to the origins of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

Christopher Martin, of the California Institute of Technology, said: "I was shocked when I first saw this completely unexpected, humungous tail trailing behind a well-known star. Mira's tail echoed, on vast, interstellar scales, a speedboat's wake."

The discovery, he said, gave astronomers a unique opportunity to study how stars similar to the Sun die and eventually seed new solar systems.

As Mira, which is more than 400 million miles in diameter, speeds along at 291,000mph, it sheds a massive amount of life-giving matter that can form newer stars and planets.

The tail, captured by the Galaxy Explorer's powerful wide-range lens, was formed over a period of 30,000 years.

The egg-shaped Mira has been a favourite subject of scientific study since its discovery by the 16th-century astronomer David Fabricius.

Subject: RE: BS: By Jupiter! What a beauty!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 09:51 PM

"David Fabricius"

You mean HE made it up?