OT: Astronomy Picture of the Day
 

Here's a great website for those of you who haven't already seen it and have an interest in space exploration in general and astronomy in particular. This Picture (Link) in particular is just awesome I think.

The address to find the current picture of the day is:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Enjoy the beautiful pictures!

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Cool picture. I've been to that site a few times, but can never remember to check it on my own. They have some realy good ones there.

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I use APOD on a regular basis. My wallpapers, a lot of my nebula pics for SEIV, all come from downloads from it.

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A lot of the system images in FQM originally came from there, collected by Woundwart. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Speaking of which... any spectacular new images that need including? Make sure to check the new 2.10, as a lot of images that I did not care for were replaced or removed. There are several open slots in the nebulas that are currently using duplicate image calls and can easily be replaced.

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Fy, I'll take a look at 2.1 this evening and get back to you.

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I have that bookmarked, but I also keep forgetting to look at it.

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Ditto. The internet is just too damn big, and I have a veritable plethora of interests. I surf like a schizophrenic butterfly.

T

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lol

/me hands Turin a trophy - One of the good ones.

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Are those dark parallel bands on the upper part of Saturn the cloud patterns of Saturn or are they shadows of the rings? The angle of those bands seem kind of unusual?

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They are shadows from the rings according to the caption.