"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

— New York Times

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NGC 7538

By ebfaulkner6a at Mon, 09/29/2014 - 8:26pm

170 minutes combined LRGB image thru Astro-Tech 111EDT L-3, R-5, G-4, B-5 10 minute exposures combined in MaximDL6 color adjusted in PS6; 881 light years from Earth in Cassiopeia. Astro-Tech 111edt cf, guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, imaged with SXVR-H9, Starlight Xpress Mini Wheel. Manchester, New Jersey

Water Spaces

By kuky at Mon, 08/13/2012 - 5:08pm

Water Series

NON-ASTRO

By ebfaulkner6a at Sun, 08/05/2012 - 7:11pm

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Pluto Charon

By myamiphil at Tue, 08/19/2008 - 3:51pm

A composite of 13x13 arcsec wide images taken with the adaptive optics camera NACO on Yepun, one of the Unit Telescopes of ESO's VLT (Paranal). The images were taken in the K-band (2.2 microns) from about three hours to about one hour before the occultation. All images were centered on Pluto and Charon, the double object visible near the center, with a separation of about 0.9 arcsec. Because of the system's motion, the occulted star, at the right of Pluto and Charon, appears as a dotted trail, and so does another star in the lower left corner.

Another view of the icey surface - in color

By myamiphil at Mon, 06/23/2008 - 11:21pm

In color this time!

Another view of the icey surface - in color

Mars icey foot

By myamiphil at Mon, 06/23/2008 - 11:18pm

First views of the icey imprint after "Phoenix" dug through the surface

Frozen in Time