Astronauts' favorite Hubble images

 jagdriver wrote: 

Very cool.  The cam from downtown MKE shows what it would have looked like in real time, although probably not quite as big a blot as that. 

Care to guess how big the object was?  My guess is that it was about the size of a basketball.  And there should be some ground debris, but it would be very small.

 jagdriver wrote: 
Pretty cool! I don't think it was visible in Chi

Another look at the meteor:

 Proclivities wrote: 
OMG - acid flashback.

 Manbird wrote: 



Hah!  CNN called us "mysterious".

 Manbird wrote: 
Meteorites are natural phenomena.

Mysterious Fireballs are a sign of the Apocalypse!

 Zep wrote:  Ahh!  Look at that.   And such an intense red sky even before Icelandic ash was added to the scene.

 miamizsun wrote: 
Hey CNN, it's 2010, not 1010 - meteorites aren't "MYSTERIOUS FIREBALLS" anymore!!!

Venus to the upper left, Mercury to the center.

A three-percent lit crescent moon is an ooh-ahh sight, and being so close to Mercury, should be even more interesting.

Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky
Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said.

 plaice3 wrote: 
Shhhh..... Don't tell anyone....

 miamizsun wrote: 
This is just the coolest thread ...

 Zep wrote: 

  and Douglas Adams is the most quotable person in the universe

 Zep wrote:
A microfractional snapshot estimates over 100 billion galaxies? That's f'n big.  

 miamizsun wrote: 
Space ... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is.

Also available in HD

 Zep wrote: 
That's a very good point. Slippery slope and all....