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APOD: Stars and Mars
apod.nasa.gov — Wandering through the evening sky, on May 4th planet Mars stood in line with Castor and Pollux, the two bright stars of the constellation Gemini. In this time exposure of the celestial alignment, Mars actually takes on a distinct yellowish hue, contrasting in color with Pollux; a giant star known to have a Jupiter-class planet, and Castor
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- SooHumm, on 05/10/2008, -1/+5Really great pict.
- jdmcadam, on 05/10/2008, -0/+4Óengus mac Fergusa. Now THERE was a great Pict.
- nucleo, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1A cool pic of tree sky master targets.
- annsid, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2I love the color contrast between Pollux, Castor and Mars! Pollux is a giant star, but not excessively big, and not strikingly cool and red, either. Castor is hot enough that it would look distinctly blue to us if it was closer to us. Mars, though, really is strikingly reddish because of all that oxidized iron on the surface of it - you know, rust!
- annsid, on 05/10/2008, -1/+0Another thing - note how the Milky Way gets "thicker" toward the lower right of the picture!
- Aeroslin, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1That's the zodiacal light.
- Odenized, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1A very clear photo and very powerful. Should be a bookmark of every astronomy lover!
- Aeroslin, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1I love the smooth coloring of the brighter stars and mars. Great pic!
- Fuzzycop, on 05/10/2008, -3/+0Great picture, but I hate it when they do the mouse-over thingy to label the objects in the image! It really gets in the way of a good photo!
- seedhead, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0just click on the image and it will take you to the bigger version without the mouse-over effect.
- Anomaly100, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0A celestial masterpiece.
- cheung3305, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0These little stars are always fascinating.
- Dealjobber, on 05/10/2008, -2/+3Now I know how Pollux and Castor Troy are named in FaceOff. Learn something new everyday.
Mars = Sean Archer?- whalt, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1The Face Off characters and the stars are both named after characters in Greek mythology, twins actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux
- whalt, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1The Face Off characters and the stars are both named after characters in Greek mythology, twins actually.
- colonels1020, on 05/10/2008, -1/+3aPod
- benchwarmer, on 05/11/2008, -0/+1haha it seems like APOD has become the new iPod -- APOD has frontpaged quite often of late
- bouche, on 05/11/2008, -1/+1I've got news for you. There is an RSS feed of APOD images that you can subscribe to and spare us from seeing these images posted on Digg every goddamn day. yeesh! who's with me?
- obliviousfool, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Dugg. I wondered at the time what the alignment was, but I was too lazy to look it up.
- spacescoop, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0For amateur astronomers, any event or picture showing planets and major stars getting close are exciting. Dugg!
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