MetaFilter posts tagged with stars

Sparkle sparkle

divabat — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:33:42 -0800

Starshine - catch the stars with your comet by clicking on the centres of gravity at the right times. Short, relaxing, charming Flash game.

n-Suit Playing Card Decks

wanderingmind — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:51:36 -0800

Everyone knows hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. So how do you extend this to more than four suits? Stars are a natural choice, although they sort of ruin the red/black symmetry. You could appeal to gaming history by making a six-suited deck with crowns and anchors. Or you could just double everything and come up with a whole four extra suits.

Stars In Your Eyes

Miko — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:36:12 -0800

See Saturn this Saturday April 12 is the second annual International Sidewalk Astronomy Night, a worldwide event coordinated by the Sidewalk Astronomers. The group, founded in 1968 by John Dobson (subject of this documentary), is dedicated to a sort of guerrilla astronomy -- experienced stargeeks bringing their really good telescopes out to places where people are. So even on your way to the bars, the shows, and the honky-tonk you can see stuff like this and this - like these people did.

My Fair Ladys are both in control and easily led

arcticwoman — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:29:44 -0800

Oscarology is a system of astrology I invented -- excuse me, that was revealed to me in a powerful mystical experience -- based on what movie won the Best Picture Oscar for the year you were born. I have been communing with the Spirit of the Oscars and transcribing the visions it has vouchsafed to me.

And in the center ring, Britney Spears gets devoured by lions! Whee!

miss lynnster — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:44:07 -0800

With the success of American Gladiators and no writers in sight, tv networks are reaching into the past for ideas. You knew it would happen sooner or later. Yep... they're digging deep: Circus of the Stars is coming back. Could Battle of the Network Stars be far behind? (Kinda) special moments from circuses and "stars" past: David Soul sensitively bonds with tigers! Weird Al on the sway pole! William Katt races the Wheel of DEATH! (probably the most impressive, really) Richard Simmons as... RUBBERMAN! People I don't know and Balki on trapeze! Pernell Roberts and his lethal hands! David Janssen throws knives at Lynda Carter! Who then rides a horse in circles to the worst music you will ever hear! Dierdre Hall hangs on an elephant! The Big Ragoo pulls a Houdini as Debbie Reynolds worries! Emma Samms cheats a fiery death! Harvey Korman twists Mary Hart around! I'm just hoping the famewhores from The Hills gets violently shot out of a cannon or something. Preferably into another country.

Billions and Billions

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:38:08 -0800

Billions and Billions astrophotography CCD gallery / film gallery / equipment / tutorials

We live in a wonderfully insane universe.

brundlefly — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:18:55 -0800

NASA Astronomers Find Bizarre Planet-Mass Object Orbiting Neutron Star [via]

And the baths of all the western stars, until I die

blahblahblah — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:34:25 -0800

Under alien skies: Start with the simply stunning Exosolar, a flash-based interface for navigating through 2,000 nearer stars in 3-D, including all discovered planets outside our solar system. See what the skies would look like from other planets and suns. Explore star maps from many science fiction universes, from Star Trek to Dune. Watch the Big Dipper change its shape over a hundred thousand years. Zoom into a face-on map of the Milky Way that would cover 16 square meters if printed, and see the Atlas of the Universe. [prev. on extrasolar planets, prev. on star maps]

Wikisky - Online Starmap and Wiki

Jimbob — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:30:51 -0800

It's like Google Maps...for space. Wikisky is a draggable, zoomable, web-based star map. And if you click on a star or other object, it brings up a page with all the information you could want on it, including recent articles and astrophotos that contain that object. And it does lots more. Go explore.

See a nova in Scorpius

frecklefaerie — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:45:24 -0800

"A Naked-Eye Nova in Scorpius" - Scorpius, the constellation home to M4, has a nova visible to the naked eye. Skytonight.com has a cool javascript almanac for you to see when it will be most visible for where you live.