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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 1232: A Grand...
To make more clear just how arbitrary the term is, just follow the Wikipedia link to the paper where the term was coined, and we see that it has nothing to do with anything we're talking about here!...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Cathedral,...
Visto che sei di Torino te lo spiego in italiano; io ho vissuto per anni in pieno centro con vista su Superga; decine di volte ho visto la Luna sorgere da dietro la Basilica, la luna come si sa ha...
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The spikiness on the left side starts at the 9:30, or 270+ position. I would hope the artificial explanations are being reviewed.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:19 pm — Replies 6 —...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Something has fallen...
Phew!Thanks, Chris!John retro bowl college Landing a mission on Mars leaves a mark. It's not just the remains of the landing equipment that gets left behind on the surface.Statistics: Posted by...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Four arms or two?
Well, time to ask our alien friends in LMC and SMC about how our galaxy looks like Alien on Oumuamua from SMC.png Slope Gamehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamuaAnnWhat is one piece of evidence that...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Jupiter and the...
I agree. The color of the meteor is quite unrealistic (as Chris also pointed out). Also, like Chris, I found it very strange that the background stars are virtually all colorless.Let's compare the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A SAR Arc from...
was taken earlier this monthcould be 'last' month, according to photographer's Instagram.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:57 pm — Replies 15 — Views 762
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Zeta Oph: Runaway...
It is only recently that we have been able to measure the proper motion for more than a handful of nearby stars. Before Hipparcos and Gaia we simply didn't have the sensitivity to see that motion for...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Seeing the nearest stars
Besides molecular biosignatures, detecting generated light seems an obvious method of finding advanced civilizations. Since we have a giant telescope that detects IR, could it help find heat...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Trapezium: At the...
While there is some (largely untested) theory regarding the possibility of tiny primordial black holes, created in the earliest stages of the evolution of the Universe, there is no known mechanism for...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Submissions: 2024 January
The Sun in 2023Copyright: György SoponyaiI'm planning to continuously observe the Sun during a whole 11-year-long solar cycle. The first year of this project was 2023 when I captured the Solar disk...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • NOIRLab: The ‘Brightest of...
The Crab Nebula supernova remnant is famous for its synchrotron radiation:....AnnStatistics: Posted by AVAO — Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:53 pm — Replies 4 — Views 16345
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Discovery of a large and...
I would like to share with you my recent discovery of a large and faint nebula in the Triangulum galaxy, M33. I've been working on this project since 2021. Last fall, I gathered 153h of data and found...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2024 January
New discovery of a large and faint nebula in the Triangulum galaxy M33Read more: viewtopic.php?t=43507Close up's: https://www.astrobin.com/cdkrrx/I/#rK & https://www.astrobin.com/cdkrrx/I/#rJ"I...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Snows of...
At a given moment in the video, around 0:02, very close to the large cliff, we can see a globular clusterOr an open cluster? I don't think there are enough stars for it to warrant being deemed a...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Cat's...
This object is about the same size as the Solar System, with its outer edge located somewhere in our Oort Cloud, were they overlaid. Earth, of course, at this scale, isn't visually separable from the...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • JWST & HST: Galaxy...
Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colourful View of Universe / Galaxy cluster MACS0416 with Mothra pulloutNASA/ESA | NASA/ESA | 2023 Nov 09Interesting x-shaped feature ... in comparison with NGC...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Phases of...
I wonder about the sliver crescent image. I would think that would only be "up" during the day.It is easy to image (and even see visually) Venus when the Sun is above the horizon.Statistics: Posted by...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Ice Halos over...
Wow, that's a truly spectacular and fantastic image! The heliac arc looks like a heart! APOD Robot wrote:Finally, the balloon shaped curve connecting the top arc to the Sun is the rarest of all: it is...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Thor's...
Well, that star, 2MASS J07181340-1315288 (Gaia DR3 3032940260440588544) appears to be very cool. No red band flux is available, but in the J band (1200 nm) it is about 16 times brighter than in the G...
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