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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Green Aurora over...
Okay, Color Commentator speaks.Green Aurora over Sweden. Image Credit & Copyright: Göran StrandAnd you, Göran Strand, my fellow Swede, that's another great picture from you. You have taken so...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Voyager I and II
In noviembre 2023, the Voyager 1 probestopped sending. scientific data to Earth.It only sent repetitive numbers that saind nothing.Now, NASA, has successfully updated the respectivesoftware the probe...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Unraveling NGC...
Unraveling NGC 3169Image Credit & Copyright: Christophe Vergnes, Aziz KaeouachNGC 3169 and NGC 3166 are indeed an interesting pair of galaxies! They used to be normal spiral galaxies for sure, but...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: M78 from the...
M78 from the Euclid Space Telescope. Image Credit & License: ESA, Euclid, Euclid Consortium, NASA; Processing: J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. AnselmiAPOD Robot wrote:ESA's new...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Manicouagan...
Manicouagan Impact Crater from SpaceHill in the center:Statistics: Posted by AVAO — Sat May 25, 2024 6:26 am — Replies 2 — Views 59
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Solar Filament...
SDO orbits the Earth, not (directly) the Sun. The SOHO is in L1Statistics: Posted by varadinagypal — Sun May 26, 2024 6:32 am — Replies 1 — Views 55
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Chamaeleon I...
Chamaeleon I Molecular Cloud Explanation: Dark markings and bright nebulae in this telescopic southern sky view are telltale signs of young stars and active star formation. They lie a mere 650...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Jyväskylä in the...
This is actually pretty cool. Here's a side by side of the slice master "light pillar sky roadmap" and the real map (which was flipped right-to-left to match the sky image):light pillar sky road ap of...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • 9th planet
PLANETARY MASS (M🜨)318/3⁰ = 318 (Jupiter 318M🜨)318/3¹ = 106 (Saturn 95,2M🜨)318/3² = 35,3 (Neptune 17,1M🜨)318/3³ = 11,8 (Uranus 14,5M🜨)318/3⁴ = 3,9 (9th planet 3,9M🜨??)318/3⁵ = 1,3 (Earth 1M🜨) 318/3⁶ =...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Did this black hole...
DID THIS BLACK HOLE FORM WITHOUT A SUPERNOVA?This artist’s impression shows the binary system VFTS 243, located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Sizes are not to scale: in...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Solar X Flare as...
Is it just me, or is the main APOD link (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) not working today?It's not just you. Todays APOD is completely blank - really is "open space" Well, it's not so blank...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Stairway to the...
Yes, that's a nice Milky Way image (with stairs)! Stairway to the Milky Way. Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin RosadzińskiMe being me, I obviously love the blue zing of bright star Vega at top! But...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Lunar Corona...
I wonder why in this case the color returns to blue on the outside edge of the ring. Nice image.Statistics: Posted by daddyo — Thu May 30, 2024 5:51 am — Replies 2 — Views 78
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Changing Ion...
Does this mean that the release of gas from the parent body of Pons-Brooks is "episodic"? Like a series of little explosions?AnnIt probably depends on the exact chemical composition, the physical...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Nebulous...
a Wolf-Rayet nebula is primarily shaped by the tremendous heat and wind of its own central starAnnI have trouble getting my head wrapped round the way that things work on these scales.If the nebula...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Stereo Helene...
Stereo Helene Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Helene, small, icy moon of Saturn. Appropriately named, Helene is a Trojan moon, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • WEBB discovers the most...
Astronomers find most distant galaxy using James Webb Space TelescopePHYS.ORG | 2024 May 30 This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) was taken by the...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
HST: Broad and sweeping spiral galaxy NGC 4731 - The lights of a galactic bar NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 May 27 A close-in view of a barred spiral galaxy. The bright, glowing bar crosses the...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • NewJWST: New Pictures...
JWST spots starburst galaxyphys.org | 2024 May 30 A dwarf galaxy. It is illuminated by a strong, cool light radiating from its core, a bar-shaped area at the centre, and filled with a huge number of...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Rotating Moon...
Rotating Moon from LRO Explanation: No one, presently, sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because the Earth's moon is tidally locked to the Earth, showing us only one side. Given modern digital...
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