The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Messier 66 Close...
This is an old image. I remember it well, and you can tell its age from one of its authors, Hubble Heritage. The Hubble Heritage Project started in 1998 and came to an end in 2016, and I don't think...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: RCW 85 (2024 Jun 14)
The top rim reminds me of one of the Eagle Nebula's rims:Statistics: Posted by Christian G. — Fri Jun 14, 2024 12:19 pm — Replies 2 — Views 95
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Looking Back at...
Mistakenly submitted. Stay tuned.Statistics: Posted by alter-ego — Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:37 pm — Replies 14 — Views 1153
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Prominences and...
Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun Explanation: This colorized and sharpened image of the Sun is composed of frames recording emission from hydrogen atoms in the solar chromosphere on May 15....
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Animation: Black...
What sort of time frame are we talking about?Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sun Jun 16, 2024 6:11 am — Replies 4 — Views 114
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Echoes of Flares from the...
Echoes of Flares from the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black HoleUNIVERSETODAY.COM | 2024 June 14Quite intense...Original data: NASA / ESA - Overlay: Autors of the paper - jac berne (flickr)And NASA is...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Ou4: The Giant...
Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula. Image Credit & Copyright: Alex LindeI want to believe! I want to believe that the central star of Ou4, the multiple star HR 8119, of spectral class O9.5IV, or B0V, or...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Gigantic Jets...
more details:Jets and Sprites over Kuragangri Snow Mountain on 10 June 2024From: Lurila Observatory, China, Stack of five photosIs this 5 or 4 exposures?What is the water body at foreground (is it...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Quantum gravity
I'm looking for some small ideas for my essay. It's good to find ideas here Fun GamesStatistics: Posted by RickySan — Tue Jun 18, 2024 9:27 am — Replies 5 — Views 14256
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 6188: Dragons...
so beautiful there are no words to describe!Statistics: Posted by ramiroflores — Wed Jun 19, 2024 10:59 am — Replies 4 — Views 124
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet Between...
On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance.Lightning? What lightning? I see no lightning on the far right nor anywhere else in this image!You probably didn't scan to the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Sandy and the...
Sandy and the Moon Halo Explanation: Last April's Full Moon shines through high clouds near the horizon, casting shadows in this garden-at-night skyscape. Along with canine sentinel Sandy watching the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Hubble's NGC...
Awe-inspiringly explicated, Ann!Statistics: Posted by Guest — Fri Jun 21, 2024 12:10 pm — Replies 5 — Views 170
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet Pons-Brooks...
When I needed to write about unfamiliar topics for my electives, I found MasterPapers that was incredibly helpful. The range of topics covered was vast, offering insights and detailed information that...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Hubble Deep Field 35...
If Hubble made the same observation of the Deep Field horizon today, would a new image reveal galaxies that were not yet visible thirty five years ago? Is 35 light years a reasonable distance between...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Lynds Dark Nebula...
I also wondered about the HH objects. I could not spot any.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sat Jun 22, 2024 12:18 pm — Replies 5 — Views 102
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Colors of...
Beautiful! So we only get to see Titan's shadow on Saturn about once every 15 years, right? I was looking up in Stellarium and it looks like there will be several visible passes around this time next...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: JADES-GS-z14-0: A...
Telescopes as time machines is a familiar idea but we should never lose sight of how extraordinary this is! Imagine if palaeontologists could study actual pictures of dinosaurs! Or if historians could...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Dark Doodad...
Pictured here, the Dark Doodad Nebula sweeps across the center of a rich and colorful starfield. Its dark color comes from a high concentration of interstellar dust that preferentially scatters...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Timelapse:...
Is the music really by Claude Debussy?This is Jeff Dai's Instagram page:https://www.instagram.com/p/C8bIkxTyiUL/Here, it uses Clair de lune. But in APOD, the music is different. Can anyone tell me...
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