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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • WEBB: Jupiter's upper...
WEBB: Jupiter's upper atmosphere surprises astronomersphys.org | 2024 June 25 New observations of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter have revealed that the planet's atmosphere above and around the infamous...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
HST: NGC 3059 - A broad and narrow galactic view NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 June 3 A spiral galaxy seen face-on, so that its many arms and its glowing, bar-shaped core can be easily seen. The...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Protostellar...
Marvellous image, cosmic creation in full force! And we barely need to "surmise" what's going on, we see those new worlds forming! (even more so in AVAO's zoom-in link)Statistics: Posted by Christian...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet 13P/Olbers...
Comet 13P/Olbers Explanation: Not a paradox, Comet 13P/Olbers is returning to the inner Solar System after 68 years. The periodic, Halley-type comet will reach its next perihelion or closest approach...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Asteroid 2024 MK
I was dismayed to read yesterday (27 June 2024) that Asteroid 2024 MK, measuring between 120 and 260 meters, was first discovered on 16 June 2024, and that it will pass within 290,000 kilometers...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Solstice Moon...
In Thule Greenland where I worked for a year the summer solstice full moon remains about 14.5 degrees below the horizon.When the Sun is high in the sky, in the summer, the Moon is low in the sky. Of...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Hubble Space Telescope...
Hubble Space Telescope Views NGC 5253 with ACS / HRCNASA/ESA | Original release 2024 June 28 GOTD4Y Jacoriginal data: NASA / ESA jac berne (flickr)Thanks, Jac, I love NGC 5253! First, a comparison:NGC...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Earthrise: A...
Well, with all due respect to NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, the whole thing seems a bit synthetic to me.Come on now, give our "AI" overlords some room for mild hallucinations. They had to...
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Tiny bright objects...
Color me baffled.https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story ... scientistshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3 ... 213/ad55f7Statistics: Posted by Psnarf — Mon Jul 01, 2024 12:16 am — Replies 0 —...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Time Spiral (2024...
"Within a few billion years, atoms formed," while technically correct, is somewhat misleading. Unless JADES-GS-z14-0 is made up of something other than atoms?The failure is the lack of a comma after...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Messier 66 Close...
Messier 66 Close Up Big, beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. There are fairly good theoretical engineering designs for space-craft, mainly City-farms with...
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2024 July
Have you seen a great image or video somewhere that you think would make a great APOD? Nominate it for APOD! Please post as much information here as you have about the image/video with a link to any...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Submissions: 2024 July
The neighborhood of IC1311Located in the heart of the Cygnus constellation, this field is rich in structures and objects.One can observe bright nebulae like LBN223, several dark nebulae like B434, the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Hubble's NGC...
True enough, given SF-levels of engineering. With 0.01 to 0.1 C being the fastest a realistic vessel can move in the real univese, given the limits of real engineering, relativistic tiime compression...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 602: Oyster...
I can imagine the oyster, but I'm "seeing" the face of a baby (facing to the right, the left eye, nose (slit opening not distinct nostril openings), open mouth)....Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: M83: Star Streams...
Hello,Please, the navigate backward link (<) is pointing to the AP of July, 28th. It's supposed to be July, 2nd's.thank youStatistics: Posted by paulocarvalhoRJ — Wed Jul 03, 2024 11:11 am —...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Beautiful...
Thanks to Ann, yet again, for an interesting and informative post.Statistics: Posted by Eclectic Man — Thu Jul 04, 2024 9:31 am — Replies 2 — Views 152
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Mount Etna Milky...
The Summer Triangle I presume:Statistics: Posted by johnnydeep — Fri Jul 05, 2024 12:45 pm — Replies 1 — Views 130
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 7789:...
A lovely cluster with a lovely name! And a discussion page with plenty more beauties! Star clusters are so enchanting...Statistics: Posted by Christian G. — Sat Jul 06, 2024 4:12 pm — Replies 4 —...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Iridescent Clouds...
Since today's APOD is an EPOD, here are a couple of photos I took a few days ago. These mammatocumulus appeared after quite a randy storm!Statistics: Posted by zendae — Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:41 pm —...
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