The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Mars Passing By...
Beautiful picture. What is that string of white lights above Mars in the lower right of the picture?That's the planet Uranus, which orbits much more slowly than Mars due to its greater distance from...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Glory and Fog Bow...
Don't wear a bathing suit! You need a hazmat suit to do this experiment!OMG! Statistics: Posted by NateWhilk — Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:15 pm — Replies 13 — Views 402
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Gaia: Here Comes...
Interesting - perspective - runs both ways. Just need to find other water worlds.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sun Aug 04, 2024 1:45 pm — Replies 1 — Views 186
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Milky Way Over...
Nice Star Wars trivia. But why is it called "Lars Homestead" in the movies? The Skywalkers lived there on Tatooine, not the Lars family. Wikipedia failed to enlighten me. See...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Storm Cloud Over...
In contrast, the yellow color of the cloud's top results from reflection of light from a not-yet-setting Sun, where some -- but less -- blue light is being scattered away.Ok, this seems to be implying...
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Following the link to the Permian extinction, we are given asteroid “as big as Everest” estimates from 6 to 12 km diameter. This ( V = 4/3 x pi x r*2 ) which calculates from 112.8 to 902.5 cubic...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Why do we assume that...
But maybe the bigger issue is that technological intelligence in a biological life form is just so fragile.I have been reading Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy over the past few years. Highly...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Periodic Comet...
Modern digital astronomical image making has opened up capturing the spectacular nature of celestial objects to a much larger number of astronomy buffs than was possible when I was younger, and we are...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Perseid Below...
Cities, I'd think.Really? Hmm...Sure, why not? It's exactly the right color for the typical sodium lamp city lighting we often see on ISS shots of the night side, and it's not transient (like...
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Extreme Quasars Illuminate...
500 trillion times the luminosity of the Sun! 20 000 times more than the entire Milky Way...Statistics: Posted by Christian G. — Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:07 pm — Replies 1 — Views 143
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Light, Dark,...
As Christian surmised, I'm not too happy with the non-blue appearance of the blue hue of the reflection nebula part of the APOD. Let's compare the APOD with a picture that I like very much myself:As...
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Last year in August, at the maximum of the Perseids, I had the opportunity to record some bright Perseids in real time. iframe Clear Skies, Helmuthttps://stern-bild.at/Statistics: Posted by Guest —...
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[And, dang. Them bots is gettin' smart.]"Bots"? What bots? (I ain't no dang bot!)Statistics: Posted by johnnydeep — Sun Aug 11, 2024 5:39 pm — Replies 6 — Views 311
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Auroras after CMEs
Hi everyone! I have the following questions1. What does the aurora look like in the sky when SME hits the Earth: does an aurora come from a single point in the sky (or a limited sector), or is the...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • ESA/Hubble: Galaxies in...
ESA/Hubble: Galaxies in MiniatureESA/Hubble wrote:The Hubble Picture of the Week this week reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Perseid Meteors...
A beautiful Milky Way Perseid shower over Stonehenge with a blue UFO! Really people, don't you see it?Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge. Image Credit & Copyright: Josh DuryAPOD 12 August 2024 detail...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Giant Jet from...
Be sure to click on the "top of the frame" link to see the close-up inset view of the jet from here https://www.flickr.com/photos/frankie57pr/53877835585/no violet stars…Statistics: Posted by...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Meteors and...
Nice! If you are not interested in meteors you can look at the aurora, and if you're not interested in the aurora you can look at the meteors. If you like both, this picture sure has a lot to offer! I...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Late Night...
The planet Uranus is also in this picture. Its below and to the right of the Pleiades (looks like a star due to the scale and magnification.)Statistics: Posted by Guest — Thu Aug 15, 2024 3:04 pm —...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Meteor Borealis...
I wish every APOD would link to the actual source of the image instead of leaving us to ferret it out, along with any pertinent capture details. Here's an interview with this APOD's author on Canadian...
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