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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • MeerKAT:...
MeerKAT: Garden-sprinkler-like jet spotted shooting out of neutron star Circinus X-1phys.org | 2024 July 16Credit: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA (Radio) The composite image shows the X-rays in blue and radio...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Sky Full of Arcs...
So, can I assume that the trail of the Electron rocket was made by a separate set of exposures? It can't just be there over the 2.5 hours of the 50 exposures to make the star trails, can it?Yes, it...
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Thank you, Ann for a very good presentation and an interesting website. However it, like all other depiction of the local region of our galaxy, does not translate the information into a depiction of...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Solar...
A quiescent prominence typically lasts about a month and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)Why the adjective "quiescent"? I assume not all prominences result in a CME, right? Do...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: IC 5146: The...
Most certainly, the nebula is being ionized by the output of many stars. If the BD+46 3474 system went away, we'd still observe a distinct H II region here.Well, basically I would still agree with...
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • The Nearest Midsized Black...
by Ken CroswellContrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most massive and luminous globular star cluster, a new study...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Supermoon Beyond...
This supermoon was also a blue moon given the definition that it is the third of four full moons occurring during a single season. This supermoon is particularly unusual in that it is the first of...
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Quantum computing is on the thresholdof it is development.Quantum computing allows complexcalculations to be performed at a fasterspeed than classical computing.In the future, perhaps, smartphone will...
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If you look at it a special way, you can see God.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:26 pm — Replies 12 — Views 423
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Dark Tower in...
Wow, today's APOD is a superb image! DarkTowerCDK700-Selby1024[1].jpgThe Dark Tower in ScorpiusImage Credit & Copyright: Mike SelbyNote all the individual little dusty spurs on the outside of the...
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The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • AstroNEWS...
I liked this entry too, about the Wow! radio signal from 1977.The Wow! signal lasted for 72 seconds and was extremely bright:There has been widespread speculation that the Wow! signal may have been...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Supernova Remnant...
Advice on Capitalizing on the Utilization of infant Products: Practical Suggestions from Parents Taking full advantage of the use of toddler goods can conserve you time and bucks. In it article,...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: South Pacific...
Wow, that's beautiful! South Pacific Shadowset. Image Credit & Copyright: Jin WangI remember seeing something similar, minus the palm trees and the ocean, when a brilliant full Moon was setting...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • CHANDRA: Silver Jubilee
Chandra's Silver JubileeHEAPOW | 2024 June 29 Twenty-five years ago, on July 23, 1999, the Space Shuttle Columbia carried aloft in its payload bay an extraordinary instrument, NASA's third "Great...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Fresh Tiger...
AnnThanX AnnI like you analysis. Enhanced structures:Just 4 fun: Saturn, Enceladus, Earth & Moon in real dimensions and distances.: biggg:https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/539 ......
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Auroras after CMEs
Hi! O.K. When entering the magnetosphere and then the ionosphere, CME particles move along the magnetic field lines. If the aurora occurs at the magnetic poles, the precipitation of particles from...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Perseid Meteors...
Another fun game of "what's that star!" The tiny, slowly moving star is definitely a satellite, the time of night here is closer to sunrise than sunset, and they are looking east, into the part of...
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Video Submissions
Nature's Own Light ShowOn the night of August 12, a strong geomagnetic storm triggered spectacular display of Northern Lights which was visible as far south as Georgia. This concided with the Perseid...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Moon Eclipses...
Eclipses of Saturn by our Moon will occur each month for the rest of this year. Each time, though, the fleeting event will be visible only to those with clear skies -- and the right location on Earth....
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Why do we assume that...
Thank you, Orca, for that extremely thoughtful input. Thanks to you too, Chris, for your answer to Orca. I agree with all of the points from both of you.What I can't figure out is why an army of...
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