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Mark Hansonwww.hansonastronomy.com Bio: https://www.hansonastronomy.com/bioType: professionalFocus: deep skyTopics: Galaxies, Nebula, Planetary Nebula, Star ClustersInstagram:...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • High Hopes for K2-18...
No bragging, no hyperbole, no claims of grandeur. Just talking about his duty and finding the truth. This is the kind of people that bring humanity forwardeggy car!Statistics: Posted by crummypeel —...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Hubble Space Telescope...
..see also NGC 4694: Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA (JWST) processed by yuval (Mastodon) Credit: yuval | And here is the core of NGC 4694 by # JWST , MIRI (red) and NIRCam. Statistics: Posted by AVAO — Wed Aug...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Tulip Nebula and...
Quasar, IIRC, stands for quasi-stellar object, something very bright but whose light was anomalously red shifted. They were thought to be at the luminous limits of distance we could see at the time....
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • MeerKAT:...
Wow, it’s really impressive to see the first image of an S-jet from a neutron star! This opens up a lot of opportunities to better understand the extreme physics of the universe. It’s amazing to think...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Star Factory...
Star Factory Messier 17 Explanation: A nearby star factory known as Messier 17 lies some 5,500 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this 1.5 degree wide...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • HUBBLE: Spectacular UV...
Hubble captures unique ultraviolet view of a spectacular star cluster NGC 346 inestled within the SMCNASA/ESA | Original release 2024 August 26 NGC 346 is nestled within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Fun to play with
Yeah! Agario was a hit in 2015, lol!Statistics: Posted by SarahConnor — Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:47 pm — Replies 2 — Views 966
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Southern...
Thanks Chris.Statistics: Posted by GoodFoodStove — Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:59 pm — Replies 9 — Views 400
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: IFN and the NGC...
IFN and the NGC 7771 Group Explanation: Galaxies of the NGC 7771 Group are featured in this intriguing skyscape. Some 200 million light-years distant toward the constellation Pegasus, NGC 7771 is the...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Are space storms a...
If you watch scifi shows you’ll notice that to create conflict space ships are subjected to a whole lot of dangerous storms in space analogous to hurricanes and rogue waves to terrestrial ships. “Ion...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Moon Dressed...
The Moon Dressed Like Saturn Explanation: Why does Saturn appear so big? It doesn't -- what is pictured are foreground clouds on Earth crossing in front of the Moon. The Moon shows a slight crescent...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: IC 5146: The...
IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula Explanation: Inside the Cocoon Nebula is a newly developing cluster of stars. Cataloged as IC 5146, the beautiful nebula is nearly 15 light-years wide. Soaring high in...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Triangular...
A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun Explanation: Why is there a triangle hovering over the Sun? Although the shape is unusual, the type of structure is not: it is part of an evolving solar...
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2024 September
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 September
The Wizard NebulaSharpless 142, an emission nebula in Cepheus energized by open cluster NGC 7380. This narrowband image of the central nebula is rendered in the Hubble palette. Imaged late August...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Solar loops
Hi all a superb loop today !228mm F/11.25 Ha refractor / PST modification + BF-15 + barlow 1.8x / Basler 1920-155Best regardsPhil : photoastro.comStatistics: Posted by Philippe TOSI — Mon Sep 02, 2024...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Quarter Moon and...
Isn't that a half moon?Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:17 am — Replies 1 — Views 19
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Extreme Quasars Illuminate...
True. But it's amusing that six years elapsed from the coining of "quasar" to that journal's usage of it. The full paragraph:The next year [in 1964], American astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu called these...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 247 and...
NGC 247 and Friends Explanation: About 70,000 light-years across, NGC 247 is a spiral galaxy smaller than our Milky Way. Measured to be only 11 million light-years distant it is nearby though. Tilted...
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