The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Quantum gravity
I think that gravity is a "field" exerted by an astronómicalobject and that behaves as a centripetal or atractionforce towards its center of massBut this "gravitacional field" is of a different nature...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Light, the...
Today's title: The Light, the Dark, and the DustyTomorrow's title: UnforgottenI see a reference to Clint Eastwood here ...That's funny, Rauf! Ann"Clint Eastwood is not known for making things easy. He...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Milky Way Rising...
Explanation:dinosaur game The core of the Milky Way is rising beyond the Chilean mountain-top La Silla Observatory in this deep night skyscape.Statistics: Posted by bumpkintoyota — Thu Jan 11, 2024...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Quadrantids of...
Quadrantids of the North Explanation: Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth's northern hemisphere skygazers. The shower's radiant on...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Good Morning Moon...
Good Morning Moon Explanation: Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Seeing the nearest stars
Besides CO2, O2 is projected to look for those ETs. Beings like us need our O2. Statistics: Posted by Fred the Cat — Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:52 pm — Replies 9 — Views 5240
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Circling the Sun...
22° is not the diameter, it is the radius : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%C2%B0_halo (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_de_22%C2%B0)Statistics: Posted by Donald Pelletier — Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:27...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Dragon Aurora...
Wow !You are very privileged to have seen that, and to be able to photo it ...Thanks for sharing.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:52 am — Replies 1 — Views 44
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Total Eclipse...
What a laughably bad example of photo manipulation! It is completely unrealistic.I was present when my friend Tora Greve showed us pictures that she had taken during her 2003 visit to Antarctica to...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Full Plankton...
Fantastic colors!A Full Plankton Moon. Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in OpavaThat's a gorgeous "Moon reddening sequence", as the Moon is seen to sink - vertically! -...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Galaxy-Shaped...
It's a sign we are destined to travel from star to star & from galaxy to galaxy as the Universe planned from the beginning of our existence. It is also a sign that we are on the right track in our...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • NewJWST: New Pictures...
Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 With NASA’s WebbNASA/JPL | 2024 March 11 A well-studied hotbed of star formation is revealed in new detail by two of the telescope’s instruments, including MIRI,...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble Sees an Epic Merger of Three Galaxieswww.universetoday.com | Original release 2024 March 01 When is 50,000 light-years only a small distance? When three galaxies are that close to one another....
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Moon Pi and...
Happy Pi Day.Statistics: Posted by Case — Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:15 am — Replies 1 — Views 329
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Seagull...
Hmm, so I suppose the effect of that friction - that is, the heating of the gas - is more long lived than any ionization effect on the gas?It's a peculiar case. The bow shock (in front of Mira)...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Portrait of NGC...
With that pair of bluish and goldish stars straight beneath it almost looks like a galaxy sitting on top of Albireo, lovely effect!For the context of that apt reference, see:Albireo /ælˈbɪrioʊ/[19] is...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2024 March
StDr 55https://www.starscapeimaging.com/StDr55/StDr55.htmlCopyright: Jon TalbotStatistics: Posted by starsurfer — Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:26 pm — Replies 15 — Views 616
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: ELT and the Milky...
The ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) has its "first light" planned for 2028. I hope it can remain on track! A 39 meter primary mirror is quite remarkable. How will it compare to Hubble?(And wasn't...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Colors of Twilight...
Hello all -- I'm trying to understand colors of the sky at twilight. I'm not in the field of physics, but I've tried to grasp some concepts, which I first briefly note, and then pose some questions....
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Submissions: 2024 March
NGC 2736 (también conocida como Nebulosa del Lápiz ) es una pequeña parte del Remanente de Supernova de Vela, ubicada cerca del Pulsar de Vela en la constelación de Vela. La apariencia lineal de la...
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