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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • My alternative APOD...
Very interesting. The "opening page", featuring recent APODs, looks very impressive and beautiful indeed!However, me being me, I have my special hangups, and my main hangup is that I love blue things....
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Phantoms in...
I really appreciate the nice pink / magenta Hydrogen Alpha emission H-alpha isn't pink! It's deep ruby red. I think what you mean is that you appreciate that you're seeing some combination of H-alpha,...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and M5
I can't see the image Statistics: Posted by Mike Peters — Thu Nov 07, 2024 1:53 am — Replies 1 — Views 1518
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Shell Galaxies in...
Yes, the NGC 474/NGC 470/NGC 467 group of galaxies form an amazing skyscape indeed! And, for the understandable lack of a Hubble portrait of this extended group, George Williams, today's photographer,...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet...
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Dolomites Explanation: Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is now headed back to the outer Solar System. The massive dusty snowball put on quite a show during its trip near the...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Orion Costallation
I forward you this photo taken on November 2, 2024 at 01:55at Lake Moncenisio (To) Italy 2000 mtsum of 5 shots of 180 sec ISO 8000 f9 135mm focal lensCanon R7, mounted in parallel to my C8 with Eq6...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Helping Hand in...
Helping Hand in Cassiopeia Explanation: Drifting near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy these dusty molecular clouds seem to extend a helping hand on a cosmic scale. Part of a local complex of...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Neptune at Night...
Neptune at Night Explanation: Ice giant Neptune is faint in Earth's night sky. Some 30 times farther from the Sun than our fair planet, telescopes are needed to catch a glimpse of the dim and distant...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Video Submissions
Visualisation: Diving into the Helix Nebulahttps://www.facebook.com/share/r/19ioFP ... tid=Mk4v2MSnip of the video below. Link above to watch. Animation of an image I took of the Helix Nebula using...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Valles Marineris:...
Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars Explanation: The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand valley extends over 3,000...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • JWST & HST examine...
Webb and Hubble examine spooky galaxy pair space.com | Original release 2024 October 31 [...]This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Unusual Tails...
I agreed with Christoph, until I thought that this explanation depends on two things.That the majority of the luminosity of the dust tail is reflected sunlightAnd that anti-tails appear when the Earth...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Two galactic centers
I'm posting two images I like to look at side by side, the top one is the center of M100 (provided by AVAO on this site) and the other is the Circinus galaxy, both show lots of activity, with...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 6888: The...
I'm wondering what is the hole-like structure just to the left of WR 136.AlexStatistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:30 am — Replies 1 — Views 59
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Barred Spiral...
I studied all the red rays closely. They could not all originate in one intense source.They don't all cross in one and the same point.For one thing, two pairs of rays above the center (pointing at 12...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: IC 348 and...
Yes yes yes! I saw this image in the Recent Submissions forum a few days ago and thought it was gorgeous!IC 348 and Barnard 3. Image Credit & Copyright: Ashraf Abu SaraIt is above all the colors...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Inside a globular...
Oh what a beautiful sky shining with bright lightStatistics: Posted by AsaSenger — Thu Nov 14, 2024 7:24 am — Replies 3 — Views 3100
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Apollo 12 and...
Fantastic find!Years ago, I worked on a stereo IMAX movie for science centers called "Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon", and this image kicked my 3d moon brain into action and I had to make...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Pluto at Night...
The great thing about today's APOD is that it actually shows us some surface details on Pluto below the little planet's layered atmosphere.Pluto at Night. Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL,...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Orion Constellation
A picture of the Orion Constellation taken in Guadalcanal, Sevilla (Spain). The night of: 2023/11/19.I tried to catch all the nebulae in this wonderful part of the sky to show people the size of them…...
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