The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: LDN 1471: A...
The striations are truly remarkable given the scale of the image. Filaments seem to be a universal, scale invariant phenomenon in the insterstellar medium ( images of Aquila, Spider and Taurus in...
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>...Everything is getting further apart, not closer togetherTiny FishingIf that is indeed the case, then there should be fewer galaxies visible in the same region. I'm just impatient, I hate...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Stars and Dust in...
Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula Explanation: Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve...
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • WEBB: Insanely Detailed...
The JWST’s ability to reveal such intricate details of the Horsehead Nebula is truly breathtaking and highlights just how far space exploration has come since Hubble’s era. Speaking of advancements,...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Undulatus Clouds...
Spectacular photo. !Thanks for sharing.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Nov 19, 2024 6:25 am — Replies 1 — Views 96
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Shell Galaxies in...
That's not my Neighbor This spectacular intergalactic skyscape features Arp 227, a curious system of galaxies from the 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Some 100 million light-years distant within the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Moona Lisa...
Incredibox a striking reminder of both nature's complexity and da Vinci's timeless genius.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:03 am — Replies 5 — Views 1190
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Night Sky over...
[quote=AVAO post_id=341207 time=1726118431 user_id=144Using the X-ray point sources from the Massive Young star-forming complex Study in Infrared andX-rays (MYStIX) survey of OB-dominated region, the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Earthset from...
Looks like a dime falling down out of reach !An iconic pic for the future ?I have always wondered how NASA organises the navigation for these events.What do they do for reference points/waypoints for...
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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...
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • MeerKAT:...
Circinus X-1 is a stellar-mass black hole or neutron star system located in the constellation Circinus. https://www.iflscience.comgeometry dashStatistics: Posted by bowline — Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:22 am...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2024 November
Massive young open cluster Westerlund 1 by JWST's NIRCamhttps://esawebb.org/images/potm2409b/ tap roadESA/Webb wrote:The unique draw of Westerlund 1 is its large, dense, and diverse population of...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The...
I've got to say something more about Mu Cephei, the red supergiant star seemingly located on the northeastern rim of IC 1396, but probably located much farther away.Reddish-pink emission nebula IC...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Medusa Nebula...
It would be very helpful to add an overlay pointing out an object referenced in the accompanying text, as sometimes it’s difficult to know which faint star is the right one when there are a group of...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Interplanetary...
Interplanetary Earth Explanation: In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Journey to the...
That smudge of presumably gas at the end of the video looks like it is orbiting the SMB, not just falling in to it. But I suppose that all things do orbit a while first before being eaten. The orbital...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Nova in M33 (2024abqt)
An image of M33 taken the day 11/23 starting from 6 PM UT, in Sardinia. with a 25 cm telescope, 160x30'', canon EOS RP, processed with Siril and graXpert. Also it is present 2024abqt...
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Nova in M33 (2024abqt)
An image of M33 taken the day 11/23 starting from 6 PM UT, in Sardinia. with a 25 cm telescope, 160x30'', canon EOS RP, processed with Siril and graXpert. Also it is present 2024abqt...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • JWST & HST: Galaxy...
Note that the galaxy marked with a red circle is an ordinary, if strongly barred, galaxy. It is not extremely far in the background, and it has not been lensed as seen from our perspective.This is...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Horsehead...
Have you seen the "ghost girl" superimposed on the Horsehead? Maybe she fell off the horse?APOD 25 November 2024 annotated.pngThe Horsehead Nebula. Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Lin...
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