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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • What did you see in...
The conjuction tonight with its beautiful crescent led me back to "The Road to the Snow Moon" from last month.I love finding images you forgot you took. FMI. Is there a possibility that Uranus crept...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 7714:...
Unfortunately, I, the Galaxy Girl, don't have too much to say about today's APODNGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright:...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Video Submissions
Click to play embedded YouTube video.You don't seem to have Javascript enabled. Direct video link.To my knowledge, this is the highest resolution imagery of the solar corona ever captured from Earth...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet...
This comet has a very volatile surface and/or subsurface, resulting in large amounts of outgassing as it approaches the Sun. Most comets release their volatiles and dust much more slowly, and much...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • Does Matter absorb...
Is it possible that matter can absorb space-time, altering the fabric of the universe in ways we have yet to fully understand? Could this phenomenon shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Picturesque...
The March and September equinoxes posed special hazards for me on local east/west running roads. Some evenings I could not see ahead of me as the sun was so very bright and seemingly setting right on...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • PBS segment on JWST,...
Just got this from everyone's favorite spacegeck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggr_JzivfRA Gooooooo, Judy!!!Great video! My guess is that, whilst the Universe probably is still about 13.7 billion...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Eyes in...
Yes, I like it! The colors are so deep and rich that they almost remind me of a 19th century landscape painting!The Eyes in Markarian's Galaxy ChainImage Credit & Copyright: Mike SelbySo yes, I...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Leo Trio...
At this time of year, when spring is in the air or at least in the sky in the northern hemisphere, it is of course very suitable to greet the new season with the most iconic galaxies of spring, the...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • APOD for Telegram?
Hello and good morning (at least it's morning here). Is there an APOD channel on Telegram? I've been searching and haven't found anything.Telegram is a communication platform available on Microsoft...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Phobos: Moon over...
looks a bit like North AmericaStatistics: Posted by Bartolo — Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:32 am — Replies 1 — Views 38
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • WEBB: Stellar populations...
Astronomers explore stellar populations of an extremely metal-poor dwarf galaxyphys.org | 2024 March 21 Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted near- and mid-infrared...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Ares 3 Landing...
Well, since no one has posted a reply today, I'll just offer that any APOD explanation that has Carl Sagan's name in it, I love.I share your feeling! There have been lots of great astronomers and...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Looking Back at...
Are you sure it isn't the ISS? The APOD image is from 1999, and the ISS was launched in 1998. So it could have been.Today's APOD, like those on most Sundays, is a repeat, having been used on at least...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Colors of Twilight...
Thanks to all of you who looked at my post! Please let me know -- no one wants to reply to my question because:1. It is a such difficult question, impossible, I've asked a question that has stumped...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Sonified: The...
And now go outside and look at the clouds to find one shaped as an elephant or a piggy.Statistics: Posted by Holger Nielsen — Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:15 am — Replies 1 — Views 57
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Was anyone able to see a brightness gradient on last night’s eclipse? I couldn’t.Statistics: Posted by Cousin Ricky — Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:17 pm — Replies 1300 — Views 1025296
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I forgot music for the blind -- that would be C. W. McCall, "There Won't Be No Country Music".Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:00 am — Replies 7 — Views 329
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Rocket Plume...
Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the Moon Explanation: Why would the shadow of a rocket's launch plume point toward the Moon? In early 2001 during a launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, the Sun, Earth,...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Pluto in True...
what the Great Red Spot of Jupiter was in fact slightly yellowish light gray? Among Us UnblockedThe Great Red Spot's color isn't always a uniform red. Scientists believe sunlight interacts with the...
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