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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet ATLAS...
why is the sun blacked out in this image? can anyone explain? is it just the camera or is there some other reason Statistics: Posted by m00nw1nx — Thu Jan 30, 2025 12:27 am — Replies 3 — Views 485
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Hydrogen Clouds...
Be careful what you wish for, Christian...Larry O'Hanlon of Discovery News/ABC Science wrote: Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy zapping its smaller neighbour with a deadly particle beam.The...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Variable...
R Monocerotis, the star illuminating Hubble's Variable Nebula, is a pre-main sequence star. It is not a fully formed star yet, it is still accreting mass, it shines because it is still shrinking, and...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Nacreous Clouds...
The skyscraper in your city looks impressively tall on the skyline. It reminds me of the movable skyscraper in Dubai.I believe you must be referring to talking about "Turning Torso. It's "only" 620 ft...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet G3 ATLAS...
Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates Explanation: What's happening to Comet G3 ATLAS? After passing near the Sun in mid-January, the head of the comet has become dimmer and dimmer. By late January, Comet...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Wolf-Rayet Star...
Beautiful picture of this powerful wolf-rayet star. Does the nebula look like this because we are looking down towards a pole of the star?Statistics: Posted by Guest — Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:12 pm —...
View ArticleShip's Log: APOD Retrospectives and Collections • APOD Retrospective: February 4
Dear APOD astronomers,In the wee hours of Feb. 04 2025 many thanks for the wonderful photos and anecdotes that have been enjoyed as well as functioning as a nightcap. Night, night. DJStatistics:...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2025
Gorgeous portrait of Fornax Ahttps://astrotrex.wordpress.com/2024/12 ... y/#englishCredit: Team ShaRA; data acquired via Chilescope in Rio Hurtado, ChileThere is lots and lots of additional...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Anticrepuscular...
If you have been having recent problems with your password, please read the recent post in the Handbook section of the Asterisk: viewtopic.php?t=44274#p343462 - RJNStatistics: Posted by RJN — Wed Feb...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: IC 348 and...
All in all however, the IC 348 region is a fascinating and beautiful - indeed gorgeous! - part of the sky. But everything here apart from luminary Omicron Persei, which is itself reddened and not very...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet G3 ATLAS...
No, it doesn't have an Earth-crossing orbit. Its orbit is extremely inclined with both nodes inside the orbit of Mercury. Additionally, its orbit is hyperbolic, so whatever is left of it (and its...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: IC 2574:...
Coddington's, Coddington's pie Nebula... Thank you A. A. Milne and Rowlf:Click to play embedded YouTube video.You don't seem to have Javascript enabled. Direct video link.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: LEDA 1313424: The...
So what IS that blue splash in the Andromeda galaxy? What caused it?Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sat Feb 08, 2025 3:08 am — Replies 9 — Views 239
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Conjunction of...
I'm confused as usual when it comes to 3D stuff. From Wikipedia In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft appear to be close to each other in the sky. This means...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Milky Way over...
Today's APOD is a gorgeous and stunning image. It's melancholy, majestic and desolate. It is a fantastic portrait of the Milky Way, too.APOD 9 February 2025 annotated.pngMilky Way over the Australian...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Auroral...
Thanks for the praise, Johnny! You made me want to have a go at identifying the stars. Here is the best I was able to do:APOD 10 February 2025.pngAnnGood eye, Ann! (and that hummingbird seems fixated...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Spider and...
This photo seems to show the filaments well.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:38 pm — Replies 5 — Views 254
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Magnetic loops around the...
NRAO: Magnetic loops around the supermassive black hole of NGC 1068phys.orgSubway Surfers Online | | 2024 Dez 11 NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Asteroid Bennu...
I recently read this, which is curious since the asteroid contains equal parts left and right-handed proteins:https://www.science.org/content/article ... fe-mysteryI certainly am not a micro-biologist...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Reflections on...
I get that, but it just seems impossible that there could be so much. On the other hand, I suppose what you're really saying is that gravitational heating must of necessity be able to get hot enough...
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