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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The...
The Gargoyles' Eclipse Explanation: In dramatic silhouette against a cloudy daytime sky over Paris, France, gargoyles cast their monstrous gaze outward from the west facade of Notre Dame Cathedral....
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NASA has provided a nice summary of moon formation including a cool animation of the collision with the hypothesized Theia, a Mars-sized object: https://science.nasa.gov/moon/formation/. In the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 4414: A...
I am a galaxy girl, but today's APOD does not appeal to me. Sorry.NGC 4414: A Flocculent Spiral Galaxy. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Graur, S. W. Jha, A. FilippenkoThe reason why I don't...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • How do planets form?
Planets form from clouds of gas and dust in space. When a star begins to form, the leftover gas and dust around it start to stick together because of gravity. These small pieces slowly join to make...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Moon Visits...
FWIW, the details - such as they are - of the creation of this APOD, as translated from the Spanish at the "featured image" link, are:Occultation of the Pleiades open star cluster (M45) by the Moon,...
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Orion Constellation
This is a very cool picture!Statistics: Posted by Kartof — Tue Apr 08, 2025 10:54 pm — Replies 1 — Views 45110
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: HH 49:...
Google HH jets and a great many of them have conical tips.I'm not finding it. Link to one please?Maybe this one?AnnOk, this starts narrow, expands and then ends in a conical tip. I wasn't considering...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: 38 Hours with the...
"My first major project", writes the author, "and probably my transition from beginner to advanced". I'd replace "probably" with "certainly"! Sehr schön, Daniel Yang K.!Statistics: Posted by Christian...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Supernovas past and...
This supernova occurred 50 million light-years away:This one was 300 times closer……and this one will be another 300 times closer! Imagine the SIGHT!! (and not just of the supernova but seeing the rest...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The ISS Meets...
Using quick Google info and this post's numbers, I reckon...Venus Diameter (meters) : 12,104,000ISS Length (meters) : 109Distance to ISS (meters) : 400,000Distance to Venus (meters) :...
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The illusian sort of makes the platform appear tilted down. Yes, I think Escher would have approved of this structure.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sat Apr 12, 2025 3:22 pm — Replies 8 — Views 120
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: An Unusual Hole...
An Unusual Hole in Mars Explanation: What created this unusual hole in Mars? Actually, there are numerous holes pictured in this Swiss cheese-like landscape, with all-but-one of them showing a dusty,...
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With the rise of innovative alternatives to smoking, many users are looking for more advanced options that offer both performance and convenience. The digital box 12000 is one such device that stands...
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No, images from Hubble or other telescopes do not contain garbage in the traditional sense, Geometry Vibesbut they can have areas of missing data or noise, and these areas are processed or cleaned up...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Galactic...
Firstly - i love the name of the Meercat array - there should be pictures of the array and meercats together.This post should put to rest the discussion of interstellar currents - yes or no. How is...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Planetary Nebula...
Hi Ann, so very good to see you 'on the hunt for Truth' !!! Yes, looking at a cylinder from an 'oblique angle' is the right clue to what you are seeing ! As 'electricity' needs 'matter' for its...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Halo of the...
Planetary nebulas come from dying red giants, but the last link (wikipedia) mentions this: "At the centre of the Cat's Eye Nebula is a dying Wolf–Rayet star, the sort of which can be seen in the Webb...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Virgo Cluster...
Oookay...Virgo Cluster Galaxies, Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel AdibiThat face of Virgo has been staring me in the eye ever since I first saw it! All right, a little bonus here and my third...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet C/2025 F2...
Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN Explanation: In late March, the comet now designated C/2025 F2 SWAN was found independently by citizen scientists Vladimir Bezugly, Michael Mattiazzo, and Rob Matson while...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Painting with...
Artsy science or sciency art? I can't decide.Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sat Apr 19, 2025 12:41 pm — Replies 2 — Views 76
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