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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet...
Comet Pons-Brooks' Ion Tail Explanation: Comet Pons-Brooks has quite a tail to tell. First discovered in 1385, this erupting dirty snowball loops back into our inner Solar System every 71 years and,...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • HUBBLE sees the new star...
FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright star-like object near the middle of the image, and FS Tau B (Haro 6-5B), the bright object to the far right that is partially obscured by...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Eyes in...
I don't believe there is any known mechanism for a galaxy to "eject" or spawn another galaxy all on its own.Correct. Not only is there no known mechanism, there's not even a remotely hypothesized one....
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Coma Cluster...
they are both affected by the hostile environment of the galaxy cluster, so they are transiting away from their spiral shape and gradually shutting down their star formation.AnnWhy is the galaxy...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Millions of Stars...
So... globular clusters are not my favorites because they are not so colorful. Anyway...Let's compare the two largest globular clusters of the Milky Way!Millions of Stars in Omega CentauriImage Credit...
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Galileo's Europa Explanation: Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence that the moon's icy surface likely...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Medieval...
Amazing how the size of the Moon changes depending on where it is in its orbit. I wonder how that was explained. I also wonder how they explained why no one noticed it when actually looking at the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Total Solar...
Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World Explanation: In late 2021 there was a total solar eclipse visible only at the end of the Earth. To capture the unusual phenomenon, airplanes took...
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Sorry, you have two wrong explanations here. It was NOT the SpaceX Falcon9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. It couldn't be , since that one launched AFTER this spiral event already had occured , and that...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Swirling Magnetic...
I look forward to reading APOD every April Fools Day. What happened, guys?Want more "The Moon is made of green cheese" jokes? I've only got that one.Jason Major of lightsinthedark.com wrote: Way back...
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I recently bought a normal smartphone from an unknown brand. It has an important quality.When it is charging and reaches 100% charge, it has an internal switch that cuts off the power coming from the...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Origin of the Universe
I read a news:Bruno Bento, researcher at the departament of mathematical scienses at the University of Liverpool, England, states that," perhaps, ( in the Universe), there was not even a...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Phobos: Moon over...
It completes one orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. That's faster than a Mars rotation, which corresponds to about 24 hours and 40 minutes. So on Mars, Phobos can be seen to rise above the western...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: HFG1 & Abell...
HFG1 & Abell 6: Planetary Nebulae. Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Cadena & Mickael Coulon; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)Am I the only one who can see a similarity between...
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How far out do the petals of the corona extend? They seem huge.Given that the sun is about 1.4 million Kilometer (865 m Mi) in diameter, they appear to be at least 1.5 mK long, depending on what is...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
03.02.2024 I HST: Arp 72 - Two’s company NGC 5996 & NGC 5994 universe today | Original release 2024 April 01 A large spiral galaxy with a smaller neighbouring galaxy. The spiral galaxy is wide and...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • I have a question
Does the nebula from which the sun emerged still exist?Run 3 Even if the nebula has been dispersed, there would still exist highly detectable traces of the emission cloud would there not?No, it no...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Unusual Nebula Pa...
With a temperature near 200,000 K, WD J005311 is the hottest star known. The extreme properties of the central star are being powered by the residual radioactive decay of ⁵⁶Ni, where the usual...
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HDR timelapse of partial lunar eclipse - 23/10/28Copyright: Alberto VaccaDescription:My aim was to represent the partial phase of the eclipse as I saw it from a binocular: the human eye has a really...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • NewJWST: New Pictures...
Webb probes an extreme starburst galaxyphys.org | 2024 April 03 A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million...
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