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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Comet Pons-Brooks...
Yes, Pons-Brooks is a nice comet! Comet Pons-Brooks at Night. Image Credit & Copyright: Dan BartlettI still find it very interesting that Pons-Brooks is so "gassy", even though it has (or so I...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2024 April
G116.6−26.1https://www.astrobin.com/mxea8z/Copyright: Tim Schaeffer and NHZ teamStatistics: Posted by starsurfer — Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:09 pm — Replies 5 — Views 64
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Solar Corona...
It looks gorgeous! The Solar Corona Unwrapped.Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory)It is such a beautiful, otherworldly (that's right!!!) image. Thanks to Peter Ward for...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Where will people find...
Where will other astronomy nuts be watching for news of the Huygens touchdown tomorrow? Will people be watching the NASA TV web feed with it's 15 hours of special coverage?...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Submissions: 2024 April
My name is Ali Al ObaidlyThis is my submission for APOD, captured in Al Salmy, kuwait.Description:The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51 (M51) or NGC 5194, is a spiral galaxy located in the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Unwinding M51...
I find this mathematical exercise to be quite confusing — not the math, but the intent. What is the purpose of doing this? A spiral galaxy like M51 is quite clear and straightforward to see and...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Total Solar...
A Total Solar Eclipse over Wyoming Explanation: Will the sky be clear enough to see the eclipse? This question is already on the minds of many North Americans hoping to see tomorrow's solar eclipse....
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Changing Ion...
What a clever set of pictures!Surely they could be put together as an animated film, perhaps by using AI to produce interpolated images? Beyond my skills, I fear!JOhnStatistics: Posted by JohnD — Mon...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Moon's...
Couldn't understand one basic aspect. Why the eclipse is seen starting from west coast in US to east coast in US.. Apparent motion of moon from east to waste should be faster than Sun's apparent...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: CMB Dipole:...
It is hardly a guess. It is scientific consensus, and therefore what most people should consider the likely answer.What does "scientific consensus" mean?The universe was thought to be 13 billion years...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Has anybody heard of...
I’ve wondered if astronauts sleeping on the space station are immune to snoring while sleeping Hello Neighbor Statistics: Posted by orrgaaszm — Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:23 am — Replies 0 — Views 8
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Planets Around a...
Yes, that is a possible explanation, but I wonder if there could be something else at play here, namely the camera itself. If I enlarge your second photo (by Thanakrit), the dark lunar disk is...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Detailed View of...
The red/pink is H-alpha.Is that to say that upon seeing the red/pink during totality, we are seeing with our own eyes the actual H-alpha colours of distant pink/red nebulae?The Sun is made of hot...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Colors of Twilight...
Or if they're just into shadow, they may still pick up the red light reflected from clouds even further west. Or they may be in shadow, in which case they are likely to look blue (which some people...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Eclipse in Seven...
Eclipse in Seven Explanation: Start at the upper left above and you can follow the progress of April 8's total eclipse of the Sun in seven sharp, separate exposures. The image sequence was recorded...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Total Totality...
When I zoom in the APOD I do see the "pink" as intense red indeed; could the impression (shared by many it seems) of having seen pink instead simply come from a residual fraction of white light...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Inexplicable "Flying...
Thanks, Jac, you know I love your images! A flying fox of plasma without a galaxy inside, eh? That reminds me of Hanny's Voorwerp.Wikipedia wrote:Hanny's Voorwerp /ˈhʌniz ˈvɔːrwɛərp/, (Dutch for...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Palm Tree Partial...
Hello!Today's APOD image is considerably larger in file size than it needs to be, as it's been saved using the PNG format. It should likely be using JPEG instead. I am referring to the image at this...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: How a Total Solar...
Once again, the digital sensors just plain maxed out as the sun re-emerged, while in person, the reappearance of the bright disk of the sun, while causing a person to avert their eyes from the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Cigar Galaxy...
There is, in the upper right part of the Webb image, something that looks like a globular cluster and which is completely invisible in the Hubble image. Impressive.AlexInteresting… not even the...
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