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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Filaments of the...
Filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant Explanation: The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago, a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to...
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I love the title. It definitely had me fooled at first glance. Retro BowlStatistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:32 am — Replies 7 — Views 1123
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Total Eclipse and...
Superb image, particularly the corona which extends further than in many other images.Statistics: Posted by Eclectic Man — Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:01 am — Replies 1 — Views 124
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Facing NGC 1232...
Yes, I like it! What I particularly like about Neil Corke's portrait of NGC 1232 is that he shows us the pink emission nebulas in the arms. These are invisible in the ESO APOD. I also like the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Great Carina...
I'm somewhat critical of the colors of this APOD.The Great Carina Nebula. Image Credit & Copyright: Demison LopesThe Great Carina Nebula. Credit: Harel BorenHarel Boren's image is an RGB one, but...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Diamonds in the...
Diamonds in the Sky Explanation: When the dark shadow of the Moon raced across North America on April 8, sky watchers along the shadow's narrow central path were treated to a total solar eclipse....
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Primordial Hum
If there were equal parts of matter particles and anti-matter particles way back when, why didn't everything just annihilate leaving no particles at all? The fact that we now find a lot more matter...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Fox Fur fun
I was examining details of the Fox Fur nebula and this funny thing happened: From the position it is below I rotated the image 90 degrees left and a deer head appeared where the fox's head was, then...
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" ... the gravitational waves ... are consistent with the merger of 36 and 31 solar mass black holes at a distance of 1.3 billion light-years. The final, single black hole has 63 times the mass of the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Perijove 16:...
Could really do better with the William Tell Overture instead of that squirrel music.I think “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity” by Holst is quite appropriate.Until you recognize that Holst was...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • NewJWST: New Pictures...
NGC 1511jac berne (flickr)STScI Mikulski Archive | Release Date2024-04-19 18:23 NGC 3972 is a spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered by William Herschel...
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If it was around 2 weeks ago in the morning, that waning crescent was heading toward a solar eclipse!Statistics: Posted by wilddouglascounty — Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:15 pm — Replies 5 — Views 164
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Video Submissions
Full April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse timelapse from start to finish. Taken from Richford, VT. Click to play embedded YouTube video.You don't seem to have Javascript enabled. Direct video...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • MAUVE survey: Giant...
MAUVE survey: Giant galactic explosion in NGC 4383 exposes galaxy pollution in actionphys.org | 2024 April 21 A team of international researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster,...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble captures a bright galactic and stellar duo phys.org | Original release 2024 April 22 While the focus of this image is the spiral galaxy NGC 3783, the eye is equally drawn to the very bright...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Contrail Shadow X...
I agree with others here that we are seeing the shadows of the contrails cast down onto the clouds, not up. (I'm not convinced it's even possible to have a contrail shadow cast up onto a cloud... the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Dragon's Egg...
fitto my eye a blue (OIII, right?) jellyfish swimming rightward from the star breakes the bipolarityStatistics: Posted by VictorBorun — Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:12 pm — Replies 3 — Views 182
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 604: Giant...
I'm still somewhat puzzled by JWST colour choices. Is there a scientific reason why they chose pink/red for NGC 604 but a kind of rusty brownish not-really-red for the Tarantula Nebula? Is it to...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Regulus and the...
Well I was going to ask at what point we differentiate between a star cluster and dwarf spheroidal galaxy, but thanks to the color commentary I am guessing the black hole at the center may be a...
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Is that Cassiopeia's W near center?Probably not near center, but Cassiopeia should be in the picture.I definitely couldn't spot the familiar W.AnnCassiopeia is in the picture. Look at the annotated...
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