The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Submissions: 2024 April
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Have you seen a great image or video somewhere that you think would make a great APOD? Nominate it for APOD! Please post as much information here as you have about the image/video with a link to any...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Cigar Galaxy...
The Hubble image shows M82 in its entirety (well, mostly), whereas the JWST image only shows the center of M82. All the bright white dots in the JWST image are star clusters, and the fainter dots are...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Great Carina...
I had no idea that NGC 3324 referred to the Keyhole Nebula. Guess I was wrong about it referring to the Gabriela Mistral Nebula.Statistics: Posted by starsurfer — Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:17 pm — Replies 6...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Diamonds in the...
La Luna no pasa exactamente por el diámetro solarStatistics: Posted by Guest — Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:17 pm — Replies 6 — Views 271
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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...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Perijove 16:...
..2. What does this mean:The movie is a reconstruction of the 114 minutes between 2018-10-29T20:35:00.000 and 2018-10-29T22:29:00.000 in 125-fold time-lapse.It is based on 21 of the JunoCam images...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Moon and Smoke...
How wide are Mt Etna's smoke rings?Well, the image was made about 70km from Etna, so given the Moon is a half degree wide, the smoke rings are about 0.08 degrees, and must therefore be about 100...
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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 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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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...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Contrail Shadow X...
Thanks, everyone. I (now) agree that it is most likely that the X is caused by the contrails being illuminated from above, not below. I have now updated the text on the main NASA APOD to indicate...
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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 387
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: NGC 604: Giant...
Let's start with my Chandra portrait of NGC 604:APOD 25 April 2024 annotated.pngPossible location of the Chandra bubbles in the APOD.Maybe it's just the right-hand bubble that is seen in the Chandra...
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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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