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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • AstroRTC: Research...
3C 273 Host Galaxy with Hubble Space Telescope CoronagraphyBin B. Ren, Kevin Fogarty, John H. Debes, Eileen T. Meyer, Youbin Mo, Dimitri Mawet, Marshall D. Perrin, Patrick M. Ogle, Johannes...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Hoag's...
Thanks, Ann. The peculiar "Bear Claw" galaxy sort of looks like one C-shaped galaxy about to swallow a smaller oblong one. Or maybe it's more of a single spiral that looks like a lowercase "e":The...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • The Speed of Gravity
I was listening to Don Lincoln’s video about Einstein and Newton describing the speed of gravity and he was saying how he, “wished he could have witnessed a debate”. How might they disagree about...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Looking Sideways...
There is a cluster in the very beginning of the video (at 2 seconds). Could this cluster be M11? What do you think?APOD 19 February 2024 annotated.pngAnnThe cluster is M44.Being near the ecliptic, it...
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The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
20.02.2024 I HST: IC 3476 - A high amount of ramNASA/esa | Original release 2024 Feb 19 Credit: Credit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun"This image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • The Radcliffe Wave is...
Scientists Track How a Giant Wave Moved Through Our Galactic Backyarduniversetoday.com | 2024 Feb 20 Astronomers say there’s a wave rippling through our galactic neighborhood that’s playing a part in...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Heart Shaped...
Happy Galactic Heart Month in the entire Universe! <3 O:) * (Y)Statistics: Posted by MelvzLuster — Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:14 pm — Replies 17 — Views 1220
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Seagull Nebula...
This gorgeous nebula always make me think of Godzilla’s Rodan, rather than a seagull.Agreed - or a Diatryma's first ever flight...Statistics: Posted by Guest — Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:50 pm — Replies 11 —...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: AM1054: Stars...
I'd just say that understanding objectively derived probabilities is an important tool for guiding scientific investigation. If you're going to conduct an investigation, it makes sense to start with...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • A Neutron Star Rests at...
A Neutron Star Rests at Supernova 1987A’s Centerhttps://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sc ... 7as-centerThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first imaged Supernova 1987A (SN) in September 2022. The...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Submissions: 2024 February
NGC 3521 - The Bubble Galaxy and surrounding stellar streamsNGC 3521 - The Bubble Galaxy and surrounding stellar streams by .zombi., on FlickrTELESCOPE LIVE CHI-1-CMOSImaging Telescopes: Planewave...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Found Images: 2024 February
Andromeda Galaxy (M31)https://www.astrobin.com/269444/Copyright: Paul TribeStatistics: Posted by starsurfer — Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:01 am — Replies 23 — Views 3335
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Video Submissions
I, along with Hawk Wolinski had just completed taking flat frames on a new solar telescope here at Siding Spring Observatory, and happened to capture this flare just after it started. Recording...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A View Toward...
Two questions for Ann based on her post above:1. Don't "jets" from central black holes in galaxies get directed perpendicular to the galactic plane, and if so why would they help to form arms in the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Pencil Nebula...
Well, wow! Today's APOD is so large that all my three attachments will be used up in a jiffy!Okay, here's the first one...The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave. Image Credit & Copyright: Helge...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • Does Matter absorb...
Could matter be absorbing space-time, causing distortions in the fabric of the universe that we have yet to fully understand? Could this explain some of the unexplained phenomena we observe in the...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: To the Moon (2024...
Or a (not so large) refrigerator ?Statistics: Posted by Guest — Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:32 am — Replies 4 — Views 58
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Submissions: 2024 January
Zoom into the Orion NebulaClick to play embedded YouTube video.You don't seem to have Javascript enabled. Direct video link.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JkrnhTDk7wThis animation took over 5000...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Phoenix Aurora...
A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland Explanation: All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet September night, much of that night's auroras had died down. Suddenly,...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Martian Moon...
Occults. Statistics: Posted by Guest — Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:59 am — Replies 1 — Views 55
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