Starship Asterisk*

Wow, that's some solar prominence and eruption! Where is the "Wow, I'm amazed" emoticon?

The comet and its lost tail was fun to watch too. As for the carbon stars, I don't doubt for a moment that such stars have been hugely important for the enrichment of the interstellar medium with heavy elements, and let's not forget that these super-red guys makes for fun observing at the telescope.... but these false color pictures were not for me. Thanks for posting them anyway!

Ann

[quote="owlice"][size=120][b]Dying Carbon Stars[/b][/size]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2689
Image credit: Herschel Telescope; Image processing: [url=http://homepage.univie.ac.at/franz.kerschbaum]Franz Kerschbaum[/url] and [url=http://www.univie.ac.at/space/MESS/]MESS Consortium[/url]
[attachment=0]obs_Kerschbaum.jpg[/attachment][/quote]

These smoky rings of the “dying” carbon stars (top to bottom) AQ And, U Ant and TT Cyg ( http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010304.html )
were observed in the far infrared with the now biggest Space Telescope Herschel ( http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=16 ) at wavelengths of 70 micron (blue) and 160 micron (red). The cold dust rings represent phases of high mass loss that happened some thousand years ago. Also our sun will experience similar processes in 6 billion years from now.

I hope you like them!

[size=120][b]Swan Nebula[/b][/size]
http://www.flemingastrophotography.com/
Copyright: Neil Fleming
[attachment=0]Swan_Ha-OIII-1.5OIII2-cropped_50pct.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]C/2009 R1 (McNaught) with Disconnection Event[/b][/size]
http://remanzacco.blogspot.com
Copyright: Ernesto Guido & Giovanni Sostero

[url=http://bit.ly/dpUi2d][img]http://bit.ly/dpUi2d[/img][/url]

[url=http://bit.ly/cTHeVn][img]http://bit.ly/cTHeVn[/img][/url]

Wide-Field Animation & image of the same event:

[url=http://bit.ly/dzwXf3][img]http://bit.ly/dzwXf3[/img][/url]

[size=120][b]Sunring[/b][/size]
http://www.vcps.au.com/sunring.jpg
Copyright: Peter Wolf
[attachment=0]sunring_Wolf.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Irregular Galaxy NGC 4449[/b][/size]
http://helixgate.net/ngc4449.html
Copyright: Mike Siniscalch
[url=http://helixgate.net/canon/ngc4449-FMSiniscalchi.jpg][img]http://helixgate.net/canon/ngc4449-LMSiniscalchi.jpg[/img][/url]

[size=120][b]NGC 5850 and NGC 5846[/b][/size]
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n5850.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block
[url=http://www.caelumobservatory.com/mlsc/n5850.jpg][img]http://www.caelumobservatory.com/mlsc/n5850s.jpg[/img][/url]

[size=120][b]Prominence Eruption and Ejection[/b][/size]
http://www.fobos.es
Copyright: Jesús Carmona de Argila
[url=http://www.fobos.es/sol190410G.gif][img]http://www.fobos.es/sol190410GF.gif[/img][/url]

[size=120][b]ISS-Atlantis Transit over St. Nectarius Chapel, Rhodes [/b][/size]
http://ladanyi.csillagaszat.hu
Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
[attachment=0]iss_100517_ladanyi.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]NGC3718 [/b][/size]
http://www.starkeeper.it/NGC3718_LRGB.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi
[url=http://www.starkeeper.it/img/NGC3718_LRGB_Full.png][img]http://www.starkeeper.it/img/NGC3718_LRGB.png[/img][/url]

[size=120][b]Dying Carbon Stars[/b][/size]
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2689
Image credit: Herschel Telescope; Image processing: [url=http://homepage.univie.ac.at/franz.kerschbaum]Franz Kerschbaum[/url] and [url=http://www.univie.ac.at/space/MESS/]MESS Consortium[/url]
[attachment=0]obs_Kerschbaum.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]The Neutronium Alchemist[/b][/size]
http://www.tomtikulin-art.com/page0/files/page0-1000-full.html
Copyright: Tomislav TIkulin
[url=http://www.tomtikulin-art.com/page0/files/page0-1000-full.html][img]http://www.tomtikulin-art.com/page0/files/page0-1000-full.jpg[/img][/url]

[size=120][b]M13 and NGC 6207[/b][/size]
http://gallery.cuttinedgeobservatory.com/v/globulars/M13/m13_002.jpg.html
Copyright: Chris Johnson
[url=http://gallery.cuttinedgeobservatory.com/v/globulars/M13/m13_002.jpg.html][img]http://gallery.cuttinedgeobservatory.com/d/2436-2/m13_002.jpg[/img][/url]

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Please click on each image for best viewing; please click on the link below the
image title for more information about the image. Thank you!
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[size=110][b]Widefield of Eta Carinae[/b][/size]
http://www.pbase.com/image/124907434/large
Copyright: Mark Wielgosz
[url=http://ic2.pbase.com/o2/63/952463/1/124907434.O8M87lG7.EtaHaHaRGBProcessed.jpg][img]http://ic2.pbase.com/g3/63/952463/2/124907434.MI10tc2N.jpg[/img][/url]