Starship Asterisk*

by **starsurfer** » Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:32 am

W44
http://herschel.cf.ac.uk/results/supernova-remnant-w44
Copyright: Herschel: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Quang Nguyen Luong & Frederique Motte, HOBYS Key Program consortium ; XMM-Newton: ESA/XMM-Newton

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This supernova remnant also has an optical shell which is very faint and can only be seen with a long Ha exposure.

by **geckzilla** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:22 pm

I don't know if he'll cross post this here but I will! Posted last night to the APOD Submissions Flickr feed. I can't stop playing it over and over looking for satellites and just gazing at the Milky Way. It is imperative that you view it at fullscreen and in HD.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/9 ... pool-apods

by **starsurfer** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:58 am

Sh2-264
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_la ... ionis.html
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

by **starsurfer** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:56 am

geckzilla wrote:Fresh from the HubbleSite news center. You know you want to feature a cosmic caterpillar.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 5/image/a/

Ah the famous "scorched tadpole"! This is one of many proplyds associated with the Cygnus OB2 association. It looks red in true colour.

by **geckzilla** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 5:50 pm

Fresh from the HubbleSite news center. You know you want to feature a cosmic caterpillar.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 5/image/a/

by **starsurfer** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:41 am

NGC 7769, NGC 7770 and NGC 7771
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... GC7771.htm
Copyright: Martin Pugh

by **starsurfer** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:20 am

NGC 7753
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n7753.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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by **starsurfer** » Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:19 am

geckzilla wrote:Looking through the HLA I noticed there were 3 different images of HH-1 and HH-2 so I figured an animation must have already been made and I was surprised that I had never seen this before. This is HH-1. Someone else took the ESA release and put it on YouTube which I'm just embedding for convenience here. The original ESA release is here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1113g/ And HH-2 is here. Hmm, HH-1 and HH-2 are actually two jets coming from presumably the same star. I wonder why there is no video of the pair together?

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

The other really cool thing about HH 1 and HH 2 is that they contain OIII emission, very rare for Herbig Haro objects where Ha and SII are the predominant lines. Also you can see some videos of the motion of HH 1 and HH 2 on the website of astronomer Patrick Hartigan: http://sparky.rice.edu/movies.html

by **geckzilla** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:18 pm

Oh, nice. I thought it was an abstract painting before reading the description.

by **bystander** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:08 pm

: The Southern Reaches - Credit: ESA / G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) / Bill Dunford
The south pole of Mars, as seen by the Mars Express orbiter in infrared, green, and blue light.

Source: A Turn of the Kaleidoscope
Planetary Society | Bill Dunford | 2013 Aug 12

by **geckzilla** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:55 pm

Looking through the HLA I noticed there were 3 different images of HH-1 and HH-2 so I figured an animation must have already been made and I was surprised that I had never seen this before. This is HH-1. Someone else took the ESA release and put it on YouTube which I'm just embedding for convenience here. The original ESA release is here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1113g/ And HH-2 is here. Hmm, HH-1 and HH-2 are actually two jets coming from presumably the same star. I wonder why there is no video of the pair together?

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

by **starsurfer** » Tue Aug 27, 2013 6:47 am

IC 1262
http://www.astrophoton.com/IC1262.htm
Copyright: Bernhard Hubl

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by **starsurfer** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 4:51 am

SNR B0519-69.0
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1317a/
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Claude Cornen

by **owlice** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:43 am

Happy 10th birthday, Spitzer!
Copyright: Peter Teuben
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by **starsurfer** » Thu Aug 22, 2013 9:52 am

WR 134 nebula
http://www.astrosurf.com/zoll/images/WR134_HOO.jpg
Copyright: Stephane Zoll

by **geckzilla** » Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:29 pm

This isn't an image. An appropriate photo would have to be procured. Reading Luca's blog entry on how he almost drowned was definitely a "wow" moment for me which is what is sought after for APODs. http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/201 ... -frontier/

Here's a photo of Luca in his space suit anyway.

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by **starsurfer** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 12:14 pm

NGC 5557
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 5&album=14
Copyright: Karel Teuwen

The plumes of NGC 5557 have a diameter of 1.3 million light years making them longer than the 1.1 million light year long tidal tails of the Superantennae galaxy!
In the image, to the right is the overlapping galaxy pair of NGC 5544-5 and near the right edge is the edge on galaxy NGC 5529. They can be seen more clearly in the following closeups by Adam Block:
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n5544.shtml
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n5529.shtml

by **kost973** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:16 pm

Launching Stratospheric Probe.
http://www.kost973.com/ecs/Stratospheri ... probe.html

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big image - http://www.kost973.com/ecs/Stratospheri ... 2013-2.jpg
We have specially launched a probe into the stratosphere to take pictures of the moon and the sun. The height of about 31 km.
Amateur astronomers from the northern city of Russia - Syktyvkar.
Kamera - GoPro. Data - 16/08/2013. Konstantin Poezjaev