Starship Asterisk*

[url=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81996][b][i]Star Dunes in Algeria[/i][/b][/url]
NASA Earth Observatory | 2013 Sep 29
[img3="Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan [url=http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/]ASTER Science Team[/url]"]http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/81000/81996/Algeria_ast_2012300.jpg[/img3]

[url=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82146][b][i]Earthquake Births New Island off Pakistan[/i][/b][/url]
NASA Earth Observatory | 2013 Sep 28
[float=left][imghover=http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/82000/82146/gwadar_ali_2013269.jpg]http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/82000/82146/gwadar_oli_2013107.jpg[/imghover][/float][float=right][img2]http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/82000/82146/gwadar_aerial_photo.jpg[/img2][/float]

[b][size=127]Ice calving time lapse[/size][/b]
[b]Credit: Jason Amundson, Martin Truffer and Mark Fahnestock/Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks[/b]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/65670025[/vimeo]

[size=120][b]NGC 371[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1111/[/url]
Copyright: ESO/Manu Mejias
[attachment=0]eso1111a.jpg[/attachment]
If this image included OIII exposures, then the oxygen-rich supernova remnant E0102 would also have been visible.

[size=120][b]LBN 438[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1167.html[/url]
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)
[attachment=0]lbn438.jpg[/attachment]

[b][size=127]Sky diver and rocket launch[/size][/b]
[b]Copyrights: U.S. Air Force/Vandenberg Base[/b]
[url]http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/25/going_up_going_down_skydiving_into_a_rocket_launch.html[/url]
[attachment=0]vandenberg_skydive_rocket.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Abell 39[/b][/size]
[url]http://bf-astro.com/abell39/abell39.htm[/url]
Copyright: Bob Franke
[attachment=0]abell39.jpg[/attachment]
This deep image shows the rarely seen galactic cirrus nebulosity in this region of the sky.

[url=http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/26158_original.jpg][img]http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/26158_original-580x580.jpg[/img][/url]
[size=85][b][i]The entire disk of the Earth lit during the equinox on September 22, 2013.
Credit: Roscosmos / NTSOMZ / SRC “Planeta” / zelenyikot.livejournal.com[/i][/b][/size]

[url=http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/elektro.gif][b][i]Animated gif[/i][/b][/url] (3.4 MB)

Source: Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2013 Sep 24
[url=http://www.universetoday.com/104998/][b][i]Electro-L’s Fully Lit View of Planet Earth at the Autumnal Equinox[/i][/b][/url]

https://vk.com/electrol

[size=120][b]Milky Way[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.astrophoto.com/CentralBulge.htm[/url]
Copyright: Tony Hallas
[attachment=0]CentralBulge.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]NGC 253[/b][/size]
[url]http://rickstevenson.smugmug.com/Astro-Photography/2013-09[/url]
Copyright: Rick Stevenson
[img2]http://rickstevenson.smugmug.com/Astro-Photography/2013-09/i-scDL4PW/0/XL/NGC253v4psr-med-XL.jpg[/img2]

[size=120][b]Eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372)[/b][/size]
[url]http://herschel.cf.ac.uk/results/carina-nebula[/url]
Copyright: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE/PACS/Thomas Preisbisch
[attachment=0]Carina_Herschel.jpg[/attachment]
Thomas Preibisch has done a lot of work on the Eta Carinae Nebula, his website: [url]http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/people/preibisch/[/url]

[size=120][b]Sh2-284[/b][/size]
[url]http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_LBN211.91-01.37.html[/url]
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
[img2]http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_images/WISE2011-009-med.jpg[/img2]

[b][size=127]Summers Night Sky Story In Petrilo[/size][/b]
[b]Copyrights: Konstantinos Basilakakos[/b]
[b]Suggested by Dimitris Papadopoulos[/b]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnskRo0tQws[/youtube]

[size=120][b]NGC 6015[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.martinpughastrophotography.id.au/Galaxies/NGC6015.htm[/url]
Copyright: Martin Pugh
[attachment=0]NGC6015.jpg[/attachment]

[b][size=120]PGC 10922[/size][/b]
[url]http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1334a/[/url]
Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
[img2]http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/screen/potw1334a.jpg[/img2]
This galaxy is also known as ESO 3-13.

[float=left][c][s][/s]
[url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/15/astrophoto_planetary_nebula_image_combining_different_telescopes.html][b][i]Power of Multiple Amateur Telescopes, UNITE![/i][/b][/url]
Slate Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2013 Sep 15

[url=http://www.astrobin.com/full/55058/][img]http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/09/jones-emberson1.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg[/img][/url]
[size=85][i]The planetary nebula Jones-Emberson 1, a dying star 1600 light years from Earth.
This image was taken using six different small telescopes, a total exposure time
of 125 hours, with their power combined into one beautiful picture.

[b]Credit: Michael Stauning, Michael Rask, Torben Taustrup, Flemming R. Ovesen,
Morten la Cour, Paul Christiansen, and Morten Balling[/b][/i][/size][/c][/float]

[size=120][b]NGC 253[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.astro-pics.com/253tvm.htm[/url]
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper
[img2]http://www.astro-pics.com/253tvm.jpg[/img2]

[size=120][b]NGC 5529[/b][/size]
[url]http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/NGC%205529%2C5527%2C5544%2C5545%20%5BBootes%5D.html[/url]
Copyright: Antonio Sánchez
[attachment=0]NGC 5529.jpg[/attachment]

Just a lovely composition and serene scene of aurora borealis as seen from Norway.

[img]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2860/9644315039_6942450ddf.jpg[/img]
Above and Beyond, by Tor-Ivar Næss
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torivarn/9644315039/

[size=120][b]M13[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.feraphotography.com/AM14/M13.html[/url]
Copyright: Bob Fera
[attachment=0]M13.jpg[/attachment]

[url=http://www.ciclops.org/art_index/32/Titan][size=120][b][i]CICLOPS Art Room: Titan[/i][/b][/size][/url]

[b][i]© 2013: Ron Miller ([url=http://www.black-cat-studios.com/]Black Cat Studios[/url])[/i][/b]

[attachment=0]7717_18378_1[1].jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=1]7718_18379_1[1].jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=2]7719_18380_1[3].jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=3]7720_18381_1[1].jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Seagull Nebula (IC 2177)[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.astrostudio.at/1_Deep%20Sky%20Objects.php?img=images/1_Deep%20Sky%20Objects/189_IC2177.jpg&PHPSESSID=df546090aabcc4ebf3f2b04bf509c46e[/url]
Copyright: Gerald Rhemann
[attachment=0]IC2177.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]NGC 300[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1037/[/url]
Copyright: ESO
[img2]http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/eso1037a.jpg[/img2]

[size=120][b]IC 1396 North[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1173.html[/url]
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker & S. Pakzad (NOAO/AURA/NSF)
[attachment=0]ic1396.jpg[/attachment]

[size=120][b]Northern Cygnus[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/Cygnusmosaic.html[/url]
Copyright: Rob Gendler
[attachment=0]Cygnus.jpg[/attachment]
Although this image has been featured on APOD previously, I think it would make a great rerun on a Sunday! I regard this to be one of the greatest astroimages of the 21st century! :D