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Webb Captures the Spectacular Galactic Merger Arp 220 NASA GSFC | STScI JWST | ESA Webb | 2023 Apr 17 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/arp220a.jpg Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI) Shining like a brilliant beacon amidst a sea of galaxies, Arp 220 lights ...

Hubble Spotlights a Swirling Spiral ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Apr 17 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2316a.jpg Image Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick, R. J. Foley The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA H...

A Stellar Sprinkler ESO Picture of the Week | 2023 Apr 17 https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw2316b.jpg V* V2423 Ori ~ Credits: ESO/Kirwan et al. This Picture of the Week shows the young stellar object 244-440 in the Orion Nebula observed with ESO’s Very Large Telescope ( VLT ) –– the sharpest im...

Giant Galaxy Seen in 3D by Hubble and Keck NASA | GSFC | STScI | HubbleSite | 2023 Apr 13 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/opo23011a.jpg Hubble and Keck Telescopes Assemble a 3D View of a Giant Galaxy Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), F. Summers (STScI), C. Ma (UC Berkeley...

A Sharper Look at the First Image of a Black Hole NOIRLab Photo Release | 2023 Apr 13 Machine learning reconstructs new image of Messier 87 from Event Horizon Telescope data https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/noirlab2310a.jpg A team of researchers ... has developed a new machin...

If this globular cluster, pictured, is considered 'mostly stealthy', I can't wait for you to show me a globular cluster that is considered a 'big showoff.' It's the Lynx constellation, not the globular cluster, that is "mostly stealthy". Although, I must admit, I don't know why that is, e...

Caught Between Earth and Sky NOIRLab Image of the Week | Gemini North | 2023 Apr 12 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2315a.jpg The silver dome of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory , operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, catches the setting ...

Webb Reveals New Details in Cassiopeia A ESA Webb | ESA Space Scienc e | NASA | GSFC | STScI | JWST | 2023 Apr 07 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/weic2311c.jpg Webb (MIRI) and Hubble Views of Cassiopeia A Webb Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Pr...

Webb Scores Another Ringed World With New Image of Uranus NASA | GSFC | STScI | JWST | ESA Webb | ESA Space Science | 2023 Apr 06 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/large/weic2310a.jpg https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/weic2310d.jpg Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasqu...

AI Algorithm Unblurs the Cosmos Northwestern University | 2023 Mar 30 Tool produces faster, more realistic images than current methods https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wCSeBc92Tw2WuLs6ANyynd.jpeg The cosmos would look a lot better if Earth’s atmosphere wasn’t photo bombing it all the time. Even im...

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/objects/heapow/active_galaxies/3c297_comp_small.jpg A Voracious Galaxy? What's going on with 3c297? The galaxy 3c297, about 9 billion light-years from earth, seems at first glance to be just another active galaxy with an actively accreting supermassive black hol...

Historic Nebula Seen Like Never Before with IXPE NASA | CXC | IXPE | 2023 Apr 10 https://chandra.si.edu/press/23_releases/crabx_864.jpg On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab Nebula, a bright cosmic object 6,500 light...

I don't know if they're scientifically assigned or not. My objection is that there is no information about this image to be found, so it's essentially useless for anything other than admiring pretty colors. Not an image that should be accepted for APOD, IMO. The author describes it as a SHO image i...

A Jellyfish and the Ram ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Apr 10 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2315a.jpg Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team Here we see JO204, a ‘ jellyfish galaxy ’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appea...

Laser-Sharp Vision ESO Picture of the Week | VLT | 2023 Apr 10 https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw2315a.jpg Don’t worry, no planets were harmed in the making of this Picture of the Week! The powerful laser beams seen here are installed in one of the four 8.2-m telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Tele...

Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars NASA | GSFC | STScI | HubbleSite | 2023 Apr 06 https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/hubble_runawayblackhole_stsci-01gx657xta7kn3a8rpsdxs9d07.png There's an invisible monster on the loose,...

Dual Quasars Blaze Bright at the Center of Merging Galaxies NOIRLab Science Release | Gemini North | 2023 Apr 05 Gemini North helps confirm nature of cosmic system on the verge of becoming a giant elliptical galaxy https://www.noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/noirlab2309a.jpg Credit:...

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/objects/heapow/large_scale_structure/perseuscluster_sonified_small.jpg The Song of a Supermassive Black Hole The Perseus cluster of galaxies, shown above in a deep X-ray image obtained by the cameras on the Chandra X-ray Observatory , is one of the most massive ...

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/objects/heapow/stars/eagleneb_chandra_small.jpg Breaking Down the Pillars The ways that stars and planets form is a fascinating process. But many details are hidden behind the dust clouds which provide the raw material out of which stars and planets form. Young ...

Scientists Observe Flattest Explosion Ever Seen in Space University of Sheffield | 2023 Mar 31 Astronomers have observed an explosion 180 million light years away which challenges our current understanding of explosions in space, that appeared much flatter than ever thought possible. https://www.sh...

Aftermath of a Cosmic Explosion ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Apr 03 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2314a.jpg Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick The somewhat amorphous spiral galaxy UGC 2890 appears side-on in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Sp...

Sunset at La Silla ESO Picture of the Week | 2023 Apr 03 https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw2314a.jpg From the long eastward shadows of the telescopes in this Picture of the Week we can see that it’s almost the beginning of a long night shift of stargazing for the telescopes at ESO’s La Silla Ob...

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Ann wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2023 6:38 am I note that the "Discuss" link still doesn't work, and no larger version of today's APOD is available.

The Discuss link works fine, it's just pointed at the wrong date (230402).