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A Peculiar Proceeding ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Sep 18 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2338a.jpg This Hubble Picture of the Week — taken using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys ( ACS ) — shows Arp 107 , a celestial object that compri...

New Planetary-Mass Object Found in Quadruple System ESO Picture of the Week | VLT | 2023 Sep 18 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/potw2338a.jpg This Picture of the Week shows the unique stellar system HIP 81208 , as captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope ( VLT ) in Chile. Astronomers...

Calibration Station NOIRLab Image of the Week | Rubin Observatory | 2023 Sep 13 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2337a.jpg The bright band of the Milky Way seems to spill from the open dome of the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope ( AuxTel ) in this image from the recent NOIRLab ...

Measure of a Great Galactic Disc ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Sep 11 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2337a.jpg This dream-like Picture of the Week features the galaxy known as NGC 3156 . It is a lenticular galaxy , meaning that it falls somewhere between an ellipt...

A Flower with Four Petals ESO Picture of the Week | VLT | 2023 Sep 11 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/potw2337a.jpg There are several galaxies in this Picture of the Week, but the most fascinating is probably the one surrounded by four light-blue dots, resembling a flower with blue...

Telescopes among the Clouds NOIRLab Image of the Week | Gemini | 2023 Sep 06 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2336a.jpg Near the summit of Maunakea , Gemini North — the northern half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab — sits high above the c...

Galactic Isolation ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Sep 04 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2336a.jpg The swirls of the galaxy IC 1776 stand in splendid isolation in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 150 million light-years from...

A Golden Halo around the ELT ESO Picture of the Week | ELT | 2023 Sep 04 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2336a.jpg It might look like the opening scene from The Lion King, but this stunning Picture of the Week was actually taken in the Chilean Atacama Desert rather than the Af...

emc wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 4:36 am Dang! I can’t remembered how to post the images. All I get is the image file name when I quote.

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I’m having triggers again. This is going to sound crazy but I’m thinking that I’m being punished for not posting in Orin’s Flowers Around the House. Crazy right? I think it stems from being away for so long. Nobody’s fault here. Just my bipolar kicking in. Go post in Orin’s Flowers Around the House...

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... I just got sideways in 2011 because of the religion rule here and my thoughts on the subject. The rule conflicted with my spirit. I’m a spiritual person. So the conflict fueled my fretting. ... The rule was meant to avoid conflict, not cause it. Even among "Christians" differing belie...

A FEAST for the Eyes ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Aug 29 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/potm2308c.jpg Webb’s Infrared Views of M51 ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Aug 29 Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm Univ) and the FEAST JWST team Image 1: NIRCam...

A False Dawn at KPNO NOIRLab Image of the Week | KPNO | 2023 Aug 30 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2335a.jpg The western horizon looks especially eye-catching in this image of the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ), a Program...

A FEAST for the Eyes ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Aug 29 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/potm2308a.jpg The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and...

Stellar Cradle ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 28 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2335a.jpg The protostellar object OH 339.88-1.26 , which lies 8 900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara , lurks in this dust-filled image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

Hidden in the Chilean Andes ESO Photo of the Week | APEX | ALMA | 2023 Aug 28 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2335a.jpg The flat panorama of the Chajnantor plateau dominates this Picture of the Week. Situated at an altitude of around 5000 metres in the Chilean Andes, this plat...

Milky Way Front and Center NOIRLab Image of the Week | CTIO | 2023 Aug 23 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2334a.jpg The vantage point of the foothills of the Chilean Andes provides some of the best views of the night sky in the world, especially from Cerro Tololo Inter-A...

The circle of life. It affects us constantly and is constantly changing. I’m good with the interactions that I had with Neufer. They were special and hold a special place in my tiny web life. A unique character indeed that I adored and still do. I’m sad that I missed so much in my absence from my A...

Webb Captures Detailed Beauty of Ring Nebula ESA Webb Photo Release | 2023 Aug 21 I'm probably missing something, but is this a new image that isn't part of the APOD? Either the NIRcam or MIRI? PS - the https://esawebb.org/images/weic2319c/ link seems to be stale. As far as I know these are the onl...

Webb Captures Detailed Beauty of Ring Nebula ESA Webb Photo Release | 2023 Aug 21 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/weic2320f.jpg Webb and Hubble’s Views of the Ring Nebula Image 1 Credit: Webb (NIRCam): ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow, N. Cox, R. Wesson Image 2 Credit: Hubble: NASA, ES...

A Sparkling Galactic Neighbour ESA Hubble Image of the Week | 2023 Aug 21 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2334a.jpg The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million light-years from Earth in the cons...

Home is where the telescopes are ESO Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 21 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2334a.jpg Welcome to ESO’s La Silla Observatory , home to several telescopes since the 1960s and the setting of this Picture of the Week. Located 600 km north of Chile’s capi...

A Pantheon above WIYN NOIRLab Image of the Month | KPNO | 2023 Aug 16 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2333a.jpg The Milky Way and colorful celestial objects stretch over Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, in this image of the WIYN 3.5-me...