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I am sorry but when did clouds get to be part of astronomy? Clouds are the nemesis of astronomers. Please save cloud postings for WPOD. Here's a reply from Dr. Nemiroff to complaints about a different cloud image. APOD: 2008 Jan 22 - Shelf Cloud Over Saskatchewan ~ Discussion I chose and wrote this...

Jim Leff wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:13 pm ...
Looks like I posted this in the wrong section. Maybe if it’d been posted in “news” it’d have drawn more comments..

I'm moving it to Communications

A clear view of a galaxy cluster ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 14 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2333a.jpg The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in t...

It’s full of stars! ESO Picture of the Week | VISTA | 2023 Aug 14 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2333a.jpg This Picture of the Week — taken with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope ( VISTA ) at Paranal Observatory in Chile — might look like a scene from a snowy winter...

Gentle Giant Galaxy NOIRLab Image of the Week | DECam | 2023 Aug 09 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2332a.jpg In the constellation Sculptor lies this large extended spiral galaxy called NGC 289 . Despite being around 75 million light-years away, the light of NGC 289 is s...

Portrait of a Ghostly Galactic Peacock ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 07 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2332a.jpg The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light. Captured with Hubble’s Advanced Camera f...

A Giant under the Moonlight ESO Picture of the Week | ELT | 2023 Aug 07 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2332a.jpg It’s now close to 80 metres high — the mammoth steel structure of the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope ( ELT ) dome is taking shape in this Picture of the Week, tak...

CTIO on the Edge of the World NOIRLab Image of the Week | CTIO | 2023 Aug 02 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2331a.jpg Beautiful sunsets often grace the telescopes of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory ( CTIO ), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. Pictured here are the Víct...

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The Life and Times of Dust ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Jul 31 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/potm2307a.jpg https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/potm2307c.jpg NGC 6822 (MIRI / NIRCam image) This image shows the irregular galaxy NGC 6822, which was observed by the N...

NGC 6652 ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Jul 31 potw2331a[1].jpg A dense spherical cluster of stars. The stars merge into a bright core in the centre, and spread out to the edges gradually, giving way to an empty, dark background. Most of the stars are small points of light. A few stars with ...

Galactic Island of Tranquillity ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Jul 24 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2330a.jpg The tranquil spiral galaxy UGC 12295 basks leisurely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies around 192 million light-yea...

Good question. We probably need to remove all of LolitaKab's PMs. They have been reported by at least two others.

BTW, Ann, her account has been disabled.

I think you can safely open the PM to remove it. Just don't follow any links.

Starstruck Image of Arp 263 ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Jul 17 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2329a.jpg The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar photobombe...

A Cosmic Master of Disguise ESO Picture of the Week | VISTA | 2023 Jul 17 https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw2329a.jpg Can you see the chameleon in this picture? No? Well, it's camouflaged! Yes, we are joking, but this Picture of the Week actually shows the Chamaeleon Cloud, or IC 2631 . In the ...

... Wikipedia wrote: V838 Monocerotis (Nova Monocerotis 2002) is a spectroscopic binary star system in the constellation Monoceros about 19,000 light years (6 kpc) from the Sun. The previously unremarked star was observed in early 2002 experiencing a major outburst, and was one of the largest known...

Despite the season, the splendid meteor is not a Perseid :) How can you be sure? Although the Wiki link states that the Perseids mainly only begin on July 17 and today is only the 16th, Wiki also states that in 2020 they did start on July 16! And besides that Wiki states that they actually started ...

Webb Celebrates First Year of Science with Close-up on Birth of Sun-like Stars NASA | GSFC | STScI | Webb | ESA Webb | Space Science | 2023 Jul 12 stsci-01h44ay5ztcv1npb227b2p650j[1].png The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen...

Galactic Monster Mash ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Jul 10 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2328a.jpg The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation of the exceptional galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329, which lies about ...

Counting Sheep on the Chajnantor Plateau ESO Picture of the Week | ALMA | 2023 Jul 10 https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw2328a.jpg This Picture of the Week shows a beautiful flock of sheep, grazing in the Chilean Andes. No, wait, wait, wait. There's no grass to feed on here, and they are at an a...

Open Skies and an Open Dome NOIRLab Image of the Week | CTIO | 2023 July 05 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2327a.jpg The Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope has pristine access to wide open skies of the Chilean Andes from its perch at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observat...

Hey there everyone! I'm new here but I work with social media and this thread seemed like a very interesting topic! I've noticed a growing interest in science and astronomy thanks to these kind of videos on Tik Tok and IG reels, so I think it's a great idea!! 😍 ESA shares videos like that on IG and...

Webb Locates Dust Reservoirs in Two Supernovae NASA | GSFC | STScI | JWST | 2023 Jul 05 stsci-two-supernovae.jpg Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveal large amounts of dust within Supernova 2004et and Supernova 2017eaw. These supernovae are located in spiral galaxy NGC 6946, 22 milli...