Starship Asterisk*

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/Crab_MultiChandra_960.jpg I wasn't aware that the disk surrounding the central neutron star was so relatively large. If the entire Crab Nebula is 10 light-years across, then I guess that the swirling disk must be at least 2 light-years in diameter. Halfway to P...

Well, nice APOD. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/VeeChamaeleon_Lee_960_annotated.jpg This is where we are: Chameleon and Musca Till Credner and Sven Kohle.png Chameleon and Musca. Credit: Till Credner and Sven Kohle Here is another picture to sort of help you see where we are, even though Beta...

What I love about Milky Way images is how they remind us that we are seeing a galactic arm edge-on, in every way similar to distant edge-on galaxies. Especially in this APOD, I find, maybe because of the straight tapered aspect of the arm extending from the bulgy center. https://asterisk.apod.com/d...

Yes, that's a fine picture! :D https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/KingOfWings_Pinkston_960.jpg I think this hoodoo looks like a mythical creature, dressed in a coonskin hat with a particularly long tail. He used to drive across the desert on his motorbike(?), the tail of his coonskin hat pointing...

Cousin Ricky wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 2:27 pm There is also open cluster NGC 6603, near the center of the image.

Ah, okay! That's the correct designation for the cluster that is sometimes known as M24!

Ann

APOD Robot wrote: In the foreground, denizens of planet Earth are enjoying the region's annual Planet Festival in the park below the Brno Observatory and Planetarium. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/2024-07-11Pavel_models1024p.jpg So, the observatory, is that the building on top of that woode...

https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/M17-HST-Subaru-LLL.jpg https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/Messier-18-and-Messier-17-e1468259761462.jpg And that's all for me today! Ann Nice area up there. Really something going on... https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/TKW...

Yes, that's beautiful! :D 🤩 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/M24-HaLRGB-RC51_1024.jpg M24 is the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, which means that there also is a (large) Sagittarius Star Cloud. heic0107d[1].jpg Here you can see the Teapot of Sagittarius and globular cluster M22. The large yellow ...

One argument against the presence of other technological civilizations in the Milky Way is that if they were here, they would already have colonized the galaxy. I don't find that argument compelling. Consider ourselves! We count as a technological civilization, yet we are so very far from colonizing...

Follow the leader NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 June 23 https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge11/image_12518e-Arp-Madore-2105-332.jpg This line of galaxies is a cosmic coincidence behind the interacting system Arp-Madore 2105-332, which is a pair of galaxies 200 million light years away in the suit...

p.s. great close-up image AVAO! (but do you mean by "mirrored" that this is not the actual state of the galaxy but an optical effect? I'm not sure I understand) Astronomical images, by convention, should be presented with east counterclockwise from north. (And ideally with north up, but t...

Intruders? They look to me more like two of the "massive blue clusters" ignited by the now long gone intruder that created the Tadpole's tail. I agree that "Intruder 2" looks just like a massive cluster that formed as a consequence of "Intruder 1's" intrusion into the ...

Vivid portrait of interacting galaxies marks Webb's second anniversary phys.org | 2024 July 12 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2024/vivid-portrait-of-inte-2.jpg more ESA download TY4YA Jac Wow, Jac! The Penguin galaxy looks more penguin-like than ever when observed by JWST. And your picture at ...

Oh, the Hattifatteners of the Moomin Valley who are always trying to reach the horizon have finally made it to the borders of Puppis and Vela! https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRuOsBRjWn_y0Rcp9hPWaXiDz9-6VgWERovyQ&s https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/CometaryGlobs_Pugh_108...

Fig. 1. The image of the Tadpole galaxy UGC 10214 with labeled 3 galaxies as a local galactic cluster. The image is credited to: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA The image of the Tadpole galaxy UGC 10214 with labeled ...

I have to talk about the color of this APOD, because I am, after all, the Color Commentator. And the color of this APOD both delights and bothers me. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/TadpoleGalaxy_HubblePathak_960.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/UGC_10214HST.jpg/80...

Fig. 1. The image of the Tadpole galaxy UGC 10214 with labeled 3 galaxies as a local galactic cluster. The image is credited to: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA https://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=50027&am...

Fig. 1. The image of the Tadpole galaxy UGC 10214 with labeled 3 galaxies as a local galactic cluster. The image is credited to: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA https://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=50027&am...

It is also interesting that the lower part of the meteor's trail is yellow-green. In fact, the meteor clearly changes color during its fiery decent through the Earth's atmosphere from red to green. Why is that, Chris? Okay, it has to do with the composition of the meteor again... The most volatile ...

Indeed, the color is due to the composition of the meteor (and of the atmosphere). And if we had a spectroscopic data, we could say a lot about what the meteoroid was made of. But with only three broadband channels (red, green, and blue) we really don't have much information. The colors of the trai...

The APOD looks positively unreal! :shock: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/M33Meteor_Chokshi_960.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/15/66/9f/15669faa623bd0e5930e610ef7421c13.jpg The APOD looks as if it was cut in half, and as if the meteor trail was the dividing line. It looks as if the lower l...

Well, Cassini did it in 2013. From https://www.thorntonweather.com/blog/astronomy/nasas-cassini-send-back-images-of-earth-from-900-million-miles-away/ http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-QfVBbcIMaEw/Ue2x2yL9bkI/AAAAAAAAAcc/monen7Ir58w/s0/20130722_annotated_earth-moon_from_saturn_1920x1080_1.jpg I'm s...

I wonder, after Voyager did it (famous "pale blue dot"), what's the reason NASA didn't feel like instructing any other space shuttle in last 50+ years - sent to other planets and asteroids and comets - to look back and take another (better resolution, different angle/perspective/distance)...

I often wonder what the sky would look like for a person living on a planet that orbited around a star in this cluster! I'm pretty sure the view would be awesome! Except it's not likely that many stars in a globular cluster have planets. The view from inside a rich globular cluster might be somethi...

I remember when I was young... APOD 11 July annotated.png I used to be a handsome spiral galaxy! https://askanearthspacescientist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/panopoly_image_full/public/side-content/dwarf-galaxy.jpg?itok=ClpKlMl6 Granted, I was small (and maybe I was smaller than I remember) ...