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by León
Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:29 pm
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: EU/PC (split from APOD: 2010 Nov 03)
Replies: 6
Views: 649

Re: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)

Joe said: This is the same structural event as surrounds Supernova 1987a. Just compare them. The structures weren't 'ejected' from the central stellar object, they were formed from the ISM (the Interstellar Medium) as aggregated by Marklund Convection forces and the magnetic fields present, as well ...
by León
Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:01 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Spicules: Jets on the Sun (2010 Nov 02)
Replies: 25
Views: 7288

Re: APOD: Spicules: Jets on the Sun (2010 Nov 02)

More than 100,000 spicules tickle the solar atmosphere, called the corona, at any time.

Image
by León
Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:11 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Milky Way Over the Peak of the... (2010 Nov 01)
Replies: 19
Views: 11456

Re: APOD: The Milky Way Over the Peak of the... (2010 Nov 01

Meeting is the English translation of Reunión, is the union of principle with the end of the process, all heat up there stars, moving from atoms, below the consolidated matter was stripped of residual heat. Is the heat that is dying or what is the same as the movement is reduced. http://antwrp.gsfc....
by León
Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:55 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula (2010 Oct 31)
Replies: 18
Views: 4392

Re: APOD: Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula (2010 Oct 31)

More information about de image http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04226 Returning from a trip to the Galapagos Islands where persistently seek the ghosts of the pirates who hid in the island, and I find that in parallel Apod has dealt with the ghosts in the week. Not found but some parishi...
by León
Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:45 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Orion: Head to Toe (2010 Oct 23)
Replies: 18
Views: 3817

Re: APOD: Orion: Head to Toe (2010 Oct 23)

Leon - your translator creates fascinating and tantalizing snippets of, at times, almost mystical thoughts - I enjoy reading them many times not only to "untranslate" to get to what your original thoughts were but to see what a translator does in its unthinking methods. Thanks Biddie for ...
by León
Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:02 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Orion: Head to Toe (2010 Oct 23)
Replies: 18
Views: 3817

Re: APOD: Orion: Head to Toe (2010 Oct 23)

Orion is the center of the sky, especially in the southern hemisphere that we have in the days of summer, when viewing the sky with more regularity. In the south we see invested, at the zenith at the beginning of summer, with Sirio at Right and Pleyades to left. http://www.mateando.com/images/users/...
by León
Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:18 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Venus Just After Sunset (2010 Oct 20)
Replies: 24
Views: 7257

Re: APOD: Venus Just After Sunset (2010 Oct 20)

APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day Günün Gökbilim Görüntüsü http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/1010/venussunset_tezel.jpg In Turkish nickname on the image said In December 2006, evening sky, Venus is emerging, steadily rising from last day as the people began to stay in the sky for a long time. Venu...
by León
Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:32 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Prometheus Rising Through Saturns F Ring (2010 Oct 19)
Replies: 30
Views: 14882

Re: APOD: Prometheus Rising Through Saturns F Ring (2010 Oct

OK folks - referring back to the photo for APOD on Aug 10, both that photo and this photo of Prometheus has it moving in the same direction through the F-ring. How does it get back to the outside of the ring in order to come through it in such a regular pattern? Is it moving in a spiral kind of pat...
by León
Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:18 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Prometheus Rising Through Saturns F Ring (2010 Oct 19)
Replies: 30
Views: 14882

Re: APOD: Prometheus Rising Through Saturns F Ring (2010 Oct

Prometheus with his shadow http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1010/prometheusrising_cassini.jpg http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/267/cache/khwaja-ghulam-farid-shrine_26745_990x742.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IFLtLt_K5Ds/TL1rdYiNrSI/AAAAAAAAD1I/dai0Pi-M6qU/s400/pro...
by León
Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:33 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2010 Oct 17)
Replies: 8
Views: 2980

Re: APOD: NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2010 Oct 17

Vapor clouds in Small Magellanic Cloud, a reflection of the seas ran Magellan, the sea water and cloud water is cloudy in the cloud, a sea barrier cliffs, which starfish is born, white to right silver to left https://wlpaca.bay.livefilestore.com/y1mj7NeVoUEWVoe1gcNYKIFlmBrHNHQIHlvMk6KMPZT9jv47aVmQob...
by León
Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:12 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Science Museum Hubble (2010 Oct 13)
Replies: 30
Views: 4358

Re: APOD: Science Museum Hubble (2010 Oct 13)

John Bahcall WAS one of the founding fathers of the Hubble Space Telescope, should have a bust that accompanied the telescope
by León
Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:26 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Science Museum Hubble (2010 Oct 13)
Replies: 30
Views: 4358

Re: APOD: Science Museum Hubble (2010 Oct 13)

The scene there appears perhaps a bit surreal as the deep space imager appears over a terrestrial tile floor, surrounded by the busts of famous thinkers, and under arches reminiscent of Escher. excellent image, good parallelism found Another thing would be if the hubble was done in marble. The diffe...
by León
Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:38 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Globular Star Cluster NGC 6934 (2010 Oct 09)
Replies: 13
Views: 2129

Re: APOD: Globular Star Cluster NGC 6934 (2010 Oct 09)

" The cluster stars are estimated to be some 10 billion years old. " I stop at the age of the cluster, notes Apod that age is 10 billion years but Wikipedia in Spanish extends between 13 and 16,000 billion years more ancient than the estimate for the universe. This is a real paradox. No ot...
by León
Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:52 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Two Planet Opposition (2010 Oct 08)
Replies: 11
Views: 3086

Re: APOD: Two Planet Opposition (2010 Oct 08)

Moves the image of the planets Uranus, the sky, His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus, whose year eighty-four years hard ground, with the axis of rotation to ninety degrees presents the satellite spinning at right angles to the satellites of Jupiter, which each land forty-two years, the plane...
by León
Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:19 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Rolling Across the Rocky Plains of Mars (2010 Oct 04)
Replies: 10
Views: 1963

Re: APOD: Rolling Across the Rocky Plains of Mars (2010 Oct

The planets reach their state with rocky cover. I think, in this case, we have to look at, cleaned of sediment, only some sand. The folds and sedimentary layers suscesivas not let us see on earth.
by León
Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:05 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Io in True Color (2010 Oct 03)
Replies: 21
Views: 4028

Re: APOD: Io in True Color (2010 Oct 03)

But did you know that on Io the eruptions are blue? :D http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/iovol2_gal.gif (And this image was APOD on August 15, 1996!) :wink: Léon, I guess the gravity of Io makes the gases and particles in the plumes fall back to the surface of Io again. But apparently, when they land...
by León
Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:42 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Io in True Color (2010 Oct 03)
Replies: 21
Views: 4028

Re: APOD: Io in True Color (2010 Oct 03)

Io's volcanic plume of 330 km height
Image
The question to ask is who gets the atmosphere that can not retain
by León
Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:23 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Io in True Color (2010 Oct 03)
Replies: 21
Views: 4028

Re: APOD: Io in True Color (2010 Oct 03)

Io in Japanese means sulfur! Sulfur in Japan 硫黄 Read phonetically Iō The most striking feature of the Solar system, with an aroma that calls for reflection. http://piratasdeaxel.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/olores.jpg?w=397&h=275 Our models must prepare for the case of colonization http://2.bp.b...
by León
Fri Oct 01, 2010 11:27 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Zarmina s World (2010 Oct 01)
Replies: 68
Views: 7311

Re: APOD: Zarmina s World (2010 Oct 01)

On October 12, 1492, while on Christopher Columbus's ship La Pinta, he sighted land of the Americas.[2] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZdtAlmidofQ/TBujPYf7GdI/AAAAAAAATUc/woZtSjd71fE/s1600/Tierra+B.jpg After spotting America at approximately two o'clock in the morning, he is reported to have shouted &quo...
by León
Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:19 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Melotte 15 in the Heart (2010 Sep 25)
Replies: 8
Views: 5099

Re: APOD: Melotte 15 in the Heart (2010 Sep 25)

The abundance of hydrogen and oxygen tells me, personally, which is water broken down into its elements by radiation. Hydrogen & oxygen are well separated inside Red Giant stars prior to supernova explosion: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Nucleosynthesis_in_a_star.gif Where ...
by León
Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:36 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Melotte 15 in the Heart (2010 Sep 25)
Replies: 8
Views: 5099

Re: APOD: Melotte 15 in the Heart (2010 Sep 25)

The abundance of hydrogen and oxygen tells me, personally, wich is water broken down into its elements by radiation.
by León
Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:17 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Equinox and the Iron Sun (2010 Sep 23)
Replies: 17
Views: 5676

Re: APOD: Equinox and the Iron Sun (2010 Sep 23)

The autumnal equinox occurred Wednesday night September 22nd at 11:09 pm EDT and only six hours later the Moon will be full and will be this year's Harvest Moon. And along with it comes the great Harvest Moon illusion. But just what is a Harvest Moon anyway? Well according to the dictionary a harve...
by León
Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:40 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Equinox and the Iron Sun (2010 Sep 23)
Replies: 17
Views: 5676

Re: APOD: Equinox and the Iron Sun (2010 Sep 23)

The autumnal equinox occurred Wednesday night September 22nd at 11:09 pm EDT and only six hours later the Moon will be full and will be this year's Harvest Moon. And along with it comes the great Harvest Moon illusion. But just what is a Harvest Moon anyway? Well according to the dictionary a harves...
by León
Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:26 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Discovery Rollout Shadow (2010 Sep 22)
Replies: 12
Views: 3892

Re: APOD: Discovery Rollout Shadow (2010 Sep 22)

The magic of the image reflects was the chance to be obtained from the interior of a car whose windshield was projected to be lit lit in from behind. I believe that
by León
Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:44 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Dark Clouds of the Carina Nebula (2010 Sep 19)
Replies: 12
Views: 3240

Re: APOD: Dark Clouds of the Carina Nebula (2010 Sep 19)

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nebulae/eta_car.jpg Wide nebula 480 light years. The star Eta Carinae became the second brightest star in the mid-nineteenth century. Interestingly, the elements that comprise no carbon or elements heavier than oxygen, which can be part of the dust and / or molecul...