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- 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 ...
- 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.
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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/...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Tvashtarvideo.gif/220px-Tvashtarvideo.gif)
The question to ask is who gets the atmosphere that can not retain
![Image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Tvashtarvideo.gif/220px-Tvashtarvideo.gif)
The question to ask is who gets the atmosphere that can not retain
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...