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Capture1.PNG Deer Lick Group and companion with arrow.png A faint fuzzy companion galaxy of NGC 7331? According to Wikipedia, NGC 7320 is only 39 million light-years away, making it a possible (but perhaps not probable) physical member of an extended NGC 7331 group of galaxies. NGC 7331 itself is b...

Were the broken links on your google drive perchance? If so, I think they have to be explicitly "shared to all" or some such thing. I'd like to know if those links were broken for others besides me. I can follow the link: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KvOQBNIUiM8cKB8nvgz6Iq9Tx_s...

You can actually tell at a glance that it is a small galaxy. And yes, its bulge is faint because it contains few stars. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KvOQBNIUiM8cKB8nvgz6Iq9Tx_synjhoc_IvGm4cn4Z8OsqR3OgrtZ82e8PSNPiPcSiP8ptw2sNl2xvZWGfX1X0eCtn9PdhNK3H__nJfgDEim_T28Vu4X8ObRa5mBJCR5WBi1vM Goo...

NGC 7320 is a gorgeous galaxy.Is the bulge faint because of a low star count? Does the galaxy as a whole have a lower star count compared to others it's size? You can actually tell at a glance that it is a small galaxy. And yes, its bulge is faint because it contains few stars. https://lh3.googleus...

Thanks Ann for your detailed explanations and image annotating! The APOD description left me fairly confused. In one reply you said: "Basically, when an ultraviolet photon hits a hydrogen atom where the electron is in its lowest shell, the electron will (usually) be kicked "one level up&qu...

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:02 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:52 pm So, why is the famously red Mars not so red in this photo (though the mouse-over tag word desperately tries to make up for it)?

Because it is massively overexposed, meaning the red, green, and blue channels are all maxed out, making the image color white.

Ah, thanks.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_201013.jpg Mars, Pleiades, and Andromeda over Stone Lions Explanation: Three very different -- and very famous -- objects were all captured in a single frame last month. On the upper left is the bright blue Pleiades , perhaps the most famous cluster of stars on...

Such a rarely spectacular image. I have never seen anything like this before. Thank you so much for sharing this incredible picture. :D This photo recalls me an image that a genie is casting a spell which is really cool. :lol2: https://pgslotvip.game/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/genie3.jpg Credit by ...

https://i.imgur.com/yRZppGc.jpg There is one more planet in the image: Uranus. The image also captures four more interesting but originally unlabeled deep sky objects. The planet Uranus is listed in Stellarium as magnitude 5.69 at the time of the photo. Open cluster NGC 1342 is also known as the Li...

JohnD wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:50 pm Please cite the timing of this paradoelic experience!

Plus a screen shot pointing to the purported "1". I see nothing so far, but I suffer from a lack of imagination

I can see why the Virgo is such a favorite shot. There are two especially pretty barred spirals to the left of lower center adding to an already beautiful composition. Happy Birthday, Johnny. I think you must mean these two? (from a higher res pic I found elsewhere*, here zoomed in and rotated) (Oh...

I'll try posting the amazing galaxy motion snippet as a picture instead of a video! A 3D recreation of the real positions and images of galaxies in the Universe as seen by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). https://yt3.ggpht.com/GqqWmSoUg9UI04EBoRyxWiRSu_ac8vqX4JoqhDgFEptFSS75cwaSALZc50t_z-A5lkh3...

I can see why the Virgo is such a favorite shot. There are two especially pretty barred spirals to the left of lower center adding to an already beautiful composition. Happy Birthday, Johnny. I think you must mean these two? (from a higher res pic I found elsewhere*, here zoomed in and rotated) (Oh...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/post/UgzF2OhCX1sjk5EllN54AaABCQ[/youtube] I don't know why I can't do Youtube anymore. :( Anyway, this little snippet of a video was posted by Dr. Becky. This is what she wrote: Dr Becky wrote: To wrap up our celebrations of #WorldSpaceWeek here’s a 3D recreation of...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_201010.jpg Virgo Cluster Galaxies Explanation: Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster are scattered across this deep telescopic field of view. The cosmic scene spans about three Full Moons, captured in dark skies near Jalisco, Mexico, planet Earth. About 50 million ligh...

It's interesting to look just a bit to the south of the APOD field of view. Wikipedia has a wonderful image of Mare Imbrium, a composed mosaic: - pic elided - I cannot imagine the impact that caused this (but I enjoy trying!) The entire range of the Lunar Alps appear to be just one part of the resu...

The shape of the nebula is so complex, I find it hard to imagine its history and development. An interesting development at the left of the structure, it appears that the bright orange star is pushing it back. I would guess that's a recent development. For imagery, it could be a bright moth that th...

With all the impact craters evident, does the Moon serve serve as a sort of protective fly trap for Earth? Well, I'm sure there were some meteorites that hit the moon instead of hitting the earth had the moon not been there, but because of the moon's small size and large distance (currently about 3...

Talking about bats. Don't go too near the Bat Nebula, with its massive stars system. Or you have as Kathryn Janeway in a Star Trek Voyager episode to "batten down the hatches", when they come too close to a double neutron star system ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeHtOxJMgDk ). Ha! Go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRh_Q_xwys Yeah, I can accept a "squid" (though it has no tentacles), but I see no "bat" anywhere (not even as an alternate interpretation of the "squid"). I can see the blue squid. I presume the red is the bat but we can only see part ...

I'm confused. The smaller Ou4 does look like both a squid and a bat, the bigger Sh2-129 certainly doesn't resemble a bat whichever way I look at it. Yeah, I can accept a "squid" (though it has no tentacles), but I see no "bat" anywhere (not even as an alternate interpretation of...

Dumb question: can the earth ever cast a shadow on mars? Or, does the earth ever eclipse the sun on mars? Or does the earth ever transit the sun on mars? I guess it would be a lot to ask for the geometry to line up well enough to allow that. As noted by RJN, the Earth can transit the Sun from Mars....

Dumb question: can the earth ever cast a shadow on mars? Or, does the earth ever eclipse the sun on mars? Or does the earth ever transit the sun on mars? I guess it would be a lot to ask for the geometry to line up well enough to allow that. Not a dumb question! Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_201006.jpg Mars Approach 2020 Explanation: Look to the east just after sunset tonight and you'll see a most impressive Mars. Tonight, Mars will appear its biggest and brightest of the year, as Earth passes closer to the red planet than it has in over two years ...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_201004.jpg Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Explanation: Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. The Nebula 's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interste...