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- Sun Sep 06, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble (2020 Sep 06)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3924
Re: APOD: M1: The Crab Nebula from Hubble (2020 Sep 06)
Neutron stars are one of my favorite things. This in no small part due to the book Dragon's Egg , by Robert Forward . It's about life on a neutron star, and is considered a classic of "hard sci-fi". From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg Dragon's Egg is a 1980 hard science fiction...
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Wizard Nebula (2020 Sep 04)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3502
Re: ZOFYVM WIZARD
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- Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Wizard Nebula (2020 Sep 04)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3502
Re: APOD: The Wizard Nebula (2020 Sep 04)
Orin wrote, Does it look like a wizard? Well I don't see it in today's APOD. But on Wikipedia, article about NGC 7380, their first photo. I think with imagination I can see it. The top left the dim red spot looks like a wizards hat. Below is a fat face with a pointed nose. His left arm is sweeping ...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Halo for Andromeda (2020 Sep 03)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8124
Re: APOD: A Halo for Andromeda (2020 Sep 03)
So, how does the AMIGA project know that what its measuring is due to the halo around Andromeda as opposed to the likely halo around the Milky Way through which all the light from the tell-tale quasars must travel before we can measure it?
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Halo for Andromeda (2020 Sep 03)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8124
Re: APOD: A Halo for Andromeda (2020 Sep 03)
How many of you can spot the M33 galaxy in this image? Nice test question! I found it with the help of this prior APOD - https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130926.html : M31 and M33 In The Sky Together.JPG So, here it is in this APOD of M31's halo: M31 and Its Halo, and M33 In The Sky Together.JPG From t...
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 4:11 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: SS 433: Binary Star Micro-Quasar (2020 Aug 31)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12081
Re: APOD: SS 433: Binary Star Micro-Quasar (2020 Aug 31)
Too much power for me! Too bad man can't harness it yet; but knowing man; some future time he may try! :mrgreen: What would we do with it? Our own puny little sun already provides vastly more power than we can use, readily accessible with technology we already have. Something that spits out all of ...
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: SS 433: Binary Star Micro-Quasar (2020 Aug 31)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12081
Re: APOD: SS 433: Binary Star Micro-Quasar (2020 Aug 31)
I find the gamma ray pulse being an 162 day period interesting. Just 3 or 4 days ago I read in the news that the fast radio burst FRB 121102 has returned as predicted, with a period of 161 days. Is it just a coincidence of the 161 day period? Wonder how far apart the location of these two objects a...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 9:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Martian Chiaroscuro (2020 Aug 29)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3007
Re: Martian Koalascuro
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aGmFwaxyc5j7LGoqwrFR2X-650-80.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdOQjmbAHY <<A crime in a zoo's koala cage would probably confound the efforts of even the best detectives. Why? Because koalas, doll-sized marsupials that climb trees with babies on their backs, ha...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Valley of Orion (2020 Aug 28)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3480
Re: APOD: The Valley of Orion (2020 Aug 28)
That jumped out at me as well (literally!). It sure does look curious:Jim Westwood wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:26 am Can anyone figure what is the strange object that comes flying through the field of view at about 1:50 in the three-minute video flight through the nebula?
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13121
Re: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/p-hWckpUTYZvjcKAq-5xvvDgnb1IjRTLfYBcN24VHOdpSPXjzKk3tzK0c6aUdfkEFmSfKN3Pi3uQXuIYvkMo9xcWoPIY0Vr5vz0 How about it's the NGC 474 Galaxy Group version of the Large Magellanic Cloud? Ann Though it looks similarly rectangular, this one seems more well-defined and ...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13121
Re: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200827.jpg Shell Galaxies in Pisces Explanation: This intergalactic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. Swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces , Arp 227 consists of the t...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 7:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13121
Re: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200827.jpg Shell Galaxies in Pisces Explanation: This intergalactic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. Swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces , Arp 227 consists of the t...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13121
Re: APOD: Shell Galaxies in Pisces (2020 Aug 27)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200827.jpg Shell Galaxies in Pisces Explanation: This intergalactic skyscape features a peculiar system of galaxies cataloged as Arp 227 some 100 million light-years distant. Swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces , Arp 227 consists of the t...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9051
Re: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
Relativistic jets may provide evidence for the reality of frame-dragging. Gravitomagnetic forces produced by the Lense–Thirring effect (frame dragging) within the ergosphere of rotating black holes combined with the energy extraction mechanism by Penrose have been used to explain the observed prope...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9051
Re: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
What doesn't? :lol2: An accretion disc does not depend upon a rotating black hole. Infalling matter is in orbit, and interacts with other matter such that particles exchange angular momentum and are ejected or end up in the same plane. In general, an accretion disc does not need to align in any par...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9051
Re: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
So, the text says the accretion disk "never appears flat", but it sure looks flat to me, at least when looking down from the top! What doesn't? :lol2: An accretion disc does not depend upon a rotating black hole. Infalling matter is in orbit, and interacts with other matter such that part...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9051
Re: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200825.jpg Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk Explanation: What would it look like to circle a black hole? If the black hole was surrounded by a swirling disk of glowing and accreting gas , then the great gravity of the black hole would deflect light em...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9051
Re: APOD: Visualization: A Black Hole Disk... (2020 Aug 25)
The frame with the info is only in the thumbnail and is too small to read. It isn't in the video which I can expand. Hmm. Are you are referring to the first still frame of the video, which includes descriptive text blocks pointing out the various features of the image, before you click the arrow bu...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Crescent Moon HDR (2020 Aug 24)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5463
Re: APOD: Crescent Moon HDR (2020 Aug 24)
The blurb refers to the "da Vinci glow", and gives links to da Vinci, and to previous APODs that show the glow, but nothing to da Vinci's original - geniusly original, for the time, even if erronius! - explanation. It's in the Codex Leicester, a collection of his papers on astronomical an...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Crescent Moon HDR (2020 Aug 24)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5463
Re: APOD: Crescent Moon HDR (2020 Aug 24)
The blurb refers to the "da Vinci glow", and gives links to da Vinci, and to previous APODs that show the glow, but nothing to da Vinci's original - geniusly original, for the time, even if erronius! - explanation. It's in the Codex Leicester, a collection of his papers on astronomical an...
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble (2020 Aug 23)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3228
Re: APOD: The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble (2020 Aug 23)
<sigh> Nothing about this looks like a helix to me, unless we're looking end-on, in which case the helix nature would be obscured. An Eye? Sure! But no helix. I don't believe this object is named for its visual appearance, but rather, for its physical structure. Ok, but I haven't found anything tha...
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble (2020 Aug 23)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3228
Re: APOD: The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble (2020 Aug 23)
Hi, I also flattened this Helix nebulae disk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vAtvzpeNDHVMSSItZVznq3ROAyBRDfq-/view Here you see the symmetry of the northwest and sourtheast plume as two similar hills in this flatten view. Every radial structure is now just plain vertical. And you see wonderfully ...
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble (2020 Aug 23)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3228
Re: APOD: The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble (2020 Aug 23)
<sigh> Nothing about this looks like a helix to me, unless we're looking end-on, in which case the helix nature would be obscured. An Eye? Sure! But no helix.orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sun Aug 23, 2020 12:18 pm helix_blancoHubble_1080.jpg
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- Sun Aug 23, 2020 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Yogi And Friends In 3D (2020 Aug 22)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8809
Re: APOD: Yogi And Friends In 3D (2020 Aug 22)
I'm trying but all I get is a headache. Is the goal to have the two images merge visually? Focus off in the distance first? Does it matter what size the images are? How far away should the images be? (I can view Magic Eye images just fine.) Magic Eye images give me a headache The presented image ar...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:39 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Yogi And Friends In 3D (2020 Aug 22)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8809
Re: APOD: Yogi And Friends In 3D (2020 Aug 22)
Not my preferred way of viewing 3D images, either. Here's the image decomposed into stereo pairs. _ Cross eyed: mars10_st_path_crossed.jpg _ Parallel eyed: mars10_st_path_straight.jpg So are these supposed to be viewable in 3D somehow with or without special glasses? I can't manage to do it (though...