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- Wed Jun 07, 2017 6:10 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Orbiting Jupiter (2017 Jun 07)
- Replies: 38
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Re: APOD: Orbiting Jupiter (2017 Jun 07)
Everything you see in the video is AMAZING! One of the amazing things is toward the end. In one of the bands of "clouds" is a series of white "storms", that look almost equally space one after the other and of almost equal size going up to the top of the frame. This is very curio...
- Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:34 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Spiral Galaxy M83: The Southern Pinwheel (2014 Jan 28)
- Replies: 19
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Re: APOD: Spiral Galaxy M83: The Southern Pinwheel (2014 Jan
This may be far fetched, but with star arms crossing in this picture and comments in a previous APofD about the center of M83 having two possible "centers", couldn't we just seeing two galaxies "laying on top of each other" from our point of view?
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)
- Replies: 32
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Re: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)
For some reason to me, after visiting the site: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/tycho2/ and seeing their explanation for the arc (material pushed off a companion star) via their diagram, that this explanation doesn't seem to be physically possible at least in the way it was diagramed. Instead ...