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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rosette Deep Field (2024 Feb 14)
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Re: APOD: Rosette Deep Field (2024 Feb 14)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240214.jpg Rosette Deep Field Explanation: Can you find the Rosette Nebula? The large, red , and flowery-looking nebula on the upper left may seem the obvious choice, but that is actually just diffuse hydrogen emission surrounding the Cone and Fox Fur Nebulas ....
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
"Note how beautifully regular UGC 11105 really is, and note how little star formation there is in the arms. These two factors go hand in hand. A lot of star formation will, frankly, mess up the shape of the arms." Ann ThanX Ann 4 your comment! That's an interesting theory. Where active st...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
03.02.2024 I UGC 5189A - This Galaxy Hosted One of the Most Powerful Supernovae Ever Seen universe today | Original release 2024 Jan 23 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/UGC-5189A-supernova-hubble.jpg In 2010, an exceptionally luminous supernova exploded in a small galaxy abo...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
02.02.2024 I UGC 11105 - Hubble Pictures of the Week NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 29 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2405a.jpg This image of the spiral galaxy UGC 11105 is not as bright and vivid as some other Hubble Pictures of the Week. This softly luminous galaxy — l...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
01.02.2024 I HST: Hubble captures a suspected galaxy encounter phys.org | Original release 2024 Feb 01 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/hubble-captures-a-susp.jpg UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy, but you wouldn't know it from this detailed NASA HST image. UGC 3912's distorted sha...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: JWST PEARLS: Dwarf galaxy that shouldn't exist
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JWST PEARLS: Dwarf galaxy that shouldn't exist
Team of astronomers discovers galaxy that shouldn't exist phys.org | 2024 feb 02 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/team-of-astronomers-le.jpg "A team of astronomers, led by Arizona State University Assistant Research Scientist Tim Carleton, has discovered a dwarf galaxy that appeared i...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
31.01.2024 I Arp 300: Hubble Observes an Askew Galaxy Coaxing Star Formation from its Partner NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-arp300-1-flat-cont-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 0502...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
31.01.2024 I Arp 300: Hubble Observes an Askew Galaxy Coaxing Star Formation from its Partner NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-arp300-1-flat-cont-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 0502...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe (2024 Feb 01)
- Replies: 19
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Re: APOD: NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe (2024 Feb 01)
"NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role" .. Sorry, but where is the "bar" ? I zoomed and zoomed.. maybe I am challenged to see shapes OR people who think there's a bar are falling to brain's "looking for shapes and patterns" bias/tendency ? APOD 1 February 2024 ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: DeepSPN: Deep Sky Pre-News
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16388
Re: DeepSPN: Deep Sky Pre-News
Supernova remnant SS 433 - NASA's IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize 'Microquasar' Findings NASA / ESA | 2024 Jan 17 https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/ss433/ss433_rollover_525.jpg ABSTRACT This composite image of the Manatee Nebula captures the jet emanating from SS 433, a black hole pulling mate...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: M87's black hole is alive. One year later.
- Replies: 2
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Re: M87's black hole is alive. One year later.
M87*'s Event Horizon Image. One Year Later universe today | 2024 Jan 19 "In the new image, however, the brightest part of a ring surrounding the black hole has shifted counterclockwise by about 30°. That could be because of random churning in the disk of material that swirls around the black h...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:46 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: NewJWST: New Pictures from JWST
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Re: NewJWST: New Pictures from JWST
MACS J0138.0-2155 Go Webb! flickr | Release Date 2023 Dez 06 ... Congratulation - Great processing! "...James Webb took some images of the galaxy cluster MACS J0138.0-2155. This cluster is so massive that it distorts the light coming from behind it so strongly, we see it as a smudged stain. A ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: PHANGS: WEBB depicts staggering structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies
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PHANGS: WEBB depicts staggering structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies
WEBB depicts staggering structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies phys.org | 2024 Jan 29 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/nasas-webb-depicts-sta.jpg A new treasure trove of Webb images has arrived. Near- and mid-infrared images show off every facet of these face-on spiral galaxies. ... These ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:22 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
30.01.2024 I Image: Hubble spies side-by-side galaxies Arp 140 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 25 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-spies-sid.jpg A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The lenticular g...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:16 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
28.01.2024 I Hubble: IC 438 - Luminous in Lepus NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 22 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2404a.jpg This image shows the spiral galaxy IC 438, which lies about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus (the Hare). Lepus lies jus...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
... Could you please provide a link to the Chandra images of either the Hercules Cluster or of IC 1182 itself? I have been unable to find anything. To my knowledge, the only galaxy in Hercules that has been paid any special attention by either X-ray or radio-detecting telescopes is the radio galaxy...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
... Could you please provide a link to the Chandra images of either the Hercules Cluster or of IC 1182 itself? I have been unable to find anything. To my knowledge, the only galaxy in Hercules that has been paid any special attention by either X-ray or radio-detecting telescopes is the radio galaxy...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble captures a monster merger PHYS.ORG | 2024 Jan 15 I thought I recognized this galaxy pair, Jac! They belong to the beautiful Hercules Cluster of Galaxies! :D The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies annotated Rafael Bustamente.png The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies. Credit: Rafael Bustamente NGC 6050 i...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
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Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
28.01.2024 I Hubble: IC 438 - Luminous in Lepus NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 22 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2404a.jpg This image shows the spiral galaxy IC 438, which lies about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus (the Hare). Lepus lies jus...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: AstroRTC: Research Treasure Chest
- Replies: 19
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Re: AstroRTC: Research Treasure Chest
The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey S. Goedhart, et. al. ARXIV | Preprint 2023 Dez 13 https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/c5e70c71c70ad1d36048f94680e4f877a78d5a6a/5-Figure2-1.png ABSTRACT We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:37 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: M87's black hole is alive. One year later.
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M87's black hole is alive. One year later.
M87*'s Event Horizon Image. One Year Later universe today | 2024 Jan 19 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2018-1024x656.jpg ... One interesting difference easily seen in the images is that the bright region of the ring has shifted counterclockwise by about 30 degrees. This is...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337833
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble captures a monster merger PHYS.ORG | 2024 Jan 15 https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2024/hubble-captures-a-mons.jpg This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies—NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642 , the ...