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- Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337952
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 ...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: DeepSPN: Deep Sky Pre-News
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16403
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...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337952
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 r...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:03 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337952
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble glimpses bright galaxy group LEDA 60847 NASA/ESA | 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-leda60847-3-flat-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp LEDA 60847 is classified as an active galactic nuclei, or AGN. An AGN has a supermassive black hole in the galaxy's cent...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:49 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337952
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble glimpses bright galaxy group LEDA 60847 NASA/ESA | 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-leda60847-3-flat-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp LEDA 60847 is classified as an active galactic nuclei, or AGN. An AGN has a supermassive black hole in the galaxy's cent...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:25 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 63
- Views: 337952
GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
AVAO wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 4:38 pm This is a news channel for discussing new images of galaxies that have been recently released.
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- Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:07 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Predicted asteroid crashes on atmosphere
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6904
Re: Predicted asteroid crashes on atmosphere
"The next possible dangerous collision could happen in 2182, when there is a 1 in 2,700 chance that a small near-Earth asteroid named Bennu could penetrate the atmosphere." But no fear: they will manage it :wink: "The space agency in 2022 successfully crashed a spacecraft into an aste...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:36 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Huge ring of galaxies discovered
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7889
Re: Huge ring of galaxies discovered
UClan student discovers giant ring of galaxies 'so big' it challenges 'understanding of universe' A Big Cosmological Mystery https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/3UoW3ZpzduhbQV1x93F7Ly/d02129366cb1ec60946d060643426dd1/01HKVN57BXED7NJG72RYQHGS5Z.jpg?fm=avif&fit=fill&w=830&h=467&...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Star Cluster IC 348 from Webb (2024 Jan 15)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3657
Re: APOD: Star Cluster IC 348 from Webb (2024 Jan 15)
Right in the center
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- Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Dragon Aurora over Iceland (2024 Jan 14)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6888
Re: APOD: Dragon Aurora over Iceland (2024 Jan 14)
... I'm going to do a Neufer and talk about something else. Although admittedly he would talk about Shakespeare or Finnegan's Wake, not about cosmic vistas that have nothing to do with the APOD in question. But I'm me, so I'll do precisely that. Here there be dragons, eh? Okay, here there be dragon...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Dragon Aurora over Iceland (2024 Jan 14)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6888
Re: APOD: Dragon Aurora over Iceland (2024 Jan 14)
I'm going to do a Neufer and talk about something else. Ann ... tribute to ;-) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jabberwocky.jpg/800px-Jabberwocky.jpg <<Dragon-like creatures appear in virtually all cultures around the globe. In his book An Instinct for Dragons (2000), anthr...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:53 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty (2024 Jan 10)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17125
Re: APOD: The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty (2024 Jan 10)
Today's title: The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty Tomorrow's title: Unforgotten I see a reference to Clint Eastwood here :) I think the reference is explained even better in IR. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53456790633_52cb5839d0_c.jpg ...but I don't think I'd want to see "The Good, the...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Discovery of a large and faint nebula at the Triangulum galaxy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 23669
Re: Discovery of a large and faint nebula at the Triangulum galaxy
I would like to share with you my recent discovery of a large and faint nebula in the Triangulum galaxy, M33. I've been working on this project since 2021. Last fall, I gathered 153h of data and found an uncatalogued nebula. As I keep my collaboration with professional astrophysicists, I got in con...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical... (2024 Jan 07)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20480
Re: APOD: The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical... (2024 Jan 07)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240107.jpg The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray << Previous APOD This Day in APOD Next APOD >> It is interesting to compare the HST image with JWST (growing of 15 years difference) ... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53448417301_2f286d3cc7_c.jpg and I ...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Snows of Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2024 Jan 06)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 29835
Re: APOD: The Snows of Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2024 Jan 06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJVk79N_t4 Heaven is where everything is white! Tribute to Neufer I sure do miss Neufer. APOD hasn't been the same since Art left us. And now Orin's gone, too. This is certainly the case. Unfortunately, in cosmic dimensions, each of us is only granted a short stay o...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Found Images: 2024 January
- Replies: 1
- Views: 21652
Re: Found Images: 2024 January
New discovery of a large and faint nebula in the Triangulum galaxy M33 Read more: https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=43507 Close up's: https://www.astrobin.com/cdkrrx/I/#rK & https://www.astrobin.com/cdkrrx/I/#rJ https://www.astrobin.com/cdkrrx/I/rawthumb/qhd/?sync "I would like to ...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Discovery of a large and faint nebula at the Triangulum galaxy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 23669
Re: Discovery of a large and faint nebula at the Triangulum galaxy
I would like to share with you my recent discovery of a large and faint nebula in the Triangulum galaxy, M33. I've been working on this project since 2021. Last fall, I gathered 153h of data and found an uncatalogued nebula. As I keep my collaboration with professional astrophysicists, I got in con...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 12:53 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: NOIRLab: The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst and Its Ordinary Supernova
- Replies: 5
- Views: 34109
Re: NOIRLab: The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst and Its Ordinary Supernova
Ann wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 5:16 am
The Crab Nebula supernova remnant is famous for its synchrotron radiation:
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- Central part of the Crab Nebula. The neutron star is the one farthest to the right of the two bright stars near the center. The thick red strands are ionized hydrogen (along with other ionized elements), while the ghostly glow is synchrotron radiation. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani.
Ann
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Snows of Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2024 Jan 06)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 29835
Re: APOD: The Snows of Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2024 Jan 06)
Heaven is where everything is white!
Tribute to Neufer
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- Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Snows of Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2024 Jan 06)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 29835
Re: APOD: The Snows of Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2024 Jan 06)
The X-account and astrodon-account from Jacint Roger Perez (landru79) with all the GIFs of Churyumov-Gerasimenko are very, very cool. Well done.
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Biggest solar flare disrupts radio signals on Earth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4614
Re: Biggest solar flare disrupts radio signals on Earth
Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth Phys.org | 2023 Dez 15 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53402846596_c304cde29c_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53401912027_21bf5672fe_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53402187299_f43f9d6131_c.jpg jac bern...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Biggest solar flare disrupts radio signals on Earth
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4614
Biggest solar flare disrupts radio signals on Earth
Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth Phys.org | 2023 Dez 15 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/biggest-solar-flare-in.jpg A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth. The sun sp...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:47 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Betelgeuse Eclipsed (2023 Dec 15)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14927
Re: APOD: Betelgeuse Eclipsed (2023 Dec 15)
That day I tried to get a "live" video streaming, I looked and searched and searched.. got none. It was disappointing. From the photo (right frame), seems the passing was subtle (not so obvious, not so conspicuous) to naked eyes (or even small binoculars) ? It's strange that people didn't...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A (2023 Dec 14)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6105
Re: APOD: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A (2023 Dec 14)
https://esawebb.org/images/comparisons/weic2330/VictorBorun wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:07 pm Please who can make a good job of fitting MIRI to NIRCAM?
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:19 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: AstroRTC: Research Treasure Chest
- Replies: 19
- Views: 70096
Re: AstroRTC: Research Treasure Chest
High-Resolution, Mid-Infrared Color Temperature Mapping of the Central 10 Arcseconds of the Galaxy Cuc K. Dinh, Anna Cuirlo, Mark R. Morris, Rainer Schödel, Andrea Ghez, Tuan Do ARXIV | Preprint 2023 Nov 29 https://media.arxiv-vanity.com/render-output/8406362/FIGURES/MIR_general.png ABSTRACT The ne...