Starship Asterisk*

It probably makes more sense to visualize that scenario the other way around... a black hole falling straight into the star. And why is that? When I think of this event I picture the likely less massive object - the star - doing the falling into the likely larger object - the black hole. The black ...

We can't see any major star formation in NGC 3628 (if it has any) because of its edge-on perspective, but it appears that M66 is the Leo Triplet member that has the highest rate of star formation. (M65 appears to have almost none.) An interesting ESO image shows the cold gas in M66, which provides ...

It's quite rare, but it would be fun to see a simulation of a star falling straight into a black hole, a direct hit as it were. Well - scenarios 1-4 are possible paths to scenario 5. Mouth open - star in - mouth shut ;-) "When a star flies directly into a black hole, dramatic and fascinating p...

Echoes of Flares from the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole UNIVERSETODAY.COM | 2024 June 14 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-sgr_a_xray_flare-e1718383169737.jpg Quite intense... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53794060332_aa59379ff5_b.jpg https://live.staticfl...

Echoes of Flares from the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole UNIVERSETODAY.COM | 2024 June 14 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-sgr_a_xray_flare-e1718383169737.jpg [...] Searching for Sgr A* X-ray Flares with NuSTAR Sanger-Johnson analyzed ten years’ worth of data lo...

I'm sorry to say, to me, this looks more like a sci-fi movie, super exaggerated dramatic, with all kinds of visual and audio effects (music) to make this even waaaaaaaaaaaay more explosive and dramatic than how in reality it'd be (as per many books and articles and scientists and presentations I've...

Thanks, Jac, for all your additional pictures. I love the picture where you placed the (tiny) star formation in NGC 4603 smack dab in the darkest part of the long "double dust lane" reaching all the way from the plane of the Milky Way into the heart of the Antares-Rho Ophiuchi molecular c...

Wow, today's APOD makes me think of the art of William Turner ! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/The_Fighting_Temeraire%2C_JMW_Turner%2C_National_Gallery.jpg/1280px-The_Fighting_Temeraire%2C_JMW_Turner%2C_National_Gallery.jpg And today's APOD also makes me think of another ...

Astronomers Have a New Way to Bypass Earth's Atmosphere universe today | 2024 June 04 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Oud-versus-nieuw-credit-LOFAR-Christian-Groeneveld-et-al-1.jpg Radio telescopes have an advantage over optical telescopes, in that radio telescope can be us...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240606.jpg NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge Explanation: Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240606.jpg NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge Explanation: Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is viewed edge-on from planet Earth. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop on many telescopic tours of the northern sky, in the faint...

Halton Arp, in his book Seeing Red thinks the “tidal tail” Ann highlights could be ejection debris. Fringe science, rejected by virtually all cosmologists. For this galaxy though, the desc links to this paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13526 We present new neutral hydrogen (HI) observations of the ...

Halton Arp, in his book Seeing Red thinks the “tidal tail” Ann highlights could be ejection debris. Fringe science, rejected by virtually all cosmologists. Now, in the case of Halton Arp, I would be a little cautious with such statements. As an astronomer, he probably spent more time in front of te...

Then again, the Earth itself also looks very different in different places.We don't often think of the Earth the way it looks in the picture below, do we Ann Well, I think the natives of Polynesia were sure they lived on a water planet. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53764666753_867449b93a_b.j...

JWST spots starburst galaxy phys.org | 2024 May 30 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/webb-spots-a-starburst.jpg A dwarf galaxy. It is illuminated by a strong, cool light radiating from its core, a bar-shaped area at the centre, and filled with a huge number of visible stars that appear as t...

HST: Broad and sweeping spiral galaxy NGC 4731 - The lights of a galactic bar NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 May 27 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2422a.jpg A close-in view of a barred spiral galaxy. The bright, glowing bar crosses the centre of the galaxy, with spiral arms ...

Astronomers find most distant galaxy using James Webb Space Telescope PHYS.ORG | 2024 May 30 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/astronomers-help-find.jpg This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) was taken by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for t...

So I have been waiting to see photos taken from the ISS or any other orbiting spacecraft/satellite that shows the auroras of May 10-11 in color from space. I haven't run across a single such image and really don't know where to look for them. Does someone know where I can view such photos? That's r...

So, I presume this extremely brief flash at the 2s mark (approximately) is the flare? A split second later it vanishes. huge sp;ar f;lare from AR3664.jpg Also, I also assume the reason it won't have much of an effect on the Earth is simply because it wasn't directed in the Earth's direction? It loo...

Today's APOD is great and so are your wonderful explanations. Thank you very much Ann! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53750637031_a4164b1742_b.jpg Background picture: Chamaeleon I Molecular Cloud Image Credit & Copyright: Amiel Contuliano https://www.astrobin.com/32d8tb/ https://planetary....

Cederblad111-110_1024[1].jpg Chamaeleon I Molecular Cloud Image Credit & Copyright: Amiel Contuliano No one has had anything to say about today's APOD, eh? Well, it's a nice picture of a very young region of low-mass star formation. Actually I shy away a little from the expression "low-mas...

They lie a mere 650 light-years away , at the boundary of the local bubble and the Chamaeleon molecular cloud complex. The orange tinted V-shape of the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula (Cha IRN) was carved by material streaming from a newly formed low-mass star. The well-composed image spans 1.5 degrees....

...So, yeah. It's an impressive picture, it really is. And that's all I have to say about it! Ann Personally, I am particularly impressed by the dynamics of the event when you compare it with the size of the Earth. The effective discharge only took about 15 minutes. What tremendous energies and dis...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240525.jpg Manicouagan Impact Crater from Space https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53744924523_d7cf49867c_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53745063054_fa210dd289_b.jpg Hill in the center: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53744739726_b4acbd78aa_b.jp...

[...] The purple color of M78 in today's APOD was caused by the artistic choices of the people processing the image. The filters chosen for image may also have something to do with the palette of the final product. [...] Ann ... In principle, the Euclid color palette can be transferred very easily ...