Starship Asterisk*

Off topic, but Jupiter's Great Red Spot may be undergoing some dramatic changes right now. https://astronomynow.com/2019/06/06/observers-urged-to-monitor-jupiters-unravelling-great-red-spot/ Ann You're right. The pictures look dramatic. But with Heraclitus: "The only constant in the universe i...

I have no answer. but I am sure it is 42 ... https://instagram.fzrh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/06c116aad39e2d203ebda4d3059cc647/5D806D09/t51.2885-15/e35/61461533_2525676880993341_6902318197115177820_n.jpg?_nc_ht=instagram.fzrh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net Background Source: THINGS - The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey, Walter...

What is unclear to me is that the Barnard's Loop should be a SNR, but only half a circle is visible and when you look into the center, there is nothing unusual to discover... Elvis has left the building: << A supernova explosion in a multiple star system can accelerate both the supernova remnant an...

What a great wide angle panorama! What is unclear to me is that the Barnard's Loop should be a SNR, but only half a circle is visible and when you look into the center, there is nothing unusual to discover... Jack from the AVAO Team https://instagram.fzrh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/21c2f911400ae7f268e4e5f8...

Oh. ThanX 4 your interest. I'm just an amateur, but a big, big APOD fan!
The pictures for my insta account I produce myself.
For my composite images I normaly use NASA and ESA sources.

Jack from the AVAO Team

Interesting. The bright sources in this picture look like magnets in the sky, surrounded by funny-looking field lines. Well, I guess that many of them are magnets, so to speak, such as highly magnetized pulsars or maybe magnetars. Some of the "field lines" are funny-looking indeed. Severa...

I think, one of the most interesting Herbig-Haro objects in IDN1251 is HH149. The brightest star, in the picture above right (Close up/ 2nd picture), is probably a double star system. (As far as this can be judged by the Hubble picture resolution)... https://instagram.fzrh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/758146...

What a great composite picture! But what is the blue oval-shaped ring in the left upper half of the picture? Hydrogen, oxygen, or sulfur? Generally Blue... is Oxygen in this type image...Sulfur is Yellow, and Hydrogen is Red... I don't know if that changes with the Broadband RGB blended though... :...

May be it's helpful to take a closer look to the inner ring...

Source: Hubble WFPC2

Ring, Bar? Where exactly? ..."Note in the NASA/ESA/Hubble picture at left that there are many hot and blue stars in the inner ring. As you can see, the dusty bar, running from the outer to the inner ring of M95, is also quite obvious. But please note in today's APOD that one half of this bar i...

What a great composite picture!
But what is the blue oval-shaped ring in the left upper half of the picture? Hydrogen, oxygen, or sulfur?