Starship Asterisk*

A quick googling turned up no info on a small galaxy pulling in M83. With the help of my software, I found a small galaxy, PGC 47885 or MCG-05-32-042, whose radial velocity is very similar to that of M83, which means that it is probably located quite close to M83. This galaxy is so small and faint ...

Where is the smaller galaxy that is pulling on the arc? Or is the smaller galaxy already merged with M83? A quick googling turned up no info on a small galaxy pulling in M83. With the help of my software, I found a small galaxy, PGC 47885 or MCG-05-32-042, whose radial velocity is very similar to t...

[...] Oh wow, that's an awesome awesome awesome image of the central star cluster of NGC 602, Jac! 😀 🤩 🥳 🐬 I'm so so so tempted to steal it from you and insert it into my own post, but I managed to restrain myself (just barely)! But I will upload it to my computer! Ann ThanX Ann I feel honored. All...

ThanX Ann I feel honored. All my pictures have a CC license with attribution for free use. I do this... for pure fun and to challenge myself a little in the morning before I can dive back into my daily work routine. ... and of course also to be able to talk to you :wink: about exciting astronomical...

[...] Oh wow, that's an awesome awesome awesome image of the central star cluster of NGC 602, Jac! 😀 🤩 🥳 🐬 I'm so so so tempted to steal it from you and insert it into my own post, but I managed to restrain myself (just barely)! But I will upload it to my computer! Ann ThanX Ann I feel honored. All...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240702.jpg NGC 602: Oyster Star Cluster Explanation: The clouds may look like an oyster, and the stars like pearls, but look beyond. Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud , a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies this 5 million...

"Within a few billion years, atoms formed," while technically correct, is somewhat misleading. Unless JADES-GS-z14-0 is made up of something other than atoms? Pablo Carlos Budassi created this image for Wikimedia.org in 2020, i.e. "long" before WEBB started its work. Nevertheles...

Come on now, give our "AI" overlords some room for mild hallucinations. They had to generate quite a lot of frames in between shots to make it look smooth, and they had to interpolate the surface under the spacecraft for the illusion of flight over the Moon. It ain't half bad. I'm curious...

Well, with all due respect to NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, the whole thing seems a bit synthetic to me. Come on now, give our "AI" overlords some room for mild hallucinations. They had to generate quite a lot of frames in between shots to make it look smooth, and they had to inte...

...The featured video is a modern reconstruction of the event as it would have looked were it recorded with a modern movie camera. ... Well, with all due respect to NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, the whole thing seems a bit synthetic to me, especially when I take a closer look at the earth's...

Hubble Space Telescope Views NGC 5253 with ACS / HRC NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 June 28 https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/06/image_13041_1-NGC-5253.jpg GOTD4Y Jac https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53824440101_c080f2a635_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53823520912_49eb2163f2_b.jpg o...

Hubble Space Telescope Views NGC 5253 with ACS / HRC NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 June 28 https://cdn.sci.news/images/2024/06/image_13041_1-NGC-5253.jpg This image depicts the blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, as seen by the High Resolution Channel (HRC) of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Survey...

Follow the leader NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 June 23 https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge11/image_12518e-Arp-Madore-2105-332.jpg This line of galaxies is a cosmic coincidence behind the interacting system Arp-Madore 2105-332, which is a pair of galaxies 200 million light years away in the suit...

Finally, I note that Hubble photographed NGC 3059 in May 2024, after it started having major problems with its gyros. Hooray! Hubble may not be operating at full capacity - it may be slower than before - but it is, at least, definitely back in business! 😀 🥳 Ann ThanX 4 your detailed comments. I lik...

Marvellous image, cosmic creation in full force! And we barely need to "surmise" what's going on, we see those new worlds forming! (even more so in AVAO's zoom-in link) Here is some context about the environment and the comparison between Optical and IR. Dynamic area up there ,-) https://...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240627.jpg Protostellar Outflows in Serpens Explanation: Jets of material blasting from newborn stars, are captured in this James Webb Space Telescope close-up of the Serpens Nebula. The powerful protostellar outflows are bipolar, twin jets spewing in opposite ...

HST: NGC 3059 - A broad and narrow galactic view NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 June 3 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2423a.jpg A spiral galaxy seen face-on, so that its many arms and its glowing, bar-shaped core can be easily seen. The arms are filled with bluish patches of...

WEBB: Jupiter's upper atmosphere surprises astronomers phys.org | 2024 June 25 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/jupiters-upper-atmosph.jpg New observations of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter have revealed that the planet's atmosphere above and around the infamous storm is surprisingly intere...

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The Colors of Saturn from Cassini, Judy Schmidt

Actually, we're talking about art here. A worthy evergreen. Congratulations to Judy once again!

Well, dark nebulas are not my forte and not my interest, but... let's have some fun, shall we? I see a a very tall cosmic mermaid-alien with bad hair, a misshapen hand and a fishtail in this dark nebula. What do you see? APOD 22 June 2024 annotated 1.png Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 with mermaid-alien. I...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240621.jpg Hubble's NGC 1546 Explanation: Returning to science operations on June 14, the Hubble Space Telescope used its new pointing mode to capture this sharp image of spiral galaxy NGC 1546 . A member of the Dorado galaxy group , the island universe lies a ...

The idea of a black hole tearing a star apart is pretty wild and sure captures the imagination, I'm glad there are at least "attempts" to show what such events might look like. Here's a more sober attempt, for something hugely wild! A massive black hole repeatedly plunging through the dis...

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...