Seeing Earth from space alongside Bach's music sums up quite well how far we've come since the time cyanobacteria ruled the planet!
(but - oh the heresy! - the video cuts out the last chord of that Bach piece!) (which can also be heard on Voyager's Golden Record)
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- Sun Jun 30, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Earthrise: A Video Reconstruction (2024 Jun 30)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 318
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Protostellar Outflows in Serpens (2024 Jun 27)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 715
Re: APOD: Protostellar Outflows in Serpens (2024 Jun 27)
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)
- Mon Jun 24, 2024 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: JADES-GS-z14-0: A New Farthest Object (2024 Jun 24)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7243
Re: APOD: JADES-GS-z14-0: A New Farthest Object (2024 Jun 24)
Telescopes as time machines is a familiar idea but we should never lose sight of how extraordinary this is! Imagine if palaeontologists could study actual pictures of dinosaurs! Or if historians could see pictures of Cleopatra, or geologists seeing pictures of the Late Heavy Bombardment! What’s more...
- Sat Jun 22, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 (2024 Jun 22)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6651
Re: APOD: Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 (2024 Jun 22)
Thanks!Ann wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 1:53 pmChristian G. wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 12:08 pmTelltale yet hidden seems contradictory! Where in the image do we see signs of HH objects?APOD Robot wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 4:05 am telltale reddish glow from scattered Herbig-Haro objects hiding in the image.
Maybe these:
APOD 22 June 2024 annotated 3.png
Ann
- Sat Jun 22, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 (2024 Jun 22)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6651
Re: APOD: Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 (2024 Jun 22)
Telltale yet hidden seems contradictory! Where in the image do we see signs of HH objects?APOD Robot wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2024 4:05 am telltale reddish glow from scattered Herbig-Haro objects hiding in the image.
- Sun Jun 16, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star (2024 Jun 16)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5902
Re: APOD: Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star (2024 Jun 16)
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 disk...
- Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: RCW 85 (2024 Jun 14)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4907
Re: APOD: RCW 85 (2024 Jun 14)
Are the "rays" that appear to be emitted from the top edges of the red cloud from energy escaping or light as crepuscular rays or ? Well, light is energy too! :wink: https://static.spektrum.de/fm/1027/f2000/RCW%2085.jpg What we see coming out of that opening in the RCW 85 molecular cloud ...
- Fri Jun 14, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: RCW 85 (2024 Jun 14)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4907
Re: APOD: RCW 85 (2024 Jun 14)
The top section reminds me of a similar one in the Eagle Nebula, both filled with star births:
- Sun Jun 09, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2024 Jun 09)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4225
Re: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2024 Jun 09)
Another one: If it's blinking but appears too high to be an aircraft, or even more mystifying, if the blinking is irregular! - it's a tumbling satellite.
- Sat Jun 08, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5160
Re: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
Ann, is the mysterious "red dot" seen in the video seen in either of the labeled images you posted? Also, I can't seem to orient and locate your images, OR the "red dot" on today's APOD. <sigh> If we're talking about the red dot at 1:00, I see it left of the galaxy circled in wh...
- Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5160
Re: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
The warping of spacetime in this image can be seen not only in the many lensed galaxies, but also broadly in the image as a whole when looked at from a certain distance: Instead of seeing galaxies "travelling" towards the center, for fun you can imagine the black space as a sheet behind wh...
- Sat Jun 08, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5160
Re: APOD: Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies (2024 Jun 08)
This image is simply GLORIOUS!
(The first link mentions it contains 50 000 "sources" - does that roughly mean 50 000 galaxies?)
(The first link mentions it contains 50 000 "sources" - does that roughly mean 50 000 galaxies?)
- Fri Jun 07, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: SH2-308: The Dolphin Head Nebula (2024 Jun 07)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7155
Re: APOD: SH2-308: The Dolphin Head Nebula (2024 Jun 07)
The Dolphin Head nebula looks so much like a dolphin head that there really is no need to overdo the colour to make it look still more like a dolphin head! Which often astrographers tend to do I find, in blue-greens, but not in this case, it's just the right amount in my view! A fascinating aspect ...
- Fri Jun 07, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: SH2-308: The Dolphin Head Nebula (2024 Jun 07)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7155
Re: APOD: SH2-308: The Dolphin Head Nebula (2024 Jun 07)
The Dolphin Head nebula looks so much like a dolphin head that there really is no need to overdo the colour to make it look still more like a dolphin head! Which often astrographers tend to do I find, in blue-greens, but not in this case, it's just the right amount in my view! A fascinating aspect w...
- Thu Jun 06, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge (2024 Jun 06)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4423
Re: APOD: NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge (2024 Jun 06)
Graceful spiral arms are always a pretty sight but every once in a while a galaxy seen edge-on can be stunning! As for the "Needle" nickname, sure, but that's an impressive needle! 175 000 light-years long and 5000 light-years thick! With a trillion stars. (depending on sources) NGC4565 .j...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rotating Moon from LRO (2024 Jun 02)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2626
Re: APOD: Rotating Moon from LRO (2024 Jun 02)
The Moon clearly shows us its best side! Its "softer" side too, which the early Earth kept warm… (while the other side was left in the cold, forced to grow a thicker crust)
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4819
Re: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
Just in case this question was missed earlier (and if it wasn't but just inspired no comments, that's fine!) - are Wolf-Rayet stars the brightest of stars intrinsincally? Supposedly THE brightest star currently known is a Wolf-Rayet (R136a 1), but is it also the case with any Wolf-Rayet compared to ...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4819
Re: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
OK, so I ask: Why 85% of high mass stars are part of binary systems? One answer probably has to do with the formation process of high-mass stars. https://media2.spaceref.com/news/2013/oodualbinary.jpg Spaceref.com wrote: Thanks Ann. I have hard time understanding what are the possible causes for a ...
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4819
Re: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
If you compare a Wolf-Rayet with an LBV of the exact same mass (leaving aside ejectae), which one would be most luminous? Would it be the WR by virtue of the burning core being more exposed so to speak, or could it be either one depending on various other factors?
- Fri May 31, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4819
Re: APOD: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 (2024 May 31)
Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and fiery, even when they look this adorable!
- Tue May 28, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Did this black hole form without a supernova - and does it explain vanishing stars?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3505
Re: Did this black hole form without a supernova - and does it explain vanishing stars?
Thanks for this most interesting link! I wonder if another consideration that might support the idea of stars vanishing into back holes is that of supernovae (type II) as rebounds - what's there to rebound against when a star collapses into a black hole? (might the two even be related - no rebound,...
- Tue May 28, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Did this black hole form without a supernova - and does it explain vanishing stars?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3505
Re: Did this black hole form without a supernova - and does it explain vanishing stars?
Thanks for this most interesting link! I wonder if another consideration that might support the idea of stars vanishing into back holes is that of supernovae (type II) as rebounds - what's there to rebound against when a star collapses into a black hole? (might the two even be related - no rebound, ...
- Tue May 28, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Solar X Flare as Famous Active... (2024 May 28)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1959
Re: APOD: Solar X Flare as Famous Active... (2024 May 28)
First a total eclipse, then a historic sunspot leading to nearly global auroras, and now yet more! The Sun gives quite a show these days! The spaceweather link in the caption of the APOD shows this image of the same flare with the following comment from its author : "I have not seen an explosio...
- Sun May 26, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Re: The Favorite Moons
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5834
Re: The Favorite Moons
I'm fascinated by the contrast between the two Galilean neighbours Io and Europa, one intensely volcanic with fountains and lakes of lava, the other frozen solid!
edit: I was responding to a post which now seems to have disappeared.
edit: I was responding to a post which now seems to have disappeared.
- Fri May 24, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M78 from the Euclid Space Telescope (2024 May 24)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2396
Re: APOD: M78 from the Euclid Space Telescope (2024 May 24)
Euclid images have a soft dreamy feel!