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- Fri Sep 27, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Stellar Streams in the Local Universe (2024 Sep 27)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3395
Re: APOD: Stellar Streams in the Local Universe (2024 Sep 27)
What were the criteria used to determine the contour in which the image of the galaxy at the center is inverted?
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:29 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Comet, Planet, Moon (2024 Apr 29)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1549
Re: APOD: Comet, Planet, Moon (2024 Apr 29)
Lovely!
But Uranus is missing in the description. How come it is visible?
But Uranus is missing in the description. How come it is visible?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moon and Smoke Rings from Mt. Etna (2024 Apr 22)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2334
Re: APOD: Moon and Smoke Rings from Mt. Etna (2024 Apr 22)
How wide are Mt Etna's smoke rings?
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:32 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Phobos: Moon over Mars (2024 Mar 22)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3000
Re: APOD: Phobos: Moon over Mars (2024 Mar 22)
looks a bit like North America
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: America and the Sea of Serenity (2024 Jan 17)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1475
Re: APOD: America and the Sea of Serenity (2024 Jan 17)
América with an accent mark!
Y que vivan las Américas
Y que vivan las Américas
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons (2023 Oct 17)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17891
Re: APOD: PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons (2023 Oct 17)
Why "moons" and not "planets"?
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Venus, Moon, and the Smoking Mountain (2023 Sep 15)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2406
Re: APOD: Venus, Moon, and the Smoking Mountain (2023 Sep 15)
Nice to have this picture on the eve of Mexico's Independence Day.
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:44 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Meteor Shower: Perseids from Perseus (2023 Aug 09)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5561
Re: APOD: Meteor Shower: Perseids from Perseus (2023 Aug 09)
What do you mean by that? The Earth's gravity attracts the cometary debris particles when they get close enough, but the debris itself is in orbit around the Sun. I'm only talking about the debris entering the atmosphere. Do the trajectories tend to be parallel to each other, or perpendicular to Ea...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Meteor Shower: Perseids from Perseus (2023 Aug 09)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5561
Re: APOD: Meteor Shower: Perseids from Perseus (2023 Aug 09)
The meteor shower seems to radiate from a central point, but actually radiates towards a central point: Earth's.