Poll: Recent Submissions #28 -- Sun, Moon, Stars, More

[owlice]

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Each image is available in a larger size; please click on an image to enlarge it.

Please vote for up to THREE images you think would make the best APOD.

Thank you!
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<- Poll: Recent Submissions #27

Nebular Complex IC1396 in Cepheus
Copyright: Giovanni Sostero and Sara Garzia

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Noctilucent Clouds over St. Albert
Copyright: Murray Paulson

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Selene Rising at Sounion
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Lunar-Scenes-Sounion-10.htm
Copyright: Anthony Ayiomamitis

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R Corona Australis Nebulae and Cluster
Copyright: Kfir Simon

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Polar Ring Galaxies
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1966
Copyright: Alexei Moiseev, Ksenia Smirnova, Aleksandrina Smirnova, Vladimir Reshetnikov

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Near Star
http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/6
Copyright: César Cantú

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Alpha Scuti Field
http://www.starkeeper.it/AlphaScuti.htm
Copyright: Leonardo Orazi

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Aflame
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _1981.html
Image Credit: NASA

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Comet Garrard C/2009 P1
http://www.galacticimages.com
Copyright: John Chumack

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Watching the Sky
Copyright: Tunç Tezel

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Terraced Eastern Wall along the Middle Reach of Ma'adim Vallis
http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_022848_1595
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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Sunrise at Torre dell'Orso
http://www.danilopivato.com
Copyright: Danilo Pivato

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Death of a Sun-grazing Comet
http://indafoto.hu/godazoli/sprites/slideshow
Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO

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<- Poll: Recent Submissions #27

[canopia]

Nice to see that The Olive Tree at Sounion is growing, while I am Watching The Sky...

[owlice]

canopia,

I hope people click on each image to see them in a larger size; it makes a HUGE difference! And I'm glad I have three votes; even with three, though, it's hard to narrow it down!

[Ayiomamitis]

My sincerest thanks to all of the NASA APOD readers who voted for "Selene Rising at Sounion"!

[Celestial]

My votes this time went first,

- to the polar ring galaxies, because I see in APOD a description of these intriguing objects in 1999--there may be newer ones I am unaware of.... The Cornell U. link explaining PRGs says, there is a new catalog, and APOD astronomers can give us a learned explanation of the new findings;

- second, to the artistic representation of fire in space; I do not know anything about this, and would like to find out more about this phenomenon;

- and third, to the first observation of a comet crossing paths with the Sun. Did it crash into the Sun, or did it come between the viewer and the Sun? I cannot tell, and would like to hear an astronomer discuss this event.

All pictures here are interesting and appealing in their own right.

[Elizabeth Janson]

I liked
Noctilucent Clouds over St. Albert
Watching the Sky
Near Star

and the Galaxies - Corona Australis Nebulae and Cluster

[Aloysius]

I loved the images of
Aflame
The death of a sungrazing comet
Selene Rising over Sounion