Found Images: 2013 April

[owlice]

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Have you seen a great image or video somewhere that you think would make a great APOD? Nominate it for APOD! Please post as much information here as you have about the image/video with a link to any source(s) for it you know of here, and the editors will take a look.

When posting the image itself, please do not post anything larger than a thumbnail here; please honor the copyright holder's copyright.

Please keep images under 400K, whether hotlinked or uploaded.

Thank you!


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[starsurfer]

NGC 3226-7
http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Galaxies/ ... GC3227.htm
Copyright: Ken Crawford

[bystander]

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

NASA Trailer Achieves Crowdfunding Goal to Run Before Star Trek: Into Darkness
Universe Today | Jason Major | 2013 Apr 02

Here’s one bit of NASA outreach that won’t be affected by suspensions or sequesters: an edited version of “We Are The Explorers,” a video highlighting the past successes and future goals of the space administration — created by NASA and featuring an inspiring narration by Peter “Optimus Prime” Cullen — will be screened in several major U.S. cities during the premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness thanks to an overwhelmingly successful crowdfunding effort on Indiegogo.com. ...

You can contribute here!

[bystander]

NASA - Earth from Orbit in 2012

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites constantly circle the globe, completing their orbits every 90 minutes. They give us invaluable information about everything from our weather and climate, to the way we use our land, to the air we breathe. This video highlights some of the newest satellites in the fleet, including the versatile Suomi National Polar-orbiting (NPP) satellite, a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Aquarius, which measures sea surface salinity and is a joint project between NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina. While many of the images are "true color" or photorealistic in nature, this video also includes data visualizations, which help scientists see data in useful new ways, and computer models, which help us understand interconnected Earth systems and make projections into the future.

Curious about what images we used in this video? Here's a list, in order, of all of the images we used and links for each one where you can find out more.

For more of NASA's best images from 2012, check out our NASA's Earth Month 2013 web interactive.

[starsurfer]

Bode's Galaxy (M81)
http://www.astroimager.net/Page-CDK17-CCD-303.html
Copyright: Jim Janusz

[MargaritaMc]

http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc602/

Click to view full size image

In this composite image of the Wing the Chandra data is shown in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope is shown in red, green and blue and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope is shown in red.

What for me is special about this image of the 'wing' of the Small Magellanic Cloud, released today by Chandra, is that the image enables viewing in X- Ray, Infrared and Optical, as well as this Composite.
I think it would make a fantastic Apod!

Margarita

[starsurfer]

NGC 1931
http://www.astro-pics.com/1931mne.htm
Copyright: Wolfgang Promper

Click to view full size image

[starsurfer]

MWP 1
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1127.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Click to view full size image

[MargaritaMc]

MWP 1
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1127.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Golly - that is really beautiful - and strange.
This is the info from the url above

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. MWP1 is a very usually shaped, unusually large, and unusually old, planetary nebulae. The progenitor star is also one of the hottest stars known, so hot it is producing large amounts of X-rays. The image was generated with observations in the Oxygen [OIII] (blue) and Hydrogen-Alpha (orange) filters. In this image, North is up, East is to the left.

[RJN]

Found on somebody's G+ page, who seemingly did not take the image nor owns the copyright. Can you find the copyright holder? Here is the image:

waterlightning_unknown.jpg (16.94 KiB) Viewed 2566 times

[Beyond]

Found on somebody's G+ page, who seemingly did not take the image nor owns the copyright. Can you find the copyright holder? Here is the image:

waterlightning_unknown.jpg

Your picture is showing Lakeview Drive in Chicago, according to the picture of it that I've found.
I don't know what you can get from imgur about it, but here's the url. http://imgur.com/gallery/QOY8c

[owlice]

It also appears here as one of a triptych posted by user brules: http://imgur.com/a/yIqSK#0

I cannot see a way to get real info for that poster, alas.

According to this site, the image was posted by user larsonewhipshade (clearly not the original!) on reddit, but the image has been deleted there along with the user. A Facebook page exists by someone who is likely the same person (lives in Chicago), but it hasn't been updated in over a year, it appears.

[bystander]

The image is at least 11 Months old. Found these two links on imgur.com, but no credits.

http://imgur.com/QOY8c
http://imgur.com/ZAeTV

The earliest post of the image I could find was on facebook, linked from here.

[bystander]

Tiger Stripes: The Icy Jets of Enceladus
Copyright: Lucy West (Lucy West Studios)

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Source: CICLOPS

From the south pole of the frozen surface of Enceladus, enormous, effervescent jets of icy brine spew volumes of vapor and ice particles at high speeds. Some of the material is jettisoned into space where it is snared by Saturn's gravity, wherein Saturn's hazy E ring is created. The organic-rich compounds that make up this salty spray marks Enceladus as a potential habitable zone candidate.

Scientists theorize the jets originate deep below the moon's thick ice cap in a warm subsurface ocean and find their pressurized escape from vents along the "Tiger Stripe" trenches, nicknamed as such due to their distinct striping across the moons ever-changing southern terrain.

I've been held spellbound by Enceladus since first viewing Cassini's stunning images of it's sunlit jets and desolate landscapes. With considerate input by Dr. Carolyn Porco, I was able to better understand how to render the exciting dynamics taking place on Saturn's tiny companion.

[geckzilla]

Found on somebody's G+ page, who seemingly did not take the image nor owns the copyright. Can you find the copyright holder? Here is the image:

waterlightning_unknown.jpg

Could be this user: chicagophoto1. No real name given but there is a contact email.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagoph ... hotostream

[starsurfer]

MWP 1
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1127.html
Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Golly - that is really beautiful - and strange.
This is the info from the url above

This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. MWP1 is a very usually shaped, unusually large, and unusually old, planetary nebulae. The progenitor star is also one of the hottest stars known, so hot it is producing large amounts of X-rays. The image was generated with observations in the Oxygen [OIII] (blue) and Hydrogen-Alpha (orange) filters. In this image, North is up, East is to the left.

It is a very strange planetary nebula, it is over 100 000 years old! Although this image is nice, it is false colour. I prefer this "true" colour image taken by the amateur Don Goldman: http://www.astrodonimaging.com/gallery/ ... ?imgID=230

[starsurfer]

NGC 1531-2
http://www.pbase.com/gailmarc/image/148262946
Copyright: Marcus Davies

[starsurfer]

M53
http://kepler-observatorium.ru/index.ph ... 1&Itemid=5
Copyright: Andrey Kuznetsov

Click to view full size image

[starsurfer]

M78
http://www.astrophoto.com/M78.htm
Copyright: Tony Hallas

[starsurfer]

IC 410
http://www.pbase.com/gbachmayer/image/149342175
Copyright: Gerhard Bachmayer

[MargaritaMc]

sun_flare_reduced_size.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/7407 ... g_full.jpg

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an M6.5 class flare at 3:16 EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171 Angstroms. Credit: NASA/SDO

There is an utterly fantastic image of the Sun in mid-flare at this link. It is 5mb ... So isn't hotlinked,
If it were possible to make a smaller file size, I think it would be a magical Apod.

[geckzilla]

The artist (Frederic Edwin Church) had to convey the experience of watching the aurora without having witnessed it himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Borealis_(painting)

[starsurfer]

Whale Galaxy (NGC 4631)
http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/20 ... l-galaxie/
Copyright: Dietmar Hager and Torsten Grossmann

Click to view full size image

[starsurfer]

NGC 1097
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%20 ... TILHUE.htm
Copyright: Sergio Eguivar, Ezequiel Bellocchio and Daniel Verschatse

Click to view full size image

[starsurfer]

NGC 3201
http://www.astropilar.com.ar/cumulos/NGC3201_1.html
Copyright: Ezequiel Bellocchio