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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by geckzilla » Tue Aug 27, 2013 5:55 pm

Looking through the HLA I noticed there were 3 different images of HH-1 and HH-2 so I figured an animation must have already been made and I was surprised that I had never seen this before. This is HH-1. Someone else took the ESA release and put it on YouTube which I'm just embedding for convenience here. The original ESA release is here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1113g/ And HH-2 is here. Hmm, HH-1 and HH-2 are actually two jets coming from presumably the same star. I wonder why there is no video of the pair together?
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The Southern Reaches

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The Southern Reaches - Credit: ESA / G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) / Bill Dunford<br />The south pole of Mars, as seen by the Mars Express orbiter in infrared, green, and blue light.
The Southern Reaches - Credit: ESA / G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin) / Bill Dunford
The south pole of Mars, as seen by the Mars Express orbiter in infrared, green, and blue light.
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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by geckzilla » Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:18 pm

Oh, nice. I thought it was an abstract painting before reading the description.
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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

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geckzilla wrote:Looking through the HLA I noticed there were 3 different images of HH-1 and HH-2 so I figured an animation must have already been made and I was surprised that I had never seen this before. This is HH-1. Someone else took the ESA release and put it on YouTube which I'm just embedding for convenience here. The original ESA release is here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1113g/ And HH-2 is here. Hmm, HH-1 and HH-2 are actually two jets coming from presumably the same star. I wonder why there is no video of the pair together?
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
The other really cool thing about HH 1 and HH 2 is that they contain OIII emission, very rare for Herbig Haro objects where Ha and SII are the predominant lines. Also you can see some videos of the motion of HH 1 and HH 2 on the website of astronomer Patrick Hartigan: http://sparky.rice.edu/movies.html

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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

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NGC 7753
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n7753.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by starsurfer » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:41 am

NGC 7769, NGC 7770 and NGC 7771
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... GC7771.htm
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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by geckzilla » Thu Aug 29, 2013 5:50 pm

Fresh from the HubbleSite news center. You know you want to feature a cosmic caterpillar.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 5/image/a/
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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by starsurfer » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:56 am

geckzilla wrote:Fresh from the HubbleSite news center. You know you want to feature a cosmic caterpillar.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... 5/image/a/
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Ah the famous "scorched tadpole"! This is one of many proplyds associated with the Cygnus OB2 association. It looks red in true colour.

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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by starsurfer » Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:58 am

Sh2-264
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_la ... ionis.html
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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by geckzilla » Fri Aug 30, 2013 4:22 pm

I don't know if he'll cross post this here but I will! Posted last night to the APOD Submissions Flickr feed. I can't stop playing it over and over looking for satellites and just gazing at the Milky Way. It is imperative that you view it at fullscreen and in HD.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/9 ... pool-apods
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Re: Found Images: 2013 August

Post by starsurfer » Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:32 am

W44
http://herschel.cf.ac.uk/results/supernova-remnant-w44
Copyright: Herschel: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Quang Nguyen Luong & Frederique Motte, HOBYS Key Program consortium ; XMM-Newton: ESA/XMM-Newton This supernova remnant also has an optical shell which is very faint and can only be seen with a long Ha exposure.

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