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by Ann » Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:30 am
I was staring at today's APOD and tried to see the Milky Way in it. I mean, how cool wouldn't it be if the Milky Way looked at itself in a drop of water? Don't we all (or most of us) want to look at ourselves?
As I kept staring at today's APOD and tried to understand what part of the Milky Way I was seeing - what part of the Milky Way displays such a long and narrow dust lane? And what is that little bluish blob at the bottom of the drop of water - is that the Large Magellanic Cloud? Okay, it finally dawned on me. The galaxy is Andromeda and the blob - makes that blobs - are Andromeda's satellite galaxies M32 and NGC 205.
So which reflected galaxy is your favorite of the two images below? Take your pick!
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by orin stepanek » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:42 am
Reading through the description; I feel the picture is more or less fabricated! Still; beautiful!
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by neufer » Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:57 pm
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=drop wrote:
<<drop (n.) : Middle English drope, from Old English dropa "a small, spherical mass of liquid," from Proto-Germanic *drupon (source also of Old Saxon dropo, Old Norse dropi, Dutch drop, Old High German tropfo, German Tropfen (n.)).
Sense of "minute quantity of anything, least possible amount" is from c. 1200. Meaning "an act of dropping" is from 1630s; of immaterial things (prices, temperatures, [stock market] etc.) from mid-19c. Meaning "lozenge, hard candy" is 1723, from resemblance in shape. Meaning "secret place where things can be left illicitly and picked up later" is from 1931. Theatrical meaning "painted curtain dropped between scenes to conceal the stage from the audience" is by 1779.
Drop in the bucket (late 14c.) is from Isaiah xl.15 [KJV]. At the drop of a hat "suddenly" is from 1854. To get the drop on "be prepared before one's antagonist" originally was Old West gunslinger slang (1869).>>
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by TheZuke! » Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:33 pm
When I clicked on the "Discuss" link in today's APOD, my browser went to yesterday's discussion.
Did that happen with anyone else?
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by TheZuke! » Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:35 pm
Okay, a "galaxy in a droplet" beats "galaxy in a marble" from Men in Black!
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by Ann » Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:08 pm
TheZuke! wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:33 pm
When I clicked on the "Discuss" link in today's APOD, my browser went to yesterday's discussion.
Did that happen with anyone else?
It works for me. Have you tried again?
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by neufer » Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:32 pm
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by TheZuke! » Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:36 pm
Ann wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:08 pm
It works for me. Have you tried again?
Ann
It worked later.
Thanks for responding!