Starship Asterisk*

IC 1262
http://www.astrophoton.com/IC1262.htm
Copyright: Bernhard Hubl

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?

Source: A Turn of the Kaleidoscope
Planetary Society | Bill Dunford | 2013 Aug 12

Oh, nice. I thought it was an abstract painting before reading the description.

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

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

NGC 7769, NGC 7770 and NGC 7771
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... GC7771.htm
Copyright: Martin Pugh

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

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/

Ah the famous "scorched tadpole"! This is one of many proplyds associated with the Cygnus OB2 association. It looks red in true colour.

Sh2-264
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_la ... ionis.html
Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

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

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.