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The 'Hubble' in the credit is a link to the HubbleSite. On that webpage there is a link to a 'Space Telescope Live. Look at what Hubble is seeing right now!' webpage https://spacetelescopelive.org/ that is stated to show what Hubble is looking at. I did not know of such a webpage and so I thought I...

The 'Hubble' in the credit is a link to the HubbleSite. On that webpage there is a link to a 'Space Telescope Live. Look at what Hubble is seeing right now!' webpage https://spacetelescopelive.org/ that is stated to show what Hubble is looking at. I did not know of such a webpage and so I thought I ...

The "Virgo Galaxy Cluster" link https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150804.html brings up the APOD of August 4 2015. Clicking on that image (at least when online) brings up a very useful annotated version on which NGC 4302 and NGC 4298 can be found labelled in the lower right quadrant of the image.

The "viable food" link made me https://kandaceredd.files.wordpress.com ... 2/baby.jpg.

Finger licking good .

In the information (but undated) in the ALMA website that is brought up through the 'ALMA' link in the explanation http://www.almaobservatory.org/en/about-alma it states ALMA is "Currently under construction...". That surprised me so I looked up information elsewhere and in that in Wikiped...

Perhaps it was pre-determined that this APOD would be issued :). I had thought it was my free will that made me stop trying to understand the 'sciences' behind the fascinating discussion, but perhaps not! :) The problem with any discussions of "free will" is that nobody has ever successfu...

Perhaps it was pre-determined that this APOD would be issued .

I had thought it was my free will that made me stop trying to understand the 'sciences' behind the fascinating discussion, but perhaps not!

I profess to not understanding what this APOD is all about but nevertheless I find it very fascinating. I'm glad though that, as far as I can tell, my actions I've not split the Universe....or have I?

It was a catastrophe for the poor thing as I very mainly found the cat to be dead and only rarely alive! Sorry .

PS. It was fun to see the old APOD April Fool's Days that were brought up through the link in each letter in the "foolish"

neufer wrote:

DavidLeodis wrote:
Assuming that it has one I am wondering what is the name of the bowling pin shaped dark object and its area to the right:?:

• Bowling pin 209: B209

Thanks for your help neufer .

Assuming that it has one I am wondering what is the name of the bowling pin shaped dark object and its area to the right:?:

There is a nice spiral galaxy in the bottom right corner.

In the information brought up through the 'Four laser beams' link http://sguisard.astrosurf.com/Pagim/M42-4LGS.html it states the image was taken using "LRVB filters". I regularly read of LRGB (Luminance Red Green Blue) filters being used in astrophotography imaging but I am having difficu...

Thanks Silly Boy for your help :). In my simple very non-scientific mind I assume that there is an opposite to everything to balance things out, which is why I wondered about 'White Holes'. If there are no opposites to Black Holes then I guess that over the billions of years left of the Universe th...

Thanks Silly Boy for your help :). In my simple very non-scientific mind I assume that there is an opposite to everything to balance things out, which is why I wondered about 'White Holes'. If there are no opposites to Black Holes then I guess that over the billions of years left of the Universe the...

Black holes are fascinating :ninja:. In the Swift overview information that can be found through the Swift link in the credit it states "By the end of this day, somewhere in the visible universe a new black hole will have formed. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most distant and powerful explosions...

The "tested" in the "tested in 2011" is a link http://tardigradesinspace.blogspot.co.uk/ that brings up information relating to a space experiment involving tardigrades conducted in 2007. The 2011 Fobos-Grunt mission in 2011 did have some tardigrades aboard but that mission soon ...

smitty wrote:Thank you, Art Neuendorffer and Chris Peterson, for your helpful explanations! Mystery explained!

Thanks also from me as I had wondered the same thing.

In the information brought up through a http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1705a/ link that is in the information brought up through the "featured image" link in the explanation it states of the image used as the APOD "This composite image of the Kleinmann-Low Nebula, part of th...

It's a fascinating set of images of Venus. :clap: The information on the montage is very interesting, particularly that the distance between Venus and Earth decreased by about 50 million miles over the only about 3 months period covered. In looking up Wikipedia for information about Venus I found th...

The montage of the enlargements of some of the galaxies brought up through the 'sharp telescopic image' link is very interesting http://astrophoton.com/abell2666.htm as also the annotated version of the image http://astrophoton.com/images/abell2666-1_id_full.jpg that can be found through the link. ...

The montage of the enlargements of some of the galaxies brought up through the 'sharp telescopic image' link is very interesting http://astrophoton.com/abell2666.htm as also the annotated version of the image http://astrophoton.com/images/abell2666-1_id_full.jpg that can be found through the link.

Aww for those poor ducklings in the "wind" link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEBLt6Kd9EY. Thankfully they did though seem to be OK .

It's both a superb and a fascinating image. :clap: to Adam Block. The "is joined" link in the explanation https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/ngc2170_seip_f56lbl.jpg brings up an annotated image that shows the blue nebula on the right of the APOD is vdB69 and the blue nebula whose top i...

It's both a superb and a fascinating image. :clap: to Adam Block. The "is joined" link in the explanation https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0608/ngc2170_seip_f56lbl.jpg brings up an annotated image that shows the blue nebula on the right of the APOD is vdB69 and the blue nebula whose top is...

There is a nice montage of 11 images in Vincent's section in AstroBin that were taken during the eclipse. This is the link:- http://www.astrobin.com/285836/