Starship Asterisk*

If the Solar system would reside in the center area of the picture - how would we perceive our environment (the sky) ? Red, blue, black, bright, dark?

Curious: All these pinky starworms... :shock: ... Zeta Ophiuchi is quite nearby, some 400 light-years away. The pink splotches in the dust lane of the Milky Way are much farther away, some 5,000 light-years or more, which is why they look smaller than the Zeta Ophiuchi cloud. In reality, they are b...

Curious: All these pinky starworms...

Why does M1 not have a counter-jet?

I agree with the previous comments, but it is still great to have these data. Add music to the video; it is all symbolic! Also, it reminds me of a great experience I had about 30 years ago... heehaw - I always appreciate your sense of humor and the experience reports providing insights into the exc...

I like such intellectual Clashes of the Titans! Thanks to all!

But I also love the difference in color between our own galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. The two Clouds of Magellan are really dominated by young blue stars in a way that make them so different from our own galaxy... But I preferre to stay here on earth where I need a whole summer to tan. @LMC it ...

Ann wrote:Beautiful image! It's great to see the small, reddened Moon sitting in a full panorama skyscape and appreciate how tiny the Moon really is.

Yes, true.
But it's a wrong world: The fiery Moon vs the pale Andromeda Galaxy - a grain of dust vs. a giant cosmic vortex! Images always lie.

Guest wrote:There are some grey linear features on the left slope of the hill in a grid-like pattern. Does anybody know what they are?

There is no doubt: Ski trails...

The Black Eye Galaxy is a lady indeed. It looks as if she is flirting with us. But this is a lady in distress. She is choking on her own diminishing gas supply. Long ago, she almost certainly didn't have a black eye, but she was a full-fledged spiral galaxy forming stars all over her glittering arm...

Chris Peterson wrote:

APOD Robot wrote:Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula...

Or not so fittingly named. It always brings the other end to mind for me.

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Great!

... especially to have four of them looking so straight and radial. They are faint, straight and gray-looking.... Ann Thank you, NGC3314, thank you Ann! Astronomers do have high sensitive telescopic eyeballs; I don't. I have a new 24'' Monitor but nevertheless: No jets, no traces, no doglegs... How...

Ann wrote:Very nice picture! i saw it in the Latest Sky Photography forum the other day and instantly liked it. Look at that jet!

Ann

M87 has a nice jet, but I am missing any jets in NGC 1097. Therefore I ask You for subsequent delivery. Naturally a blue one please!
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If this thing is 50 million light-years away, can we infer the Big Bang is 13.4 billion light years away, somewhere out there ?? The Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago. It can't be said to be at any distance at all because it's done. It's over. It's not there anymore. Since the Universe was o...

Startreader wrote:

Boomer12k wrote:...maybe it had the hiccups???
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Do felines even get hiccoughs?
Very beautiful. And I love the dead cat being swung by the upper arm. Highly symbolic.

That's not a dead cat; it's a jumping brown panther with a flamy tail. Think positive!

Boomer12k wrote:...there is a NEARLY Elephant head with raised trunk at the bottom middle...

Another elephant is over - and a bit right of it. His trunk points exactly to the head of the colleague. They have a chat.
The evidence: The cosmos is full of elephants...

Thanks, Ivan!

. (To all the English teachers: Sorry, English is neither my first nor my second language. But I like it... :?: What happens if two SMBHs are approaching/merging? Are there mass transfers in advance? I think the mass-density and gravity of the BHs cores are infinite - so how could a mass-flow betwee...

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In this picture we can see auroras in almost all colors of the spectre. From nearly ultraviolet down to red . Except blue. Why?

bystander wrote:

owlice wrote:Beyond, you are younger now than you'll ever be again.

But older than you've ever been before.

"You are younger now than you'll ever be again - But older than you've ever been before."
Delicious teamwork!

And what exactly would you have the FDA do with that 88¢ per person? Well, the rocket is a LGM-118A Peacekeeper - a former ICBM, carrier for multiple nuclear war heads. It is a good idea to use it as a transporter for a lunar hoover (vacuum cleaner) - isn't it? NASA could also fire such a rocket in...

Gage wrote:Chris and Geckzilla: Thanks for the very informative responses, and esp for the photo.

Yes - and, Gage, thanks for the good question.
The appearance of the Milky Way will - for ever -be stress and challenge for my tortured brain...

Ann wrote: Pilot: "Where are we?"
Autopilot (tinny voice): "We're in front of the Moon. Stupid."

It's a very nice APOD! I think Moonlady should like it!

Ann

Pilot: "??.. hicks... the left or the right one?"

No more dust, since the stellar wind blows it all away, creating a dust-free bubble around stars even in the middle of dust-rich nebulas. Yes, as we can see. But what's the mechanism of "blowing away" by stellar wind? Is the kinetic energy of single electrons and protons sufficient to acc...

There isn't source code for this; the calendar was created with Microsoft Publisher. You are welcome to the .pub file, however, which is 4Mb and is available for download here . Thanks, owlice, for the .pub file. I'm working with MS Office since it exists, but I have never started the Publisher. No...

neufer wrote:Looking South at the Pipe Nebula:

Ok, it's heavy labour and a torture for my poor brain. It would be much easier to live in a flat, 2-dimensional world.
Anyway, I like this photo with the lovely drawing; I'm pipesmoker, in good company with Edwin Hubble.