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by Mulsar11
Wed Jun 07, 2017 6:10 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Orbiting Jupiter (2017 Jun 07)
Replies: 38
Views: 31553

Re: APOD: Orbiting Jupiter (2017 Jun 07)

Everything you see in the video is AMAZING! One of the amazing things is toward the end. In one of the bands of "clouds" is a series of white "storms", that look almost equally space one after the other and of almost equal size going up to the top of the frame. This is very curio...
by Mulsar11
Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:34 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Spiral Galaxy M83: The Southern Pinwheel (2014 Jan 28)
Replies: 19
Views: 3630

Re: APOD: Spiral Galaxy M83: The Southern Pinwheel (2014 Jan

This may be far fetched, but with star arms crossing in this picture and comments in a previous APofD about the center of M83 having two possible "centers", couldn't we just seeing two galaxies "laying on top of each other" from our point of view?
by Mulsar11
Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:48 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)
Replies: 32
Views: 13479

Re: APOD: Tycho s Supernova Remnant (2011 Apr 30)

For some reason to me, after visiting the site: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/tycho2/ and seeing their explanation for the arc (material pushed off a companion star) via their diagram, that this explanation doesn't seem to be physically possible at least in the way it was diagramed. Instead ...