Thanks for the interesting link Fred. I think the cosmic heart has slight cardiac fibrillation
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- Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:40 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4080
Re: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
- Sun Mar 06, 2022 9:16 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun (2022 Mar 06)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2661
Re: APOD: Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun (2022 Mar 06)
The image of the sun takes 500 seconds to get to us. The image of the black disk of Venus takes 136 seconds, i.e. 364 seconds less. It took Venus 25,200 seconds to cross the disks of the sun for 1,045 million km. The diameter of Venus is 12104 km. i.e. to move the distance of one Venus diameter, Ven...
- Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:21 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4080
Re: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
I don't see any particular green tail-like portion, even in the individual (though too small) green optical image at https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2017/21/4028-Image.html. The only tail I see is the one on Messier's drawing! Ok, I was looking for something better on the internet. Her...
- Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:13 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4080
Re: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51918654675_d9e2370243_z.jpg Source: Jac Berne (flickr) The colors are a free interpretation of the scientific multiwavelenght data. It is interesting that the crab also has a tail (visible in green at the top). Obviously, cosmic explosions don't always spread at...
- Fri Mar 04, 2022 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4080
Re: APOD: The Multiwavelength Crab (2022 Mar 04)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51918654675_d9e2370243_z.jpg Source: Jac Berne (flickr) The colors are a free interpretation of the scientific multiwavelenght data. It is interesting that the crab also has a tail (visible in green at the top). Obviously, cosmic explosions don't always spread at...
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 (2022 Mar 03)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5358
Re: APOD: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 (2022 Mar 03)
Source: Jac Berne, flickr
Nice core ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 (2022 Mar 03)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5358
Re: APOD: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 (2022 Mar 03)
Hi Ann Personally I'm intrigued by a blue-white foreground star masquerading(?) as a supernova.It sure looks like a supernova to me. Probably intuition. SN 1999by was right next to it ;-) However, the star should effectively be a foreground star, since it was already visible in 1999. https://spacefl...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 10:14 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 (2022 Feb 26)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4167
Re: APOD: Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 (2022 Feb 26)
James D Wray of The Color Atlas of Galaxies claimed that NGC 4549 is similar to bright edge-on dusty galaxy NGC 253. Yes, maybe, but I think that NGC 253 has a much "messier" disk than NGC 4945. (Even though "messier" NGC 253 isn't, but probably should have been, a Messier objec...
- Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:41 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Chamaeleon I Molecular Cloud (2022 Feb 17)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2748
Re: APOD: Chamaeleon I Molecular Cloud (2022 Feb 17)
Seems to be a dangerous area regarding the weather, with many cosmic tornados
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070811.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/6963253086
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070811.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/6963253086
- Mon Feb 14, 2022 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: In the Heart of the Heart Nebula (2022 Feb 14)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8200
Re: APOD: In the Heart of the Heart Nebula (2022 Feb 14)
Did anyone notice the pink ring at the top of the image and if there is a designation for it? Good question! WeBo 1 is a planetary nebula in the Heart Nebula and thus in the constellation of Cassiopeia, named after its discoverers Ronald F. Webbink and Howard E. Bond. The planetary nebula is formed...
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:24 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Blue Marble Earth (2022 Feb 06)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4216
Re: APOD: Blue Marble Earth (2022 Feb 06)
A "current" view of today's water planet can be found at https://earth.google.com/web/@-18.81240919,-153.47919845,-23611.46803364a,22275363.15610171d,35y,0h,0t,0r The cloud picture is almost live. A real view (Aug 7, 2017) from NASA can be found at https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegall...
- Sun Jan 09, 2022 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking... (2022 Jan 09)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6610
Re: APOD: Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking... (2022 Jan 09)
I like this animation: Voyager 1 fly by https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/790106-0203_Voyager_58M_to_31M_reduced.gif The Great Red Spot is a vortex between two rotating segments of a circle. As can be seen in the animation, the upper segment of the circle rotates in opposite direct...
- Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:12 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: James Webb Space Telescope over Earth (2021 Dec 26)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14147
Re: APOD: James Webb Space Telescope over Earth (2021 Dec 26)
Hey JWST - Welcome to the Universe! ...but if everything goes well, in summer 22 there is a lot of work waiting for you. In Cycle 1 the following missions are scheduled: 70 Exoplanets & Discs 75 Galaxies 3 Intergalactic Medium and the Circumgalactic Medium 9 Large Scale Structure of the Universe...
- Tue May 26, 2020 7:43 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed (2020 May 25)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3338
Re: APOD: Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed (2020 May 25)
The stars being born in the Mystic Mountain strikes me as typical triggered formation of second generation stars. These stars form at the top of pillars, which are being compressed and eroded away by the strong stellar wind and onslaught of ultraviolet light of pre-existing massive stars. Good exam...
- Mon May 18, 2020 8:46 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Journey into the Cosmic Reef (2020 May 18)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 20170
Re: APOD: Journey into the Cosmic Reef (2020 May 18)
From where does the assumption come that, viewed from the side, it is an hourglass shape? This is typical for planetary nebulae, but not espacially for Wolf-Rayet stars?
- Sat May 16, 2020 4:42 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Dark River to Antares (2020 May 16)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4232
Re: APOD: The Dark River to Antares (2020 May 16)
ThanX GeoXXXXX The Spotty Surface of Betelgeuse https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1001/Betel_haubois800.jpg "The intriguing picture shows two, large, bright, star spots. The spots potentially represent enormous convective cells rising from below the supergiant's surface." APOD 2010 January ...
- Fri May 15, 2020 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 (2020 May 15)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6780
Re: APOD: Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 (2020 May 15)
"Thank, Jac, that's a very nice image! :D I much appreciate being able to see the Hα in the core of NGC 3077. I'm also very glad to see that the picture was taken by a woman, Hypatia Alexandria! :D Ann" Indeed. This is true today as in the past. In honor of ... Hypatia from Alexandria (Gre...
- Fri May 15, 2020 11:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 (2020 May 15)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6780
Re: APOD: Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 (2020 May 15)
"There are some interesting similarities between NGC 3077 and M82, the famous "red-gas-spitting" neighboring galaxy of M81. Both M82 and NGC 3077 have stopped forming stars almost everywhere except in their cores, which, however, are ablaze with brilliant star formation. Clearly inter...
- Fri May 15, 2020 10:32 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 (2020 May 15)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6780
Re: APOD: Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 (2020 May 15)
"Locked in gravitational combat," really? So tired of the overuse of war metaphors especially when another would be so easy to find. "They've been dancing together for a billion years - spurring creation and complexity in one another, someday to unite." "They've been slidin...
- Sun May 10, 2020 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble (2020 May 10)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3772
Re: APOD: The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble (2020 May 10)
Wow. Great Picture! For me, it looks as if the "dust body" in the foreground has almost completely separated from the "star body" in the background. Does anyone have a physical explanation for this? "If you are lost in space and time - stay cool - and do it with love!"...
- Sun May 10, 2020 9:27 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble (2020 May 10)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3772
Re: APOD: The Porpoise Galaxy from Hubble (2020 May 10)
Wow. Great Picture! For me, it looks as if the "dust body" in the foreground has almost completely separated from the "star body" in the background. Does anyone have a physical explanation for this? "If you are lost in space and time - stay cool - and do it with love!" ...
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:20 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Andromeda Island Universe (2020 Apr 30)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2999
Re: APOD: Andromeda Island Universe (2020 Apr 30)
It looks like the core (the eye in the middle) is turning towards us... I think he is preparing for a fight ;-) look at: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0510/m31red_spitzer_big.jpg https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0510/m31red_spitzer.jpg For explanation: NASA's Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined fo...
- Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:50 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Star Streams of NGC 5907 (2019 Nov 16)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3673
Re: APOD: The Star Streams of NGC 5907 (2019 Nov 16)
Brilliant picture! The explanation makes me doubt. If the stellar streams come from an earlier dwarf galaxy, it is illogical that there are no obvious traces of the previous battle, if they come from a small galaxy that has been torn apart and already "digested". There are neither new and ...
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Galaxy Above (2019 Oct 15)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9852
Re: APOD: The Galaxy Above (2019 Oct 15)
Congratulation, beautiful picture!
I would be interested to know why two images had to be overlaid?
Why it was not possible at one time?
I would be interested to know why two images had to be overlaid?
Why it was not possible at one time?
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 5:29 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Molecular Clouds in the Carina Nebula (2019 Oct 02)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8987
Re: APOD: Molecular Clouds in the Carina Nebula (2019 Oct 02)
Caterpillar!!! I love it! :D And the many-peded thing seems to be looking at a cosmic bunny rabbit in wild flight! Look at the white behind and the two dark hind legs, as the cosmic lepus is trying to get away! Ann ... or Milnesium tardigradum in space (water bear). like it https://upload.wikimedia...