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- Sat May 04, 2024 4:54 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: MAUVE survey: Giant galactic explosion in NGC 4383
- Replies: 2
- Views: 280
Re: MAUVE survey: Giant galactic explosion in NGC 4383
MAUVE survey: Giant galactic explosion in NGC 4383 exposes galaxy pollution in action phys.org | 2024 April 21 TY4YA Jac Phys.org wrote about NGC 4383: Galaxy NGC 4383 evolving strangely. Gas is flowing from its core at a rate of over 200 km/s. This mysterious gas eruption has a unique cause: star ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:20 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy (2024 May 02)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 639
Re: APOD: M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy (2024 May 02)
Is there even a definition of a "bar" based on something other than mere appearance? Is it simply dust/gas that is apparently concentrated more or less predominantly along a line through the galaxy core? Well. When I look at the galaxy in IR, it doesn't remind me much of a bar either. ......
- Sat May 04, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: WEBB: Insanely Detailed Image of the Horsehead Nebula
- Replies: 3
- Views: 130
Re: WEBB: Insanely Detailed Image of the Horsehead Nebula
Insanely Detailed Webb Image of the Horsehead Nebula universetoday.com | 2024 April 30 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail.jpg tunnel rush The leading image shows JWST’s view of the Horsehead Nebula alongside two oth...
- Sat May 04, 2024 2:50 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula (2024 May 01)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 582
Re: APOD: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula (2024 May 01)
I wonder why does SSDS fish have a collar (just like APOD fish does) and neither GLIMPSE nor SPITZER fish do? Good point. Well I think that since both work in the IR range, the view changes from dark dust clouds to bright warm gas clouds which appear practically equally bright in the front and back...
- Sat May 04, 2024 2:27 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula (2024 Apr 30)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 708
Re: APOD: GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula (2024 Apr 30)
Once again a masterpiece! Congratulations to the Deep Sky Collective team. Be sure to click twice on the image to see the Nova up close, gorgeous object! I like cosmic dandelions too! ...and when you overlay older images (e.g. from Hubble) you can clearly see how the nova is developing... https://l...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: WEBB: Insanely Detailed Image of the Horsehead Nebula
- Replies: 3
- Views: 130
Re: WEBB: Insanely Detailed Image of the Horsehead Nebula
Insanely Detailed Webb Image of the Horsehead Nebula universetoday.com | 2024 April 30 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail.jpg tunnel rush The leading image shows JWST’s view of the Horsehead Nebula alongside two oth...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy (2024 May 02)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 639
Re: APOD: M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy (2024 May 02)
Still not much of a definitive bar in M61 at all compared to your other examples. And I'm not convinced of the "inner" bar in NGC 1365 either! "A bar is in the eye of the beholder" it seems. I just told you that I don't necessarily always trust Wikipedia, but now I'm going to qu...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:46 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula (2024 May 01)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 582
Re: APOD: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula (2024 May 01)
In context from a wider field of view image at one of the links in the text: fish head, heart, and soul nebulas.jpg I still find the area very exciting even in IR. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53692377213_263792ee09_b.jpg jac berne (SSDS/GLIMPSE) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/536912714...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula (2024 May 01)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 582
Re: APOD: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula (2024 May 01)
In context from a wider field of view image at one of the links in the text: fish head, heart, and soul nebulas.jpg I still find the area very exciting even in IR. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53692377213_263792ee09_b.jpg jac berne (SSDS/GLIMPSE) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/536912714...
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: WEBB: Insanely Detailed Image of the Horsehead Nebula
- Replies: 3
- Views: 130
WEBB: Insanely Detailed Image of the Horsehead Nebula
Insanely Detailed Webb Image of the Horsehead Nebula universetoday.com | 2024 April 30 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail.jpg The leading image shows JWST’s view of the Horsehead Nebula alongside two other views. Th...
- Wed May 01, 2024 2:52 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula (2024 Apr 30)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 708
Re: APOD: GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula (2024 Apr 30)
Once again a masterpiece! Congratulations to the Deep Sky Collective team. Be sure to click twice on the image to see the Nova up close, gorgeous object! I like cosmic dandelions too! ...and when you overlay older images (e.g. from Hubble) you can clearly see how the nova is developing... https://li...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy (2024 Apr 26)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 785
Re: APOD: Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy (2024 Apr 26)
Cool! Nice work. Well I am not sure. Maybe fitting the temperature scales is better The HR diagram of the Milky Way-3.jpgThe HR diagram of the Milky Way-4.jpg https://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=49561&mode=view What stays the same is Bright Giant branch fitting of the globular cluste...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: NewJWST: New Pictures from JWST
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14966
Re: NewJWST: New Pictures from JWST
NGC 2775 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53684201177_568179eac3_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53685293768_3dd15e8fed_b.jpg jac berne (flickr) Original data: NASA/ESA/CSA Have you yourself processed the NASA/ESA/CSA data to produce this image, Jac? It's glorious! And NGC 2775 is such...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: NewJWST: New Pictures from JWST
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14966
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery (2024 Apr 25)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 536
Re: APOD: NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery (2024 Apr 25)
Where did you find the Tarantula image? (And to me, it looks like both the images you provided are using the same palette.) I found it here: https://www.nasa.gov/universe/a-cosmic-tarantula-caught-by-nasas-webb/ It's unclear what mapping was used in either image, or indeed, which filters. As a rule...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:46 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 53
- Views: 305325
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble captures a bright galactic and stellar duo phys.org | Original release 2024 April 22 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/hubble-captures-a-brig.jpg While the focus of this image is the spiral galaxy NGC 3783, the eye is equally drawn to the very bright object in the lower right part of...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: MAUVE survey: Giant galactic explosion in NGC 4383
- Replies: 2
- Views: 280
MAUVE survey: Giant galactic explosion in NGC 4383
MAUVE survey: Giant galactic explosion in NGC 4383 exposes galaxy pollution in action phys.org | 2024 April 21 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/giant-galactic-explosi.jpg A team of international researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster, revealing a gas outflow so la...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
- Replies: 53
- Views: 305325
Re: GOTD: Galaxy Of The Day
Hubble captures a bright galactic and stellar duo phys.org | Original release 2024 April 22 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/hubble-captures-a-brig.jpg While the focus of this image is the spiral galaxy NGC 3783, the eye is equally drawn to the very bright object in the lower right part of...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: NewJWST: New Pictures from JWST
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14966
Re: NewJWST: New Pictures from JWST
NGC 3972 jac berne (flickr) STScI Mikulski Archive | Release Date 2024-04-19 18:23 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53669315446_4cfec79a38_b.jpg NGC 3972 is a spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered by William Herschel on April 14, 1789.This galaxy is...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:19 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Facing NGC 1232 (2024 Apr 18)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 530
Re: APOD: Facing NGC 1232 (2024 Apr 18)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/SN1994D.jpg/800px-SN1994D.jpg Ann ThanX Ann for your wonderful comments. What always bothered me about the NASA image of NGC 4526 is the fact that it gives the impression that the supernova is taking place far out next to the actual galaxy. ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1406
Re: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)
[...] Interesting… not even the enlarged Hubble image is sharp or detailed enough for me to notice any individual clusters, especially around the part that Webb zoomed in on. But maybe that’s just me. Are you sure you aren’t comparing Hubble’s entire image to the close up from Webb? Yes. That is re...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Total Eclipse and Comets (2024 Apr 17)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1173
Re: APOD: Total Eclipse and Comets (2024 Apr 17)
Superb image, particularly the corona which extends further than in many other images. That's right. But you should always be aware of the spatial conditions. It looks like the corona extends almost to Mercury. In reality, Mercury's orbit is still quite far away... https://live.staticflickr.com/655...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1406
Re: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)
There is, in the upper right part of the Webb image, something that looks like a globular cluster and which is completely invisible in the Hubble image. Impressive. Alex Interesting… not even the enlarged Hubble image is sharp or detailed enough for me to notice any individual clusters, especially ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1406
Re: APOD: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb (2024 Apr 15)
[...] Interesting… not even the enlarged Hubble image is sharp or detailed enough for me to notice any individual clusters, especially around the part that Webb zoomed in on. But maybe that’s just me. Are you sure you aren’t comparing Hubble’s entire image to the close up from Webb? Yes. That is re...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: Inexplicable "Flying Fox" cloud found in Hydra galaxy cluster
- Replies: 5
- Views: 986
Re: Inexplicable "Flying Fox" cloud found in Hydra galaxy cluster
Okay! I've given this some more thought. It is clear that the Flying Fox is not quite comparable to Hanny's Voorwerp: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53649398282_fcceba3d87_b.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Hannys_voorwerp.jpg/330px-Hannys_voorwerp.jpg Let's omside...