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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

[...] 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...

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...

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 ...

[...] 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...

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...

Inexplicable cloud of magnetized plasma found in Hydra galaxy cluster phys.org | 2024 April 8 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/inexplicable-flying-fo.jpg High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and shape...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240405.jpg The Solar Corona Unwrapped Explanation: Changes in the alluring solar corona are detailed in this creative composite image mapping the dynamic outer atmosphere of the Sun during two separate total solar eclipses. Unwrapped from the complete circle of...

Webb probes an extreme starburst galaxy phys.org | 2024 April 03 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/nasas-webb-probes-an-e.jpg A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constell...

At first I ho-hummed this APOD, because I didn't find it beautiful or immediately interesting. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2404/Pa30V_NASA_960.jpg ... Wikipedia wrote about Pa 30, the nebula seen in today's APOD: Pa 30 was discovered in 2013 by American amateur astronomer Dana Patchick while s...

03.02.2024 I HST: Arp 72 - Two’s company NGC 5996 & NGC 5994 universe today | Original release 2024 April 01 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2414a.jpg A large spiral galaxy with a smaller neighbouring galaxy. The spiral galaxy is wide and distorted, with colourful dust. Its...

How far out do the petals of the corona extend? They seem huge. As the final countdown to the April 8 total solar eclipse approaches, use the Helioviewer Eclipse Watch tool to observe eclipse-like images that are captured over 100 times each day by the LASCO C2 coronagraph on the Solar and Heliosph...

https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800w/2024/hubble-sees-new-star-p.jpg?f=webp FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright star-like object near the middle of the image, and FS Tau B (Haro 6-5B), the bright object to the far right that is partially obscured by a dark, vertical lane o...

https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800w/2024/hubble-sees-new-star-p.jpg?f=webp FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright star-like object near the middle of the image, and FS Tau B (Haro 6-5B), the bright object to the far right that is partially obscured by a dark, vertical lane o...

Astronomers explore stellar populations of an extremely metal-poor dwarf galaxy phys.org | 2024 March 21 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/astronomers-explore-st.jpg Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted near- and mid-infrared observations of an extremely metal-po...

Astronomers explore stellar populations of an extremely metal-poor dwarf galaxy phys.org | 2024 March 21 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/astronomers-explore-st.jpg Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted near- and mid-infrared observations of an extremely metal-po...

One thing that Hubble has revealed, that is not visible in the APOD, is that the black hole of NGC 4438 is blowing bubbles: https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/opo0021a.jpg https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/little-boy-chewing-bubble-gum-vector-illustration-happy-child-popping-bubbles-223...

18.03.2024 HST: The Spider (and not its web) NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 March 18 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2412a.jpg This gauzy-looking celestial body is UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. Despite there not being many observat...

18.03.2024 HST: The Spider (and not its web) NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 March 18 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2412a.jpg This gauzy-looking celestial body is UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. Despite there not being many observat...