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Find the Man in the Moon AGAIN

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160201.html

Word for word copy - other than the date.

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Sure, it cute... But this is at least the second, if not the third time this has shown up on an APOD.
How about a new survey using the webb telescope? Now that would be interesting.

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Fabulous! But, you don't tell us what 'random' number generator is used. I fear it is NOT really random. Genuine random only comes from e.g. radioactive decay. That, of course, is the million dollar question. Are things we consider truly stochastic, like radioactive decay or the formation and annih...

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Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 4:45 pm
DL MARTIN wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:58 pm Nothing describes astronomy's past tense more aptly than the pine tree in the present and Orion 1500 years ago.
We're seeing Orion now. Not in the past.

Both statements can be somewhat correct in a relative way...

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Seems this image may have been first observed ages ago...

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The picture was taken 13 years ago. How many times has this been used in APODs.

Also nice that they were able to rebuild the whole thing after that little tourist accident.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

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Is that a tiny black dust cloud at the center of the nebula, to the side of the WR star?

Perhaps the star burped up a bit of soot?

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Yet another apod deja view.
Not only have we seen it before (the exact shot, apod 28 Dec 2019), but we've also read the same exact description, (with just the slight update for the next eclipse).

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So that's not a space station?

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Got to show you my favorite picture of NGC 4631 and NGC 4656. It is the picture at right by Mark Hanson, and it has been picked as the "Space Porn of the Day Picture". Do click on the image to see a larger size of it! Ann Definitely one of those astronomy sites that I haven't seen yet....

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Here's another interesting article on STEVEs research:
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/g ... 07137.html

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ta152h0 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:42 pm Fantastico! Appropriate music too. Pass the ice cold one.

With sound effects too.
Never wouldn't have guessed that a star being violently ripped apart like that would make a tiny swishing sound...

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Making O2 on other worlds:
Did everyone see the recent news of Perseverance making oxygen on Mars from CO2 ?
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa ... red-planet

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WWW wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:38 pm
Evenstar wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:31 pm
(I've also heard/read here that "tomorrows another day" - ...for planting a tree?)

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In addition, 1 week after tomorrow is actually National Arbor day....

(Some US states differ see: https://www.arborday.org/celebrate/dates.cfm )

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I've heard that Earth is losing O 2 in its atmosphere but science does not understand why. All the while CO 2 keeps rising. Apparently there is no simple way of stripping O 2 from the carbon? If one could do this where would the carbon go--probably grab the O 2 right back? There are simple ways to ...

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Seems to be the wrong image here, not clear where the "superposed" magnetic streamlines are.
An image connected to the title's (USRA) link may be the intended image.
https://newsroom.usra.edu/galactic-merg ... ic-fields/
Lots of extra lines on that one.

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Ann wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:33 pm
orin stepanek wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:33 pm
At that distance, this picture spans about 900 light-years.

Click to view full size image

Adorable kitty! I didn't even click on that link!

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Ok, So it spans 900 in light years, so what's that in cat years?

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OK, muons wobble more than predicted.
That may well be big news for the realm of quantum physics.
Wake me up when we get back to an "Astronomy" Picture of the Day.

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