Starship Asterisk*

The Webb page (!) says that they are star clusters. "One galaxy speckled with star clusters appears near the bottom end of the bright central star’s vertical diffraction spike – just to the right of a long orange arc. The long, thin ladybug-like galaxy is flecked with pockets of star formation...

How big is Andromeda compared to the moon size seen from earth? I guess the long exposure picture isn't what the unaided eye will see from the same place at the same time?

Always thought that the unavoidable collision between our galaxies will turn out to a countorless elliptical galaxy in the end.

This is an unusual system. The source is at z=1.48 (9.3 Gyr) and the lens is at z=0.36 (4 Gyr), meaning that the lens is approximately centered between us and the source. In most cases where we observe Einstein rings, the lens is much closer to us than the source, meaning that anybody at the source...

We are in-line with the distant lensed galaxy and the gravitational lens itself. I'd like to presume that there really are astronomers on that distant galaxy gazing at the lensed Milky Way. I wonder what they would be seeing right now, whatever "right now" means in this relativistic unive...

What's those fussy stars or all those more distant eleptic galaxies or dwarf galaxies?

A beautiful image! I have two questions. How come there's a lot of star forming regions of blue o-type stars and dust so near the black hole? Why doesn't it have the typical yellow bulge like many other galaxies have like our own or Andromedas? Does the galaxy really consist of so many blue star re...

Thanks, AVAO, I'm very glad you appreciate it! :D And thanks for posting that closeup of the core of NGC 5566. That's amazing! Does it have two cores? Two supermassive black holes? I could find no information of that on the internet, but it sure looks like there are two hungry monsters at the cente...

A beautiful image! I have two questions. How come there's a lot of star forming regions of blue o-type stars and dust so near the black hole? Why doesn't it have the typical yellow bulge like many other galaxies have like our own or Andromedas? Does the galaxy really consist of so many blue star reg...

The bluish NGC 5569 is it because it has moore O-type stars and more hydrogen gas clouds?

How would it be for anyone living in a solar system system like ours in between these black holes? Would the radition make life impossible? I wonder how it would look like from the night sky. Is it two black holes spinning around each other in one galaxy called NGC 1128? Or is it two ellipical galax...

I don't mind dragons 🐉 but I prefer stars! 🌟 The illuminating star of this entire skyscape, HD 150136, is a remarkable multiple star whose hottest component belongs to spectral class O3.5V! NGC 6193 ESO Martin Pugh Robert Gendler Roberto Colombari.png HD 150136 of NGC 6193. ESO/Martin Pugh/Robert G...

I find this very fascinating but two things bothering me. Why are there more blueish galaxies that shows them much farther away for exampel billions light years more distant than more reddish galaxies? I also see plenty of green galaxies. How come they look green? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikip...

How come NGC 4631 have so much higher star formation? How come it does have so much more bright pink emission nebulas? Dustlanes and the gas within them combine to create stars but not as effeciently as the pink nebulas which contains much more hydrogen and less dust? That is a good question that i...

How come NGC 4631 have so much higher star formation? How come it does have so much more bright pink emission nebulas? Dustlanes and the gas within them combine to create stars but not as effeciently as the pink nebulas which contains much more hydrogen and less dust?

I don't see the pulsar. There's several bright spots.

What's the red spot to the left of the comet?

Very interesting Ann! Like the detailed explanations and markings! Much appreciated! Does anyone know the origins of the Nebula? Is it neutral hydrogen floating freely that just started star production because of disturbance or was it created by a supernova remnant? What's the size of the nebulae? I...

I wonder the name of the particular Milky Way band we see in these pictures and do we look at it to the center of the Milky way or to the outside? It looks so fascinating with the pink blobs of hydrogen clouds. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2108/PerseidsLost_SlovinskyHoralek_1080.jpg Perseid Mil...

I wonder the name of the particular Milky Way band we see in these pictures and do we look at it to the center of the Milky way or to the outside? It looks so fascinating with the pink blobs of hydrogen clouds.

I find this very fascinating but two things bothering me. Why are there more blueish galaxies that shows them much farther away for exampel billions light years more distant than more reddish galaxies? I also see plenty of green galaxies. How come they look green? Another example in the picture is ...

I find this very fascinating but two things bothering me. Why are there more blueish galaxies that shows them much farther away for exampel billions light years more distant than more reddish galaxies? I also see plenty of green galaxies. How come they look green? Another example in the picture is t...