Starship Asterisk*

Seems to be a dangerous area regarding the weather, with many cosmic tornados

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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 ...

"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...

"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...

"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...

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!"...

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!" ...

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...

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 ...

Congratulation, beautiful picture!

I would be interested to know why two images had to be overlaid?
Why it was not possible at one time?

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...

Below I try to compare a close-up from the core with the ring nebula. I think these type of planetary nebula are missing the hourglass ejection surfaces, as they have already dissolved. Therefore you can only see the central ring. The typical eye-like formation in the case of MyCn 18 results from t...

Below I try to compare a close-up from the core with the ring nebula. I think these type of planetary nebula are missing the hourglass ejection surfaces, as they have already dissolved. Therefore you can only see the central ring. The typical eye-like formation in the case of MyCn 18 results from th...

One tiny thing that I find interesting is that there appear to be three smilar-sized supernova remnants to the left of Sagittarius A*, and two much larger and therefore older supernova remnants to the right of it. I assume that the sites of star formation near Sgr A* has shifted over time. Usually,...

The "blurrier" the picture is, the harder it is to tell the difference between stars and galaxies. In today's APOD there are no long spikes emanating from the stars, which makes it even harder to tell them from elliptical or face-on spiral galaxies. Instead of spikes, there is a multitude...

Sorry if I've already asked this in the past. Whenever I look at such photos, I always wonder, which one of the bright objects (of various sizes, shapes and colors) we see are stars and which ones are galaxies. There are some photos wherein every object (almost every) is a galaxy. But, some have a ...

Where exactly is Sag A* (our galaxy's supermassive BH) in this image? An X marks the spot overlay would be very helpful, along with a dashed line showing the Milky Way's mid plain. To your question look at: https://instagram.fzrh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/8eb9dcd630955e9512bf042bffabf438/5D90398F/t51.288...

Not a word about the odd hexagonal highlighted object? Good question... Normally, these patterns exist only at the poles of the planets. However, I think that it is unlikely that the hexagon surrounded by the red is the former pole territory... https://instagram.fzrh3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/efac3daa81e...

ThanX Ann Interesting point. But where are the wildebeests on Ceres ?-) Okey, with -106 degrees, it is a little cold. But where does the heat come from to make the soda-carbonate liquid? Maybe it was different there earlier. So I'm sure, we will find a couple of wildebeest bones on the next expediti...