Starship Asterisk*

by **owlice** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:01 am

Have you seen a great image or video somewhere that you think would make a great APOD? Nominate it for APOD! Please post as much information here as you have about the image/video with a link to any source(s) for it you know of here, and the editors will take a look.

When posting the image itself, please do not post anything larger than a thumbnail here; please honor the copyright holder's copyright.

Thank you!

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by **RJN** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:02 am

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Cumulonimbus cloud spawning lightning
Copyright: Jeffrey Sullivan
Found: Bad Astronomy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/06/29/ridiculously-awesome-photo-and-time-lapse-of-a-stormcloud-at-twilight/
Home: https://plus.google.com/107459220492917008623/posts/7kMWj2QJTeP

by **starsurfer** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:14 am

B30
http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/143299754
Copyright: Kfir Simon

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by **bystander** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:12 pm


Herbig-Haro Object HH 110 Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

http://heritage.stsci.edu/2012/30/
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1210/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... s/2012/30/

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by **Rothkko** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:11 pm

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

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by **owlice** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:02 pm

NYC, 07/04/2004
Copyright: Christophe Frochaux

July 4 2004 by Christophe Frochaux.jpg

I just like the image so much, I had to share it (with the copyright holder's permission).

by **RJN** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:42 pm

Where the Hell is Matt? 2012
Credit: Matt Harding
Tip: Owlice
Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe-pA6TaZk

by **starsurfer** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:07 am

Abell 39
http://www.pbase.com/melhelm/image/143500268
Copyright: Mel Helm

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by **SsDd** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:16 am

Fastest Pulsar Ever Found?

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Using Chandra, XMM-Newton, and the Parkes radio telescope, researchers have found evidence for what may be the fastest moving pulsar ever seen. The large field of view contains XMM-Newton data (purple) that contains supernova remnant, which as been combined infrared and optical data (colored red, green and blue that appears as white). The Chandra image in bright green shown in the inset ("X-ray close-up") reveals a comet-shaped X-ray source well outside the boundary of the supernova remnant. Astronomers think object is a pulsar that may be moving at about 6 million miles per hour, which would make it one of the fastest ever detected if confirmed. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UC Berkeley/J. Tomsick et al and ESA/XMM-Newton; Optical: DSS, 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF

by **SsDd** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:40 am

This montage shows the best views of Jupiter's four large and diverse "Galilean" satellites as seen by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter in late February 2007. The four moons are, from left to right: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The images have been scaled to represent the true relative sizes of the four moons and are arranged in their order from Jupiter.

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CREDIT: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

by **owlice** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:55 am

SsDd wrote:The aptly named Heron Galaxy appears to be spearing a fish in this night sky photo

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Astrophotographer Bill Snyder captured this image of the Heron Galaxy from Sierra Remote Observatory -- Heavens Mirror Observatory in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains on June 27, 2012.
CREDIT: Bill Snyder Astrophotography

Pssssst, Abhi! viewtopic.php?f=29&t=28998&p=178782#p178782 :-)

by **SsDd** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:35 pm

full-moon-vega.jpg

The full moon in this image is the first after the solstice on June 20 this year. This photo was taken by photographer VegaStar Carpentier of Paris, France, on July 3, 2012.
CREDIT and COPYRIGHT: VegaStar Carpentier

by **SsDd** » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:38 pm

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A particularly strong jet stream churns through Saturn's northern hemisphere in this false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

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