Found Images: 2012 December

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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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The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
Slate Blog | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Dec 02

Milky Way Shining from the Cape Leveque Lighthouse
Source of Light — © Mike Salway

Milky Way Rising at Cape Leveque
Cape Leveque Milky Way — © Mike Salway

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Hickson 10
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/n536.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Small Magellanic Cloud
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/SMC-Mosaic-AU.html
Copyright: Rob Gendler and Ryan Hannahoe

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NGC 986
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... NGC986.htm
Copyright: Martin Pugh

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Earth at Night
NASA IOTD | 2012 Dec 05

[url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html][b][i]NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night[/i][/b][/url]

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This new global view of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.

The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight.

The day-night band observed Hurricane Sandy, illuminated by moonlight, making landfall over New Jersey on the evening of Oct. 29. Night images showed the widespread power outages that left millions in darkness in the wake of the storm.

Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory/NOAA/DOD

The Earth Spins in the Black of Space
Slate Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 Dec 05

The Black Marble: Stunning New Orbital Views of Earth at Night
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Dec 05

[i]This inage of Asia and Australia at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. [b](Credit: NASA/NOAA/DOD)[/b][/i]

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Click to play embedded YouTube video.

NASA Earth Observatory: Earth at Night 2012

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Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253)
http://www.baskies.com.ar/PHOTOS/NGC%20 ... GB%20N.htm
Copyright: Sergio Eguivar

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Fornax Galaxy Cluster
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ ... _supernova
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

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NGC 55
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

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Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 24&album=2
Copyright: Karel Teuwen

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NGC 70
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... /NGC70.htm
Copyright: Makis Palaiologou, Josef Pöpsel and Stefan Binnewies

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[Ann]

Adam Block has posted a new, fantastic image of R Aquarii.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Aquarii wrote:
R Aquarii is a symbiotic star believed to contain a white dwarf and a Mira-type variable in a binary star system. The orbital period is approximately 44 years.[1] The main Mira-type star is a red giant, and varies in brightness by a factor of several hundred and with a period of slightly more than a year; this variability was discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in 1810. It has a distance of about 200 parsec, and is one of the nearest symbiotic stars and a well known jet source.[2]

By its gravitational pull, the white dwarf draws in material from the red giant and occasionally ejects some of the surplus in weird loops to form the nebula seen in the linked image.[3] The whole system appears reddened because it is situated in a very dusty region of space, and its blue light is absorbed before reaching us.

The nebula around R Aquarii is also known as Cederblad 211.
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It is possible that the nebula is the remnant of a nova-like outburst, which may have been observed by Japanese astronomers, in the year 930 AD.

Ann

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Larger image: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/inde ... t&id=29195

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china ... 041953.htm
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012 ... tatis?lite
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la ... tatis.html

Credited to http://www.weibo.com/xinhuashidian

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Adam Block has posted a new, fantastic image of R Aquarii.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Aquarii wrote:
R Aquarii is a symbiotic star believed to contain a white dwarf and a Mira-type variable in a binary star system. The orbital period is approximately 44 years.[1] The main Mira-type star is a red giant, and varies in brightness by a factor of several hundred and with a period of slightly more than a year; this variability was discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in 1810. It has a distance of about 200 parsec, and is one of the nearest symbiotic stars and a well known jet source.[2]

By its gravitational pull, the white dwarf draws in material from the red giant and occasionally ejects some of the surplus in weird loops to form the nebula seen in the linked image.[3] The whole system appears reddened because it is situated in a very dusty region of space, and its blue light is absorbed before reaching us.

The nebula around R Aquarii is also known as Cederblad 211.
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It is possible that the nebula is the remnant of a nova-like outburst, which may have been observed by Japanese astronomers, in the year 930 AD.

Ann

To date that is the most detailed image of the R Aquarii Nebula!!! Also the image was small enough to post with img2 tags.

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Perseus Galaxy Cluster (Abell 426)
http://www.martinpughastrophotography.i ... erseus.htm
Copyright: Martin Pugh

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IC 239
http://www.caelumobservatory.com/gallery/ic239.shtml
Copyright: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona

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Silver Coin Galaxy (NGC 253)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~sjastro/ngc253latest.html
Copyright: Steven Juchnowski

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Valentine's Aurora
http://philhart.smugmug.com/Night-Sky-P ... &lb=1&s=X3
Copyright: Philip Hart

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This amazing aurora photo was taken on Valentine's Day, 2012.

I would also like to dedicate this post to all the people who still haven't found love!

[Sergio]

NGC 55 in Sculptor

Image taken by Ezequiel Bellocchio

http://www.astropilar.com.ar/galaxias/NGC55_1.html

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[url=http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.php?/332/category/9][size=120][b][i]Templo de la Serpiente Emplumada / Temple of Quetzalcoatl[/i][/b][/size][/url] [size=120][b][i]Credit: César Cantú ([/i][/b][/size][url=http://asterisk.apod.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=129549][size=120][b][i]mexhunter[/i][/b][/size][/url][size=120][b][i]), [/i][/b][/size][url=http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/][size=120][b][i]Astronomía Y Astrofotografía[/i][/b][/size][/url]

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Stars over the Temple of Quetzalcoatl
Universe Today | Nancy Atkinson | 2012 Dec 21

[Elias Chasiotis]

The solar corona in the recent total solar eclipse. Awesome image and processing.
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Ecli ... 0-info.htm
http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/Ecli ... 0-info.htm

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IC 1396 in 3-D
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fr/2012/10 ... om-my.html
Copyright: J-P Metsavainio

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UNH Scientists Launch NASA Rocket Into Aurora
http://www.eos.unh.edu/news/indiv_news. ... WS_ID=1301
Credit: Lee Wingfield, NASA Wallops

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Skyfall waterfall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... y-Way.html
Copyright: Tore Heggelund

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Massive Star Makes Waves
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16604
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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[Ann]

Two great galaxy clusters from Capella Observatory: Markarian's Chain and M87 in Virgo, and Abell 426, the Perseus cluster, with NGC 1275. NGC 1275 really stands out!

Both images are by by Makis Palaiologou, Stefan Binnewies and Josef Pöpsel.

I must say, now that I'm here, that there are many great images in this thread. I would be very happy to see almost all of them as APODs, including the ones I have linked to here, but to me one of the images in this thread stands out, nevertheless. I just love IC 1396 in 3D, and I really hope it makes it to APOD!

Ann

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Earth and Moon from Mars
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/earthmoon.php
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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Frost Flowers
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/ ... everywhere
Copyright: Matthias Wietz

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