Found images: 2015 November

[Sandgirl]

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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.

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LBN 248
http://afesan.es/Deepspace/slides/LBN%2 ... us%29.html
Copyright: Antonio Sánchez

The globule near the centre is uncatalogued. LBN 248 is the reflection nebula below it. HH 425 is a Herbig Haro object that is actually too small to be visible in this image.

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CG 12 and NGC 5367
http://www.pbase.com/gbachmayer/image/160622702
Copyright: Gerhard Bachmayer

CG 12 refers to the cometary globule and NGC 5367 is the reflection nebula at its "head".

[Sandgirl]

Meteor over Japan
Copyrights: Hiroshi Uemura
Suggested by: Vivek Shilimkar

[starsurfer]

IC 5148
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/ic_5148
Copyright: Michael Sidonio

[bystander]

Sunset Panorama at La Silla
ESO Picture of the Week | 2015 Nov 02

[img3="ESO/Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)"]http://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw1544a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]

This majestic panorama gives context to ESO’s La Silla Observatory. The site is positioned 2400 metres above sea level in the southern outskirts of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Far from the light pollution of civilisation it provides a clear view of the night sky for ESO’s telescopes.

La Silla has been an ESO stronghold since the 1960s with only a selection of ESO’s telescopes visible in this image: The ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope, the ESO 1-metre telescope and the ESO 1.52-metre telescope are seen further towards the back.

La Silla also hosts many national telescopes such as the Danish 1.54-metre telescope on the far left and the silver dome protecting the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope.

Fog is hovering over the valleys surrounding La Silla while the setting Sun leaves a layer of orange above the horizon. Once the Sun has disappeared the night sky will reveal impressive astronomical sights waiting to be observed.

[bystander]

At the Centre of the Tuning Fork (Mrk 820)
ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2015 Nov 02

[img3="Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Gorin (STScI)
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.com)"]http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/ar ... w1544a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]

This galaxy is known as Mrk 820 and is classified as a lenticular galaxy — type S0 on the Hubble Tuning Fork. The Hubble Tuning Fork is used to classify galaxies according to their morphology. Elliptical galaxies look like smooth blobs in the sky and lie on the handle of the fork. They are arranged along the handle based on how elliptical they are, with the more spherical galaxies furthest from the tines of the fork, and the more egg-shaped ones closest to the end of the handle where it divides. The two prongs of the tuning fork represent types of unbarred and barred spiral galaxies.

Lenticular galaxies like Mrk 820 are in the transition zone between ellipticals and spirals and lie right where the fork divides. A closer look at the appearance of Mrk 820 reveals hints of a spiral structure embedded in a circular halo of stars.

Surrounding Mrk 820 in this image is good sampling of other galaxy types, covering almost every type found on the Hubble Tuning Fork, both elliptical and spiral. Most of the smears and specks are distant galaxies, but the prominent bright object at the bottom is a foreground star called TYC 4386-787-1. ...

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At the Centre of the Tuning Fork (Mrk 820)
ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2015 Nov 02

[img3="Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Gorin (STScI)
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.com)"]http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/ar ... w1544a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]

This galaxy is known as Mrk 820 and is classified as a lenticular galaxy — type S0 on the Hubble Tuning Fork. The Hubble Tuning Fork is used to classify galaxies according to their morphology. Elliptical galaxies look like smooth blobs in the sky and lie on the handle of the fork. They are arranged along the handle based on how elliptical they are, with the more spherical galaxies furthest from the tines of the fork, and the more egg-shaped ones closest to the end of the handle where it divides. The two prongs of the tuning fork represent types of unbarred and barred spiral galaxies.

Lenticular galaxies like Mrk 820 are in the transition zone between ellipticals and spirals and lie right where the fork divides. A closer look at the appearance of Mrk 820 reveals hints of a spiral structure embedded in a circular halo of stars.

Surrounding Mrk 820 in this image is good sampling of other galaxy types, covering almost every type found on the Hubble Tuning Fork, both elliptical and spiral. Most of the smears and specks are distant galaxies, but the prominent bright object at the bottom is a foreground star called TYC 4386-787-1. ...

Great image of a galaxy that is unfamiliar to me! I'm glad to see that Judy Schmidt has made quite a name for herself, she is pretty cool!

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Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)
http://www.astrobin.com/148937/C/
Copyright: Enrico Scheibel

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Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cfaobam/1 ... 123849630/
Copyright: Carsten Frenzl

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Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543)
http://www.capella-observatory.com/Imag ... GC6543.htm
Copyright: Josef Pöpsel and Stefan Binnewies

Click to view full size image

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Helix Nebula (NGC 7293)
http://www.astrobin.com/68705/
Copyright: Rick Stevenson

[bystander]

Infant Star’s First Steps
ESO Picture of the Week | 2015 Nov 09

[img3="Credit: ESO/A. Plunkett"]http://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw1545a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]

The power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveals two immense, rippled jets of dense gas with near-perfect symmetry emanating from a single source at the centre of this image. At their origin lies an extremely young star — called a protostar — that is beginning the long journey to becoming a star much like the Sun.

The infant star, known as CARMA-7, and its jets are located approximately 1400 light-years from Earth within the Serpens South star cluster. This dense cluster, predictably found in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent), is home to at least 30 more protostars that are sparking into existence in close proximity, providing astronomers with a perfect laboratory in which to study the interactions between stars and their environment.

The first steps of a star’s life are still poorly understood, but astronomers concluded that these knotted, smoky jets are caused by periodic outbursts of gas, ejected at tremendous speeds from CARMA-7 into its surroundings. These outbursts are triggered by material infalling onto the protostar from an orbiting disc. As the jets speed away from their infant star, they collide with interstellar material causing them to slow and spread out. One day, that material may collapse and form yet another generation of stars.

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=35324

[bystander]

The Loneliest of Galaxies
ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2015 Nov 09

[img3="Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Gorin (STScI)
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.com)"]http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/ ... w1545a.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr]

Only three local stars appear in this image, quartered by right-angled diffraction spikes. Everything besides them is a galaxy; floating like a swarm of microbes in a drop of water, and brought into view here not by a microscope, but by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope.

In the foreground, the spiral arms of MCG+01-02-015 seem to wrap around one another, cocooning the galaxy. The scene suggests an abundance of galactic companionship for MCG+01-02-015, but this is a cruel trick of perspective. Instead, MCG+01-02-015’s unsentimental naming befits its position within the cosmos: It is a void galaxy, the loneliest of galaxies.

The vast majority of galaxies are strung out along galaxy filaments — thread-like formations that make up the large-scale structure of the Universe — drawn together by the influence of gravity into sinuous threads weaving through space. Between these filaments stretch shallow but immense voids; the Universe’s wastelands, where, outside of the extremely rare presence of a galaxy, there is very little matter — about one atom per cubic metre. One such desolate stretch of space is what MCG+01-02-015 reluctantly calls home. The galaxy is so isolated that if our galaxy, the Milky Way, were to be situated in the same way, we would not have known of the existence of other galaxies until the 1960s.

[Ann]

What a fascinating galaxy, bystander. In its loneliness, it appears to have run out of steam, like a wind-up toy that needs a little push from, say, a neighboring galaxy to get its star formation going again. The galaxy is perfectly formed, with a bar and elegant symmetric arms where not a lot is happening. I think those arms are about to slowly and quietly disappear. The galaxy does have a sort of abandoned and forlorn look to it.

Nice processing, Geck!

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Ann

[bystander]

Nice processing, Geck!

The image posted isn't geckzilla's. You can find her version here.

[starsurfer]

HH 24
http://www.gemini.edu/node/12429
Copyright: Gemini Observatory/AURA/B. Reipurth, C. Aspin, T. Rector

This area is near the reflection nebula M78.

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NGC 3199 and RCW 49
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/ ... 7N2VrSJ/X3
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi

RCW 49 is the emission nebula on the left.

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MeWe 2-4 and Fr 2-8
http://astrodonimaging.com/gallery/a-pa ... anetaries/
Copyright: Don Goldman

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NGC 288
http://www.chart32.de/index.php/object-list/item/154
Copyright: CHART32

[geckzilla]

Nice processing, Geck!

The image posted isn't geckzilla's. You can find her version here.

Thanks, bystander. Yeah, that's an old one.

[starsurfer]

DWB 18 and GM 1-27
http://www.astrophoton.com/dwb018.htm
Copyright: Bernhard Hubl

Click to view full size image

[Elias Chasiotis]

Found this stunning image of the beautiful red sunset over Athens, Greece in 3 November 2015, due to reflections of the sun rays to massive altocumulus clouds. The phenomenon was observed in Europe, but also in parts of the US and draw attention to thousands of people who took photos. Here is the view above the Acropolis rock, Athens, Greece. Unfortunately, i still can't find the name of the photographer. It is an amazing desktop.
Hope this link works for a high resolution.
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hp ... 7041_o.jpg

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LDN 1188 and LBN 496
http://www.karelteuwen.be/photo_page.ph ... 4&album=15
Copyright: Karel Teuwen

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LDN 673
http://www.galaxyphoto.de/ldn673_I.htm
Copyright: Michael Deger

Click to view full size image