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Found Images: 2012 July

Post 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.

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Cumulonimbus cloud spawning lightning
Copyright: Jeffrey Sullivan
Found: Bad Astronomy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... -twilight/
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Post by owlice » Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:02 pm

NYC, 07/04/2004
Copyright: Christophe Frochaux
[attachment=0]July 4 2004 by Christophe Frochaux.jpg[/attachment]

I just like the image so much, I had to share it (with the copyright holder's permission).
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Post by RJN » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:42 pm

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Where the Hell is Matt? 2012
Credit: Matt Harding
Tip: Owlice
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Abell 39
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Post 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

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Post 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

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Post 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
heron-skywatching-snyder.jpg
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! http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 82#p178782 :-)
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Post by SsDd » Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:35 pm

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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
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Post 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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Re: Found Images: 2012 July

Post by SsDd » Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:12 pm

owlice wrote:

Thanks Owlice! I had missed that, unfortunately.

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All 135 Space Shuttle Launches at Once
Credit: McLean Fahnestock, NASA
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This is Our Planet
Credit: Tomislav Safundžić, NASA
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Found: Bad Astronomy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... ur-planet/

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Swirling Supercell Over the US Midwest
Copyright: Camille Seaman
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Post by RJN » Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:20 pm

Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
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How a Spiral Galaxy Forms
Credit: Fabio Governato & Nbodyshop
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Found: Beth Willman post on Facebook

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