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- Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Bright Spiral Galaxy M81 (2017 Sep 17)
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Re: APOD: Bright Spiral Galaxy M81 (2017 Sep 17)
Why do the brightest stars have 8 spokes, and the medium bright stars only 4? Is this an artifact of combining two different telescopes?
- Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Carina Pillar and Jets, 2009 October 1
- Replies: 18
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Re: Carina Pillar and Jets, 2009 October 1
Just wanted to leave a quick thank-you to Noel for the explanation of the bright infrared star and the great globular cluster blink picture!
David
David
- Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:34 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Carina Pillar and Jets, 2009 October 1
- Replies: 18
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Carina Pillar and Jets, 2009 October 1
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091001.html Nice pair of pictures. APOD is always enlightening and informative! Near the left edge of the photo, just below center (from top to bottom), there is a star that is VERY bright in infrared (one of the brightest in the image) but barely discernible in the visib...