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orin stepanek wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:40 am APOD: The Galaxy, the Planet, Apple Tree, Water, and Moon Reflection!

Moon reflection? Don't you mean Jupiter?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200702.jpg The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree Explanation: The Old Astronomer's Milky Way arcs through this peaceful northern sky. Against faint, diffuse starlight you can follow dark rifts of interstellar dust clouds stretching from the galaxy's core. ...

Dioskur wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:06 pm Nevermind - it's stated that it's Io's shadow. I must've been still half-asleep when I read the description. I'm sorry for the commotion.

FYI, you can edit your own posts to add corrections or clarifications!

Due to the silhouette and the airport where my test operates, it tells me that this aircraft is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172 Really? I can't believe you can get any sort of definitive identification from that low res silhouette. Remember, this is what we are looking at: plane silhouette...

Ladakh: the good, bad and ugly sides to India’s ‘Little Tibet’, high in the Himalayas Tim Pile, Post Magazine, 1 Aug, 2019 --------------------------------------------------------- The good : Known as Little Tibet due to a shared cultural and religious heritage, Ladakh, in the Indian state of Jammu...

Deathfleer wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:53 pmCannot find the plane

It’s tiny. Look about midway between the yellow reflected sun and the whiter real sun.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200624.jpg Inverted City Beneath Clouds Explanation: How could that city be upside-down? The city, Chicago , was actually perfectly right-side up. The long shadows it projected onto nearby Lake Michigan near sunset, however, when seen in reflection , made the b...

Sadly, try as I might, I'm just not understanding what I'm looking at, nor what imaging processing was done - if any - to create this image :cry: Sure, the moon passed in front of the sun and eventually created an annual eclipse, and sure, moon mountain peaks start blocking the sun first, but that'...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200622.jpg Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse Explanation: What are those dark streaks in this composite image of yesterday's solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen...

very nice picture! I have a question about image submission: in today's page I see a link to FB and the "Notable images of the Venus - Mooon conjunction of 2020 June submitted to APOD" https://www.facebook.com/pg/APOD.Sky/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2701463196624549 Are they automatica...

That youtuber sure produces a lot of videos! I watch him occasionally. In this video he talks about a 1% preference for galaxies spinning either clockwise or counterclockwise depending on direction. But as for the entire universe spinning, I'm not sure what that means. If we use the 2-D universe on...

There is no evidence that magnetic fields like this play any role in the formation of stars. But they may form paths that over long periods influence the movement of dust and gas, and therefore affect where stars form and a degree of large scale structure. At the scale of stellar systems, gravity e...

And by any chance, does magnetism play any sort of global role in the Universe? Particularly if the Universe actually happens to be spinning ? Ann That youtuber sure produces a lot of videos! I watch him occasionally. In this video he talks about a 1% preference for galaxies spinning either clockwi...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200617.jpg Magnetic Streamlines of the Milky Way Explanation: What role do magnetic fields play in interstellar physics? Analyses of observations by ESA's Planck satellite of emission by small magnetically-aligned dust grains reveal previously unknown magnetic ...

Can't resist comparing the magnetic streamlines of the Milky Way with the post-impressionist swirly painting style of Van Gogh. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/757px-Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Yup. When...

So, I'm wondering why in some scenes the Moon "exits" the Sun on the lower left, and on some the lower right. I also was disappointed that the compilation had the "large cloudy sunmoonrise" broken up through the video, instead of being a contiguous clip. I agree. I'm confused. T...

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 11:24 am DistortedSunrise_Chasiotis_1080.jpg

You don't get to see a crescent sun very often!

Very cool. Looks like some Elven war ship arriving from Middle Earth!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200614.jpg Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth Explanation: What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend national boundaries and occu...

Isn't one of the much touted features of the Crew Dragon that it can (and did) dock autonomously with the ISS. No crew input required. Yes, the Crew Dragon is capable of full autonomous docking, but in this case it was apparently a joint effort. A CBS News link says this: [From https://www.cbsnews....

Johnnydeep posts a picture And forgets to point out the Bear Nebula! :ssmile: bearNebula.JPG Cute! I admit I suck at seeing hidden objects in astronomical images. Even more so seeing images in constellations with suggestive names. I am reminded of the "Bart's Comet" episode of The Simpson...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200612.jpg NGC 2359: Thor's Helmet Explanation: NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god , Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is more ...

Is the Wolf-Rayet visible in this photo? I'm no expert, but I believe this is it, since it seems to be approximately in the center of the "bubble": wolf-rayette at center of nebula NGC 2359 Thors Helmet.JPG The particular Wolf-Rayet start here is WR 7 (HD 56925) [see https://en.wikipedia....

I think it looks like a dog with :D very big ears! Don't you mean Thor's Donkey? (I tried to include a .png outlining the donkey head, but I guess I need to use an image service such as Pinterest (which I don't have/use) You can use the Attachments tab at the bottom to inline marked-up images from ...

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:30 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:28 pm Off (this) topic, but is there no APOD today? I get this "The requested URL /apod/ap200610.html was not found on this server."

[EDIT: Leon1949Green beat me to it!]

#ShutDownSTEM

Ah. Poor name though - too permanent sounding. Would be much better as "#PauseSTEM".

Off (this) topic, but is there no APOD today? I get this "The requested URL /apod/ap200610.html was not found on this server."

[EDIT: Leon1949Green beat me to it!]