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- Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:27 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Birds During a Total Solar Eclipse (2019 Jul 09)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6563
Re: APOD: Birds During a Total Solar Eclipse (2019 Jul 09)
I was at a park in the path of totality during the 2017 eclipse, and all the crickets started chirping like it was twilight. That was an incredible experience, and luckily I won't have to go far for 2024's!
- Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:01 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Where to See the American Eclipse (2017 Jan 31)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 20009
Re: APOD: Where to See the American Eclipse (2017 Jan 31)
Sweet, my planned destination of Western Kentucky is green!
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda... (2015 Jan 06)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 39006
Re: APOD: 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda... (2015 Jan 06
Question: So I downloaded the 348 MB (!) TIFF file and zoomed in. In between the Milky Way foreground stars you can see hundreds of thousands of dots. Are these actually Andromeda's stars or digital noise?
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:21 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: TrES 2b: Dark Planet (2011 Aug 22)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6403
Re: APOD: TrES 2b: Dark Planet (2011 Aug 22)
It appears that nobody told the artist about it only reflecting one percent. It should be pitch black in the painting and the moon in front of it would be invisible. Actually what the caption failed to mention is that it is speculated that the planet is so hot it actually glows. That's where the re...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:44 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Juno Rockets Toward Jupiter (2011 Aug 09)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7821
Re: APOD: Juno Rockets Toward Jupiter (2011 Aug 09)
What were the others?Last week included one of the few times in history that humanity launched something completely off the Earth, moving away so fast that it will never return.
- Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Views from Cassini at Saturn (2011 Jun 13)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5300
Re: APOD: Views from Cassini at Saturn (2011 Jun 13)
This video is AMAZING. That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. It makes Saturn, and the rest of the cosmos, somehow feel more... real . Now we can take those same artsy-fartsy editing techniques (which I think are pretty cool) that we use on Earth and apply them to other worlds. This real...