Starship Asterisk*

A bit cheeky, as I submitted my own processing of this image to APOD a couple of weeks ago, but they decided to post someone elses' work. No problemo.
Gonna attach a couple of images from my own processing.

https://imgur.com/a/w0NRsNL

SpaceCadet wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:37 pm How is martian life a possibility when there isn't any atmosphere to speak of?

Some forms of like don't require oxygen (or any atmosphere really). Thermal vents, even solid rocks. There are organisms feeding off chemical composition.

Very cool. I think the "crater" is the result of a collapse. Here's a zoomed in view, with some enhancement of the dark part; seems like there's a pile of sand or soil at the bottom of the hole.

One article explains: "At the center of the giant butterfly-like feature is IRc2, a star 30 times more massive than the sun which is in the process of forming. A strong wind with a speed of more than 100 kilometers per second is blowing out from IRc2, evacuating the butterfly-like cavity and al...

1968 was too far back to simulate but one can extrapolate back from 2006 to 1987 to ~1968: Earthrise2006.jpgEarthrise1987.jpg Simulated Stellarium view, as seen from the Moon around the time the first photo was taken: https://i.imgur.com/BfRzUgz.jpg The brightest star in the photo would then be Reg...

With the sunlit Moon and Earth in the view, you wouldn't be able to see stars there. Stars are very faint and require dark adaptation. On the topic of the image processing, this is a simple but great idea to use colour from another image for a black&white one. Surprised it hadn't been done befor...

A similar work on the recent Hubble image of the Lagoon Nebula: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildespace/41622526681

Amazing photo! The author took two photos, and I took the liberty of stitching them together using ICE: http://ibb.co/dvOTu7 https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/31047744_10155878130144843_7807785369843584916_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=v1%3AAeFkF5CquSkeQn-gES5uc2BUdJMQUk1IvhRrbp4GykKM0q9a...

You can tell the expanding bubble encountered strong resistance at around 10-11 o'clock, hence the thick shells and strands of interstellar material. Around 2 to 6 o'clock there was little resistance and that part bubble expanded considerably further. Plus, of course, there's the proper motion of th...

I don't fully understand the reprocessing... process. Digital colour images are composed of the red, green, and blue channels. Hubble's narrowband images are created by assigning specific ionised gasses (like NII, Ha, and OIII) to the red, green, and blue channels respectively, resulting in a false...

APOD Robot wrote: This sharp, tantalizing view of the cosmic bubble is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope image data from 2016, reprocessed to present the nebula's intense narrowband emission in an approximate true color scheme . "Approximate" is right. The ionizing O-type star is defi...

NGC 7635 The Bubble Nebula (reprocessed Hubble image in true colours) Combined in this image is the Hubble's narrowband image, and colour information from a true-colour image of the Bubble Nebula found at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/NGC7635_Bubble_Nebula_from_the_Mount_Lemmon...

Saturn's moon Rhea, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its last flyby of this moon on March 10th 2013.

This true-colour image has been created by me (Maksim Kakitsev) out of raw Cassini images found at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/