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A Golden Halo around the ELT ESO Picture of the Week | ELT | 2023 Sep 04 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2336a.jpg It might look like the opening scene from The Lion King, but this stunning Picture of the Week was actually taken in the Chilean Atacama Desert rather than the Af...

emc wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 4:36 am Dang! I can’t remembered how to post the images. All I get is the image file name when I quote.

How to post images

I’m having triggers again. This is going to sound crazy but I’m thinking that I’m being punished for not posting in Orin’s Flowers Around the House. Crazy right? I think it stems from being away for so long. Nobody’s fault here. Just my bipolar kicking in. Go post in Orin’s Flowers Around the House...

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... I just got sideways in 2011 because of the religion rule here and my thoughts on the subject. The rule conflicted with my spirit. I’m a spiritual person. So the conflict fueled my fretting. ... The rule was meant to avoid conflict, not cause it. Even among "Christians" differing belie...

A FEAST for the Eyes ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Aug 29 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/potm2308c.jpg Webb’s Infrared Views of M51 ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Aug 29 Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm Univ) and the FEAST JWST team Image 1: NIRCam...

A False Dawn at KPNO NOIRLab Image of the Week | KPNO | 2023 Aug 30 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2335a.jpg The western horizon looks especially eye-catching in this image of the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ), a Program...

A FEAST for the Eyes ESA Webb Picture of the Month | 2023 Aug 29 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/potm2308a.jpg The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and...

Stellar Cradle ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 28 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2335a.jpg The protostellar object OH 339.88-1.26 , which lies 8 900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara , lurks in this dust-filled image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

Hidden in the Chilean Andes ESO Photo of the Week | APEX | ALMA | 2023 Aug 28 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2335a.jpg The flat panorama of the Chajnantor plateau dominates this Picture of the Week. Situated at an altitude of around 5000 metres in the Chilean Andes, this plat...

Milky Way Front and Center NOIRLab Image of the Week | CTIO | 2023 Aug 23 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2334a.jpg The vantage point of the foothills of the Chilean Andes provides some of the best views of the night sky in the world, especially from Cerro Tololo Inter-A...

The circle of life. It affects us constantly and is constantly changing. I’m good with the interactions that I had with Neufer. They were special and hold a special place in my tiny web life. A unique character indeed that I adored and still do. I’m sad that I missed so much in my absence from my A...

Webb Captures Detailed Beauty of Ring Nebula ESA Webb Photo Release | 2023 Aug 21 I'm probably missing something, but is this a new image that isn't part of the APOD? Either the NIRcam or MIRI? PS - the https://esawebb.org/images/weic2319c/ link seems to be stale. As far as I know these are the onl...

Webb Captures Detailed Beauty of Ring Nebula ESA Webb Photo Release | 2023 Aug 21 https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/weic2320f.jpg Webb and Hubble’s Views of the Ring Nebula Image 1 Credit: Webb (NIRCam): ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow, N. Cox, R. Wesson Image 2 Credit: Hubble: NASA, ES...

A Sparkling Galactic Neighbour ESA Hubble Image of the Week | 2023 Aug 21 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2334a.jpg The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million light-years from Earth in the cons...

Home is where the telescopes are ESO Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 21 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2334a.jpg Welcome to ESO’s La Silla Observatory , home to several telescopes since the 1960s and the setting of this Picture of the Week. Located 600 km north of Chile’s capi...

A Pantheon above WIYN NOIRLab Image of the Month | KPNO | 2023 Aug 16 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2333a.jpg The Milky Way and colorful celestial objects stretch over Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, in this image of the WIYN 3.5-me...

I am sorry but when did clouds get to be part of astronomy? Clouds are the nemesis of astronomers. Please save cloud postings for WPOD. Here's a reply from Dr. Nemiroff to complaints about a different cloud image. APOD: 2008 Jan 22 - Shelf Cloud Over Saskatchewan ~ Discussion I chose and wrote this...

Jim Leff wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:13 pm ...
Looks like I posted this in the wrong section. Maybe if it’d been posted in “news” it’d have drawn more comments..

I'm moving it to Communications

A clear view of a galaxy cluster ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 14 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2333a.jpg The massive cluster Abell 3322 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in which the galaxy 2MASX J05101744-4519179 basks in t...

It’s full of stars! ESO Picture of the Week | VISTA | 2023 Aug 14 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2333a.jpg This Picture of the Week — taken with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope ( VISTA ) at Paranal Observatory in Chile — might look like a scene from a snowy winter...

Gentle Giant Galaxy NOIRLab Image of the Week | DECam | 2023 Aug 09 https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/screen/iotw2332a.jpg In the constellation Sculptor lies this large extended spiral galaxy called NGC 289 . Despite being around 75 million light-years away, the light of NGC 289 is s...

Portrait of a Ghostly Galactic Peacock ESA Hubble Picture of the Week | 2023 Aug 07 https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/potw2332a.jpg The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light. Captured with Hubble’s Advanced Camera f...

A Giant under the Moonlight ESO Picture of the Week | ELT | 2023 Aug 07 https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw2332a.jpg It’s now close to 80 metres high — the mammoth steel structure of the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope ( ELT ) dome is taking shape in this Picture of the Week, tak...