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30.01.2024 I Image: Hubble spies side-by-side galaxies Arp 140 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 25 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-spies-sid.jpg A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The lenticular g...

29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...

29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...

28.01.2024 I Hubble: IC 438 - Luminous in Lepus NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 22 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2404a.jpg This image shows the spiral galaxy IC 438, which lies about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus (the Hare). Lepus lies jus...

... Could you please provide a link to the Chandra images of either the Hercules Cluster or of IC 1182 itself? I have been unable to find anything. To my knowledge, the only galaxy in Hercules that has been paid any special attention by either X-ray or radio-detecting telescopes is the radio galaxy...

... Could you please provide a link to the Chandra images of either the Hercules Cluster or of IC 1182 itself? I have been unable to find anything. To my knowledge, the only galaxy in Hercules that has been paid any special attention by either X-ray or radio-detecting telescopes is the radio galaxy...

Hubble captures a monster merger PHYS.ORG | 2024 Jan 15 I thought I recognized this galaxy pair, Jac! They belong to the beautiful Hercules Cluster of Galaxies! :D The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies annotated Rafael Bustamente.png The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies. Credit: Rafael Bustamente NGC 6050 i...

28.01.2024 I Hubble: IC 438 - Luminous in Lepus NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 22 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2404a.jpg This image shows the spiral galaxy IC 438, which lies about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus (the Hare). Lepus lies jus...

The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey S. Goedhart, et. al. ARXIV | Preprint 2023 Dez 13 https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/c5e70c71c70ad1d36048f94680e4f877a78d5a6a/5-Figure2-1.png ABSTRACT We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost ...

M87*'s Event Horizon Image. One Year Later universe today | 2024 Jan 19 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2018-1024x656.jpg ... One interesting difference easily seen in the images is that the bright region of the ring has shifted counterclockwise by about 30 degrees. This is...

Hubble captures a monster merger PHYS.ORG | 2024 Jan 15 https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2024/hubble-captures-a-mons.jpg This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies—NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642 , the ...

Supernova remnant SS 433 - NASA's IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize 'Microquasar' Findings NASA / ESA | 2024 Jan 17 https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/ss433/ss433_rollover_525.jpg ABSTRACT This composite image of the Manatee Nebula captures the jet emanating from SS 433, a black hole pulling mate...

Hubble captures a monster merger PHYS.ORG | 2024 Jan 15 https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2024/hubble-captures-a-mons.jpg This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies—NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the r...

Hubble glimpses bright galaxy group LEDA 60847 NASA/ESA | 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-leda60847-3-flat-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp LEDA 60847 is classified as an active galactic nuclei, or AGN. An AGN has a supermassive black hole in the galaxy's cent...

Hubble glimpses bright galaxy group LEDA 60847 NASA/ESA | 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-leda60847-3-flat-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp LEDA 60847 is classified as an active galactic nuclei, or AGN. An AGN has a supermassive black hole in the galaxy's cent...

"The next possible dangerous collision could happen in 2182, when there is a 1 in 2,700 chance that a small near-Earth asteroid named Bennu could penetrate the atmosphere." But no fear: they will manage it :wink: "The space agency in 2022 successfully crashed a spacecraft into an aste...

UClan student discovers giant ring of galaxies 'so big' it challenges 'understanding of universe' A Big Cosmological Mystery https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/3UoW3ZpzduhbQV1x93F7Ly/d02129366cb1ec60946d060643426dd1/01HKVN57BXED7NJG72RYQHGS5Z.jpg?fm=avif&fit=fill&w=830&h=467&...

Ann wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:57 am ...
I would love to see an "overlay" that shows us how Webb's image fits together with optical images.

Ann

Right in the center Jac

... I'm going to do a Neufer and talk about something else. Although admittedly he would talk about Shakespeare or Finnegan's Wake, not about cosmic vistas that have nothing to do with the APOD in question. But I'm me, so I'll do precisely that. Here there be dragons, eh? Okay, here there be dragon...

I'm going to do a Neufer and talk about something else. Ann ... tribute to ;-) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jabberwocky.jpg/800px-Jabberwocky.jpg <<Dragon-like creatures appear in virtually all cultures around the globe. In his book An Instinct for Dragons (2000), anthr...

Today's title: The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty Tomorrow's title: Unforgotten I see a reference to Clint Eastwood here :) I think the reference is explained even better in IR. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53456790633_52cb5839d0_c.jpg ...but I don't think I'd want to see "The Good, the...

I would like to share with you my recent discovery of a large and faint nebula in the Triangulum galaxy, M33. I've been working on this project since 2021. Last fall, I gathered 153h of data and found an uncatalogued nebula. As I keep my collaboration with professional astrophysicists, I got in con...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240107.jpg The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray << Previous APOD This Day in APOD Next APOD >> It is interesting to compare the HST image with JWST (growing of 15 years difference) ... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53448417301_2f286d3cc7_c.jpg and I ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJVk79N_t4 Heaven is where everything is white! Tribute to Neufer I sure do miss Neufer. APOD hasn't been the same since Art left us. And now Orin's gone, too. This is certainly the case. Unfortunately, in cosmic dimensions, each of us is only granted a short stay o...