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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: AM1054: Stars...
I'd just say that understanding objectively derived probabilities is an important tool for guiding scientific investigation. If you're going to conduct an investigation, it makes sense to start with...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Re: Submissions: 2024 February
Touching Rho Ophiuchi.Copyright: Marcelo Maturana Rodríguez (@matuutex)Location: Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park, Lakes Region, Chile Date: 07 September 2021The Llanquihue National Reserve is one...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A View Toward...
A View Toward M106 Explanation: Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista. The nearly two degree wide telescopic field of view looks toward the well-trained constellation...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: A View Toward...
I've been a bit sick, so I've not felt up to making any sort of complicated post. But then, today's APOD is the sort of APOD that I, who is not only the Color Commentator but also the Galaxy Girl,...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: The Pencil...
EDIT: ok, Ann pointed out the Pencil in the larger image of the Vela nebula that she included, but I can't place either in the larger image of Vela from the Wikipedia link image - Thought it would be...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • Does Matter absorb...
Could matter be absorbing space-time, causing distortions in the fabric of the universe that we have yet to fully understand? Could this explain some of the unexplained phenomena we observe in the...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • Re: Does Matter...
Could matter be absorbing space-time, causing distortions in the fabric of the universe that we have yet to fully understand? Could this explain some of the unexplained phenomena we observe in the...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Re: A Neutron Star Rests...
A Neutron Star Rests at Supernova 1987A’s Centerhttps://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sc ... 7as-centerThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first imaged Supernova 1987A (SN) in September 2022. The...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: To the Moon...
Ah, the "Malapert A" crater. A fitting name for an impudent little machine to land near:Malapert and ShakespeareMalapert debuted in English in the 15th century, was a favorite of Shakespeare, and is...
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The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Re: Submissions: 2024 February
“Atardecer” de luna llenaFecha: 23/02/2024 - 20:04Ubicación: Cerro Arequita, Minas, Lavalleja, UruguayDatos Exif: Sony a7iv - lente Sony 100-400 GM - 20s / f4.5 / ISO 400 a 104 mmCreador: Daniel...
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Re: Video Submissions
Stereoscopic (21) Lutetia asteroid ROSETTA encounter from historic flyby (red-cyan anaglyph)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHaI2knmVHoStatistics: Posted by dromeuf — Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:00 pm
View ArticleThe Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography • Re: Submissions: 2024 January
Zoom into the Orion NebulaClick to play embedded YouTube video.You don't seem to have Javascript enabled. Direct video link.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JkrnhTDk7wThis animation took over 5000...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: The Pencil...
Yeah. I blind solved the images at astrometry.net, saved the solved FITS files it generates, open them in PixInsight and fully solve them there (which very accurately incorporates a distortion model),...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Phoenix Aurora...
A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland Explanation: All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet September night, much of that night's auroras had died down. Suddenly,...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: Martian Moon...
I guess AI doesn't know farther is the technically correct term when referring purely to physical distance, since AI is technical...Statistics: Posted by Guest — Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:14 pm
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Re: A Neutron Star Rests...
Thanks for your fantastic images, Jac! I absolutely agree that Sanduleak −69° 202, the supernova progenitor, must have undergone cyclical outbursts. The reason why the outer outlines "from the star to...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Re: Primordial Hum
If there were equal parts of matter particles and anti-matter particles way back when, why didn't everything just annihilate leaving no particles at all? The fact that we now find a lot more matter...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • Re: Does Matter...
"Absorbing space-time" - what exactly do you mean by that? And what specifically are you referring to by "unexplained phenomena?" I am not sure I understand your question.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: Supernova...
Hi Ann,So whatever you (or anyone) can answer, a couple down-to-earth questions: 1) Considering the distance, about how wide are those filaments? 2) If we were right "next" to one, would we see...
View ArticleThe Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • Re: APOD: A Phoenix...
Sorry, this picture does not seem to be genuine, the "phoenix" may have been stamped together, see the discussion here:https://forum.meteoros.de/viewtopic.php ... 57#p244257This picture has been...
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