ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

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tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 1337844 - Posted: 13 Feb 2013, 18:59:49 UTC - in response to Message 1337412. I believe NASA calls it supernova remnant W 49B and it may contain a black hole since it is not a radio pulsar or a X-ray pulsar. Tullio ID: 1337844 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1339890 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 1:42:20 UTC - in response to Message 1337844. A new photo by a telescope in Chile has captured an amazing view of wispy interstellar clouds creating what appears to be a "cosmic lobster" in a distant star nursery, scientists say. The new image, released today (Feb. 20) by the European Southern Observatory, reveals the nebula NGC 6357 about 8,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion). Massive, hot, blue stars dot the wisps of gas and dust in the stellar nursery. ID: 1339890 · Reply Quote

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1339929 - Posted: 21 Feb 2013, 18:34:10 UTC Tell me something I don't know;) rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1339929 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1343154 - Posted: 5 Mar 2013, 1:01:01 UTC - in response to Message 1339929. Venus sparkles in views from Saturn ID: 1343154 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1343319 - Posted: 5 Mar 2013, 22:44:34 UTC - in response to Message 1343154. The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by the gravitational field of a foreground cluster of galaxies warping space and distorting the background images of more distant galaxies. Source: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage/ESA-Hubble Collaboration ID: 1343319 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1344843 - Posted: 10 Mar 2013, 7:45:38 UTC - in response to Message 1343319. Milky Way's 'Methuselah' star looks older than the universe ID: 1344843 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1355489 - Posted: 11 Apr 2013, 0:01:13 UTC - in response to Message 1344843. Last modified: 11 Apr 2013, 0:03:46 UTC The glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star. It is located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2307047/Who-gonna-Astronomers-spot-ghostly-glowing-green-blob-deep-space.html ID: 1355489 · Reply Quote

Jim_S Send message Joined: 23 Feb 00 Posts: 4705 Credit: 64,560,357 RAC: 31	Message 1388193 - Posted: 6 Jul 2013, 1:23:44 UTC Young Stars. I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.) ID: 1388193 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1395511 - Posted: 27 Jul 2013, 6:13:39 UTC - in response to Message 1388193. NASA released a new composite image of the Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) which was taken on April 30 by the Hubble Space Telescope as it streaked toward a close encounter with the Earth. Why is this so special? Comet Ison won't actually be that near the Earth but when it nears the sun this comet could actually outshine the moon. Its best display should on November 28 this year, Thanksgiving Day. It could also be spectacular in the northern hemisphere on its return trip to the outer reaches of the Solar System. ______________________________________ The universe wastes nothing, it's simply transferred. Lynn Jim Scott, Love the pic of the young stars! ID: 1395511 · Reply Quote

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1409304 - Posted: 29 Aug 2013, 12:43:31 UTC Monocerotis rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1409304 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1409953 - Posted: 30 Aug 2013, 21:21:00 UTC - in response to Message 1219842. Hubble telescope spots 'cosmic caterpillar' that's six TRILLION miles long, formed by harsh winds from some of our hottest stars http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2406611/Cosmic-caterpillar-spotted-Hubble-telescope-thats-6-TRILLION-miles-long.html ID: 1409953 · Reply Quote

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1428885 - Posted: 15 Oct 2013, 7:10:27 UTC Orion...Visible again in the nightsky over here: rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1428885 · Reply Quote

Thomas Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Dec 11 Posts: 1499 Credit: 1,345,576 RAC: 0	Message 1429136 - Posted: 16 Oct 2013, 5:57:13 UTC - in response to Message 1428885. Thanks Julie :) ID: 1429136 · Reply Quote

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1429159 - Posted: 16 Oct 2013, 7:25:31 UTC You're welcome Tom:) rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1429159 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1435047 - Posted: 29 Oct 2013, 1:47:57 UTC - in response to Message 1429159. Collage: Eight New Images of the X-ray Universe ID: 1435047 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1435347 - Posted: 30 Oct 2013, 0:34:52 UTC - in response to Message 1435047. Supernova Remnant G266.2-1.2 ID: 1435347 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1437161 - Posted: 2 Nov 2013, 23:55:16 UTC - in response to Message 1435347. Bruce Gary of Hereford, Ariz., obtained this a true color image of Comet ISON on Oct. 22, showing a greenish coma and reddish tail. The coma is now greener than the tail, which is also a result of the recent emission of gas to the coma. ID: 1437161 · Reply Quote

Lynn Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123	Message 1442593 - Posted: 15 Nov 2013, 7:30:49 UTC - in response to Message 1437161. Pic Images from the Hubble space telescope suggest for the first time how our galaxy, the Milky Way, developed. And its scientists have put together a photo of how the night sky could have looked 11 billion years ago if humans and Earth had been around. ID: 1442593 · Reply Quote

Julie Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34053 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18	Message 1442611 - Posted: 15 Nov 2013, 8:53:41 UTC Last modified: 15 Nov 2013, 8:59:30 UTC A false color image of Cassiopeia A, composited of data from three sources. Red is infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, orange is visible data from the Hubble Space Telescope, and blue and green are data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The cyan dot just off-center is the remnant of the star's core rOZZ Music Pictures ID: 1442611 · Reply Quote

aka_Patrice Send message Joined: 7 Nov 13 Posts: 41 Credit: 16,868 RAC: 0	Message 1444127 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 18:09:34 UTC Last modified: 19 Nov 2013, 18:11:46 UTC some very nice shots of Saturn from Cassini very high res versions ID: 1444127 · Reply Quote

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