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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Periodic Comet...
Periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle Explanation: A Halley-type comet with an orbital period of about 133 years, Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle is recognized as the parent of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. The...
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • Extreme Quasars Illuminate...
by Ken CroswellRecent discoveries of record-breaking quasars have pushed the boundaries of our understanding. In 2021, astronomers reported the most distant quasar ever seen and, in 2024, the most...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Perseid Below...
A Perseid Below Explanation: Denizens of planet Earth typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Light, Dark,...
The Light, Dark, and Dusty Trifid Explanation: Messier 20, popularly known as the Trifid Nebula, lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming...
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Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower Explanation: Where do Perseid meteors come from? Mostly small bits of stony grit, Perseid meteoroids were once expelled from Comet Swift-Tuttle and continue to follow...
View ArticleThe Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related • Auroras after CMEs
Hi everyone! I have the following questions1. What does the aurora look like in the sky when SME hits the Earth: does an aurora come from a single point in the sky (or a limited sector), or is the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Perseid Meteors...
Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge Explanation: What's happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Giant Jet from...
Giant Jet from the International Space Station Explanation: What's that on the horizon? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early last month, astronaut Matthew Dominick saw an...
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Meteors and Aurora over Germany Explanation: This was an unusual night. For one thing, the night sky of August 11 and 12, earlier this week, occurred near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower....
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Late Night...
Late Night Vallentuna Explanation: Bright Mars and even brighter Jupiter are in close conjunction just above the pine trees in this post-midnight skyscape from Vallentuna, Sweden. Taken on August 12...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Meteor Borealis...
Meteor Borealis Explanation: A single exposure made with a camera pointed almost due north on August 12 recorded this bright Perseid meteor in the night sky west of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Sky Full of Arcs...
Sky Full of Arcs Explanation: On August 11 a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched from a rotating planet. With a small satellite on board its mission was dubbed A Sky Full of SARs</a> (Synthetic...
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The Communications Center: Breaking Science News • MeerKAT:...
MeerKAT: Garden-sprinkler-like jet spotted shooting out of neutron star Circinus X-1phys.org | 2024 July 16 A strange 'garden sprinkler-like' jet coming from a neutron star has been pictured for the...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: A Solar...
A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO Explanation: One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting prominence. In 2011, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: IC 5146: The...
IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula Explanation: Inside the Cocoon Nebula is a newly developing cluster of stars. Cataloged as IC 5146, the beautiful nebula is nearly 15 light-years wide. Soaring high in...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Supermoon Beyond...
Supermoon Beyond the Temple of Poseidon Explanation: A supermoon occurred yesterday. And tonight's moon should also look impressive. Supermoons appear slightly larger and brighter than most full moons...
View ArticleThe Communications Center: Breaking Science News • The Nearest Midsized Black...
by Ken CroswellContrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most massive and luminous globular star cluster, a new study...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Fermi's...
Fermi's 12-year All-Sky Gamma-ray Map Explanation: Forget X-ray vision â imagine what you could see with gamma-ray vision! The featured all-sky map shows what the universe looks like to NASA's Fermi...
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The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: The Dark Tower in...
The Dark Tower in Scorpius Explanation: In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnological constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an...
View ArticleThe Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources • AstroNEWS...
On this channel you will find a collection of astronomy-related news resources (magazines, journals, blogs, etc.). You are welcome to help expand the list.To see the latest posts in reverse order,...
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