APOD: A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet -... (2024 Dec 16)
Dec 16, 2024 · The APoD is a truly incredible work of science and engineering. The many, many teams of people who contributed to this sort of thing should be justifiably deeply proud of their achievements. Still, I would like to stand on this world before Sol sublimates it away into a series of meteor showers.
APOD: M51: Tidal Streams and H-alpha Cliffs (2024 Dec 13)
Dec 13, 2024 · Yes, but the APOD reveals a long jet from this galaxy! It is probably the black hole here acting up. My favorite background galaxy behind the M51 system is barely visible in the APOD, because revealing it would have required another way of observing and processing this system. It is a background galaxy called IC 4278.
APOD: Messier 2 (2024 Dec 19) - Starship Asterisk*
Dec 19, 2024 · The section shown in the APOD is the center of the globular cluster. There is therefore a very good chance that you will see one thing in a backyard telescope: white! The range visible to the humaneye is 380-780 nm. In the APOD image, 275 nm was assigned to RGB blue, 336 nm to RGB green and 438 nm to RGB red.
APOD: The Sombrero Galaxy from Webb and Hubble (2024 Nov 26)
Nov 27, 2024 · APOD Robot wrote: ↑ Tue Nov 26, 2024 5:06 am Explanation: This floating ring is the size of a galaxy. In fact, it is a galaxy -- or at least part of one: the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy is one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies .
APOD: Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe (2024 Oct 20)
Oct 21, 2024 · Re: APOD: Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe (2024 Oct 20) Post by Chris Peterson » Mon Oct 21, 2024 1:18 pm Christian G. wrote: ↑ Mon Oct 21, 2024 1:11 pm Thank you for your answers, Chris and Victor.
APOD: Stereo Jupiter near Opposition (2024 Dec 05)
Dec 4, 2024 · Hi APOD-Team, Thank you for your great site! I just tried the Jupiter stereo view and it turned out, that the images need to be switched to get the 3D impression. The left image needs to be on the right hand side. This can be also seen by comparing the two perspectives.
APOD: Apollo 17's Moonship (2024 Dec 14) - Starship Asterisk*
Dec 18, 2024 · Re: APOD: Apollo 17's Moonship (2024 Dec 14) Post by tgx » Wed Dec 18, 2024 1:22 pm flotillaflee wrote: ↑ Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:48 am I am doing a research paper on this ship but there is not much information online.
APOD: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster (2024 Dec 09)
Ann wrote: ↑ Mon Dec 09, 2024 7:54 am What I like best about the APOD (apart from the fact that it features the Pleiades and shows us their blue color, of course) is the "streakiness" of the blue nebulosity. This "texture" of the blue reflection nebulosity is different from the …
APOD: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula (2024 Oct 30)
Oct 30, 2024 · When the nice folks at APOD reached out to me last week about this image being selected, I offered up a newer SHO version of the Bubble Nebula I took in 2021 to replace it - but they opted to keep the older version. I respect their decision, as it is ultimately their website and their subjective eyes as to what deserves to be an APOD.
APOD: M27: Not a Comet (2024 Oct 05) - Starship Asterisk*
DocO wrote: ↑ Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:10 am Usually, I can click on the names of the person (people) responsible for an APOD and see on their website the details of how an image was captured. In this case, both names lead to the same website that is fraught with so many errors, I can’t even find the image in question much less any capture data.