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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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TelevisionUser
23-04-2015
The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated its silver anniversary today with a picture featuring a spectacular vista of young stars blazing across a dense cloud of gas and dust. The Westerlund 2 cluster of stars is located about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina and here it is in all its glory:

https://www.spacetelescope.org/stati.../heic1509a.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MwOCgzQ6M

The wider gas cloud area is basically a stellar nursery where baby stars are born.
TelevisionUser
29-11-2015
The following picture is of a combination of clouds and an auroral display. It looks as if it's from another planet but it's southern Iceland:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151124.html
Waj_100
30-11-2015
Some gorgeous photos here!
I haven't posted any photos for a while so here are a few of mine.

Here are my latest photos of the moon...from November...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/
HenryGarten
22-01-2016
This is a pretty dramatic picture ISS transits Saturn
TelevisionUser
22-01-2016
Originally Posted by Waj_100:
“Some gorgeous photos here!
I haven't posted any photos for a while so here are a few of mine.

Here are my latest photos of the moon...from November...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peugeo...posted-public/”

I particularly like the pictures of the partially lit Moon which show the craters in detail - good stuff!

And now for Shanghai as you've never seen it before: http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uplo...G-1024x682.jpg

Spoiler

It's one of French photographer Thierry Cohen's Darkened City works - http://www.wired.com/2014/11/thierry...rkened-cities/
Darthchaffinch
23-01-2016
Aurora in Tromso a couple of weeks ago: https://flic.kr/p/CEDMFE
TelevisionUser
29-03-2016
...and today's picture is the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy in great detail thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5001/5...352b952d_b.jpg

The rose pink areas are hydrogen gas clouds where active star formation is taking place.
mrs_bateman
29-03-2016
love some of these pics. Such beauty out there.
TelevisionUser
08-05-2016
Today's picture is the star IRAS 12196-6300 which is 2300 light-years away and which is surrounded by nebulosity: http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archiv.../potw1609a.jpg
Keyser_Soze1
08-05-2016
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“Today's picture is the star IRAS 12196-6300 which is 2300 light-years away and which is surrounded by nebulosity: http://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archiv.../potw1609a.jpg”

So very beautiful.

I wonder if this thread should be merged with the other one?
TelevisionUser
10-07-2016
Today's picture is the core of the Crab Nebula which is a remnant of a huge explosion:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160708.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula
TelevisionUser
24-07-2016
This is just unbelievable (but true) - a phoenix aurora: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160316.html
Launderman
24-07-2016
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“This is just unbelievable (but true) - a phoenix aurora: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160316.html”

fake.
francie
25-07-2016
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“This is just unbelievable (but true) - a phoenix aurora: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160316.html”

Gorgeous.
TelevisionUser
29-07-2016
There is one galaxy we currently cannot see in its entirety - our own Milky Way Galaxy which is a barred spiral class galaxy.

However, astrophotographer Nick Risinger has fused an artist's impression of the Milky Way Galaxy with an image of a real galaxy to give the most realistic picture so far of our own home galaxy and here it is:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Way_Galaxy.jpg
TelevisionUser
06-10-2016
Tonight's APOD image just has to be zooming through the night sky over Alhambra Rock in Mexican Hat, Utah:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/512/19...6f229217_o.jpg
TelevisionUser
27-11-2016
This evening's picture just has to be Greg Diesel Walck's photo of the Moon and Jupiter during an early august thunderstorm: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpI_IuIWcAEcNOW.jpg
TelevisionUser
16-12-2016
Tonight's astronomy picture of the day is the California Nebula in the constellation of Perseus and it really does look quite like its namesake: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/160...tonis_1351.jpg
TelevisionUser
24-12-2016
Since it is the eve of Christmas, I thought it would be appropriate that tonight's APOD picture ought to be glowing baubles in the sky, specifically the star cluster NGC 265: https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archi.../heic0603b.jpg

Spoiler

This star cluster actually isn't in our own galaxy; it's in the neighbouring Small Magellanic Cloud irregular galaxy - http://www.abc.net.au/science/starhu...ellanic_03.jpg
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