Astronomy pictures of the day

[biggunsbob]

June 8th
Horsehead Nebula in infred from the Hubble.


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160608.html

 

[biggunsbob]

June 9 th.

Pluto st Night.


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160609.html

 

[biggunsbob]

June 10th

NGC 6888 The Cresent Nebula.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160610.html

 

[biggunsbob]

June 11th
The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160611.html

 

[biggunsbob]

June 12th

A Roll Cloud over Uruguay. .

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160612.html

 

[biggunsbob]

June 13th

Unexplained Dimmings in KC 8462852

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160613.html

 

[Gulo Blue]

Disruption in Saturn's F ring.

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7379/

 

[biggunsbob]

June 14th
The North American and Pelican Nebula

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160614.html

 

[biggunsbob]

June 15th



http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160615.html

 

[biggunsbob]

June 16th

Northern Lights above Lofoten.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160616.html

 

[Gulo Blue]

There's two formats for the links and lately, you've been on the one that goes to the main site. If you don't want that, you need the version that has the date in the url (in year, month, day format).

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160616.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160615.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160614.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160613.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160612.html

 

[Gulo Blue]

I didn't catch the gravitational wave thing except by this page. Crazy that they spotted another one already. It must happen all the time. There's talk of dark matter being a specific form of primordial black hole. I don't know if the sizes line up with the ones making these gravitational waves, but that might explain why this appears to be a common thing.

 

[biggunsbob]

June 17th

Comet PanSTARRS in the Southern Fish.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160617.html

 

[biggunsbob]

There's two formats for the links and lately, you've been on the one that goes to the main site. If you don't want that, you need the version that has the date in the url (in year, month, day format).

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160616.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160615.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160614.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160613.html
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160612.html

I'm just posting thier main page at astrommey picture of the day. When I type in the url I just get page not found. Computers. Lol. I still can't figure them out lol thanks for any help over here. Astronomy may be just a hobby for me but 99.9 percent of the stuff is so darn cool.

 

[biggunsbob]

I didn't catch the gravitational wave thing except by this page. Crazy that they spotted another one already. It must happen all the time. There's talk of dark matter being a specific form of primordial black hole. I don't know if the sizes line up with the ones making these gravitational waves, but that might explain why this appears to be a common thing.

Space is just so darn scary and cool. Every time I talk to my wife about the distance involved and try to explain she just tells me to stop cause it freaks her out.
The waves are pretty wild 1.4 billion years!!!! holy flip .
By all means GB post anything you want over here. I was just trying to get all the space stuff in one area and then updated them from time to Time. I saw the astrommey picture of the day and that I would give it a whirl.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Space is just so darn and scary and cool. Every time I talk to my wife about the distance involved and try to explain she just tells me to stop cause it freaks her out.
The waves are pretty wild 1.4 billion years!!!! holy flip .
By all means GB post anything you want over here. I was just trying to get all the space stuff in one area and then updated them from time to Time. I saw the astrommey picture of the day and that I would give it a whirl.

FYI, the article I read about the first gravitational wave pulse said the pulse was created by 2 black holes colliding/merging. The two black holes, before combining, had the mass of 22 of our suns. The combined mass of the merged black hole was 21 suns. The energy released in the gravity wave pulse, through E=mc^2, was equivalent of 1 sun mass! Our entire sun, converted to energy in one 0.2 second burst!

 

[byco42]

Space is just so darn and scary and cool. Every time I talk to my wife about the distance involved and try to explain she just tells me to stop cause it freaks her out.
The waves are pretty wild 1.4 billion years!!!! holy flip .
By all means GB post anything you want over here. I was just trying to get all the space stuff in one area and then updated them from time to Time. I saw the astrommey picture of the day and that I would give it a whirl.

If the sun is one meter in diameter, Neptune is the size of a tennis ball and is 3.5 miles from the sun and the orbit is 21 miles in circumference. Earth is marble-sized and 579 feet from the sun with an orbit of 3,636 feet in circumference.

 

[biggunsbob]

FYI, the article I read about the first gravitational wave pulse said the pulse was created by 2 black holes colliding/merging. The two black holes, before combining, had the mass of 22 of our suns. The combined mass of the merged black hole was 21 suns. The energy released in the gravity wave pulse, through E=mc^2, was equivalent of 1 sun mass! Our entire sun, converted to energy in one 0.2 second burst!

Yeah pretty freaking big!!!

 

[biggunsbob]

If the sun is one meter in diameter, Neptune is the size of a tennis ball and is 3.5 miles from the sun and the orbit is 21 miles in circumference. Earth is marble-sized and 579 feet from the sun with an orbit of 3,636 feet in circumference.

Pretty nifty when they do that type of scale on the Science Channel.. just shows how darn vast space is. I can't wait till I get astronomy telescope one day. I real good one.

 

[biggunsbob]

June 18th

Sputnik Planum vs. Krun Macula.

It's amazing we can get theses from this distance.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160618.html