Astronomy Picture of the Day Archives
 

Mari Take a look at this one. 4th one down
2012 November 18 NGC 6357:Cathedral to Massive Stars. BF:hug::hug::hug:

I would have liked to see this but did not see the link to it. bizi

bizi I'm sorry. I don't have people around to show me how to transfer a link. I'm sorry. BF:hug::hug::hug:

BF - is this it?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121118.html

Edited to add: it is beautiful

Breathtaking picture... great thread...
 

Dear Steve... what a great find! Thank you! :) :heartthrob:

i hope you add more of your favorite pix from the Astronomy Pic of the Day archives here... i think it is a wonderful thread idea. :):).

and ... do not worry. we will all pitch in to help you with the links, whoever gets here first that can figure it out. ;):hug:

Dear Butterfly, thank you for providing the link for "Cathedral to Massive Stars" image! :):hug:

:grouphug:

~ waves ~

Hi BF
 

Yes, re-post, always love to see some of our universe!!!!ginnie:hug:

Thank you, Steve, and thank you all.

It is beautiful.


M

thank you for the link butterfly! it is beautiful!
bizi

Thank you butterfly. Happy Thanksgiving !!! BF:hug::hug::hug:

Hello Broken friend
 

Thanks for posting the beautiful shot of some of our universe. I stand in awe. Have a blessed Thanksgiving. ginnie:hug:

Good to your post BF, feels like I have a brother, you are a good friend with a huge heart! Happy Holiday's!
:hug: di

Thank you Di. That's very kind of you. We are family on this forum. We have been through allot in the last several years.

We are rolling out the welcome carpet to the new people. Come on in. The doors open. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Amen!:grouphug:

Not Trees!
 

NASA' Astronomy Picture of the day 11/25/2012:

Dark Sand Cascades on Mars (a.k.a. "Almost Trees")

click on link above, or picture, for astronomer description.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1211...es_mro_960.jpg

~ waves ~

I saw this on face book. It is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
glad that you posted it here!
bizi

This area on Mars has definitely got that alien look. I'm glad that this place isn't on Earth. BF:hug::hug::hug:

sorry
 

Dear Steve,

sorry if you are spooked by the pic i chose... :( i don't find it eerie or spooky or alien even if it is indeed alien.

i picked it because i thought it was really cool and i liked it. :o i would not mind if it was on earth. it never occurred to me someone could be weirded out. :o

i'm really sorry. :(:hug::hug::hug::hug:

~ waves ~

Hi Steve
 

Truely the picutures are not spooky, they are amazing. The universe is so stange and facinating. I am a physics nut, and the things I have discovered just lead to more amazement! Try to look at this as an adventure. America would not have been discovered without this spirit. ginnie:hug:

I love this picture!
bizi

Dear waves:heartthrob:I'm so sorry. I realized that my post was negative after I posted a reply. I have been depressed for several days,but I'm usually more sensitive to all of the things that people post.

That place on Mars is really a interesting place. The sand looks pinkish. I remember looking at this about a week ago. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to,but I was negative.

I'm going to delete that negative post. I love outer space pictures. Please post anything that you see on Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Your posts always are good,sensitive,and are meaningful. BF:hug::hug::hug:

I can't seem to delete my earlier negative post. I'm sorry Waves. I love Astronomy Picture of the day,and I've been looking at the pictures for several years,and have been a student of these archives,and have learned allot. BF:hug::hug::hug:

i'm ok, if you're ok.
 

Dear Steve

I'm sorry you have been depressed. No reason delete your post or apologize. You did not insult me or anyone here. Your words expressed how you felt at the time - about a picture. I just got worried that the pic really upset you (maybe even more than you said in the post).

I really hope you feel better soon. I know how it is to get depression in waves. It makes everything look darker, and feel darker, and it makes us more sensitive to that darkness we perceive as well.

Thank you for accepting my contribution to the thread. ;) I hope to see you post more of your favorite pics from ASOD here too. We will help with the links! I do enjoy the ASOD pics and I see many of us do, but i don't check them every day. You started a great thread.

I am sending you lots of love and hugs to get you through this tough time. :hug::hug::hug: :heartthrob: :circlelove: :hearthrob:

~ waves ~

Hello, One & All Here -

I also have been especially enjoying and appreciating the thread started here by you, Steve! What great and interesting photos that we'd likely never otherwise get to see!

Hope that you are feeling better soon, Steve.


Best regards,

Theta

Astronomy Picture of the day archives
2012 December 16 MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula
Please bring this here for everyone to see.
It's a actual square Nebula. I haven't seen anything that is square
In outer space. Everything else rounds out,or is oval. BF:hug::hug::hug:

2012 December 16 MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula
 

http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/o...psfa59b480.jpg

Steve,

This is beautiful and fascinating, :)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121216.html
M

that looks so neat! :Heart:

Hi
 

What is in the universe never fails to amaze me. ginnie

fabulous find!
 

What a stunning picture, Steve. It looks like a huge ruby, surrounded by sparkling ruby-dust! wow.

thanks for sharing, and Mari thanks for fetching the pic and the link.

~ waves ~

Today on "Astronomy Picture Of the Day Archive"
2012 December 29 Zeta Oph:Runaway Star.

The archive picture before that has a brilliant Red Nebula. BF:hug::hug::hug:

links for Steve's beautiful APOD find....
 

Hi Steve,

This is beautiful! I am adding the picture, explanation, and page link below.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1212...3_1024-768.jpg

reference url for this APOD page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121229.html

~ waves ~

Astronomy Picture Of the Day for 2012 December 28
 

Astronomy Picture Of the Day for 2012 December 28:

NGC 6188 and NGC 6164


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1212/ngc6188Kfir800.jpg

reference url for this APOD page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121228.html

~ waves ~
p.s. Beautiful APOD pic for December 29th is also posted HERE.

this is gorgeous! :Heart:

Thank you Waves. Isn't that beautiful!!! BF:hug::hug::hug:

Thank you Waves for bringing these two gems to this forum. BF:hug::hug::hug:

No problem at all Steve... Thanks for scouting them out for us!!! :):hug::hug::hug:

~ waves ~

This is interesting. It's showing a solar flare.
2013 January 15: A Solar Ballet. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Thanks Steve! :)
 

Hi Steve and everyone,

I can't post the pic, because it is actually video - if it is possible to embed it using vBulletin tags, i'm afraid i don't know how. However, here is direct youtube link for a large view in your browser:

A Solar Ballet (YouTube Video by NASA)

You will also find the video embedded at the APOD page, at the following URL:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130115.html

Explanation: Sometimes, the Sun itself seems to dance. On just this past New Year's Eve, for example, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressive prominence erupting from the Sun's surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the above time lapse video covering four hours. Of particular interest is the tangled magnetic field that directs a type of solar ballet for the hot plasma as it falls back to the Sun. The scale of the disintegrating prominence is huge -- the entire Earth would easily fit under the flowing curtain of hot gas. A quiescent prominence typically lasts about a month, and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) expelling hot gas into the Solar System. The energy mechanism that creates a solar prominence is still a topic of research. As the Sun nears Solar Maximum this year, solar activity like eruptive prominences should be common.

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I'd never seen a solar flare "close up" like this... it looks like a red geyser to me! and you can see the "outer part" of the sun's gases too... pretty neat, but quite foreboding! ... wouldn't want to stick my finger in that! :p:D

~ waves ~

:You-Rock:
Thank you, Steve and Waves,

This is beautiful. :)

Mari

Here's a cool one.
2013 January 13:NGC 602 and Beyond

BF:hug::hug::hug:

2013 January 13:NGC 602 and Beyond
 

This is gorgeous, Steve! :)
APOD: 2013 January 13 - NGC 602 and Beyond

Link to APOD page: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130113.html


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1301/ngc602_hst_960.jpg

Explanation: Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is featured in this stunning Hubble image of the region. Fantastic ridges and swept back shapes strongly suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from NGC 602's massive young stars have eroded the dusty material and triggered a progression of star formation moving away from the cluster's center. At the estimated distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud, the picture spans about 200 light-years, but a tantalizing assortment of background galaxies are also visible in the sharp Hubble view. The background galaxies are hundreds of millions of light-years or more beyond NGC 602.

~ waves ~