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2023 May 16

Total Eclipse: The Big Corona Image Credit & Copyright: Reinhold Wittich

Explanation: Most photographs don’t adequately portray the magnificence of the Sun’s corona. Seeing the corona first-hand during a total solar eclipse is unparalleled. The human eye can adapt to see coronal features and extent that average cameras usually cannot. Welcome, however, to the digital age. The featured image digitally combined short and long exposures taken in Exmouth, Australia that were processed to highlight faint and extended features in the corona during the total solar eclipse that occurred in April of 2023. Clearly visible are intricate layers and glowing caustics of an ever changing mixture of hot gas and magnetic fields in the Sun’s corona. Looping prominences appear bright pink just past the Sun’s edge. Images taken seconds before and after the total eclipse show glimpses of the background Sun known as Baily’s Beads and diamond ring effect. The next total solar eclipse will cross North America in April of 2024.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230516.html

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Webb captures the Rings of Giant Planets

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NGC 7822, Stardust

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Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems.

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)

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Penelope Get Porcupine Quills Removed, organized by Morgan Phelps

Hi, my name is Morgan and I’m trying to raise money so that Penelope’s life can b… Morgan Phelps needs your support for Penelope Get Porcup

Help me save her life.

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2023 January 17

Unexpected Clouds Toward the Andromeda Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Yann Sainty & Marcel Drechsler

Explanation: Why are there oxygen-emitting arcs near the direction of the Andromeda galaxy? No one is sure. The gas arcs, shown in blue, were discovered and first confirmed by amateur astronomers just last year. The two main origin hypotheses for the arcs are that they really are close to Andromeda (M31), or that they are just coincidentally placed gas filaments in our Milky Way galaxy. Adding to the mystery is that arcs were not seen in previous deep images of M31 taken primarily in light emitted by hydrogen, and that other, more distant galaxies have not been generally noted as showing similar oxygen-emitting structures. Dedicated amateurs using commercial telescopes made this discovery because, in part, professional telescopes usually investigate angularly small patches of the night sky, whereas these arcs span several times the angular size of the full moon. Future observations – both in light emitted by oxygen and by other elements – are sure to follow.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230117.html

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Lock and Key Heart Bracelet I made.

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Squidolus [Day:1897 Hour:0]

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Subtle Dreamer

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