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Arp Bot 🤖

Hubble image of Arp 299, also known as NGC 3690.

This image was taken in 2000 with Hubble's WFPC2 instrument to study the galaxies' hottest and brightest stars in ultraviolet light. Blue and green are ultraviolet, red is visible light. The observations show large amounts of interstellar dust in these merging galaxies.

Credit: NASA, R. Windhorst, and the Hubble mid-UV team
Source: hubblesite.org/contents/media/

Two merging galaxies form an orange and blue abstract butterfly shape. Within the shape are bright blue areas, which are clusters of young, hot stars. These are found in the center, the upper right "wing", and the bottom left "wing".
#ArpGalaxy#Galaxy#Space
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Mikko Tuomi

A #JWST image of Herbig-Haro 49/50 — a frothy-looking outflow from a nearby #protostar — with a multi-hued spiral #galaxy.

Herbig-Haro objects are outflows produced by jets launched from a nearby, forming #star.

The outflows, which can extend for light-years, plow into a denser region of material.

This creates shock waves, heating the material to higher temperatures.

The material then cools by emitting light at visible and infrared wavelengths.

#astronomy
science.nasa.gov/missions/webb

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. Like the wake of a speeding boat, the bow shocks in this image have an arc-like appearance as the fast-moving jet from the young star slams into the surrounding dust and gas. A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object with a more distant spiral galaxy in the background. Herbig-Haro 49/50 gives researchers insights into the early phases of the formation of low-mass stars similar to our own Sun. In this Webb image, blue represents light at 2.0-microns (F200W), cyan represents light at 3.3-microns (F335M), green is 4.4-microns (F444W), orange is 4.7-microns (F470N), and red is 7.7-microns (F770W). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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A Total Lunar Eclipse Over Uruguay
Video Credit & Copyright: Mauricio Salazar
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Explanation:
If the full Moon suddenly faded, what would you see? The answer was recorded in a dramatic time lapse video taken during the total lunar eclipse last week from Uruguay. During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth moves between the Moon and the Sun, causing the Moon to fade dramatically. The Moon never gets completely dark, though, since the Earth's atmosphere refracts some light. As the featured video begins, the scene may appear to be daytime and sunlit, but actually it is nighttime and lit by the glow of the full Moon. As the Moon becomes eclipsed and fades, background stars become visible. Most spectacularly, the sky surrounding the eclipsed moon suddenly appears to be full of stars and highlighted by the busy plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Nearly two hours after the eclipse started, the Moon emerged from the Earth's shadow and its bright full glare again dominated the sky.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_ec
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apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110617.ht

science.nasa.gov/sun/
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/
youtube.com/watch?v=1DNbkKBW0K

atlasoftheuniverse.com/galaxy.
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#space#moon#earth
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AI6YR Ben

Okay, geek question for folks out there. My son has since moved on to newer phones, and (once again) I am He Who Disposes Of Old Electronics. Any interesting things can you do with a Galaxy S9? SM-G960U 64GB. AT&T but probably unlockable, but I think it's been dropped a few times (seems to be rebooting itself now and then for no reason... but perhaps it's just been rootkitted by malware). Looks like they have near zero value on eBay. Wipe it and replace it with some other OS? Run Doom on it? #electronics #android #galaxy

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Gretchen K Deahl
SOUL: the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life; the moral and emotional nature of human beings. (source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary) I watch the local and national news too much. As a result, I am witness to people facing serious life challenges that are beyond my own measured world. To me, the Soul People series reflects aspects of intrinsic humanity, including the suffering, alienation, confusion as well as the quest for joy, peace and understanding that people experience in their day to day lives. Depending upon the "soul" within, they deal with these challenges differently. In these images I am trying to explore and visualize what that might look like.
This artwork is now available on Redbubble:
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(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.
#art #artist #illustration #illustrator #spiritual #drawing #paintings #noAI #childrensbooks #fineart #artwork #nature #childrensart #artforchildren #interiordecor #mastoart #art #artistsonmastodon #artlover #artlovers #decor #popart #artnet #artlover #artlovers #handmade #supportthearts #friend #love #space #stars #galaxy #soul #child #face
SOUL: the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life; the moral and emotional nature of human beings. (source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary) I watch the local and national news too much. As a result, I am witness to people facing serious life challenges that are beyond my own measured world. Against a purple night sky blazing with the stars of the milky way galaxy, a Childs face - just the eyes, tip of nose and lips and general shape of the face. In one eye, a far distant cosmic burst of light.
#face
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Arp Bot 🤖

Hubble image of Arp 194, also known as UGC 6945.

The upper component of this interacting galaxy group has two nuclei that appear to be connected and in the early stages of merging along with trails of blue super star clusters. The lower component of the group is a single large spiral galaxy with its own star clusters.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team
Source: hubblesite.org/contents/media/

A group of three interacting spiral galaxies which resembles a question mark. At the top of the frame are two spiral galaxies in the process of merging. One of these galaxies has a bright yellow core connected to a short bar and two loose spiral arms. This forms a S-shape. Above this is another circular, yellow galaxy core which overlaps with the top spiral arm of the S-shaped galaxy. On the outer edges of the spiral arms are blue star clusters. Together these form the top curved half of the question mark. To the right of the S-shaped galaxy is a small, relatively normal-looking spiral galaxy, which is likely in the background. At the bottom of the frame is another large spiral galaxy. This galaxy has a bright core and somewhat ill-defined spiral arms which wind counterclockwise around the core. On the bottom half of the galaxy are blue star clusters. This forms the dot of the question mark. Connecting the merging galaxies at the top of the frame and the spiral at the bottom of the frame is a string of blue super star clusters, seen as large blue dots. This forms the straight part of the question mark. On the black background of space are several yellow and red dots, which are background galaxies.
#ArpGalaxy#Galaxy#Space
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

APOD from 2025-03-21

The Leo Trio

The Leo Triplet, a trio of spiral galaxies in constellation Leo, delights stargazers during the northern spring. NGC 3628, M66, and M65 vary in appearance due to their tilted angles. This image spans 1 degree and captures their gravitational interactions from #Earth, covering over half a million light-years.

HD image at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250321.ht #astronomy #galaxy #telescope #planet

The Leo Trio
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Arp Bot 🤖

Hubble image of Arp 300, also known as UGC 05028 and UGC 05029 .

UGC 05028 (the smaller spiral galaxy) and UGC 05029 (the larger spiral) form an interacting pair.

Interactions with its companion likely gave UGC 05028 its asymmetric structure. The bright knot in the bottom right of UGC 05028 may be yet another small galaxy that is in the process of merging.

Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, R. Windhorst, Gladys Kober
Source: science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb

The frame is dominated by a pair of spiral galaxies. The larger galaxy to the bottom right is seen nearly face-on. It has a small yellow core and many spiral arms that are dotted with blue star clusters, with more star clusters appearing on the top of the galaxy, the side that faces its companion. There are a few brown dust lanes, concentrated near the inner spiral arms. The smaller spiral galaxy to the upper right has a yellow bar structure that is surrounded by blue star clusters that only very roughly form spiral arms. On the right side of the galaxy is a yellow knot of stars that is brightest in its center, crossed by brown dust lanes. This may be a seperate dwarf galaxy that is either in front of the smaller spiral or is in the process of merging with it. Other distant galaxies and stars fill the black background of space.
#ArpGalaxy#Galaxy#Space
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Hubble image of Arp 107, also known as UGC 5984.

The one-armed spiral and its smaller elliptical companion galaxy are gravitationally interacting with one another, which is likely responsible for the spiral galaxy's unusual shape, as well as the bridge of gas and stars that connects the two galaxies.

Credit: ESA, NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, SDSS
Source: esahubble.org/images/potw2338a/

A pair of merging galaxies. The galaxy on the left has a single, large spiral arm curving out from the core and around to below it, with very visible glowing dust and gas. The right-hand galaxy has a bright core but only a bit of very faint material. A broad curtain of gas connects the two galaxies’ cores and hangs beneath them. A few small stars and galaxies are scattered around the black background.
#Hubble#ArpGalaxy#Galaxy
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Image of Arp 85, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy or M51, from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp (1966).

In the original catalog, it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Large, high surface brightness companions. Halton Arp mistakenly believed that the smaller galaxy, NGC 5195, was being ejected from the Whirlpool. In reality, the two galaxies are in the process of merging.

Source: ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Ar

A grainy, black and white image of two galaxies. The larger of the two galaxies, a spiral, is on the left side of the image. Two well-defined arms extend to from its center and form loose spirals around the middle. The smaller galaxy on the far-right side is fuzzy sphere. The view of this smaller galaxy is partially obstructed by the tip of one of the arms of the spiral galaxy, which appears to cover the top third of the smaller galaxy. Many white dots, stars, are seen on the black background.
#ArpGalaxy#Galaxy#Space
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Image of Arp 285, also known as NGC 2854 and NGC 2856, from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp (1966).

In the original catalog, it was in the category: Double and multiple galaxies - Infall and attraction. The upper galaxy, NGC 2856, has a clumpy tail perpendicular to its disk. It's an example of a “beads on a string” feature, where gravity creates knots of star formation at regular ~3,000 light year intervals.

Source: ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Ar

A grainy, black and white image of a a pair of widely-space interacting spiral galaxies. The galaxy in the lower right has a bright disk seen at a slight angle so that it appears oval-shaped. It's spiral arms are fainter, but its lower arm is slightly brighter. A thin, clumpy line extends below the galaxy, perpendicular to its disk. The galaxy in the upper left has a strong bar and two spiral arms, forming a distinct S shape. The arms are dotted with star clusters. Faint streams of material extend out from the ends of the spiral arms. Several foreground stars are seen as bright dots. The brightest star, in the upper left, has four diffraction spikes.
#ArpGalaxy#Galaxy#Space
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