I just saw the moon

CANtalk

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For those that don't read the interesting news thread, cheers!
A severe solar storm is bringing an incredible aurora forecast for Friday tonight! go Canada 👍

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Bologna

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NYC_Frank

"A man with no vices is a man with no virtues"
I was lucky enough to go to the NYC Worlds Fair eight times in the summers of 1964 and '65. My favorite spot was the Rocket Park where a Mercury Atlas and Gemini Rocket stood proudly. I returned a couple of times when my son was a kid and was thrilled to see them again. They've added a full scale Saturn 5 propulsion section, Apollo and LEM mockups and more. Think we're paying a return visit soon as I haven't vaped there as yet :spliff:



 
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vapviking

Old & In the Way
I was lucky enough to go to the NYC Worlds Fair eight times in the summers of 1964 and '65. My favorite spot was the Rocket Park where a Mercury Atlas and Gemini Rocket stood proudly. I returned a couple of times when my son was a kid and was thrilled to see them again. They've added a full scale Saturn 5 propulsion section, Apollo and LEM mockups and more. Think we're paying a return visit soon as I haven't vaped there as yet :spliff:



I think it was called the Hall of Science?

Those summers were great, for me. At 13 yrs old, a friend and I would get on the train (without telling anyone) and go to the Fair. One main draw for us was the then-new phenomenon, the Belgian Waffle.

Two weeks ago my 9 yr old grandson went on class field trip to...
The New York Hall of Science. I told him to watch for the rockets!
His mom went on the trip and reported that inside is a mediocre children's museum, kind of disappointing...
 

NYC_Frank

"A man with no vices is a man with no virtues"
I think it was called the Hall of Science?

Those summers were great, for me. At 13 yrs old, a friend and I would get on the train (without telling anyone) and go to the Fair. One main draw for us was the then-new phenomenon, the Belgian Waffle.

Two weeks ago my 9 yr old grandson went on class field trip to...
The New York Hall of Science. I told him to watch for the rockets!
His mom went on the trip and reported that inside is a mediocre children's museum, kind of disappointing...
Correctamundo ... Hall of Science

Yeah they did turn it into a bit of a kiddie park with the miniature golf etc ... but the rockets still are impressive.

Another favorite of course is the Unisphere and the Panorama of the City of New York in the Queens Museum building (formerly the New York City Building, at the time of the Fair)

Great memories and still a beautiful park to spend some time walking about ...

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CrazyDiamond

HAL is a StarChild
The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years distant, Nova Persei 1901 (GK Persei) was the second closest nova yet recorded. At the very center is a white dwarf star, the surviving core of a former Sun-like star. It is surrounded by the circular Firework nebula, gas that was ejected by a thermonuclear explosion on the white dwarf's surface -- a nova -- as recorded in 1901. The red glowing gas surrounding the Firework nebula is the atmosphere that used to surround the central star. This gas was expelled before the nova and appears as a diffuse planetary nebula. The faint gray gas running across is interstellar cirrus that seems to be just passing through coincidently. In 1901, GK Per's nova became brighter than Betelgeuse. Similarly, star system T CrB is expected to erupt in a nova later this year, but we don't know exactly when nor how bright it will become.


To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula's colors were created by adopting the Hubble color palette for mapping narrowband emissions from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur atoms to blue, green and red colors, and further blending the data with images of the region recorded through broadband filters. Not far on the sky from the famous Double Star Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula, as part of a complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000 light-years away, the larger star forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. At that distance, IC 1795 would span about 70 light-years across.


Star formation can be messy. To help find out just how messy, ESA's new Sun-orbiting Euclid telescope recently captured the most detailed image ever of the bright star forming region M78. Near the image center, M78 lies at a distance of only about 1,300 light-years away and has a main glowing core that spans about 5 light-years. The featured image was taken in both visible and infrared light. The purple tint in M78's center is caused by dark dust preferentially reflecting the blue light of hot, young stars. Complex dust lanes and filaments can be traced through this gorgeous and revealing skyscape. On the upper left is associated star forming region NGC 2071, while a third region of star formation is visible on the lower right. These nebulas are all part of the vast Orion Molecular Cloud Complex which can be found with even a small telescope just north of Orion's belt.
Link to the same image but different resolutions with 8200x8200, 116 MB, being the largest.


Here, Euclid captures NGC 6744, one of the largest spiral galaxies beyond our local patch of space. It’s a typical example of the type of galaxy currently forming most of the stars in the nearby Universe, making it a wonderful archetype to study with Euclid. This image is released as part of the Early Release Observations from ESA’s Euclid space mission.
Euclid’s large field-of-view covers the entire galaxy, revealing not only spiral structure on larger scales but also capturing exquisite detail on small spatial scales, and at a combination of wavelengths. This detail includes feather-like lanes of dust emerging as ‘spurs’ from the spiral arms, which Euclid is able to image with incredible clarity. Euclid’s observations will allow scientists to not only count individual stars within NGC 6744 but also trace the wider distribution of stars and dust in the galaxy, as well as mapping the dust associated with the gas that fuels new star formation.
Link to the same image but different resolutions with 8200x8200, 110 MB, being the largest.


More than 50,000 galaxies are visible in this image of Abell 2390, a galaxy cluster 2.7 billion light-years away from Earth. Near the center of the image, some of the galaxies appear smudged and curved, an effect called strong gravitational lensing that can be used to detect dark matter.
This view shows the galaxy cluster Abell 2764 (top right), a very dense region of space containing hundreds of galaxies orbiting within a halo of dark matter.
Euclid captures a range of objects in this patch of sky, including many background galaxies, more distant galaxy clusters, interacting galaxies that have thrown off streams and shells of stars, and a pretty edge-on spiral that allows us to see the ‘thinness’ of its disk.
This complete view of Abell 2764 and surroundings – obtained thanks to Euclid’s impressively wide field-of-view – allows scientists to ascertain the radius of the cluster and study its outskirts with faraway galaxies still in frame. Euclid's observations of Abell 2764, as with Abell 2390 (another target depicted in the images released today from the space telescope), are also allowing scientists to witness some of the most distant galaxies that lived in a mysterious period known as the cosmic dark ages. Euclid enables us to see these galaxies back when the Universe was only 700 million years old, just 5% of its current age. Viewing their light is a specialty of Euclid, and allows us to witness how the first galaxies formed.
Also seen here is a bright foreground star that lies within our own galaxy (lower left: V*BP-Phoenicis/HD 1973, a star within our galaxy and in the southern hemisphere that’s nearly bright enough to be seen by the human eye). When we look at a star through a telescope, its light is scattered outwards into the typical spiked shape due to the telescope’s optics. Euclid was designed to make this scatter as small as possible. As a result, we can measure the star very accurately, and capture galaxies that lie nearby without being blinded by the star’s brightness.
Link to the same image but different resolutions with 8200x8200, 132 MB, being the largest.
 

Bologna

(zombie) Woof.
Watching both the moon and sunrise over US Route 1 and Maine Beer Company whilst listening to the birds and enjoying the comfortable 58f "flannel" temp waiting patiently for 4:20....:)

Good Moanin', Forum Peeps! 🌞 🌖

Edit: and about an hour and half later on the way to get breakfast:



Simply stellar day on tap, folks...! Sunny, 70f, slightly breezy with low humidity... can't beat it! 😎😍:peace:
 
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Bologna

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Missed the dang edit window, apologies...?:

 
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Bologna

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cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
So congratulations to Boeing and to ULA. Starliner has successfully launched to the space station on top of a Atlas 5 from ULA and is on its way. All that hard work and the unfortunate delays are now history.
 
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