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astronomy Picture of the Day - Mars and the Star Clusters
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 30 Dec, 2022
| Image Credit & Copyright: Gabor Balazs
Posted on 12/30/2022 2:35:45 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: At this year's end Mars still shines brightly in planet Earth's night as it wanders through the head-strong constellation Taurus. Its bright yellowish hue dominates this starry field of view that includes Taurus' alpha star Aldebaran and the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters. While red giant Aldebaran appears to anchor the V-shape of the Hyades at the left of the frame, Aldebaran is not a member of the Hyades star cluster. The Hyades cluster is 151 light-years away making it the nearest established open star cluster, but Aldebaran lies at less than half that distance, along the same line-of-sight. At the right, some 400 light-years distant is the open star cluster cataloged as Messier 45, also known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. In Greek myth, the Pleiades were daughters of the astronomical titan Atlas and sea-nymph Pleione.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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posted on
12/30/2022 2:36:04 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
12/30/2022 2:36:45 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Weren’t all the planets visible a day or three ago?
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posted on
12/30/2022 2:44:47 PM PST
by
ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: MtnClimber
Mars still prominent in the northwestern sky a couple of mornings ago. Not so much as in November and early December, though.
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posted on
12/30/2022 3:05:44 PM PST
by
abb
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
12/30/2022 3:14:47 PM PST
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: Hiddigeigei
Mars is bright tonight. Unusually bright...
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posted on
12/30/2022 3:30:27 PM PST
by
null and void
(It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
To: null and void
Mars is bright tonight. Unusually bright...Really? How's Uranus?
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posted on
12/30/2022 3:31:17 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: central_va
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posted on
12/30/2022 3:33:30 PM PST
by
null and void
(It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
To: null and void; central_va
Probably because you sat-urn it.
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posted on
12/31/2022 12:05:01 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: null and void
You can’t see Uranus without a telescope......or a proctoscope.................
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posted on
01/02/2023 5:24:46 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
You can see past Uranus with either a telescope or a proctoscope...
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posted on
01/03/2023 7:14:31 AM PST
by
null and void
(It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
To: null and void
Everything past Uranus is dark and cloudy.................
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posted on
01/03/2023 7:19:20 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
There’s lots of dark matter.
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posted on
01/03/2023 7:53:44 AM PST
by
null and void
(It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
To: null and void
..... and methane.........................
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posted on
01/03/2023 7:57:00 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/03/2023 8:01:07 AM PST
by
null and void
(It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
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