Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

[Troy HummelParticipant]

➡ note who the astronomer is.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100822.html

thought it was a little funny

[Bruce R. Schaefer]

You didn’t know that? True.

[MikeSModerator]

He holds his age well 😆

[Bruce R. Schaefer]

Question is… is there any relation? Is that Art’s namesake? I’ve always be meaning to ask… ?

[John A. WilkeParticipant]

There are two other fairly cool APODS that came up in the last week or so (at least from my perspective)… http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100821.html was taken from the Pawnee National Grasslands… and today’s http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html was taken from a spot that my wife and I stood on a couple of years ago, when we visited Australia. We have essentially the same photo from the same pullout, though ours was taken in daylight.

Small world!

BTW, if you look through the ring of Hoag’s object (the photo that started this link), you can see a SECOND “Hoag’s Object” in the distance – it is at ~1 O’clock in the photo. For many years, there were only two of these known – and they were in line with each other. Hmmmmnnnn….

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

3 very excellent pictures.

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