Please support DU during Summer Fund Drive Week, August 18-25 2025!

Pick Your
Battles
Get Ur Rest
Look for Joy
We have
A Big Fight
Ahead

You still
have time to
to send some
money DU`s
way. Support
the summer
fund drive!

I have
DU friends
everywhere.

Rebellions
are built
on HOPE

DU
keeps
HOPE
alive

Thank you

EarlG

Check out
all the stickies
on Grovelbot's
Big Board!

Science

SorellaLaBefana

(407 posts) Tue Apr 8, 2025, 09:42 AM Apr 2025

Moon, Stars and Magic: La Bella Luna and the Seven Sisters Bring a Moment of Peace and Serenity (APOD)

... Taken from Cantabria, Spain on April 1, the featured image is a composite where previous exposures of the Pleiades from the same camera and location were digitally added to the last image to bring up the star cluster's iconic blue glow.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250408.html

This mindful moment is brought to the world by Science, Art and NASA

5 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Moon, Stars and Magic: La Bella Luna and the Seven Sisters Bring a Moment of Peace and Serenity (APOD) (Original Post) SorellaLaBefana Apr 2025 OP

Gorgeous. Pinback Apr 2025 #1

Magic is a good word for it. calimary Apr 2025 #2

Back when I was a mid-teen and my eyesight was sharp . . . John1956PA Apr 2025 #3

Wonderful! electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #4

TY! In the later '90's when I had acess to rhe Internet from the library... electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #5

Pinback

(13,363 posts)

1. Gorgeous.

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 09:44 AM

Apr 2025

Thank you.
😌

calimary

(87,497 posts)

2. Magic is a good word for it.

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 09:48 AM

Apr 2025

No - actually a mInd-bending GREAT word for it!

John1956PA

(4,372 posts)

3. Back when I was a mid-teen and my eyesight was sharp . . .

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:33 AM

Apr 2025

. . . I caught a view of the Pleiades as I gazed out the window of traveling bus on a dark night on the way back home from a sporting event. I have never forgotten the wonder of that moment.

electric_blue68

(23,387 posts)

4. Wonderful!

Reply to John1956PA (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:41 PM

Apr 2025

While different when I traveled by bus from NYC to AZ, then to San Francisco I usually sat on the right side. At night the Big Dipper hung the sky. Lovely!

electric_blue68

(23,387 posts)

5. TY! In the later '90's when I had acess to rhe Internet from the library...

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:55 PM

Apr 2025

Idk what started me but I was able to find out when I could see the Pleiades.

They just went past our building's rooftop. So I had to look straight up the wall to just past the roof top's edge to catch them. Wondrous!

Luckily I could do it from the ease of my fire escape, which because we faced from on top the back of a hill we overlooked 8 stories high over the buildings of 2 avenues below, and east of us. Had a 180° view of the sky!

.During the Winter Orion hung out in our night sky.

Reply to this discussion