Astronomy

On Saturday June 18, the fire subsided enough that Michelle Edwards, associate director of KPNO, and Joe Davis, security manager, accessed the property and found that the telescopes and domes were still standing. Unfortunately, some of the…

Comet 323P/SOHO was discovered in 1999, and has an orbit of fire and ice: In its deeply elliptical 4-year orbit around the Sun, it exits almost to the orbit of Jupiter, but then falls back just a hair more than 5 million…

For Neeraj Ladia, "astronomy" or staring into space has been the biggest mystery for humans. “You are amazed to see the movements in the sky, fantasizing about the magical shimmering existence. Astro watching led me to a different…

Dust collection Each star grows on its own schedule. The protostar stage is like the unstable adolescence of a star. When its accretion disk stabilizes and matter stops falling into the core, it becomes a main-sequence star. There may…

Parliament Arts Organization King Street Jam The Parliament Arts Organization will host the King Street Jam, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, in the Royal Square area of ​​York city centre. Nationally acclaimed musicians will play…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has released a wealth of data on nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in a bid to create the most accurate and comprehensive map of our galaxy.Astronomers hope to use…

A team led by astronomers from UC Berkeley has for the first time discovered what they believe to be a floating black hole located between 2,280 and 6,260 light-years from Earth.This is an incredibly rare discovery, since black holes are…

In April I wrote that you could observe four planets online. Well,…

Sunday June 12The Moon occults or passes in front of Dschubba of 2nd magnitude (Delta Scorpii) tonight, visible to observers in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Our satellite rises before sunset; as the sky darkens,…

This month, early risers in Canada might see five planets lined up in the eastern sky: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. "You will see several bright objects in a row if you look east before sunrise," astrophysicist…

NASA will launch a mission that will both pass Venus and descend through its hostile atmosphere in 2029.…

Nine students from Maui participated in the University of Hawaii's HI STAR program to nurture interest in what exists in the universe and encourage careers in STEM. Photo Courtesy: UH Maui College King Kekaulike High School student…

Sunday June 5Saturn stands still against a backdrop of Capricorn stars at 10:00 a.m. EDT. The ringed planet is currently prominent in the pre-dawn sky, shining at magnitude 0.6 in the upper left (northeast) corner of Deneb Algedi. But…

M87 is another elliptical Messier galaxy in the Virgo cluster, 55 million light-years distant and some 120,000 light-years wide. It lies about 3½° northwest of Rho Virginis. But M87 surpasses M84 and M86 in terms of mass: it has at least…

If the solar system is only 4.6 billion years old but the universe has been around for 13.8 billion years, isn't it likely that other forms of life existed long before us in the universe? Bob Spangler Fruita, Colorado With…

A very strange meteorite discovered in western Egypt in 1996 may contain tiny bits of debris from a supernova, and not just any supernova, but a supernova created by the explosion of a white dwarf, the remnant core of a…

This ground image of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was taken on July 16, 2020 from the Northern Hemisphere. The inset image, taken on August 8, 2020, by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a close-up of the comet after passing through the Sun.…

The more I learn about the LA Rams' inside linebacker combination of veteran Bobby Wagner and sophomore linebacker Ernest Jones, the more I like it. Historically, the LA Rams had continued to devote their resources to other positions on…

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On a series On 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they found something odd: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.“We found an image where nine stars were there,…

In addition to observing distant stars, galaxies and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will study our solar system. 1 creditthehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIlMIr5nhEThe James Webb Space Telescope will be the next…

At dawn on Sunday, May 29, Jupiter and Mars are only 0.6 degrees (36 arc minutes) apart on the east-southeast horizon. On a flat horizon, bright Venus can be seen more than 25 degrees east of Jupiter and Mars. This is the view of London…

NASA has requested $24 billion in funding from the US government for fiscal year 2022.  This month, legislators are discussing the request. According to The Register, the expensive budget is still over $760.2 million, a bit less than!-->!-->!-->…

Dust is a common component of spiral galaxies. Astronomers believe this dust is carbon- or silicate-rich and no more than 0.25 microns wide. This does not greatly affect the brightness of galaxies, except in cases where they appear almost…

Keiki and other community members visit one of the booths provided by a participating organization on Saturday, May 14 during AstroDay at Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo. (Photos by Nathan Christopher) At least one future astronaut, one…

Black holes are, by definition, places where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. So they are black - dark - and impossible to imagine. To the right? As evidenced by the success of the Event Horizon telescope, we can…

The best-known asteroid to collide with Earth is the Chicxulub crater, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago. It is known for having wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as three quarters of life on the planet. Other huge…

The most glorious of all globular clusters is Omega Centauri. (NGC 5139 is its more commonplace designation.) It is the 24th brightest "star" in Centaurus, which is the ninth largest of the 88 constellations. It was noted in Ptolemy's…

Sending new messages Nearly half a century after the Arecibo message, two international teams of astronomers are planning new attempts at extraterrestrial communication. One uses a giant new radio telescope and the other chooses a…

Why does Bennu spit pebbles into space? It's one of the weirdest things he does, and that's saying something. Bennu is a small asteroid just over 500 meters across. It has the shape of two cones glued together base to…

Published: 11:00 a.m. 7 May 2022 Alan Willison, President of the Hertford Astronomy Group, continues his beginner's guide to getting started in astronomy. An astrophysicist at Bayfordbury Observatory in!-->>-->!-->>-->!-->!-->!-->…

They are hosting a day of sky-related events from 4-10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, in honor of National Astronomy Day, and it will be well worth your time to sign up. The observatory is north of Maumelle Lake in far eastern Perry County,…

By Alan Sheidler People's Astronomy Club I must admit that I have always been interested in speed. The speed at which things move has always fascinated me.What is…

In the distant past, Mars was extremely volcanic. In some ways this is obvious. The Tharsis region, a little smaller than the continental United States, has 12 major volcanoes, including Olympus Mons, the largest…

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April 30 will be full of astronomical events: a partial solar eclipse is coming, which will not be visible from Italy, and at the same time Venus and Jupiter will put on a show at dawn. "These are two of the brightest planets to observe…

https://ift.tt/zFD3Tx1Start-up Astronomy & Space EdTech based in Hyderabad "Navars Edutech" do it guinness world record simultaneous viewings of over 1,750 students watching an astronomy lesson broadcast live on YouTube.…

Throughout human history until 1959, the dark side of the Moon was invisible to our eyes. The Moon rotates once each time it orbits Earth, and this synchronization keeps one side of the Moon pointed towards us and the…

Lindsey Gordon holds a first-year Ph.D. in Astrophysics. student at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Her past research has focused on exoplanets, quasars and particle accelerators, but she is currently working on…

Isn't it comforting to see mother duck paddling, with her ducklings…

friday april 22The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight. Its radiant, located near the luminous Vega in Lyra the Lyre, rises around 8 p.m. local time. For the best shower night vision, you'll want to let that radiation go as high as…

The historic under-regulation of the Earth's atmosphere and the orbital space around it has brought the astronomy and space communities to a critical point where action is needed to move towards a sustainable future. .…

Dr Ann-Marie Madigan – astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, Boulder From large to small, from galaxies to planetesimals, Professor Ann-Marie Madigan is interested in everything. Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan is assistant…

The night sky is a great lever, something that people from all walks of life have been able to look up to and be inspired by. Unfortunately, the ability to observe planets and stars and study the mysteries of the Universe is something…

April's full moon will light up the sky all weekend, and while it's called the pink moon, it's not really…

One of the courses I'm taking this semester is SCI-112, Structure of the Universe, which is a science course with a lab focused on astronomy. This is arguably one of the most popular courses offered at Suffolk Madrid, as the lab takes…

It takes expensive tools to learn more about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have advanced the scientific knowledge in a way that…

The Golden Pond Planetarium and Observatory and West Kentucky Amateur Astronomers (WKAA) are gearing up for what should be a fun day of astronomy. Scheduled for Saturday, May 7, the planetarium will feature activities for!-->!-->!-->…

Could life exist on a dwarf planet? Three things are necessary for life: liquid water, a source of energy, and organic molecules, that is to say molecules containing carbon. More than 100 miles (161 kilometers) below Pluto's surface, a…

HONOLULU (KHON2) – The Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will hold its annual open house on Sunday, April 10, after taking a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 19. The open house will be…

Go figure Schiaparelli began observing Mercury at its greatest elongation east of the Sun on February 6, 1882, corresponding to the planet's appearance as an evening star. At this date, he succeeded in distinguishing a "large system of…

Foresight is an incredible gift – and it is perhaps one of the most valuable scientific tools we have.When…

Some of the Sun's most spectacular features are its coronal loops - glowing structures of hot plasma that extend thousands of miles above magnetically active regions of the Sun, forming what appear to be curved strands. But appearances can…

saturday april 2Mercury reaches superior conjunction with the Sun at 7:00 p.m. EDT. But don't worry - in just a few short weeks, the speedy planet will be making its best party appearance of the year, so stay tuned for details on how to…

The anthology "Applied and Computational Historical Astronomy" With "Applied and Computational Historical Astronomy", Gudrun Wolfschmidt presents an anthology for people interested in how astronomy collects and uses data.…

It takes expensive tools to learn more about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have advanced the scientific knowledge in a way…

The Sun is literally the closest star to us in the entire Universe, but there are many things that are still quite mysterious. For example, nearly 150 years ago, astronomer Angelo Secchi first observed narrow, towering…

In a planet-forming disc of gas and dust around a nearby young star, two huge objects recently collided at high speed. The colossal impact was positively apocalyptic in size, vaporizing enough material to make a small…

According to a study, astronomers of the future may not be able to build large, complex and energy-intensive observatories if they want to reduce their carbon footprint in line with greenhouse gas emissions requirements.Powerful ground and…

Instructions included To test the device, I mounted a Nikon D610 digital camera on the Polarie U to take some photos under partly cloudy skies. Taking good photos of stars depends on a number of factors. One of the most crucial…

Cape Lookout Lighthouse under the night sky. Photo: Crystal Coast Stargazers/Alex Gu Cape Lookout National Seashore is gearing up for the season by resuming a monthly outdoor stargazing event and opening its visitor center in Beaufort on…

Light sails were once a thing of science fiction, evolving through several variations over the past 40 years. Today, science fiction becomes reality. Advances in laser technology and new ultra-strong, ultra-lightweight materials open up…

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) 'Reach for the Stars' astrophotography competition is back for its second year and invites people in Longford interested in photography and astronomy to submit their images. The…

Wednesday March 16Whether you rise early or late today, there is a tempting target in the north: the variable star Delta (δ) Cephei in Cepheus the King. This bright star lies about 2.5° east of Zeta Cephei, which marks the lower right…

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) 'Reach for the Stars' astrophotography competition is back for its second year and invites Offaly people interested in photography and astronomy to submit their…

Dr Sophie Murray, Technical Officer at the Institute for Advanced Study Dublin, and Alberto Cañizares, PhD…

To new observers, the night sky appears as a monochromatic black and white scene. Although astronomy books and websites are full of objects revealing vivid reds, pinks, blues, and greens, looking at most of those same objects with a small…

Breadcrumb Links International Women's Day 2022 International Women's Day "I'm driven by challenges and I think I was born to do that." Publication date : March 08, 2022 • 5 days ago • 5 minute read…

For most, February 15 seemed like an ordinary day.We recognized Flag Day, the day the Canadian maple leaf flag was first raised in Ottawa in 1965. But things played out differently on the surface of the sun, with a huge explosion in the…

It's been a tough week.The world has watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfold during a pandemic that…

There are many such challenges. Because existing satellites were never intended to be serviced, they lack the markings, called landmarks, that would make it easier for a robot to visually orient itself with the moving satellite. There are…

(Inside Science) -- For a few nights more than 9,000 years ago, when many of our ancestors wore animal skins, the northern sky would have been bright with twinkling lights. Telling chemical isotopes in ancient ice cores suggest that one of…

Hitchhiker's Guide to Mercury's Dynamic Magnetosphere: From MESSENGER to the Bepi-Colombo era Dr Gang Kai Poh Being the closest planet to the Sun and one of the few planets…

The Sun shone magnificent solar rays millions of miles into space earlier this month - an event ranked as the largest such burst ever photographed that also captures a full view of the solar disk. On February 15, the ESA/NASA solar orbiter…

It's been a mixed few months for SpaceX's Starlink constellation. The company continues to ramp up deployments of internet service provider satellites, which with today's launch will push the number in orbit to nearly 2,000. But the…

Everybody goes to the moon Putting a rocket into orbit around the Earth is a technical feat, but it only takes half a day's journey. Fifty years after the last person was on Earth's nearest neighbor, 2022 will see a crowded list of lunar…

In our solar system, the Earth is the largest of the telluric planets; small rocky worlds. The next largest planet in size is Neptune, a gas giant four times the diameter of Earth. When we started finding exoplanets -…

An engineer and photographer will share his experiences and photographic techniques gained while hunting for the Northern Lights at the upcoming meeting of the Nanaimo Astronomy Society. Jeremy Kuzub photographed the Northern…

Once thought of as artifacts that needed to be erased from a researcher's grasp, nearly a thousand strands at the center of the Milky Way galaxy now mark significant advances in astronomical research. strange strands About 25,000…

Sunday February 20Comet 19P/Borrelly, currently observed around magnitude 9.5 and slowly fading, appears to pass close to Uranus in the night sky today. Both are flowing west tonight after sunset, located in the southern part of Aries.…