cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Fueled for Late December Launch
After some two decades of development, the orbital observatory is set to at last reach space on December 22
I just saw the moon
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Look: Scientists just discovered a gigantic planet that shouldn't exist
The odd planet b Centauri AB b challenges scientists’ ideas about planet formation, due to the size of its home stars and its distance from its star.
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With Virtual Reality, you can be in the International Space Station. It is most stoney.
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CrazyDiamond
HAL is a StarChild
To some, it may look like a beehive. In reality, the featured image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a cosmic pillar of dust, over two-light years long, inside of which is Herbig-Haro 666 -- a young star emitting powerful jets. The structure lies within one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions, the Carina Nebula, shining in southern skies at a distance of about 7,500 light-years. The pillar's layered outline are shaped by the winds and radiation of Carina's young, hot, massive stars, some of which are still forming inside the nebula. A dust-penetrating view in infrared light better shows the two, narrow, energetic jets blasting outward from a still hidden infant star.
Comet Leonard is now visible to the unaided eye -- but just barely. Passing nearest to the Earth today, the comet is best seen this week soon after sunset, toward the west, low on the horizon. Currently best visible in the north, by late December the comet will best be seen from south of Earth's equator. The featured image of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) was taken a week ago from California, USA. The deep exposure shows in great detail the comet's green gas coma and developing dust tail. The comet -- across our inner Solar System and only light-minutes away -- was captured passing nearly in front of globular star cluster M3. In contrast, M3 is about 35,000 light-years away. In a week, Comet Leonard will pass unusually close to Venus, but will continue on and be at its closest to the Sun in early January.
Few were able to stand in the Moon's shadow and watch the December 4 total eclipse of the Sun. Determined by celestial mechanics and not geographical boundaries, the narrow path of totality tracked across planet Earth's relatively inaccessible southernmost continent. Still, some enthusiastic and well-insulated eclipse chasers were rewarded with the dazzling spectacle in Antarctica's cold but clear skies. Taken just before the brief totality began, this image from a ground-based telescope inside the edge of the shadow path at Union Glacier catches a glimmer of sunlight near the top of the silhouetted lunar disk. Look closely for the pinkish solar prominences arcing above the Sun's limb. During totality, the magnificent solar corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, made its much anticipated appearance, seen in the composite view streaming far from the Sun's edge.
What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon last month. The featured composite, taken from Payson, Arizona, USA last month, was intricately composed by combining, in part, many 1/2000-second images from a video of the ISS crossing the Moon. A close inspection of this unusually crisp ISS silhouette will reveal the outlines of numerous solar panels and trusses. The bright crater Tycho is visible on the upper left, as well as comparatively rough, light colored terrain known as highlands, and relatively smooth, dark colored areas known as maria. On-line tools can tell you when the International Space Station will be visible from your area.
Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like nearby NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy. Beyond the rich starfields in the constellation Sagittarius, NGC 6822 is a mere 1.5 million light-years away, a member of our Local Group of galaxies. A dwarf irregular galaxy similar to the Small Magellanic Cloud, NGC 6822 is about 7,000 light-years across. Brighter foreground stars in our Milky Way have a spiky appearance. Behind them, Barnard's Galaxy is seen to be filled with young blue stars and mottled with the telltale pinkish hydrogen glow of star forming regions in this deep color composite image.
This image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows part of a stellar nursery nicknamed the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of gas, known as Sh 2-292, RCW 2 and Gum 1, seems to form the head of the seagull and glows brightly due to the energetic radiation from a very hot young star lurking at its heart. The detailed view was produced by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope.
This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant, the red glow of clouds of hydrogen and countless stars. It is a color composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Comet Leonard is now visible to the unaided eye -- but just barely. Passing nearest to the Earth today, the comet is best seen this week soon after sunset, toward the west, low on the horizon. Currently best visible in the north, by late December the comet will best be seen from south of Earth's equator. The featured image of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) was taken a week ago from California, USA. The deep exposure shows in great detail the comet's green gas coma and developing dust tail. The comet -- across our inner Solar System and only light-minutes away -- was captured passing nearly in front of globular star cluster M3. In contrast, M3 is about 35,000 light-years away. In a week, Comet Leonard will pass unusually close to Venus, but will continue on and be at its closest to the Sun in early January.
Few were able to stand in the Moon's shadow and watch the December 4 total eclipse of the Sun. Determined by celestial mechanics and not geographical boundaries, the narrow path of totality tracked across planet Earth's relatively inaccessible southernmost continent. Still, some enthusiastic and well-insulated eclipse chasers were rewarded with the dazzling spectacle in Antarctica's cold but clear skies. Taken just before the brief totality began, this image from a ground-based telescope inside the edge of the shadow path at Union Glacier catches a glimmer of sunlight near the top of the silhouetted lunar disk. Look closely for the pinkish solar prominences arcing above the Sun's limb. During totality, the magnificent solar corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, made its much anticipated appearance, seen in the composite view streaming far from the Sun's edge.
What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon last month. The featured composite, taken from Payson, Arizona, USA last month, was intricately composed by combining, in part, many 1/2000-second images from a video of the ISS crossing the Moon. A close inspection of this unusually crisp ISS silhouette will reveal the outlines of numerous solar panels and trusses. The bright crater Tycho is visible on the upper left, as well as comparatively rough, light colored terrain known as highlands, and relatively smooth, dark colored areas known as maria. On-line tools can tell you when the International Space Station will be visible from your area.
Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small galaxies form stars too, like nearby NGC 6822, also known as Barnard's Galaxy. Beyond the rich starfields in the constellation Sagittarius, NGC 6822 is a mere 1.5 million light-years away, a member of our Local Group of galaxies. A dwarf irregular galaxy similar to the Small Magellanic Cloud, NGC 6822 is about 7,000 light-years across. Brighter foreground stars in our Milky Way have a spiky appearance. Behind them, Barnard's Galaxy is seen to be filled with young blue stars and mottled with the telltale pinkish hydrogen glow of star forming regions in this deep color composite image.
This image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows part of a stellar nursery nicknamed the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of gas, known as Sh 2-292, RCW 2 and Gum 1, seems to form the head of the seagull and glows brightly due to the energetic radiation from a very hot young star lurking at its heart. The detailed view was produced by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope.
This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant, the red glow of clouds of hydrogen and countless stars. It is a color composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
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cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
James Webb Space Telescope launch delayed to Christmas Eve
The launch date has slipped from Dec. 22 to Dec. 24 at the earliest.
The good news, it seems to me, is that the delays we have seen recently have been a couple days each rather than weeks or months. Hopefully this launch will still get off before the end of the year, or maybe early in January. I will continue to think positively...
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NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
Large deposits of water found on Mars below the surface at the equator
Previous discoveries of water on Mars were limited to the poles or deep underground, but water deposits spotted near the surface at the equator could be easily accessed by future astronauts
www.newscientist.com
CrazyDiamond
HAL is a StarChild
If you have water you can make rocket fuel and oxygen, a huge plus
vapviking
Old & In the Way
...and the drinkability of water simply can not be understated.
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
Two sucessful launches by SpaceX today inside of 18 hours. One from Vandenerg and one from Space Coast. The 99th recovery of the booster. And another cargo mission to the ISS on Tuesday. SpaceX seems to be getting all the marbles into the right holes. You have to be impressed. Or at least I do.
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
Webb Space telescope's first 29 days in space will be nail biter
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's deployment in space will consist of an intricate choreography that includes "thousands of parts," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Michael McClare (KBRwyle) / Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET)
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cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
I thought weather would have kept this mornings CRS-24 cargo launch from getting off, but getting off was what it did. 
Actual launch is at about 26:50
BTW, I thought I would add that with this launch SpaceX has now landed 100 boosters for reuse...
Actual launch is at about 26:50
BTW, I thought I would add that with this launch SpaceX has now landed 100 boosters for reuse...
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Five things to know about the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory ever built, is now tentatively set for launch on Christmas Day, after decades of waiting.An engineering marvel, it will help answer fundamental questions about the Universe, peering back in time 13 billion years. Here are five...
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How to watch NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch online in several languages on Christmas Day
Liftoff of NASA's new giant space telescope is set for Dec. 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST (1220 GMT).
www.space.com
I think it's available live on Virtual Reality sets: 3 am PST. I sometimes get up to pee so we'll see.
Astronomers discover largest group of ‘rogue planets’ yet
The 70-planet discovery is the largest group ever found.
www.theverge.com
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope won't hit Santa during Christmas launch
NASA is launching a huge observatory into space early Christmas morning (Dec. 25), but you don't need to worry about it hitting Santa Claus.
Nerves run high ahead of the James Webb Space Telescope launch this Saturday
"Once you get it launched, there's still 300 things that have to work perfectly for it to be a success," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told Space.com.
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vapviking
Old & In the Way
Godspeed, Space Telescope!
Space Telescope Launched On Daring Quest To Behold 1st Stars
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Space Telescope Launched On Daring Quest To Behold 1st Stars
Space Telescope Launched On Daring Quest To Behold 1st Stars
The $10 billion observatory hurtled toward its destination 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away, or more than four times beyond the moon.
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
I fell asleep but I was able to watch it this AM. It's gonna be a while before we get to see anything, assuming everything works, so it is a little anticlimactic, but we are way closer to this eventuality than we have ever been. Much of the scary is now behind us. But the unfurling of the mirrors is the really big deal and I don't think there will be any cameras to show it's success or failure, just data. Hang on everybody. 
'29 days on the edge:' What's next for NASA's newly launched James Webb Space Telescope
Launch kicked off a long journey for the $10 billion observatory.
www.space.com