Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED) - Part 1

[blueharvest]

The James Webb Space Telescope has solved a lot of puzzles, and created a few more

The new telescope data could be just the beginning, say scientists.

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

Monster Solar Prominence
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Wenz

 

[blueharvest]

NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system

Voyager 1 has been sending a stream of garbled nonsense since November. Now NASA engineers have identified the fault and found a potential workaround.

www.livescience.com

 

[Brutikus]

Unwinding M51
Image Credit & Copyright: Data - Hubble Heritage Project, Unwinding - Paul Howell

 

[blueharvest]

Look at What NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Just Caught Speeding in Orbit Around the Moon - The Debrief

The identity of a strange-looking, speeding object captured in images by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter last month has now been revealed.

thedebrief.org

 

[Brutikus]

Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (University of Gent)

 

[blueharvest]

The April 8 solar eclipse will bring weird sights, sounds and feelings

The darkening of the sky on April 8 will bring with it a plethora of strange phenomena.

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

Moon's Shadow over Lake Magog
Image Credit & Copyright: Stan Honda

 

[blueharvest]

Total Solar Eclipse Photos: NASA Astronauts Take Historic Images From Space

See the historic images of North America's total solar eclipse from space that capture the moon's umbral shadow move across the Earth's surface.

www.forbes.com

 

[Brutikus]

The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks
Image Credit & Copyright: Shengyu Li & Shaining

 

[Iceman]

The April 8 solar eclipse will bring weird sights, sounds and feelings

The darkening of the sky on April 8 will bring with it a plethora of strange phenomena.

www.space.com

I wish I could have seen it.

I'd love to see how animals react to it and also seeing other planets in the sky would be amazing. Darkness and sudden cold in the middle of the day would also be so strange. Maybe I'll take a holiday to somewhere that is having one one day.

 

[blueharvest]

I wish I could have seen it.

I'd love to see how animals react to it and also seeing other planets in the sky would be amazing. Darkness and sudden cold in the middle of the day would also be so strange. Maybe I'll take a holiday to somewhere that is having one one day.

I didn't see it, either. The sky became dark for a few minutes, but that was it.

 

[Brutikus]

NGC 1499: The California Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Steven Powell

 

[blueharvest]

No, you didn't see a solar flare during the total eclipse — but you may have seen something just as special

Several media outlets have incorrectly claimed that explosive solar flares were spotted during the April 8 total solar eclipse. But there were no flares during totality, so what did people see?

www.livescience.com

 

[:eek:]

Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the next decade

Want to experience totality again? Here are the next seven total solar eclipses across the world, from Alaska to Australia.

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

IC 4628: The Prawn Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern

 

[blueharvest]

Car-sized asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites

It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit. Don't worry, this is a harmless space rock.

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

Ganymede from Juno
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill

 

[blueharvest]

HALO Space unveils capsule design for stratospheric space 'glamping'

A Spanish balloon company plans to begin flying paying space tourists in 2026

www.space.com

 

[:eek:]

Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft starts testing ahead of moon mission with astronauts in 2025 (video)

The spacecraft is in an altitude chamber that can test how it will perform in space.

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

The Cat's Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Chandra X-ray Obs.;
Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl

 

[blueharvest]

Physicists solve puzzle about ancient galaxy found by Webb telescope

Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current age. Surprisingly, an Einstein ring is associated with this galaxy. That's because JWST-ER1g acts as a lens and bends light from...

phys.org

 

[Brutikus]

Recycling Cassiopeia A
Image Credit: X-ray - NASA, CXC, SAO; Optical - NASA,STScI

 

[blueharvest]

Astronomers detect radio halo in a massive galaxy cluster

An international team of astronomers has performed radio observations of a massive galaxy cluster known as ACT-CL J0329.2-2330, which resulted in the detection of a new radio halo in this cluster. The finding was reported in a research paper published April 5 on the pre-print server arXiv.

phys.org

 

[Brutikus]

Extremely detailed HDR image of the recent Total Solar Eclipse 2024