Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED) - Part 1

[blueharvest]

Sun Releases Two Strong Flares – Solar Cycle 25

blogs.nasa.gov

 

[Dr.]

Intuitive Machines robotic lunar lander. Landing scheduled for today, 17:30 EST.

After an orbital correction, the landing time has moved ahead an hour. Now scheduled for 16:24 EST.

 

[Dr.]

Well, crap. Now the landing has been delayed to 18:24 EST. Sorry.

 

[Brutikus]

A View Toward M106
Image Credit & Copyright: Kyunghoon Lim

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Odysseus achieves the first US Moon landing since 1972

We’re back on the Moon!

www.theverge.com

 

[blueharvest]

Astronauts celebrate success of 1st surgery robot on ISS: 'It's a real game-changer'

'Those surgeries will enable us to go on these longer-duration missions, further from Earth.'

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

AM1054: Stars Form as Galaxies Collide
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; Processing: J. English (U. Manitoba); Science: M. Rodruck (Penn State U. & Randolph-Macon C.) et al.;
Text: Jayanne English (U. Manitoba).

 

[Dr.]

:disappointed:

Intuitive Machines: Odysseus Moon lander 'tipped over on touchdown'

The history-making robot likely caught its foot on contact with the lunar surface and fell sideways.

www.bbc.com

 

[blueharvest]

:disappointed:

Intuitive Machines: Odysseus Moon lander 'tipped over on touchdown'

The history-making robot likely caught its foot on contact with the lunar surface and fell sideways.

www.bbc.com

Who would have thought that trying to land an object shaped like a fridge would fall on its side while landing?

 

[Brutikus]

Odysseus to the Moon
Image Credit: Intuitive Machines

 

[blueharvest]

A New Space Telescope will Map the Universe and Help Protect the Earth from Asteroids

NASA's upcoming SPHEREx mission will level up our planetary defence by finding and characterizing potentially dangerous objects.

www.universetoday.com

 

[Brutikus]

A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
Image Credit & Copyright: Hallgrimur P. Helgason; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt

 

[blueharvest]

Japan’s SLIM moon lander stages unexpected revival after lunar night

Japan’s SLIM moon lander stages unexpected revival after lunar night Japan’s space agency made contact with its SLIM moon lander Sunday, despite the spacecraft not being expected to function after lunar night.

spacenews.com

 

[Brutikus]

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Supernova Remnant Simeis 147
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrées)

 

[blueharvest]

James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black hole growing in the early universe

The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave
Image Credit & Copyright: Helge Buesing

 

[:eek:]

3 new moons discovered around Uranus and Neptune will be named after Shakespeare characters and Greek goddesses

The International Astronomical Union has confirmed the existence of three currently unnamed moons — one around Uranus and two orbiting Neptune.

www.livescience.com

 

[:eek:]

Possibly habitable Trappist-1 exoplanet caught destroying its own atmosphere

"I would imagine that all Trappist-1 planets are going to have a hard time holding on to any atmosphere."

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

Hoag's Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: Benoit Blanco

 

[blueharvest]

Russian satellite narrowly avoids collision with US spacecraft, and NASA could do nothing to stop it

The two non-maneuverable satellites zipped past each other in the early hours of this morning.

www.livescience.com

 

[Dr.]

Here’s the scoop. (Pay attention; there'll be a test later.)


If a year is evenly divisible by 4, it’s a leap year. An extra day is added to February; and the year is 366 days long. E.g., 2024 (divisible by 4) is a leap year.

Unless…

If the year is also divisible by 100, then the leap is omitted. E.g., 1900 wasn’t a leap year; and 2100 won’t be either.

Unless…

If the year is also divisible by 400, then the leap is maintained. Thus, the year 2000 was a leap year because divisibility by 400 (leap: yes) supersedes divisibility by 100 (leap: no).

:nerdy:

 

[Brutikus]

NGC 1566: A Spiral Galaxy from Webb and Hubble
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Lee (STScI), T. Williams (Oxford), R. Chandar (UToledo), D. Calzetti (UMass), PHANGS Team

 

[blueharvest]

U.S. spacecraft on the moon finally sends home the money shot

The final confirmation has arrived.

mashable.com

 

[Brutikus]

Odysseus and The Dish
Image Credit & Copyright: John Sarkissian (ATNF Parkes Radio Observatory)

 

[blueharvest]

Astronomers discover 3 tiny moons orbiting Uranus and Neptune

Astronomers have discovered three small moons at the farthest planets of our solar system — two circling Neptune and one around Uranus.

www.cbsnews.com