by rmil2k | Oct 7, 2023 | News
Week in images: 02-06 October 2023 Discover our week through the lens Source link
by rmil2k | Oct 6, 2023 | News
The annual Draconid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and viewing conditions are favorable this year.The Draconid meteor shower will be active from Oct. 6 to Oct. 10, with the peak happening around Sunday (Oct. 8) or Monday (Oct. 9). This year, the moon will be less...
by rmil2k | Oct 6, 2023 | News
heic2309 — Science Release 5 October 2023 A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger – thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient...
by rmil2k | Oct 6, 2023 | News
NIRCam (the Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this picture of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Webb identified carbon dioxide on the icy surface of Europa that likely originated in the moon’s subsurface ocean. Credit: Geronimo...
by rmil2k | Oct 6, 2023 | News
The Parker Solar Probe is the little engine that just keeps going and going by the Sun. On September 27th, it made its 17th close approach and skimmed just 7.26 million kilometers (4.51 million miles) above the sun’s “surface” layer (called the photosphere). That’s...
