NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-17): LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity
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What is the cause of this unusual parabolic structure? This illuminated cavity, known as LDN 1471, was created by a newly forming star, seen as the bright source at the peak of the parabola. This protostar is experiencing a stellar outflow which is then interacting with the surrounding material in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, causing it to brighten. We see only one side of the cavity -- the other side is hidden by dark dust. The parabolic shape is caused by the widening of the stellar-wind blown cavity over time. Two additional structures can also be seen either side of the protostar; these are known as Herbig-Haro objects, again caused by the interaction of the outflow with the surrounding material. What causes the striations on the cavity walls, though, remains unknown. The featured image was taken by NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope after an original detection by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is one of the most iconic features in our solar system. It is a massive storm that has been raging for at least 350 years, possibly even longer. This storm is so enormous that it is larger than the entire Earth, measuring about 16,350 kilometers (10,159 miles) across. The Great Red Spot's reddish hue is thought to be caused by chemicals in Jupiter's atmosphere reacting to sunlight. Despite its size and intensity, the storm has been gradually shrinking in recent decades, and scientists are still trying to understand why. https://image.nostr.build/b6da297f363cc454c6f6b8703a90edf5a6944ba9f61ddd651b7466381e47ee73.jpg
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space News: Where did the universe's magnetic fields come from?
Link: https://www.space.com/the-universe/where-did-the-universes-magnetic-fields-come-from
Summary: How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating when the first stars appeared.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-16): Pluto at Night
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The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured by far flung New Horizons in July of 2015 when the spacecraft was at a range of some 21,000 kilometers from Pluto, about 19 minutes after its closest approach. A denizen of the Kuiper Belt in dramatic silhouette, the image also reveals Pluto's tenuous, surprisingly complex layers of hazy atmosphere. Near the top of the frame the crescent twilight landscape includes southern areas of nitrogen ice plains now formally known as Sputnik Planitia and rugged mountains of water-ice in the Norgay Montes.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-16): Pluto at Night
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/PIA20727PlutoNight1024c.jpg
The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured by far flung New Horizons in July of 2015 when the spacecraft was at a range of some 21,000 kilometers from Pluto, about 19 minutes after its closest approach. A denizen of the Kuiper Belt in dramatic silhouette, the image also reveals Pluto's tenuous, surprisingly complex layers of hazy atmosphere. Near the top of the frame the crescent twilight landscape includes southern areas of nitrogen ice plains now formally known as Sputnik Planitia and rugged mountains of water-ice in the Norgay Montes.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-basalt-samples-mission-insights-lunar.html
Summary: Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago (Ga) and 4.2 Ga, according to research conducted by Prof. Li Qiuli's lab at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their work is published in Nature.
Latest Space Breaking News: Survey captures image sequence of galactic neighbors in the local universe
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-survey-captures-image-sequence-galactic.html
Summary: The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the Italian VST ( VLT Survey Telescope) managed by INAF in Chile. The new images show these iconic galaxies in great detail, immortalizing their shape, colors and distribution of stars up to great distances from the center.
Latest Space Breaking News: China tests building moon base with lunar soil bricks
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-china-moon-base-lunar-soil.html
Summary: China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station's bricks could be made from the moon's own soil.
Latest Space Breaking News: China tests building moon base with lunar soil bricks
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-china-moon-base-lunar-soil.html
Summary: China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the station's bricks could be made from the moon's own soil.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-15): Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3
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Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon. The 3D anaglyph features Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in November of 1969. Surveyor 3 had landed at the site on the inside slope of a small crater about 2 1/2 years earlier in April of 1967. Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater wall, Apollo 12's Lunar Module Intrepid touched down less than 200 meters (650 feet) away, easy moonwalking distance from the robotic Surveyor spacecraft. This stereo image was carefully created from two separate pictures (AS12-48-7133, AS12-48-7134) captured on the lunar surface. They depict the scene from only slightly different viewpoints, approximating the separation between human eyes.
Latest Space Breaking News: Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-hubble-aftermath-galaxy-milky.html
Summary: A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga.
Latest Space Breaking News: Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-hubble-aftermath-galaxy-milky.html
Summary: A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga.
Latest Space Breaking News: Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-hubble-aftermath-galaxy-milky.html
Summary: A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga.
Latest Space Breaking News: Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-hubble-aftermath-galaxy-milky.html
Summary: A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga.
Latest Space Breaking News: Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-hubble-aftermath-galaxy-milky.html
Summary: A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga.
Latest Space News: China launching Tianzhou 8 cargo mission to Tiangong space station on Nov. 15
Link: https://www.space.com/china-tianzhou-8-cargo-launch-tiangong-space-station
Summary: A Long March 7 rocket is set to launch the Tianzhou 8 cargo spacecraft toward China's Tiangong space station on Friday morning (Nov. 15).
Latest Space Breaking News: Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster standard cosmological model
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-latest-south-pole-telescope-bolster.html
Summary: Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial cosmological soup. Over the next 14 billion years, these ancient photons—the universe's first light—continued traveling. This relic light is known as the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Latest Space News: First quilter in space challenges students, crafters to stitch the moon
Link: https://www.space.com/lunar-quilt-challenge-astronaut-karen-nyberg
Summary: Ten years after launching a patchwork of stars from her place in space, Karen Nyberg is calling for quilters to create the moon. The "Lunar Quilt Block Challenge" is now accepting quilt squares.
Latest Space Breaking News: Student-led study reveals extraterrestrial explosions may blow hot and cold
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-student-reveals-extraterrestrial-explosions-hot.html
Summary: Mount Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Mount St. Helens: Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer has famously led to some of the deadliest eruptions in history. But what if the same explosions occurred when a geological feature and nearby chemical compounds became too cold?
Latest Space Breaking News: Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-scientists-library-exoplanet.html
Summary: By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of planets outside of our solar system but could demonstrate evidence of water on those exoplanets.
SpaceX has announced that it will attempt the sixth launch of Starship on November 18, just 37 days after the previous one. The flight profile will be identical to that of October 13, with some differences for Ship 31.
With this prototype, they will try for the first time to restart one of its Raptor engines in space, an operation that has never been performed before. This will be an important test, especially to enable future orbital maneuvers. By next summer, SpaceX aims to complete the first propellant transfer between two different Starships, and engine ignition will be crucial for the subsequent return to Earth.
The company was supposed to perform the first ignition of a Raptor in space during the third flight, but since the Ship had lost control of its attitude on that occasion, the test was canceled.
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In the photo, Ship 30 reenters the atmosphere, surrounded by plasma.
Latest Space Breaking News: Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-scientists-library-exoplanet.html
Summary: By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of planets outside of our solar system but could demonstrate evidence of water on those exoplanets.
Latest Space Breaking News: Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-meteorite-evidence-liquid-mars-million.html
Summary: An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue University and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and named the Lafayette Meteorite.
Latest Space News: SpaceX launching 24 Starlink satellites today on 2nd leg of spaceflight doubleheader
Link: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-6-68
Summary: SpaceX plans to launch 24 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida early this morning (Nov. 14), just five hours after another Starlink liftoff.
Latest Space Breaking News: Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-meteorite-evidence-liquid-mars-million.html
Summary: An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue University and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and named the Lafayette Meteorite.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-14): IC 348 and Barnard 3
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A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50 light-years.
Good morning, everyone. This morning we’ll be talking about another beautiful planetary nebula: NGC 7009, also known as the Saturn Nebula, located in the constellation Aquarius and about 3,000 light-years from Earth.
This planetary nebula was discovered by the great William Herschel on September 7, 1782, but it owes its nickname to Lord Rosse, who observed it in the 1840s with significantly better instruments, noticing its resemblance to Saturn, the ringed planet. A resemblance, in truth, that is not particularly strong when viewed with modern instruments, and is primarily seen in its elongated shape with a brighter central region.
This fantastic image was created by combining images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in visible light and Chandra, specialized in X-ray imaging.
Once again, this image gives us a glimpse of our star’s future while looking back to the past, as the light we are observing started its journey 3,000 years ago to reach us. I don’t know about you, but I find this all incredibly fascinating.
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-14): IC 348 and Barnard 3
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/IC348_B3_1024.jpg
A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50 light-years.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-14): IC 348 and Barnard 3
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/IC348_B3_1024.jpg
A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50 light-years.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-14): IC 348 and Barnard 3
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/IC348_B3_1024.jpg
A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50 light-years.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-14): IC 348 and Barnard 3
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/IC348_B3_1024.jpg
A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50 light-years.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-14): IC 348 and Barnard 3
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/IC348_B3_1024.jpg
A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50 light-years.
Latest Space Breaking News: Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-meteorite-evidence-liquid-mars-million.html
Summary: An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue University and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and named the Lafayette Meteorite.
Latest Space Breaking News: Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-meteorite-evidence-liquid-mars-million.html
Summary: An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue University and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and named the Lafayette Meteorite.
Latest Space Breaking News: Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-meteorite-evidence-liquid-mars-million.html
Summary: An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue University and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and named the Lafayette Meteorite.
Latest Space Breaking News: Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-meteorite-evidence-liquid-mars-million.html
Summary: An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue University and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and named the Lafayette Meteorite.
Latest Space Breaking News: Swift Observatory studies a pair of gas-churning monster black holes
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-swift-observatory-pair-gas-churning.html
Summary: Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy.
Latest Space News: SpaceX launching 20 Starlink satellites from California tonight
Link: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-9-11
Summary: SpaceX is set to launch 20 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (Nov. 13).
Latest Space Breaking News: Observations explore icy protoplanetary disk of the star PDS 453
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-explore-icy-protoplanetary-disk-star.html
Summary: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the preprint server arXiv, yield essential information about the structure and composition of this disk.
Latest Space Breaking News: Observations explore icy protoplanetary disk of the star PDS 453
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-explore-icy-protoplanetary-disk-star.html
Summary: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the preprint server arXiv, yield essential information about the structure and composition of this disk.
Latest Space Breaking News: Observations explore icy protoplanetary disk of the star PDS 453
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-explore-icy-protoplanetary-disk-star.html
Summary: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the preprint server arXiv, yield essential information about the structure and composition of this disk.
Latest Space Breaking News: A formula for life? New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our universe and beyond
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-formula-life-chances-intelligent-universe.html
Summary: The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.
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