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For those that are interested....Mark your calendar for June 24th @4:20am. For the first time in 100 years, you may get a glimpse of the unusual sky occurrence on that morning when all five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) and the moon will be visibly lined up simultaneously.
https://www.chaosmosnews.net/2022/06/05/dont-miss-rare-alignments-of-5-planets-for-first-time-in-100-years/?fbclid=IwAR3j1VjGwjsHxdZHgfsHVu1DP6cQV17M5UmZJXvsKmszga5tay747uZ6vZ4
So, the very day I posted about ^^^this^^^, apparently NASA took a shot of the aligned planets from Chile.
The planet Mercury has wandered about as far from the Sun as it ever gets in planet Earth's sky. Near the eastern horizon just before sunrise it stands over distant Andes mountain peaks in this predawn snapshot from the valley of Rio Hurtado in Chile.
June's other morning planets are arrayed above it, as all the naked-eye planets of the Solar System stretch in a line along the ecliptic in the single wide-field view. Tilted toward the north, the Solar System's ecliptic plane arcs steeply through southern hemisphere skies. Northern hemisphere early morning risers will see the lineup of planets along the ecliptic at a shallower angle tilting toward the south. From both hemispheres June's beautiful morning planetary display finds the visible planets in order of their increasing distance from the Sun.
Tom
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Here is another thing that fascinates me. Aurora Vortex's. These are sometimes visualized by lightning type flashes (although I have personally never seen any video to support this...).
Even cooler, is what can happen ABOVE them.....check this out....
Please note that this image above may be copyrighted, so I must disclose that the image and all information comes from this source >>> https://newsrnd.com/news/2021-03-05- ---space-hurricane-discovered-over-magnetic-north-pole--vortex-causes-solar-particles-to-rain --.rJoMp1l7_.htmlFrom the Article wrote:In contrast to the terrestrial hurricane, the space storm did not arise in the air, but in the plasma of the ionosphere, which is composed of ionized gas. Electromagnetic parts of the solar wind rotated in a circle. The vortex was driven by the earth's magnetic field. After about eight hours over the North Pole, the vortex collapsed.
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Here is a unique shot of the Elephant's Trunk nebula....2,400 light years away.
Tom
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To believe we are the only life form in this giant soup would be very naive.
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Here is a unique shot of the Elephant's Trunk nebula....2,400 light years away.
Tom
Should be renamed the slimer nebula in honor of the ghost busters character. Actually it kinda looks like a diamond eyed bunnyGustard X26 Pro DAC
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Here's another date that we should be keeping an eye on. July 12, 2022 - NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Testing and calibration has been completed, target camera temps have been achieved (minus 449°F – just 11°F above absolute zero) and the first images look to be very promising.
https://theconversation.com/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-finally-ready-to-do-science-and-its-seeing-the-universe-more-clearly-than-even-its-own-engineers-hoped-for-184989?fbclid=IwAR2C60Wqb6SmCnOQ1PuqDq5IRSpWVgzBXGW16YToTel76I6zc1My_RDtbBk
The MIRI camera, image on the right (below), allows astronomers to see through dust clouds with incredible sharpness compared with previous telescopes like the the Spitzer Space Telescope, which produced the image on the left.
The Webb will be able to detect galaxies completely hidden by dust and undetectable by telescopes like Hubble. Exciting times! I don't know about you but I can't wait for the first images to start rolling in.
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Milky Way over the twisted rock formations of the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, White Pocket, Arizona.
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Beautiful stuff- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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Astronomers Have Captured the Most Detailed Image Yet of a Monster Galaxy 12.4 Billion Light Years Away.
https://news.leladanang.com/2022/06/18/astronomers-have-captured-the-most-detailed-image-yet-of-a-monster-galaxy-12-4-billion-light-years-away/?fbclid=IwAR34NjFfRklcbdyc5jJSHRLVrncIZVBM6hIxQKDEfHWm369RLpiXFDkIMaY
The previous captures we had...
From the article wrote:This ‘monster galaxy’ is approximately 12 billion light-years from Earth and generates new stars 1,000 times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy. Scientists used Chile’s $1.5 billion ALMA Observatory to capture views of the galaxy with a resolution ten times higher than any previous attempt, dubbed ‘COSMOS-AzTEC-1.’
Tom
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Like going from atari to Xbox x- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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Earth, as seen from Saturn...
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Courtesy of the Hubble space telescope, the Butterfly Nebula.
Tom
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Is absolute zero cold enough?Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Anybody know how to tow this? Asteroid worth up to $700 quintillion mapped in highest resolution yet.
The 16 Psyche asteroid is scheduled to be visited by a NASA probe that will launch later in 2022. The spacecraft will visit the asteroid belt occupying the region between Mars and Jupiter, comprising remnants from the solar system's formation. One such remnant is the 16 Psyche asteroid, thought to be the core of an ancient planet, which contains a large number of valuable metals.
https://news.mit.edu/2022/asteroid-psyche-maps-metal-0615
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
There's at least 3 Ford Edsel's in that thing....
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Looks like aliens used it for target practice.Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
--Mark Twain.
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Anybody know how to tow this? Asteroid worth up to $700 quintillion mapped in highest resolution yet.
The 16 Psyche asteroid is scheduled to be visited by a NASA probe that will launch later in 2022. The spacecraft will visit the asteroid belt occupying the region between Mars and Jupiter, comprising remnants from the solar system's formation. One such remnant is the 16 Psyche asteroid, thought to be the core of an ancient planet, which contains a large number of valuable metals.
https://news.mit.edu/2022/asteroid-psyche-maps-metal-0615
Tom
Psychedelic, man.
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Cool photo of Saturn in front of the Sun taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
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For some reason, out of all of the incredible space photos, that photo has got to be either my all time favorite or at the very least, one of the top 5. This is one of those pictures that got lost in the vast abyss of the picture thread. Thanks man!
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From NASA - Eye of Sauron or dust ring formed around the young star Fomalhaut approx. 1.4 billion miles wide! The black circle in the center giving the image resemblance of an eye is a light block that allows the reflected light to be photographed.
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This is obviously from Earth but a cool shot nonetheless!
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Bruce McCandless II 1984. STS-41-B
courtesy NASA
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Our own moon. Without the moon, we would have far less (if any) tectonic plate shift, tides would go to a highly argued 50% height to 75% drop in height, we wouldn't have any seasons due to no stabilization of Earth tilt (basically, we would simply wobble erratically), over time within our days would be altered (we used to have 4 hour days billions of years ago) and the loss of the "flexing" of the Earth could cause some rather strange and unknown effects with earthquake and volcanic activity.
It is thought that without the moon? We wouldn't be here right now. None of us.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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Nothin' special -- but I was out photographing lightning bugs again last night. The night sky was fairly pretty (given that it's early summer), so I snapped a few photos.
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These are called "Jellyfish Sprites". They last only a fraction of a second.
If you see a thunderstorm in the distance late at night, look at the sky above the clouds and watch closely. You might just glimpse a sprite. Stephen Hummel, a dark sky specialist at the University of Texas at Austin, photographed a red jellyfish sprite on July 2 (above) from the McDonald Observatory in Texas. The bright red formation appears to float between 28 and 55 miles high in the atmosphere, with a dispersed red cap and a flurry of tentacles underneath.
Sprites are a type of transient luminous event, like lightning, but fainter, faster and significantly larger.
Hummel spotted his sprite from about 100 miles away at 1:30 AM, he tells Atlas Obscura. The storm also needs to be making a lot of lightning. The Great Plains during the spring provides great opportunities to catch sprites.
One of the best images I have ran across so far is (it is rumored that this is a 15 second exposure time) this stunning image of a MASSIVE series of Jellyfish sprites taken by Paul Wilson images from the Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. As of this moment, I do not think he actually knows what he photographed…
Tom
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After 6 months of prep work the James Webb telescope will be sending pictures back to Earth......this is a HUGE event as we will getting some spectacular from Space. It was launched on Christmas Day
The James Webb Space Telescope has almost completed commissioning and will release its first operational images July 12. Next comes a program of early science, including an investigation of the Trapezium Cluster, a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula some 1,350 light-years from Earth.
The cluster is packed with gas and dust and includes about 1,000 young stars jam-packed into an area just four light-years across, officials with the Webb consortium said in a statement.
The stars are also quite young (around a million years old) compared with the 4.5-billion-year-old sun. While the star at the center of our solar system is in its midlife, Trapezium's stars are still toddlers, only about three or four days old.
"Astronomers using the Webb telescope will study this cluster to understand stars and their planetary systems in the very earliest stages [of their evolution]," officials wrote in a 2020 statement about the Trapezium study. -
That's right. A HUGE event is an understatement! In less than 48 hours, we will see the very first real time images coming from the James Webb telescope.
You can see the images revealed in real-time and hear from experts about the exciting results on NASA TV at 10:30am Eastern on July 12: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
If you are only interested in the images, they can be found here (when released) - https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
Here is an alternate link, in case the website gets bogged down from traffic - https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images
I haven't looked this forward to anything space related in quite some time!
Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Agree 100% ^^
