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Aside from a butt of jokes:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61155725.
There's a lot to look for this week.This Week's Sky at a Glance, April 22 – 30https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-april-22-30-2/
THURSDAY, APRIL 28The Lyrid meteor shower should be active late tonight and late tomorrow might, though the shower's timing is less than ideal for North America. Best times to try watching are from about 11 p.m. until moonrise both nights, writes Bob King in Celebrate Spring with the Lyrids.FRIDAY, APRIL 29Venus-Jupiter conjunction. Set your alarm to get up and look low in the southeast about 60 to 45 minutes before your sunrise time. Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest objects after the Sun and Moon, are a spectacularly close ½° apart! On Sunday morning they'll be only a trace farther apart, with Jupiter now to Venus's upper right.
Clear skies!Roger
From Nature - see this fantastic time lapse taken by Perseverance Mars rover of Phobos eclipsing the Sun.
It's the third one down the page after the fire-loving fungus and South Africa flood pictures.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-01182-4/index.html
Re Eclipses...Observing the Lunar Eclipse 16th Mayhttps://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/total-lunar-eclipse-16-may-2022/
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/lunar-eclipse-guide
Make plans for the possible Tau Herculid meteor shower, which may put on a strong outburst on the night of May 30-31. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/best-meteor-showers-of-2022/
Also see:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/61617907
Roger
Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons
Useful update....
Possible Meteor Outburst on May 30/31?
https://www.imo.net/possible-meteor-outburst-on-may-3031/
Moon stuff.... Gruithuisen Domes - The IndependentNasa says it will investigate mysterious mounds on moon in Artemis missionhttps://uk.yahoo.com/news/nasa-says-investigate-mysterious-mounds-082345208.html
Moon stuff.... Gruithuisen Domes - The IndependentNasa says it will investigate mysterious mounds on moon in Artemis missionhttps://uk.yahoo.com/news/nasa-says-investigate-mysterious-mounds-082345208.htmlRoger
The new James Webb space telescope has suffered slight damage from a tiny meteoroid - and there have been several other minor impacts already.https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257
Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White
I spotted that story, Peter. There's a lot of stuff swilling about up there and it does not have to be big to be a problem, given the kinetic energy involved. They have procedures in place to hopefully compensate for the occasional "dings" that will inevitably happen.
This kind of scenario was a popular story line in early 20cent Sci Fi - Heinlein etc.
"Dodson, Jarman and Jensen ship out on the Aes Triplex. Their first real mission is to help search for a missing research vessel, the Pathfinder, in the asteroid belt. They find it, but all aboard are dead, the unlucky victims of a fast-moving object that punctured the ship when the armored outer airlock door was open...."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet
Turd 14th June 2022MAGNIFICENT CME: Earlier today, an unusually slow solar flare hurled a magnificent CME into space. The explosion and its afterglow lasted nearly 8 hours. The CME could sideswipe Earth's magnetosphere later this week, producing minor geomagnetic stormsArrival time of 0900 UT on June 15th? Glancing blow?https://spaceweather.com/Roger
Hopefully a full on blow. I'd like to see how the plebs cope without electricity for a few weeks
Check out this link - the chap managed to get a sequence of the International Space Station in transit across the sun. Great capture!Originally Posted by: Viking3
Thanks for that, V-3. Really impressive.
Nearest thing like that I've observed myself [no photo] was an RAF Tornado superimposed on the Sun on a solarscope.
">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61856975
What a shame not to get that photo Roger! I presume it was over in the blink of an eye?
NASA will release the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week. [12th] Watch out for it!https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon
The next perigee full Moon will occur on 13 July 2022, making it a 'supermoon'.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/supermoon-what-when-next/
Heads up on 13th!Roger
BBC2 Super Telescope : Mssion To The Edge Of The Universe
Thursday 14th July 20:00-21:00
Story of the James Webb Telexcope and hopefully the new images
Originally Posted by: lanky
Thanks for that, Lanky. Here's their link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2022/28/super-telescope
R
First full-colour picture from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been released:-https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62122859
Originally Posted by: ozone_aurora
“My God -- it's full of stars! - Dave Bowman.” [Arthur C. Clarke - 2001 - A Space Odyssey]
A bit of slightly different Solar news..."The impact of a “snake-like filament” from the Sun, which Nasa predicts will happen on 19 July, will be a “direct hit” according to Dr Tamitha Skov, adding that we should “expect signal disruptions on Earth’s nightside”. It is also possible that aurora might be visible in some regions of the Earth."Solar storm about to strike Earth in a ‘direct hit’ - Independent Mon 18thhttps://uk.yahoo.com/news/news/solar-storm-strike-earth-direct-101857526.html