Monday, October 16, 2023

Eclipse wows skywatchers with spectacular 'ring of fire' (photos)

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The Launchpad
Chasing the solar eclipse on the Extraterrestrial Highway
Brett Tingley
This straight stretch of windblown road crosses mostly empty desert, offering vast vistas of open sky and long-distance views of the surrounding mountain ranges in the distance.
Full Story: Space (10/15) 
Space Quiz! What will our sun become once it has depleted the material fueling the nuclear fusion reaction at its core?
Learn the answer here!
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Eclipse wows skywatchers with spectacular 'ring of fire'
(Brett Tingley)
Sweeping through eight U.S. states before heading over Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Brazil, the impressive eclipse was visible to millions of people.
Full Story: Space (10/14) 
Skywatching
Total solar eclipse April 2024: Top tips to plan your trip
(Josh Dinner)
A much bigger, grander affair than the annular solar eclipse just gone, this event will include totality - darkness in the day and a chance to see the sun's corona with your naked eyes - but only if you're in exactly the right place at the right time.
Full Story: Space (10/16) 
Spaceflight
Rare all-woman spacewalk this month won't be the last
(NASA)
The International Space Station (ISS) spacewalk with NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara will be only the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) with an all-woman crew (the other three were all done by the same two people).
Full Story: Space (10/13) 
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    Science & Astronomy
    Dead star at heart of cosmic graveyard predicts sun's fate
    (K. Werner et al.)
    Researchers investigated the planetary nebula in Messier 37 as though it were a cosmic crime scene to determine how its central white dwarf star died.
    Full Story: Space (10/15) 
    SpaceX
    Relive Falcon Heavy launch with these amazing photos
    (Josh Dinner)
    The Falcon Heavy -- the second-most powerful rocket currently in operation, after NASA's Space Launch System -- launched the agency's Psyche asteroid mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday morning (Oct. 13).
    Full Story: Space (10/13) 
    Technology
    Satellites watch the annular solar eclipse sweep over U.S.
    (NOAA)
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites GOES-East and GOES-West watched as the shadow of the moon darkened the surface of Earth.
    Full Story: Space (10/16) 
    Entertainment
    'For All Mankind' season 4 moves to the asteroids
    (Apple TV+)
    On Thursday (Oct. 12) -- just a day after NASA revealed its first sample returned from an asteroid and on the eve of the launch of the agency's first mission to a metal-rich asteroid - Apple TV+ dropped a new trailer featuring a familiar-looking space rock.
    Full Story: Space (10/13) 
    Star Wars
    See the first 5 pages of 'Star Wars: The High Republic #1'
    (Marvel Comics)
    Marvel's next chapter of the "The High Republic," known as "Trials of the Jedi," has landed.
    Full Story: Space (10/15) 
     
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    Friday, October 13, 2023

    A "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse occurs Oct. 14. Here's its 5 stages explained.

    Next stop: Asteroid Psyche! | The 5 stages of the Oct. 14 solar eclipse explained | What are different types of clouds?
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    The Launchpad
    Next stop: Asteroid Psyche!
    (Josh Dinner)
    A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket roared off its Florida launch pad carrying NASA's new Psyche spacecraft on a mission to the largest metal asteroid in our solar system. Don't miss the epic video here.
    Full Story: Space (10/13) 
    The 5 stages of the Oct. 14 solar eclipse explained
    (Paul Souders via Getty Images)
    The sun will appear as a blazing ring of fire in the sky over the Americas on Saturday, Oct.14, as an annular eclipse sweeps over the continent. Here's how it will work and its 5 main stages to watch for.
    Full Story: Space (10/13) 
    Skywatching
    What are different types of clouds?
    (Roberto Machado Noa/NASA via Getty Images)
    Clouds are such a regular part of daily life in most places on the planet that it's quite easy to forget about them. But there's more to those fluffy sky objects than you think.
    Full Story: Space (10/12) 
    Spaceflight
    A leak on the ISS canceled his spacewalk
    (NASA/ESA-J.Blair)
    Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency said he supported International Space Station managers' decision to postpone what will be his first spacecwalk after a radiator leak on the outpost's Russian segment. The spacewalk will now run no earlier than Oct. 19.
    Full Story: Space (10/12) 
    Science & Astronomy
    1st evidence of giant exoplanet collision afterglow
    (Mark Garlick)
    An international team of astronomers reported the first-ever sightings of the aftermath of two giant planets colliding around a sun-like star in another planetary system.
    Full Story: Space (10/12) 
    Technology
    Follow the Oct. 14 solar eclipse this week with SkySafari
    (SkySafari)
    On Oct. 14, the moon will pass in front of the sun, blocking most of it while leaving a "ring of fire" visible in what is known as an annular solar eclipse. To help skywatchers track the eclipse, learn about these events and stay up-to-the-minute with alerts, SkySafari has released a new set of 2023 annular solar eclipse features, available for iOS users.
    Full Story: Space (10/12) 
    Search for Life
    NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is on the move!
    NASA's Perseverance rover will soon head to its next destination on Mars: a geological junction called Jurabi Point, where it may get another crack at drilling a Martian boulder. Although the rover successfully gathered several samples from softer rock, Perseverance's last attempt to crack a hard boulder  —  the "Dragon's Egg," at the Lost Lake region of Jezero —  was unsuccessful.
    Full Story: Space (10/10) 
    Entertainment
    Rocket boosters arrive in L.A. for space shuttle Endeavour
    (California Science Center))
    They may not be as iconic as Endeavour or as large as the orbiter's external tank, but the sight of twin rockets moving through the streets of Los Angeles was enough to once again draw a crowd to watch the space shuttle components being delivered to the site of their future display at the California Science Center.
    Full Story: Space (10/12) 
     
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