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Back to list of articles Early risers on Tuesday will be able to see the Moon alongside two bright planets. Credit: Stellarium/USGS/Celestia/Clementine In the predawn hours of Tuesday, August 27, you'll be able to see a nice grouping of solar system objects. First, look for the Moon, about 40 percent illuminated. The next brightest object,
Starliner approaches the International Space Station during a test flight in 2022. The orbiting laboratory was flying 430 kilometers (270 miles) above the South Pacific at the time of this photograph. Credit: NASA When NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams took off from Earth On June 5, aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on its first
Messier 39 in Cygnus is a large and extensive open cluster. Images: Adam Block. Among all the wonderful nebulae that Cygnus has to offer are Messier 29 and 39, two beautiful open clusters that are easily visible with a pair of binoculars against a wonderful backdrop of the Milky Way as they rise on late
Back to list of articles From the August 2024 issue To perfectly frame objects in your field of view, you'll need to know your telescope's focal length and a little math. My first image of the Lagoon Nebula (M8) was so magnified that the object didn't look like a lagoon at all. I took it
Back to list of articles From the August 2024 issue The new TESS mission covers almost the entire sky, compared to the small portion of sky observed by Kepler. During its lifetime, Kepler observed only a few small (blue) fields of about 116 square degrees each on the sky: one in Cygnus and several along
Chromospheric glare | Astronomy Journal FAKE product chromospheric stunning https://www.astronomy.com/imagen-del-día/photo/chromospheric-daze/ Chromospheric glare | Astronomy Journal Rich Ruffini of Wasilla, Alaska The Sun’s countless strands of plasma in the chromosphere pulse with magnetic energy, creating a fascinating tapestry of textures. This image is a stack of 300 1/200-second frames taken with a 4-inch refractor and a
A screenshot from a simulation shows the merger of two supermassive black holes. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data, d'Ascoli et al. 2018 We see evidence of supermassive black holes merging everywhere. There's one problem: we're not sure exactly how they do it. Recently, a team of astronomers has proposed that a
The waning crescent Moon grazes the Pleiades (M45) on the night of August 25/26. Graphic by Greg Smye-Rumsby. Some of the most spectacular viewing events take place when the Moon is around, and it does so most gloriously when it aligns perfectly with the Sun, producing a total solar eclipse. Unfortunately, a repeat of the
A successful courtship | Astronomy Magazine FAKE product a successful courtship https://www.astronomy.com/imagen-del-día/photo/a-successful-courtship/ A successful courtship | Astronomy Magazine Haim Huli of Kibbutz Ramat HaKovesh, Israel NGC 1360, also known as the Robin's Egg, is located in Fornax, about 1,400 light-years away. Observations in 2017 showed that this planetary nebula has not one but two white
Artist's impression of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: NASA/CXC and J. Vaughan All space missions come to an end. Some die quietly of old age, running out of fuel or power. Some go out in a blaze of glory, plunging into an atmosphere and burning up, sending back data at the last. Others self-destruct, never
