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Tag: space

  • It came from outer space! A solar storm could hit by Thursday

    It came from outer space! A solar storm could hit by Thursday

    These things can happen–even during a solar minimum!

    Here is a time lapse of the sun from August 16 2020:

    NOAA analysts have modeled the trajectory this CME.. Their conclusion: It could deliver a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field on August 20, 2020.. Thurday.

    From NOAA:

    Clearly, the storm cloud is not heading directly for Earth. However, NOAA models of the CME’s trajectory suggest it could deliver a glancing blow to Earth’s magnetic field on August 20th. Minor geomagnetic storms and high-latitude auroras are possible when the CME arrives.

    And more reason for no fear: Fortunately, the SWPC noted that the CME was created by a B1-class solar flare, which is the weakest type. This means that only a minor geomagnetic storm would occur if the CME hits Earth.  

  • THE BLACK HOLE REVEALED!

    THE BLACK HOLE REVEALED!

    Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had seen the unseeable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it.

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    “We’ve exposed a part of our universe we’ve never seen before,” said Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and director of the effort to capture the image, during a Wednesday news conference in Washington, D.C.

    To capture the image, astronomers reached across intergalactic space to a giant galaxy in Virgo, known as Messier 87. There, a black hole about seven billion times more massive than the sun is unleashing a violent jet of energy some 5,000 light years into space.

    DEVELOPING..

  • “Antarctica Alert” –Ghostly Supermassive Black Hole Invader Detected | The Daily…

    “Antarctica Alert” –Ghostly Supermassive Black Hole Invader Detected | The Daily…

    “Antarctica Alert” –Ghostly Supermassive Black Hole Invader Detected | The Daily Galaxy

    This one may be a little above our pay grade. It it’s fascinating.

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  • We made it through December .. and we’re fineA huge fireball exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere in…

    We made it through December .. and we’re fineA huge fireball exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere in…

    We made it through December .. and we’re fine

    A huge fireball exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere in December, according to Nasa. The blast was the second largest of its kind in 30 years, and the biggest since the fireball over Chelyabinsk in Russia six years ago. But it went largely unnoticed until now because it blew up over the Bering Sea, off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

    Military satellites picked up the blast.. NASA and the AIR FORCE were notified..

    At about noon local time on 18 December, the asteroid barrelled through the atmosphere at a speed of 32km/s, on a steep trajectory of seven degrees.

    Measuring several metres in size, the space rock exploded 25.6km above the Earth’s surface, with an impact energy of 173 kilotons.

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  • Valentine’s Day Mars Rover massacre: The final words

    Valentine’s Day Mars Rover massacre: The final words

    After all these years–15 to be exact–the Mars Rover is dead.
    Gone..
    Transmission last..

    But it was a miracle in nature!

    After all, NASA’s six-wheeled rover landed on the red planet in January 2004 for what billed as a 90-day mission. The robot was still going until a dust storm on Mars last summer killed it.

    From 2004 until now.. Many of you reading this today were just born in or around 2004.. from your youth until this final message from the Red Planet, we have been hearing from a distant friend, in a way..

    Abigail Fraeman, the deputy of project science for the Mars Exploration Rover mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, wrote this in a poignant and emotional WASHINGTON POST article,

    Tuesday’s communication attempts began with a “wake-up song” played at mission control. The mission’s principal investigator, Steve Squyres, had chosen “I’ll Be Seeing You,” as performed by Billie Holiday. At 8:10 p.m., Holiday’s wistful voice floated up from the command floor. “I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places that this heart of mine embraces,” she sang. Tears welled in my eyes. 

    Opportunity — or Oppy, as we affectionately call her — has been in my heart since she touched down on Martian soil 15 years ago, in January 2004. I was 16 and a high school student at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md. I loved space, and I couldn’t believe my luck when the Planetary Society offered me the chance to watch Opportunity land at JPL through its Red Rover Goes to Mars program. I was with the science team when we saw Oppy’s first images of Mars pop into view on large projection screens that surrounded the room. Instead of the rocky volcanic plains previous Mars landers had seen, Opportunity revealed a sea of sand with a strip of white bedrock poking through.

    Opportunity was, actually, the second rover that NASA managed to land on Mars back in 2004. The tests and data found concludes that Mars was once able to hold life.. that waterways once roams around the now dusty dirt.

    But today, Valentine’s Day, a heartbreak: The final words of the Mars Rover.. seemingly painful to read, even though a machine beamed them..

    A science reporter, Jacob Margolis, scientists at NASA said the last message they received from Opportunity effectively translated to, “My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”

    NASA published their “Opportunity, Wake Up!” playlist on Spotify. It contained hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham!, “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles, “Life On Mars?” by David Bowie, “Telephone Line” by Electric Light Orchestra, “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, and “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty.
    But the battery went low… it got dark…

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBoEMDaDuBA]

  • Meteorite hits Cuba!!

    Meteorite hits Cuba!!

    A meteorite hit western Cuba on Friday afternoon, according to eyewitness reports. 


    The event sounds like it was pretty dramatic: “We’re receiving reports that a meteor was seen in the sky across the Florida Keys,” NWS Key West tweeted, adding that the space rock “likely exploded over the province of Pinar del Río.” 

    CNN’s Havana correspondent, Patrick Oppmann, described the sound of a “large explosion” in the town of Viñales and posted pictures of the fragments..

    And perhaps adding the oddest part to this… February 1 2019 was rumored since 2002 to be the target date for a meteor to hit earth.. back at the early part of this century there were fears it would be planet ending.

    Maybe not the meteor that wiped out earth… but sure a fragment that freaked out Cuba..???

  • China lands on the ‘dark side of the moon’

    China lands on the ‘dark side of the moon’

    The China National Space Administration said the 10:26 a.m. landing of the Chang’e-4 lunar explorer has “opened up a new chapter in human lunar exploration.”


    The Chang’e-4′s launch on Dec. 8 was hailed as one of the nation’s major achievements in 2018, and state broadcaster China Central Television announced Thursday’s landing to the public at the top of the noon news.
  • Upcoming fear porn for 2019 being revealed: Eclipses, and blood moons abound

    Upcoming fear porn for 2019 being revealed: Eclipses, and blood moons abound

    2019 is featuring five eclipses, a rare planet transit, one of the best meteor showers and a super blood wolf moon..

    The new year will also bring three supermoons, a blue moon, multiple meteor showers, close approach by the moon and Jupiter and several rocket launches..

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    For the first time in three years on January 21, the United States will be able to experience a total lunar eclipse. According to NASA, it will be one of the sky’s “most dazzling shows,” as the moon will be at its closest point to Earth, making the moon appear slightly bigger and a lot brighter, an event that is often referred to as a “supermoon.”

    In the late afternoon of July 2, a total solar eclipse will occur over southern parts of Chile and Argentina, and parts of the South Pacific. The entire event will take place from 12:55 to 5:50 p.m. ET, with the maximum eclipse occurring at 3:23 p.m.
    The year will also end with a dark bang:
    December 26: The annular eclipse occurs when the circumference of the sun shines brightly from behind the moon. This year, the eclipse will begin right at dawn and pass over the Arabian Peninsula and arc over areas of South Asia.
    All this, and undoubtedly some more potentially hazardous asteroid fly-bys from rocks we didn’t see yet will create the ambiance necessary for another year of total fear porn. 
    Enjoy the remaining moments of 18 .. as 19 creeps in and we wonder where the past 20 years have gone since the 20th century..

  • Wind breaks on Mars! And we can hear it

    Wind breaks on Mars! And we can hear it

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5bOZx2xXs]

    It may be best heard with headphones..

    The video was shared by NASA and, according to the space agency, captures the sound of a northwest Martian wind blowing at 10 to 15 mph..

    “Capturing this audio was an unplanned treat,” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in a statement. “But one of the things our mission is dedicated to is measuring motion on Mars, and naturally that includes motion caused by sound waves.”

    NASA explained that the audio is wind vibrations picked up by two sensors on the lander and not an actual recording from a microphone. However, the Mars rover that will be launched in 2020 will have microphones aboard.

  • For more than a month now, a European orbiter circling Marshas…

    For more than a month now, a European orbiter circling Marshas…

    For more than a month now, a European orbiter circling Marshas been watching a long, plume-like cloud on the Red Planet.

    The cloud has remained in place over a mountain called Arsia Mons near the Martian equator since Sept. 13, according to a statement released by the European Space Agency (ESA). But that location is just a coincidence, the agency adds. No volcanic process is producing the cloud — the volcano hasn’t been active in about 50 million years, scientists believe.

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