I wanted to draw something related to the Aurora Borealis but it got away from me and this is what came out👀
I don’t even know how to call this one😅

#MastoArt #FediArt #AshenwaveArt #Surrealism #DigitalArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Fantasy #Psychedelic #Illustration #Art #Space

"How it started/how it's going," space edition:

On March 17, 2013 a flash appeared on the Moon. It was bright enough to see with the naked eye.

Now we can see the result: a new 18-meter-wide crater, blasted out by a watermelon-size meteoroid.

https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/40 #science #space #NASA #astronomy #Moon

Three astronomy undergraduates at MIT and their professor discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe. @gbhnews interviewed them about the field of stellar archeology and the “cannibalistic process” of galaxy growth.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-05-30/three-of-the-universes-oldest-stars-have-just-been-identified-and-theyre-in-our-cosmic-backyard


#Astronomy #Space #Science #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Three of the universe's oldest stars have just been identified — and they're in our cosmic backyard

An MIT astrophysicist and three of her students found three stars that were likely formed just after the Big Bang.

^{Kana Ruhalter (GBH)}

Closest view of Jupiter ever taken!

#space

Phobos over Mars - Terra Cimmeria

Full size: https://flic.kr/p/2pTBo8a
B&W Version: https://flic.kr/p/2pTH7D8

Location: https://www.uahirise.org/hiwish/view/135056

Colourised animation processing data from: https://psa.esa.int
ESA Mars Express HRSC
Orbit: 14388
2015-05-05 T16:01:18 > T16:01:35.424Z
IDs: 5 Frames
HE388_0003_SR3 >>>> HE388_0007_SR3
1 frame added to make it smoother

Credits:
Raw Data:
ESA/DLR/G.Neukum-FUBerlin
Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY

#Space #Astronomy #Mars #Astrodon #Spacetodon #Solarocks

Exciting space-discovery alert!

Gliese 12 b is an Earth-size planet orbiting in the temperate zone around a nearby, stable red dwarf star. It's a Rosetta Stone world that will tell us a lot about how many superficially earthlike planets actually have the right conditions for life.

Are we rare? Are we common? Let's find out.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/nasas-tess-finds-a-world-sized-between-earth-and-venus #space #science #astronomy #astrodon #life #aliens

#PPOD: A massive storm, large enough to encompass most of North America, was spotted in Jupiter’s northern latitudes by NASA's Juno spacecraft on May 12. Juno is currently in its first extended mission and recently wrapped up close flybys of the Galilean moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ @kevinmgill

#jupiter #space #science #scicomm

🌠 SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity | Technology | EL PAÍS English

"It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken”

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-18/spacex-satellites-threaten-to-hide-asteroids-that-pose-danger-to-humanity.html

#SpaceX #Starlink #Astronomy #Asteroid #Space

SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity

The International Astronomical Union demands that urgent action be taken against the uncontrolled proliferation of these devices. Satellite constellations make it difficult to search for objects at risk of impacting the Earth

^{Francisco Doménech (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
posted by pod_feeder_v2

On May 16, Russia launched a spacecraft into #space in the orbit of U.S. satellites. U.S. intel believes the #satellite could attack and spy on other satellites.

It was also reported that the #us believes #Russia is developing a space weapon that is able to take out networks of satellites.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-assesses-russia-launched-space-weapon-near-american-satellite-last-week-2024-05-21/

#PPOD: This stunning photo was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. Phobos is the larger and closer of Mars's two moons, the other being Deimos. One hypothesis of their origin involves the possible capture of primitive asteroids. Unfortunately, Phobos is being pulled apart and closer by Mars's tidal forces and gravity. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/ @andrealuck CC BY (https://www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/53635851891/)

#mars #phobos #space #science #scicomm

The birth of a new, sunlike star is beautiful and spooky in this new image from Hubble. (34 years old and going strong!)

The ominous "mask" is a cloud of cool dust. The baby star HP Tau, top of the trio, is flickering madly due to inspiraling gas, jets, and huge starspots.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-the-dawn-of-a-sun-like-star/ #science #space #astronomy #astrodon #nature

"#SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity

The International Astronomical Union demands that urgent action be taken against the uncontrolled proliferation of these devices. #Starlink satellites make it difficult to search for objects at risk of impacting the Earth"

#IAU #ElonMusk #Space

Irony:

#SpaceKaren dreams of "saving" humanity by colonizing #Mars, dooms us to #asteroid impact- his #satellite toys blot our #telescope warning

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-18/spacex-satellites-threaten-to-hide-asteroids-that-pose-danger-to-humanity.html

SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity

The International Astronomical Union demands that urgent action be taken against the uncontrolled proliferation of these devices. Starlink satellites make it difficult to search for objects at risk of impacting the Earth

^{Francisco Doménech (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

A mind-blower for a Friday evening:

This deceptively simple-looking graph is a spectrum of *gravitational waves* ringing through the Milky Way.

The waves may be caused by a chorus of supermassive black holes colliding all across the universe. Whoa!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16227 #science #space #physics #astronomy

I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.

#space #astronaut #mars
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/capa-perdida-emilio-herrera-primer-traje-espacial-historia_1_11357855.html

After years of searching, astronomers have finally detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet around another star.

But what a strange planet it is! 55 Cancri e seems to be blanketed in carbon dioxide gas bubbling out of a global ocean of lava. Like an image out of Dante's Inferno.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-102 #space #science #nasa #astronomy

"In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetarium-history

#science #space #planetarium #history

A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

Crowds flocked to see an artificial starry sky projected onto a dome

^{Allison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)}

#PPOD: As carbon dioxide frost sublimates with the warming Martian spring, a pattern emerges of dark brown sand dunes interspersed with the remaining bright frost. Image taken by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona

#mars #science #space #scicomm

"The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly two decades Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth and created dazzling northern lights in unaccustomed places."

AP reports: "The good news is that Earth should be out of the line of fire this time because the flare erupted on a part of the sun rotating away from Earth."

https://flip.it/Qpr8WJ

#Sun #SolarFlare #Space #NorthernLights #NOAA #NASA

Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in almost two decades

The sun isn't done yet. That's the message from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as the biggest flare in nearly two decades erupted on the sun Tuesday.

^{MARCIA DUNN (AP News)}

So, which is it?

"Musk's Starlink satellites disrupted by major solar storm" https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/05/11/musks-starlink-satellites-disrupted-by-major-solar-storm.html

or

"SpaceX Starlink satellites doing just fine after weekend solar storm, company says" https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-solar-storm-healthy-satellites ?

It can't be both. 🤷🏼‍♂️

#Space #SpaceX #Starlink #SpaceSustainability #SolarStorm

SpaceX Starlink satellites doing just fine after weekend solar storm, company says

In 2022, however, a solar storm doomed 40 satellites.

^{Elizabeth Howell (Space)}

#PPOD: NASA's Voyager 1 probe launched in 1977 and is now the most distant human-made object from Earth, traveling through interstellar space. Recently, NASA engineers had to figure out why the probe was suddenly sending unreadable data. After nearly six months of analysis and re-programming, they got Voyager correctly transmitting again. Truly a feat of human ingenuity. Credit: Dave Granlund

#comic #cartoon #funny #science #space #scicomm

The universe may have a complex geometry — like a doughnut.

Science News reports: "In a universe with an analogous, complex topology, you could travel across the cosmos and end up back where you started."

https://flip.it/EAdwS4

#Space #Universe #Physics #Astrophysics #Science

The universe may have a complex geometry — like a doughnut

Physicists haven’t yet ruled out the possibility that the universe has a complicated topology in which space loops back around on itself.

^{Emily Conover (Science News Magazine)}

Aurora colors come from atoms that are trying to shed some of their energy.

In very thin air, oxygen survives in a delicate, high-energy state that emits green light. In denser air, atomic collisions knock oxygen to a lower-energy state that emits red. Nitrogen is a robust emitter that glows bright in even lower, denser layers of the atmosphere.

Beautiful science.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/aurora-tutorial #aurora #science #space #nature

An interesting article on the time line of the universe.

The Universe passed through many epochs, from free quarks and gluons to stable protons and neutrons to neutral atoms to stars, galaxies, planets, and more. The precise time at which these various epochs occurred, including the (current) dark energy-dominated era, can be pinpointed with precision. Here’s how we know.

#science #space #universe
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/story-timeline-universe/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklynewsletter&utm_content=05%2F09%2F24+Smarter+Faster&rjnrid=EDnXmOz

The scientific story behind the timeline of our Universe

From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?

^{Ethan Siegel (Big Think)}

A rare severe geomagnetic storm watch is issued for the first time in nearly 20 years amid "unusual" solar event.

CBS News quotes the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): "Geomagnetic storms can impact infrastructure in near-Earth orbit and on Earth's surface, potentially disrupting communications, the electric power grid, navigation, radio and satellite operations."

https://flip.it/6cGvxW

#Sun #SolarFlare #Geomagnetic #Space #Science

Rare severe geomagnetic storm watch issued for first time in nearly 20 years amid "unusual" solar event

The sunspot responsible for the odd series of strong solar flares is so big you can see it with your own eyes from Earth.

^{Li Cohen (CBS News)}

2.6 tons of batteries and the pallet they were mounted on were supposed to burn up in the atmosphere. Not all of it did, and Alejandro Otero's house was hit with a 0.7 kg nickel-chromium cylinder from space.

https://www.space.com/object-crash-florida-home-iss-space-junk-nasa-confirms

#space #nasa #iss #SpaceJunk

Object that slammed into Florida home was indeed space junk from ISS, NASA confirms

It was part of a pallet jettisoned along with 5,800 pounds of aging batteries back in March 2021.

^{Mike Wall (Space)}

Suni Williams is now in the capsule as well.

#boeing #nasa #starliner #space

If all goes well on Monday, two #NASA astronauts will blast off into space on #Boeing’s #Starliner spacecraft.

And it’s a big deal – this long-delayed mission will represent the vehicle’s first crewed launch. If successful, it will give NASA – and in the future, space tourists – more options for getting to low Earth orbit.

https://theconversation.com/boeings-starliner-is-about-to-launch-if-successful-the-test-represents-an-important-milestone-for-commercial-spaceflight-228862
#space #News

Boeing’s Starliner is about to launch − if successful, the test represents an important milestone for commercial spaceflight

The Starliner has had delays and issues. The May 2024 launch will put its capacity to carry crew to the International Space Station to the test.

^{The Conversation}

There’s a tiny but measurable threat posed by stellar cataclysms such as supernovae and related phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts.⁠

If close enough, these events can disturb telescopes and even damage the ozone layer.⁠
https://theconversation.com/exploding-stars-are-rare-but-emit-torrents-of-radiation-if-one-happened-close-enough-to-earth-it-could-threaten-life-on-the-planet-224720
#Science #astronomy #space

Exploding stars are rare but emit torrents of radiation − if one happened close enough to Earth, it could threaten life on the planet

Some ancient texts record what were likely dying stars, faintly visible from Earth. If close enough, these events can disturb telescopes and even damage the ozone layer.

^{The Conversation}