Friday, November 12, 2021

Earth’s Inner Core Is Growing Lopsided

11/12/2021

NEWS & FEATURES

Flying into June's ring of fire eclipse
Felix Zai

Take a journey through the shadow of the Moon.

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In September 2022, TravelQuest will embark upon a unique, 10-day Iceland: Fire, Ice & Aurora adventure through the seldom-visited Great North region. Experience the aurora borealis, just steps from your picturesque countryside accommodations! Add to that whale watching, lava fields, waterfalls and more - The trip of a lifetime awaits you! 

Looking for galaxies in all the wrong places
Nathan D

Despite battling copious dust and crowded star fields, observing galaxies through the Milky Way is well worth the effort.

2022 Calendars
Found: The first exoplanet outside of our Milky Way
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. DiStefano, et al. 
Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/Grendler; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

In a galaxy far, far away lies an exoplanet circling a binary system that contains a neutron star or black hole.

Capturing the cosmos: How to be an astrophotographer
All images by Jason Guenzel

Astrophotography takes loads of practice and plenty of patience. But the results can be truly spectacular.

Ask Astro: Does dark energy create the voids between galaxy clusters?
Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after Andrew Z. Colvin

I’ve seen it stated that giant voids exist between groups of galaxies. Is dark energy, the mysterious force driving galaxies away from one another, creating these vast voids of space?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
Luis Argerich (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A good heart
Gary Opitz from Rochester, New York

The Heart Nebula, also known as IC 1805, is a star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. It lies some 6,000 light-years away. Exposures for this image were taken through the same kinds of filters the Hubble Space Telescope uses.

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