Friday, February 25, 2022

Third Planet Found Around Proxima Centauri

02/25/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Third planet found around Proxima Centauri
ESO/L. Calçada

The solar system around the closest star to Earth just keeps growing.

6" Saturn Globe 
Hundreds of strange filaments found at Milky Way's center
Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University

Thirty-five years after the discovery of odd “threads” in our galaxy, many more strands — and their possible origin — are revealed

Why galaxy M77's active nucleus is hiding
ESO/Jaffe, Gámez-Rosas et al.

New, highly detailed images show a supermassive black hole cloaked inside a doughnut of dust — exactly as expected.

Meet 20 great astronomers who made the history books
Astronomy magazine

Throughout history, innumerable people have made valuable contributions to astronomy. But since we’re short on space, here’s 20, ranked.

Ask Astro: How would a volcanic eruption affect a lunar eclipse?
Jamie Cooper

What does the eclipsed Moon look like after a recent eruption leaves a large amount of volcanic ash in the atmosphere?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
Jeff Sullivan (Flickr)

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

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A pair in the Bear
Abhijit Patil from Hudson, New Hampshire

Bode’s Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82) lie in the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. Both can be viewed from a dark site through a telescope with an eyepiece that provides a field of view a bit larger than one-half degree.

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