Friday, April 8, 2022

The Sun’s Coronal Loops May Be an Optical Illusion

04/08/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

The Sun's coronal loops may be an optical illusion
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The arcs that dance above the Sun may actually be wrinkles in a vast veil of plasma.

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Astronomy's exoplanet boom crests 5,000 confirmed worlds
NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA recently confirmed a cosmic milestone in its exoplanet archive.

Luciteria Elements 
Written in the stars: How humans pick out constellations
Tarokmeww/Shutterstock

For star patterns that are recognized across continents, cultural influences take a back seat to human visual processing.

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Explore deep-sky gems in Coma Berenices
Astronomy: Richard Talcott and Roen Kelly

Packed with a veritable smörgåsbord of galaxies, Coma Berenices is on full display this month.

Ask Astro: Why will Europa Clipper orbit Jupiter instead of Europa?
NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is scheduled for launch in 2024 to assess the habitability of Jupiter’s moon Europa. So why will it orbit Jupiter and not Europa itself?

The sky this week
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

Thanks for all the fish
Jon Talbot from Ocean Springs, Mississippi

The Dolphin Nebula (Sharpless 2–308) is a wind-blown bubble of ionized hydrogen surrounding the massive Wolf-Rayet star EZ Canis Majoris. This narrowband image was taken with HOO filters and almost 25 hours of exposure time.

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