Friday, June 17, 2022

New Simulations Zoom in on Planets Swallowed by their Stars

06/17/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

New simulations zoom in on planets swallowed by their stars
Penn State

As a star ages, it sometimes engulfs its own planets. New work is giving us the inside story on what happens to the planet and its star when this happens.

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Win five items to prepare for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse including the exclusive 6" eclipse globe, solar eclipse glasses, and more. Enter before the end of June for your chance to get over $100 of eclipse gear for free!

Starmus Festival set for 6th star-studded event in September 2022
Starmus

The multi-day international celebration of art, music, and science will take place in Yerevan, Armenia on Sept. 5–10.

6" Jupiter Globe 
MAVEN returns to operations after three-month pause
NASA/GSFC

In February, the martian orbiter went offline due to problems orienting the spacecraft.

Space and Beyond Box

Check out the space-themed subscription box created by the team behind Astronomy magazine! This quarterly collection of 6-8 full-sized items has over an $80 value in each box. Explore our universe with a new topic in each box.

Scientists uncover a new population of massive black holes
Original image NASA & ESA/Hubble, artistic conception of black hole with jet by M. Polimeradit

A clever way to find a previously overlooked population of dwarf galaxies could answer questions about how supermassive black holes grow so big.

Ask Astro: What would happen if two supermassive black holes merged?
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

When galaxies merge, their central black holes should also combine. What does this look like?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
Beau Rogers (Flickr)

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

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Look closer
Jonathan Talbot from Ocean Springs, Mississippi

NGC 1999 is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion the Hunter. But it’s not the large reddish cloud that occupies most of this image. Rather, it’s the small nebula near the center with a dark inverted T in its middle.

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