Friday, August 19, 2022

Unique Liquid-Mirror Telescope Comes Online in India

08/19/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Unique liquid-mirror telescope comes online in India
India Ministry of Science & Technology

Instead of a traditional glass mirror, this window to the cosmos uses a spinning pan of liquid mercury.

Celestial Buddies 
Artemis 1 launch scheduled for late August
NASA/Ben Smegelsky

NASA’s new lunar missions will set the basis for humanity’s next leap: Mars.

The star that changed the cosmos: M31-V1
Rod Pommier

An astroimager follows in Edwin Hubble’s footsteps to prove the utter vastness of our universe using a single star.

Explore the Red Planet with Space & Beyond Box

The makers of Astronomy magazine present the Mars Collection! This highly anticipated box features a 6" Percival Lowell Mars globe, Mars 37 Pocket Atlas, Topographic Model of the Jezero Crater, and more. Subscribe today to get free shipping and a bonus gift.

Donald Machholz, comet hunter and co-inventor of Messier marathon, dies at age 69
Donald Machholz/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Soft-spoken with an encyclopedic knowledge of the solar system’s small bodies, Machholz regularly scoured the heavens for most of his life.

Ask Astro: Are quasars and black holes just two different faces of the same object?
ESA/Hubble & NASA

Is there a quasar behind every black hole, and a black hole behind every quasar? Are these different faces of the same object?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA 

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

Maw of the Lagoon
Clark Bacaltos from Modesto, CA

The legendary Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius is one of the few star-forming regions in the northern sky visible to the naked eye. This image processed in HOO filters shows off the dark tendrils and Bok globules of dense gas and dust where stars are being born.

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