Friday, September 30, 2022

Jupiter Reaches its Biggest and Brightest in Nearly 60 Years

09/30/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Jupiter reaches its biggest and brightest in nearly 60 years
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing by Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY

This month is a great opportunity to see the giant planet at its best.

Asteroid Ryugu is made of rubble from the outer solar system
JAXA

Particles plucked from Ryugu and returned to Earth reveal the near-Earth asteroid originated beyond Jupiter, helping shed light on the evolution of the main belt.

Maarten Schmidt, the father of quasars, dies at age 92
Caltech Archives

The famed astronomer’s 1963 breakthrough discovery rocked the world, helping to change the universe’s origin story.

SPACE AND BEYOND BOX

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Starmus Festival rocks Armenia with help of Queen guitarist Brian May
David J. Eicher

In September 2022, the sixth Starmus Festival brought its unique combination of talks by luminaries, observing the cosmos, an imaging workshop, and rock ‘n’ roll to an historic world site.

Ask Astro: Are neutrinos dark matter?
X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/ M. Markevitch; Optical and lensing map: NASA/STScI, Magellan/U.Arizona/D. Clowe; Lensing map: ESO WFI

Could neutrinos account for the dark matter we cannot see in our universe?

Orion Nebula Puzzle┬а

OBSERVING

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.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Roses are red (and blue)
Walt Lickteig and Steve Timmons

The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros (NGC 2237–9/44/46) is one of the most popular targets on the sky, but the imagers of this shot have achieved a dramatic red/blue color palette with SHO filters. The image is a four-panel mosaic taken near Fort Davis, Texas, representing 110 hours of exposure with a 14-inch scope.

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