Friday, November 11, 2022

Long-Term Weather Trends Favor Viewing of 2023's Annular Eclipse

11/11/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Long-term weather trends favor viewing of 2023's annular eclipse
NASA Aqua/MODIS

If the 2023 annular eclipse had occurred Oct. 14 of this year instead, would observers in the U.S. have seen it through clear skies?

Ghost particles caught streaming from dust-shrouded black hole
NASA, ESA & A. van der Hoeven

The IceCube observatory in Antarctica has captured the best evidence yet that the galactic core of M77 is producing neutrinos.

Two SpaceX Falcon Heavy boosters make synchronized landings
SpaceX

The powerful rocket’s first flight since 2019 went off without a hitch, delivering Space Force payloads to geosynchronous Earth orbit.

Black hole burps up remains of shredded star it ate 3 years prior
DESY, Science Communication Lab

The event has left scientists scratching their heads, as the indigestion stems from a seemingly unremarkable feeding event in 2018.

Lucy captures portrait of Earth and Moon on trip to Trojan asteroids
NASA/Goddard/SwR

The NASA spacecraft took the image as it executed its first of three gravity assists that will sling it out to Jupiter’s territory.

2023 Observer's Handbook┬а

OBSERVING

The sky this week┬а
Yu-Hang Kuo (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

Launch leftovers
Tim Song Jones, taken from Afton, CA

These swirling, iridescent clouds lit by the fading Sun are the remains of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket contrail, launched the evening of Oct. 27 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to carry a fresh batch of Starlink satellites to orbit. According to SpaceX, it was the eighth launch for this booster, which had previously launched NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.

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