Friday, February 10, 2023

Amateur Astronomers Discover Enormous Nebula Near Andromeda

02/10/2023

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Marcel Drechsler/Xavier Strottner/Yann Sainty

The vast emission feature lies right next to the Andromeda Galaxy, though researchers aren't yet sure if they're physically related.

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NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); Science: F. Sun (Steward Observatory), Z. Smith (Open University), and the Ice Age ERS Team.

By observing distant stars through a star-forming cloud of gas and dust, Webb is helping astronomers map out the complex chemicals that could form life.

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NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

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NASA

With more than 100 lunar missions planned in coming years, space junk near the Moon could become an issue for humanity. 

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ESO/L. Calçada 

How do forming planets develop an atmosphere?

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THIS WEEK IN ASTRONOMY

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Jeffrey Sines

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

PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Drew Evans, taken from outside Flagstaff, Arizona

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) began sporting an anti-tail late last month, as captured in this image from the night of Jan. 24. An anti-tail is a dust trail made of particles that, unlike a typical dust trail, are too large to be blown away by the Sun's radiation pressure. By a trick of perspective, they can sometimes appear to protrude from the front of a comet.

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