Hope captures Mars’ tiny moon Deimos like never before

05/12/2023

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Emirates Mars Mission A new look at Mars’ moon Deimos highlights its mysterious origin New images from the UAE’s Hope spacecraft suggest Mars' two small moons might not be captured asteroids, like previously thought. READ MORE

NASA, ESA, P. Erwin (Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik), L. Ho (Peking University), and S. Kaviraj (University of Hertfordshire); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Hubble spies a luminous lenticular with an active black-hole heart Located some 30 million light-years away, this lenticular galaxy is host to a black hole that’s actively devouring anything that gets too close. READ MORE

NASA/SuperBIT First image from new balloon-based telescope revealed After launching on April 16, the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) has already photographed colorful, star-packed regions. READ MORE

ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), N. Bartmann Hunting rogue black holes in the Milky Way Roughly 100 million lonely black holes lurk within the Milky Way. And astronomers are finally starting to bring them into the light. READ MORE

Astronomy: Roen Kelly Ask Astro: How quickly will the Sun become a red giant? Our Sun will undergo a gradual transition from a hydrogen-burning main sequence star into an aging red giant. READ MORE THIS WEEK IN ASTRONOMY WITH DAVE EICHER

NASA/JPL-Caltech This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: All about quasars Quasars, short for quasi-stellar objects, were first identified in 1962. They appear as star-like points, but they lie at enormous distances, which means they’re emitting incredible amounts of energy. WATCH NOW

OBSERVING

NASA/JPL-CalTech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA The sky this week Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you, sponsored by Celestron. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.  READ MORE

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Chirag Upreti, taken from South Lefroy Bay, Western Australia Totality from Australia The hybrid solar eclipse of April 20, 2023, had a maximum duration of just 76 seconds. But it featured wild prominences and a healthy smattering of Baily's beads, as captured in this sequence from Western Australia. It was also visible in East Timor and Indonesia. VIEW NOW

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