Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED) - Part 1

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Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA

 

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Move over, solar eclipse: Scientists predict a once-in-a-lifetime nova explosion in the coming months

The nova T Coronae Borealis explodes about once every 80 years.

www.bbc.com

 

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Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
Image Credit: Mir 27 Crew; Copyright: CNES

 

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Geomagnetic storm from a solar flare could disrupt radio communications and create a striking aurora

Space weather forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday. They say a plasma burst from a solar flare could interfere with radio transmissions on Earth.

apnews.com

 

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Comet Pons-Brooks' Ion Tail
Image Credit & License: James Peirce

 

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ExLabs plans mission to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis

Exploration Labs is planning a 2028 mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis before it reaches Earth.

spacenews.com

 

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The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
Image Credit & Copyright: Joe Hua

 

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New image reveals magnetic field around Milky Way’s black hole

The image offers a never-before-seen view of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, as well as a clue that many or all black holes may share a pattern.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Image Credit & Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco and Mirco Turra

 

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Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters

An asteroid struck Mars 2.3 million years ago, throwing debris across a region of the planet equal to four times the length of the Grand Canyon.

www.space.com

 

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Galileo's Europa
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SETI Institute, Cynthia Phillips, Marty Valenti

 

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'Unlike anything' else: A NASA scientist describes seeing a solar eclipse from outer space

Terry Virts, a NASA scientist and astronaut encourages everyone to make the effort and get to the path of totality to see the April 8 solar eclipse.

www.usatoday.com

 

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Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) ; Acknowledgement: Xavier Jubier

 

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Distant 'space snowman' unlocks mystery of how some dormant deep space objects become 'ice bombs'

A new study is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about distant objects in the far reaches of the solar system, starting with an object called the space snowman.

phys.org

 

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Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World
Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) ; Acknowledgement: Xavier Jubier

Sounds like it won’t be a full eclipse in the UK but people in the US should get a great view.

 

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Supercomputer simulations decode the mass puzzle of the first stars

Ching-Yao Tang and Dr. Ke-Jung Chen from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA) have made substantial progress in decoding the birth mass of the first stars using the powerful supercomputer at Berkeley National Lab.

phys.org

 

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Swirling Magnetic Field around Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole
Image Credit: EHT Collaboration

 

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Life on Enceladus? Europe eyes astrobiology mission to Saturn ocean moon

Such a mission, which would launch in the 2040s for arrival in the 2050s, could be the first to search for life in the Saturn system.

www.space.com

 

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Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona
Image Credit & Copyright: Phil Hart

 

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Explosive green 'Mother of Dragons' comet now visible in the Northern Hemisphere

The green comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is now visible in the night sky in North America. Here's how to see it.

www.livescience.com

 

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NASA to pick new moon car for Artemis astronauts today: Watch it live

The agency will make its announcement during a press conference today (April 3) at 4 p.m. ET.

www.space.com

 

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Metal thought to be International Space Station trash rips through Florida home | International Space Station | The Guardian

Nasa investigates cylindrical slab believed to be part of discarded battery pallet that tore through Naples house

amp.theguardian.com

 

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Unusual Nebula Pa 30
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, USAF, NSF;
Processing: G. Ferrand (U. Manitoba), J. English (U. Manitoba), R. A. Fesen (Dartmouth), C. Treyturik (U. Manitoba);

 

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NASA unveils three teams to compete for crewed lunar rover demonstration mission – Spaceflight Now

 

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The Solar Corona Unwrapped
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory)