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Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 22, 2023 by Farzin

Naked Eye Comet ZTF
Comet C/2022E3 (ZTF) is no longer too dim to require a telescope for viewing. By January 19, it […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 21, 2023 by Farzin

Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82
The two dominant galaxies near center are far far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 20, 2023 by Farzin

The Seagull Nebula
A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 19, 2023 by Farzin

Gravitational lensing by the galaxy cluster MACS0647 — in which the massive foreground cluster distorts and lenses the […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 18, 2023 by Farzin

Why are there oxygen-emitting arcs near the direction of the Andromeda galaxy? No one is sure. The gas […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 17, 2023 by Farzin

Our Moon doesn’t really look like this. Earth’s Moon, Luna, doesn’t naturally show this rich texture, and its […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 16, 2023 by Farzin

This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 15, 2023 by Farzin

Perihelion Sun 2023
Perihelion for 2023, Earth’s closest approach to the Sun, was on January 4 at 16:17 UTC. That was […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 14, 2023 by Farzin

Young Star Cluster NGC 346
The most massive young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud is NGC 346, embedded in our small […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on January 13, 2023 by Farzin