Friday Find November 4 2022
Join National Geographic columnist and Night Sky Guy Andrew Fazekas for his top space news of the week. This episode we talk about the discovery of the closest black hole to Earth, Mars Insight Lander close to death, new launch date for Artemis I, Blood Moon eclipse coming, Taurid Fireballs and Moon encounters Jupiter. Phew….that’s […]
Amazing Footage of Space X Falcon Heavy Sticking Double Booster Landing
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket system, the world’s most-powerful , launched onTuesday after three years hiatus from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, delivering military satellites into orbit. Check out this amazing video footage of the booster double landing captured nearby. Sheesh! Falcon Heavy dual-RTLS never gets old! 🚀 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/Utib3JeLYf — Chance Belloise (@chancebelloise) November 1, 2022 SpaceX […]
Friday Find October 28 2022
Join National Geographic’s Andrew Fazekas, the Night Sky Guy for his personal picks of space news this week.
Meteor Shakes Mars and Creates Crater
NASA’s Insight lander felt the ground shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the yawning new crater from space. NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last Dec. 24, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest […]
Stunning Reveal of Iconic Pillars of Creation by Webb
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and […]
The Stuph File Interview: DART Mission Smashes into Asteroid, Hubble, Spacex and Mars Helicopter
Check out my October appearance on The Stuph File radio show with host Peter Anthony Holder. In this episode we talk about the successful collision of a vending sized spacecraft with an asteroid and what this means for protection of our planet from wayward asteroids and comets in the future. We also chat about SpaceX, […]
Hubble Shows Off Violent Starbirth
The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig–Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts. Both objects are in the constellation Orion and lie around 1250 light-years from Earth. HH 1 is the luminous cloud above the bright star in the upper right of this image, […]
NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology. […]
Hubble Snags Scorpion’s City of Stars
Terzan 1 is a globular cluster that lies about 22,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. It is one of 11 globular clusters that were discovered by the Turkish-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan between 1966 and 1971 when he was working in France, based mostly at Lyon Observatory. Somewhat confusingly, the 11 Terzan globular clusters are numbered […]