NASA boss Bill Nelson writes on Twitter that probably never before has an asteroid been recorded that came as close to the earth as 2023 BU. According to experts from the "Planetary Defense" of the US space agency, who had predicted the trajectory of the asteroid, there was no danger to people on Earth.Asteroid 2023 BU is about the size of a pickup truck.On Thursday, the small near-Earth asteroid 2023 BU flew past the southern tip of South America at...
If you deal regularly with climate change, you have a lot to do with loss. Snow is becoming rarer, species that were once quite common are dying out regionally, things that were known and taken for granted are changing or are simply gone.But there are losses not only in nature, but even in the sky: Scientists recently wrote in the specialist magazine Science reports that the number of visible stars in the night sky is decreasing even faster than previously...
By Le Figaro with AFPPosted yesterday at 7:09 p.m., Update 10 minutes agoA small asteroid passed close to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday. NicoElNino / stock.adobe.comAt its closest point, the asteroid was 3,600 kilometers from Earth's surface, much closer than many geostationary satellites orbiting the planet.A small, truck-sized asteroid that suddenly burst out of the darkness a few days ago with Earth in its sights passed us without doing any damage on Thursday, NASA said. The object, first spotted...
astronomy Research team finds meteorite weighing 7.6 kilos Researchers from Belgium have discovered a meteorite weighing 7.6 kilograms in Antarctica. photo © Maria Valdes/Vinciane Debaille/dpa Belgian scientists have made an extraordinary find deep in Antarctica. They discovered a meteorite that is a lot heavier than the usual finds. Researchers have found a meteorite weighing 7.6 kilograms near the South Pole. It originally came from the asteroid belt of our solar system and had waited tens of thousands of years for...
space photography Spectacular image from space shows more than three billion stars in one image The impressive images of the Milky Way were taken with a Dark Energy Camera © NOIRLab A Dark Energy Camera recorded more stars and celestial objects in Chile than ever before. The images show just 6.5 percent of the night sky. New images of space and the Milky Way show more celestial objects than ever before: over three billion stars and galaxies can be seen...
It looks like an abstract oil painting or a gelatinous substance in water. In fact, the image astronomers created with two Australian radio telescopes shows a stellar graveyard in the Milky Way - and capturing it could be the first step in solving a great mystery. You can see previously unobserved remnants of stellar explosions, so-called supernovae, as well as hot bubbles of ionized hydrogen in which new stars are formed. Only stars themselves are not visible because they hardly...
It's a special celestial event for people to see with the naked eyes over the next few weeks. Comet C/2022 E3 is scheduled to reach its closest point on February 1st. When he last came near the earth 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals were still living in Europe.If you know where, observers can see it earlier. The most important questions and answers about comet sighting:When is the comet best seen?At the February 1st Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has reached its closest...
astronomy Green comet comes closer to earth and appears in the night sky The picture shows comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) over Drebber in Lower Saxony. photo © Thomas Lindemann/TNN/dpa The comet only passes close to our planet every 50,000 years. Now it's that time again. Green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is getting closer to our planet on one of its rare visits. A photo in a northerly direction with a bright telephoto lens and a longer exposure time from Wednesday...
from Andrew JaegerIn the constellation of Octant in the southern night sky, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet outside our solar system for the first time. Officially dubbed "LHS 475 b," the exoplanet is almost the same size as Earth at 99 percent the diameter of Earth, but orbits its faint central star, a red dwarf 41 light-years away, but in just two days. that gave a team led by astronomers Kevin Stevenson and Jacob Lustig-Yaeger...
It's a special celestial event for people to see with the naked eyes over the next few weeks. Comet C/2022 E3 is scheduled to reach its closest point on February 1st. When he last came near the earth 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals were still living in Europe.If you know where, observers can see it earlier. The most important questions and answers about comet sighting:When is the comet best seen?At the February 1st Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has reached its closest...
