This week brings some delicious celestial sights for stargazers, astronomers and astrophotographers.
First comes the Moon's journey through Taurus and its various stargazing jewels before Venus visits one of the closest clusters of stars to Earth.
Meanwhile, we get to grips with the constellation of Perseus and, if you have a small telescope, this is the best week of the year to try for a glimpse of the planet Neptune between the bright sights of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars.
Many things are taking place:
EYES TO THE SKY: Planets shine all night - brilliant morning planets - The Berkshire Edge
Mount Washington — In the evening sky, planets Jupiter and Saturn shine side by side in the south. Jupiter, at magnitude -2.51, is visible at dusk and is joined, as darkness falls, by Saturn (0.34 m). Reminder: The smaller the number, the brighter the celestial body. Enjoy the juxtaposed planets, the largest in our solar system, until they set in the southwest after midnight.
When I am indoors at 10 o'clock, I look from a south-facing window for Jupiter, the bright star-like beacon, with dimmer Saturn to its left above the forested hillside. Then, at midnight, I find the pair approaching the southwest skyline.
From pandas to planets, here are a few fun things for kids to explore | The Weekly Wonder | The
Wonder of wonders, this is the last Weekly Wonder as we all shepherd our kids into this unusual school year. Here are a few fun diversions to ease stress — or, for younger kids, fill the time.
We’ll leave you with this (by no means full) list of some of our favorite resources for kids and families to explore:
Three-star system in deep space may be home to planet, researchers find | Fox News
Researchers have discovered a three-star solar system that could also be home to a planet in deep space, according to a new study.
The research, published in Science , notes the GW Orionis star system, which is located at the edge of the Orion constellation 1,300 light-years from Earth, has two stars (GW Ori A and B) that orbit one another and the third (GW Ori C) orbits the two siblings at a distance of approximately 8 au, or approximately 740 million miles. Inside the rings could be dust, or the beginnings of a young exoplanet, which could explain the misalignment of the system's gravitational pull.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Access to ships: 'Potentially Dangerous' Planets to Fly Today's Earth 2010 F
The giant planet in question (465824) is known as the 2010 FR, which will approach our planet on September 6, at 162 meters in diameter. The planet in question is a perfect giant – measuring the height of the Blackpool Tower Almost twice the size of Big Ben. And it’s not only huge, but also very fast – a total of 14 kilometers per second.
Thankfully, the 2010 FR will travel 7.5 million kilometers from Earth, but the giant space rock is still of interest to astronomers.
Mars next to Moon: Stunning pics from Lunar occultation of Red Planet | Science | News |
On the night of September 5 to 6, the Moon passed in front of the Red Planet in a rare phenomenon known as the lunar occultation of Mars. Mars was only hidden to those in South America, northern Africa and southern Europe, and for the rest of us it appeared as if a small red star was next to our lunar satellite.
The occultation of Mars provided some stunning images, especially one from Patricio Leon of Santiago, Chile.
Just after the Moon took its place in front of Mars, Mr Leon snapped a stunning, high res image which shows both our lunar satellite and our galactic next-door neighbour in stunning detail.
Protecting half of Earth may help solve climate change, save species | Science News
Earth faces two interrelated crises: accelerating loss of biodiversity and climate change. Both are worsened by human development of natural lands that would otherwise allow species to flourish and would store atmosphere-warming carbon, stabilizing the climate.
A new study argues that nations can help avert the biodiversity and climate crises by preserving the roughly 50 percent of land that remains relatively undeveloped. The researchers dub that conserved area a "Global Safety Net," mapping out regions that can meet critical conservation and climate goals in a study published September 4 in Science Advances.
Triple star system found with weirdly warped planetary disc
It can be easy to assume that the way things are in our solar system are mostly how they are elsewhere in the universe – but that's often not the case. Now, astronomers have observed a triple star system that's warping and splitting its planetary disc into strange new shapes and multiple rings.
Here in our solar system, things are surprisingly well-ordered. All of the planets orbit within a fairly flat disc, and so do objects in the asteroid and Kuiper belts. Most other star systems observed by astronomers seem to have similar structures, thanks to the forces of gravity and momentum squishing dust and gas into discs around stars. Later, this all clumps together to form planets and moons.
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Despite a bright Moon, the week of August 28 to September 4 holds planets, stars, and more for late summer observer… https://t.co/NnL0fe068j AstronomyMag (from Our tiny corner of the cosmos) Sun Aug 30 22:15:04 +0000 2020
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