Collins remained alone in lunar orbit for nearly 21.5 hours while his Apollo 11 crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited the moon's surface. "He watched as his fellow astronauts descended onto the surface, just as many astronauts will do from the Gateway in the future," notes the petition.
That phrasing is a reference to Collins' 1974 autobiography, "Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys."
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The orbiting solar probe saw its first solar flare and provided us with a beautiful video
Last February, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA sent their Solar Orbiter probe to enjoy our beautiful sun from every angle. An opportunity for the probe to observe and photograph its first solar flare.
Against all odds, it did its job directly by observing and photographing the solar flare as the probe was about 77 million kilometers from the star.
Yes, scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency had never expected to see such a phenomenon soon. In fact, when the probe noticed this eruption, it was behind the Sun with respect to Earth. Scientists had no plans to get any data whatsoever at that time. Because the sun’s atmosphere usually blocks communications when the sensors are behind the sun.
Lunar eclipse will have Southern California’s eyes turning to the skies early Wednesday
For anyone who has trouble sleeping, works the night shift or wakes in the wee hours of the morning, an astronomical wonder will be visible for the first time since 2019.
Southern Californians awake between 4:11 and 4:26 a.m. on Wednesday, May 26 can look to the skies and watch as the first total lunar eclipse since January 21, 2019 appears. A total lunar eclipse is an event where the moon passes into the Earth’s shadow, completely obscuring the orbiting body from view. Onlookers will not need special glasses or other precautions to look at the event, unlike solar eclipses.
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Bad Astronomy | Black holes may not swarm in the globular cluster NGC 6397
Recently here on the blog I wrote about the globular cluster NGC 6397 , a collection of a hundreds of thousands of stars in a compact ball, orbiting the Milky Way and currently about 8,000 light years from Earth.
I wrote about it because a pair of astronomers ran statistical models on the way the stars are orbiting in the cluster , and claimed there's a pretty good chance that there's a swarm of stellar-mass black holes in the cluster core, with a total mass of 1,000–2,000 times the Sun's, meaning there could be anywhere from many dozens to a couple of hundred black holes there.
'Clyde's Spot' on Jupiter has a wild new look in NASA photo | Space
"Clyde's Spot," a feature discovered on Jupiter in 2020, has a strange new look, NASA's Juno spacecraft reveals.
The spot, discovered in 2020 by amateur astronomer Clyde Foster using his own 14-inch telescope, first appeared as an oval-shaped feature near the planet's famous "Great Red Spot." Two days after that discovery, NASA took an up-close look at the newfound feature with the Jupiter-orbiting Juno. Juno team members determined that the feature was "a plume of cloud material erupting above the top layers of the Jovian atmosphere," NASA said in a statement .
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