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The Sun and sunspots. 0902UT 3 April 2025. #AstroDon #Astronomy #Astro #Space #Astrophotography
"SpaceX to launch Fram2 crewed mission to historic polar orbit"
NSF Article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/03/fram2-launch/
#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Falcon9 #CrewDragon #Fram2 #Fram2HAM #Starship #ElonMusk
SpaceX is set to launch its next private human spaceflight…
NASASpaceFlight.comFram2 crew getting ready for manned polar orbit mission. The 1st time a manned flight was in a polar inclination.
(photo from John Kraus)
1st launch window opens at 2146 9:46pm EST today.
NSF Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/qaMDdNAbg-A
#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Falcon9 #CrewDragon #Fram2 #Fram2HAM #Starship #ElonMusk
Supermassive black hole caught playing with its food!
The supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy NGC 4945 is swallowing huge amounts of matter. Yet, contrary to a black hole’s all-consuming reputation, our Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught it blowing out powerful winds of material.
This cone-shaped wind is shown in red in the inset image. In fact, the wind is moving so fast that it will end up escaping the galaxy altogether, lost to the void of intergalactic space.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2513a/
ESO/C. Marconcini et al.
@cafuego@misanthrope.socialAs we’re heading into autumn, Orion starts to set earlier every day and the center of the Milky Way doesn’t rise until the early hours.
Carina and Vela are high in the sky and the southern cross is getting up there too.
We’re past best for the Magellanic Clouds, but other circumpolar objects are now moving into prime position. There are vast clouds of dark dust in the constellations of Chamaeleon and Musca.
The former is on my todo list, but I managed to sneak in a few hours on the Dark Doodad in Musca a week ago, despite some intermittent high cloud.
This dense snake is actually shaped more like a sheet, which we’re seeing edge-on. It blocks out the light from more distant stars.
The fuzz-ball on the right is a globular cluster, which sits 16,000 light years beyond everything else in this image.
Herbig Haro 49/50 - NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope
Full size 5k: https://flic.kr/p/2qUL3JG
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j.Roger/AndreaLuck CC BY
This is my interpretation of the data aligned by @Landru79
NASA/ESA JWST Space Telescope
Herbig-Haro 49/50 (protostellar jet) at 625 light-years
Time: 2024-08-06
Instruments: NIRCam, MIRI
Filters: F200W, F335M, F444W, F470N, F770W
Colours Assigned: Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Red
Proposal ID: 6558
PI: Macarena Garcia Marin
The partially reusable RocketLab Neutron (7m dia), and the fully reusable Stoke Aerospace Nova (4.2m dia).
#Space #Astrodon #USSF #RocketLab #Neutron #StokeAerospace #Nova
Booster 14 is getting prepped for IFT9. Booster 14 previously launched and landed during IFT7, making it the 1st Starship booster to attempt reuse.
On its 2nd flight however, B14 is going to do a water landing to test a new higher angle of attack for landing.
Whooooaaaa! The new #JWST image is so good! So much physics going on — physics Einstein himself thought about!
This is called an Einstein Ring. When a massive foreground galaxy (in this case, an elliptical galaxy) warps the space-time around it, light from behind it bends in our direction.
The JWST caught this fantastic example, where the background spiral galaxy is getting warped into our view. It appears as a ring, but we can see its structures like its spiral arms, gas features and star clusters.
Incredible science happening here!
ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/G. Mahler
I added the annotations in the second image.
#astronomy #astrophysics #generalrelativity #galaxies #science #gravitationallens #Astrodon
