Black Holes

Did you know?

"What if some black holes in the early universe were able to accrete matter at super-Eddington rates for prolonged periods of time? In this scenario, a black hole starting off with a few hundred solar masses could have bulked up relatively quickly into a billion solar mass behemoth."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

When They were founded

"NASA and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare founded the Learning Channel (TLC) in 1972."

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Plane to Pluto

"If you could fly a plane to Pluto, the trip would take more than 800 years!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Stunning Picture

"Astronomers captured this stunning 1.3-gigapixel image of the Vela supernova remnant — the remains of a star that exploded more than 10,000 years ago — using the telescope-mounted Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Images taken through several DECam filters, each of which allows through distinct wavelengths of light, were combined to produce the bright colours."

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-00941-9/index.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Earths Size

"One million Earths could fit inside the Sun – and the Sun is considered an average-size star."

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Event Horizon Image

"A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)."

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-edge-milky-way%E2%80%99s-central-black-hole?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Sounds of Sun

Snapple Real Fact #1723: If we could hear the Sun, it would create a deep, constant roar.

National Near Miss Day

From a national view, each day many of us face a near miss here and there. March 23rd commemorates the day the entire Earth faced a near miss when a massive asteroid (4581 Asclepius) nearly hit us in 1989."https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-near-miss-day-march-23?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9308462&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&lctg=188476845

First Views of Sun

"A spacecraft that gave us our first multiple-perspective view of the Sun is set to fly by Earth for the first time since launching 17 years ago."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/after-17-years-a-spacecraft-makes-its-first-visit-home-having-made-history/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=14-08-2023

Russia's Module

"Russia’s Nauka module sprung a leak on Monday in the latest incident of faulty hardware on board the International Space Station (ISS)."

https://gizmodo.com/iss-coolant-leak-russian-hardware-nauka-module-1850914299

Eclipse

"When is the next eclipse of the Sun? And when is the next eclipse of the Moon? Here is the your Eclipse Calendar for 2023 and 2024 for both solar eclipses and lunar eclipses."

https://www.almanac.com/eclipses

Astronauts to Orbit the Moon

"A few years before Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin would make lunar history—Lovell as one of the first astronauts to orbit the moon in 1968 and Aldrin as the second man to walk on it in 1969—the two Americans sat together inside the Gemini 12 cockpit some 200 miles above Earth." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-history-of-total-solar-eclipses-seen-by-astronauts-from-outer-space-180983909/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&spMailingID=49545967&spUserID=MTQzNjUzNTAxNTQ5OAS2&spJobID=2661217920&spReportId=MjY2MTIxNzkyMAS2

Water on Mars

"For years it was believed that Earth was the only planet in our solar system with liquid water. More recently, NASA revealed its strongest evidence yet that there is intermittent running water on Mars, too!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Walks in Space

"You wouldn’t be able to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they have no solid surface!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

StarTalk

"Neil deGrasse Tyson’s media network, StarTalk, in partnership with Jellysmack, is launching its first-ever live linear channel on Pluto TV."

https://deadline.com/2024/02/neil-degrasse-tyson-startalk-channel-pluto-tv-1235812783/amp/

NASA mission MIT

"If all goes well, a NASA mission with extensive connections to MIT will soon be headed to a metal world."

https://news.mit.edu/2023/psyche-journey-ancient-asteroid-begins-1011

Beginning of operation

"NASA began to operate in 1958, one year after Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviets. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite in the world."

https://www.softschools.com/facts/space/nasa_facts/3197/

UFO office

"The Pentagon's UFO office is developing sensor kits to help it collect data in real time on unidentified objects in the sky or in space."

https://www.space.com/pentagon-ufo-uap-office-aaro-sensors-anomalies-orbit

Internet In Space

"After several delays and some minor hurricane damage, NASA successfully launched the Artemis 1 mission and jump-started its program to return to the moon. Despite some issues with a fuel leak, NASA was able to fix the problem in time, allowing the new Space Launch System rocket to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday, November 16."

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/8/27/23323463/artemis-1-moon-orion-sls-nasa-kennedy-space-center-florida

UFO Investigation

"A wide-ranging Pentagon review of decades of U.S. government investigations into UFO sightings has found no evidence that any of the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin and also found no evidence that the U.S. government or private companies have ever possessed extraterrestrial technology that has been secretly reverse-engineered."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ufos-storage-findings-alien-technology-exhaustive-pentagon-review/story?id=107899910

Identification of Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions

"The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world."

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-rare-eleventh-century-astrolabe-discovery.html#google_vignette

James Webb Telescope

"Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have spotted a ‘dead’ galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such galaxy ever observed."

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-spot-oldest-dead-galaxy-yet-observed?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Star Light

"Space looks black because some stars haven't been around long enough for their light to reach us."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/things-never-knew-space-facts-2018-4%3famp

James Webb Telescope

"The James Webb Space Telescope's new infrared images have revealed never-before-seen cosmic details."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/things-never-knew-space-facts-2018-4%3famp

Space Begin

"Space does not begin at a specific altitude above the Earth, but the Kármán line at 100 km is a commonly used definition."

https://space-facts.com/

Atmospheric Rivers

"A series of atmospheric rivers drenched California in February, with record amounts of rainfall and hurricane-force winds sweeping across parts of the state."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/swot-satellite-catches-coastal-flooding-during-california-storms?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=swot20240305

Empty Space

"The space between galaxies is not completely empty but has an average of one atom per cubic meter."

https://space-facts.com/