Saturday, March 8, 2025

Supermassive Blackhole

"Astronomers have found what appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy."

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/supermassive-black-hole-likely-lurking-in-milky-way-galaxys-nearest-neighbor?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Friday, March 7, 2025

SPHEREx

"In a little over a day, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is slated to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 

rocket."


https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cosmic-mapmaker-nasas-spherex-space-telescope-ready-to-launch/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=spherex20250307

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Tetrafluoride

"What is the molecular geometry of sulfur tetrafluoride? Which layer of the Sun is thickest? What is the average of the first 10 prime numbers?"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/university-high-knows-the-answers-at-nasa-jpl-regional-science-bowl/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=sciencebowl20250303

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

NASA Space Observatory

"A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit this week on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies."https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-spherex-space-observatory-launch-map-galaxies-universe-rcna190877?user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Electrojets

"High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ezie-launching-to-study-magnetic-fingerprints-of-earths-aurora/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=ezie20250225

UY Scuti

"5 billion Suns could fit in UY Scuti, one of the biggest known stars."https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/facts-about-astronomy-space

Brian May

Queen guitarist Brian May is an astrophysicist and member of the NASA team that interprets data from Pluto.

Saturday, March 1, 2025

2024 YR4

"NASA astronomers have been continuing to monitor the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4. The initial calculations suggested a 1.3% probability of an Earth impact event, which temporarily increased to 3.1% as more data came in. However, and with a sigh of relief, recent analysis brings encouraging news: the Earth impact probability has decreased significantly to 0.28%, though calculations now show a 1% chance of lunar impact. Observations will continue with the James Webb Space Telescope so stay tuned."


https://www.universetoday.com/171047/nasa-downgrades-the-risk-of-2024-yr4-to-below-1/#google_vignette