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🌌 Ground-breaking News! 🌌 Celestron's C14 telescope went where no land-based telescope of this size has gone before. The Virtual Telescope Project (VTP) in Italy used the Celestron C14 to explore the region of quasar PSO J006.1240+39.2219. With over 11 hours of data and 133 images, VTP not only saw the quasar but faint stars with a magnitude of 25.5. Gianluca Masi of VTP shares, "To our knowledge, no telescope with a diameter under 180 cm has ever reached so deeply into space and time." This achievement speaks to Celestron's optical excellence and the power of ground-based telescopes in scientific research—proving that the universe is within reach for all of us. 🌠 Read more https://bit.ly/4fQM99s #VirtualTelescopeProject #Celestron #Astronomy #GroundBasedTelescope #Quasar

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered strange shapes in Jupiter's atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. Initially thought to be bland and even homogeneous, this part of Jupiter's atmosphere actually displays a variety of structures and activity, such as dark arcs and bright spots. But the team thinks one way to change this structure is through gravity waves - similar to waves hitting the beach, creating ripples in the sand. These waves are generated deep in the turbulent lower atmosphere around the Great Red Spot, and they can propagate high into the atmosphere, changing the structure and emissions of the upper atmosphere.#space #universe #astronomy

NEOWISE was originally launched in 2009 as the WISE mission to search for deep space objects such as black holes. After restarting in 2013, it focused on searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs), including comets and asteroids. The six infrared images released this time show the universe at different wavelengths: starlight at 3.4 and 4.6 microns appears blue-cyan, dust at 12 microns appears green, and warm gas at 22 microns appears red. These images provide valuable data resources for studying the solar system.#space #universe #astronomy

In the latest AAS Journal Author Series video, Ian Wong (Space Telescope Science Institute) chats about his article on Jupiter's Trojans: https://ow.ly/i69l50RNluj This series connects authors with their article, their human story & the larger #astronomy community. #ExploreAstronomy

🌌 Theo Schutt tells us how the NSF-DOE's Rubin Observatory, with its SLAC-built #LSST camera, will be mapping the cosmos to unlock the mysteries of our universe and to alert us of objects that could come dangerously close to Earth. Over ten years, the observatory and its camera will track millions of objects, from near-Earth asteroids to the 17 billion stars of the Milky Way, using cutting-edge technology to study the chemical and physical properties of stars in our own galaxy. This survey will transform our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution, offering unprecedented insights into the cosmic narrative: https://lnkd.in/gnTFZamC #SLACExplains #RubinObservatory #capturethecosmos #Astronomy #DarkMatter #DarkEnergy

In #Astronomy, seeing is well-defined. Now that my Astromedia cardboard kit "Newtonian" telescope performs, I try to calculate conservatively what I can see with it. The theoretical angular resolution is roughly 10^-5 rad, from my measurements it is a bit better than 10^-4. So I should expect to have effectively roughly 100 pixels resolution across the moon, and just (0.14/900)/10^-4 = 1.3 across Jupiter. No chance then to see the coloured bands, let alone the red spot. But the moons may be seen separately from Jupiter, their orbits range from 3 to 12x Jupiter's radius, so effectively 4 to 16 pixels. Even with the 10x better limit of the theoretical resolution, we would be hard pressed to see more than a few colored bands on Jupiter. It helps a lot though to know the limits of your equipment, so that you can rule out over-interpretation. The theoretical angular resolution limit is a very simple formula: lambda /D, where lamda is the wavelength of the light, and D the diameter of the primary lens or mirror. So even if my 2.5 mm phone camera would be perfect (which it is not), it would resolve just 0.7 effective pixels across Jupiter. The moons of Jupiter are beyond my phone camera as they are 30x smaller than Jupiter. So my conclusion is that I did see Jupiter indeed around 5 AM yesterday, roughly 5 degrees below the moon as was predicted. See left side of the picture the speck at the bottom. But my interpretation that it was side-lit was early morning gibberish, over-interpretation of the expanded image (right side)! Which goes to show that I am just human....in case you wondered!

𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 #𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬: 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐲 🌞 Temporal evolution of spicules in the northern polar coronal hole as observed by the Broadband Filter Imager onboard the Japanese Hinode satellite on 2007 November 7. The observations were taken through a Ca II H filter at 396.85 nm. Spicules are thin, elongated jets a few hundred kilometers wide. They reach up to 6000 km height and can move at speeds of more than 100 km/s. We need the extreme capabilities of the European Solar Telescope in order to fully understand the role of spicules in the mass transport and heating of the outer solar atmosphere. 🎥 A radial gradient filter was applied to enhance the intensity of the spicules above the solar limb. In this movie, the photosphere is depicted in orange and the chromosphere in blue. Movie credit: Mats Carlsson (ITA, University of Oslo) Observations: Hinode (ISAS/JAXA, NAOJ, NASA, STFC, ESA) More information about spicules and other solar phenomena in the EST Solar Gallery 👇 https://lnkd.in/dntvbDcv #ESFRI #ERIC #ResearchInfraestructures #solarphysics #Sun #Astronomy

Had a fantastic night out stargazing with 8-inch Dobsonian telescope! Jupiter was the star of the show. I was able to clearly see the four largest moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They looked like tiny little pinpricks of light dancing around the giant planet. It's always amazing to think that these are whole worlds orbiting another world! The GSO 8" Dobsonian is a great telescope for observing the planets and moons of our solar system. Its large aperture gathers a lot of light, which allows you to see fainter objects. The Dobsonian mount is also very easy to use, which makes it a great choice for beginners. If you're looking for a telescope that will let you explore the wonders of the night sky, the GSO 8" Dobsonian is a great option.

Predicting the brightness of a comet is notoriously a very unreliable science, yet there's a glimmer of hope that Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) could be a very good one in October as it makes its way from the Oort Cloud around the sun for the very first time. Most comets are massive naked-eye disappointments, but once in a great while, they can be amazing. Early and very optimistic predictions say it could be as bright as Sirius or Venus. Currently, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a very dim 10th-magnitude fuzzball in Virgo. Sky and Telescope has observing tips. Image: Johnny Barton on April 21, 2024, in Robinson, TX https://ow.ly/rnjJ50RnmjP #spaceweather #comet #ATLAS #Tsuchinshan #OortCloud #Virgo #SkyandTelescope #Astronomy