A collection of astronomical photos of 2020 from southern British Columbia, Canada. The music is ‘Windswept’ by Kevin Macleod. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/video-the-sky-in-2020…
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Astronomers measure a change in orbit for infamous asteroid Apophis
Astronomers in Hawaii have detected the Yarkovsky effect – a minuscule push imparted by sunlight – for asteroid Apophis. The effect is particularly important for Apophis, because it relates to the possibility of an Earth impact in 2068. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-99942-apophis-encounters-2029-2036-2068…
What are comets?
Comets are loosely packed balls of ice and dust orbiting our sun, that sometimes become visible in Earth’s skies. A comet’s tail may stretch across millions of miles of space. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/definition-what-are-comets…
Gemini Observatory images reveal striking details of comet NEOWISE
When Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) sped through the inner Solar System during the middle of 2020, astronomers and the general public watched in awe as this “dirty snowball” shed gas and dust into space, producing a striking show visible to the naked eye. Close-up observations, led by Michal Drahus and Piotr Guzik of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, used the international Gemini…
Hubble snaps close-up of comet NEOWISE
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The new images of the comet were taken on 8 August and feature the visitor’s coma, the fine shell that surrounds its nucleus, and its dusty output. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-snaps-close-up-comet-neowise.html…
The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE
Keep your eye on the ion tail of Comet NEOWISE. Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Comet NEOWISE and globular star cluster M53
Comet NEOWISE is now heading out of the inner solar system. It probably can’t be seen with the eye now, although large binoculars can still pick it up. Here’s a beautiful telescopic image of the comet, near the globular star cluster M53. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-comet-neowise-and-globular-cluster-m53…
SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Accused of ‘Photo-Bombing’ Shots of Comet Neowise
“Comet Neowise has been the brightest and most visible space snowball in a generation, but it’s also the first naked-eye comet to visit us in the new era of satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink,” writes CNET. “In just the latest episode of Starlink ‘trains’ irritating astronomers, a number of images have been circulating of the satellites photo-bombing Comet Neowise glamour shots…”…
The curtain is about to come down on Comet NEOWISE
The brightest comet to appear in Northern Hemisphere skies in nearly a quarter of a century will soon be ending its run as a naked-eye object. Source: https://www.livescience.com/comet-neowise-is-dimming.html
SpaceX satellites keep wrecking images of comet NEOWISE
The comet NEOWISE is visible in the dawn sky right now, but photographers are facing a new challenge when they try to capture it: the SpaceX fleet of Starlink satellites. Source: https://www.livescience.com/spacex-starlink-neowise.html