Herbig-Haro objects are some of the rarer sights in the night sky, taking the form of thin spindly jets of matter floating among the surrounding gas and stars. The two Herbig-Haro objects cataloged as HH46 and HH47, seen in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, were spotted in the constellation of Vela (the Sails), at a distance of…
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Tips on choosing telescopes and binoculars for beginners
Tips for beginners: how to choose binoculars or your first telescope. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/how-to-choose-1st-telescope-binoculars…
Red rainbow over Bellingham, Washington
Lawrence, you’ve caught a double red rainbow – a cousin to an ordinary multi-colored rainbow – that happens when the sun is low in the sky. See how tall your rainbows are? The height of a rainbow corresponds (inversely) to the height of the sun in your sky. High sun, low rainbow. Low sun, high…read more » Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/red-rainbow-over-bellingham-washington…
Iridescent Clouds over Sweden
Why would these clouds multi-colored? Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Have astronomers found a hyper-volcanic exomoon?
Astronomers have found evidence for a possible exomoon orbiting a gas giant planet 550 light-years away. If they’re interpreting the evidence correctly, this moon would be a place of destruction, even more volcanically active than Jupiter’s famous volcanic moon, Io. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/volcanic-exomoon-exo-io-wasp-49b…