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1. IAA LECTURE , Wednesday 18 November. 7.30p.m. Larmor Lecture Theatre, Astrophysics Research Centre, Physics Building, QUB. By Terry Moseley , IAA
“Syzygy: Everything you wanted to know about the Total Solar Eclipses”. A look at the last, and the next, TSE.
SYNOPSIS
Eclipse fever gripped Ireland, and a lot of Europe and further afield, for the eclipse last August. It will be even greater for the next one, on 2 August 2027, dubbed ‘The Eclipse of the Century’. I’ll talk about TSE’s in general, my own trip to Spain to view totality last August, and all you need to know to observe the next one.
BIOGRAPHY
Terry is a life-long amateur astronomer with interests in everything from meteors and aurorae to the most distant objects in the universe. Although always an observer at heart, he’s more an ‘armchair astronomer’ at present, with the exception of Total Solar Eclipses, which he has chased to the far ends of the Earth – usually successfully
Admission free, including light refreshments. All welcome.
2. REMINDER!!! - PROPOSED IAA SOCIAL EVENT in the New Year
We want expressions of interest for a proposed seasonal event early in the NewYear -probably on Saturday 10 January. It will consist of a seasonal meal in a local restaurant (possibly the AVA) in Bangor, followed by a special showing of an astro/space film in the nearby A1 Cinema, possibly ‘First Man’ about Neil Armstrong. Followed by a quiz. Cost will depend on the choice of meal, and the numbers going.
To help plan for this, would you PLEASE REPLY BY RETURN IF YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THIS EVENT, AND HOW MANY MIGHT BE IN YOUR GROUP.
(Thanks to those who have already responded)
3. FREE ONLINE OBSERVING EVENT, 13 – 14 November.
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I only know about this from the internet, so I can’t personally recommend it, but it’s probably genuine & OK.
4. Voyager 1 is about to reach a milestone on 18 November: one light-day from Earth, after nearly 50 years of travel. On November 18, 2026, it will become the first human-made object to be one light-day from Earth, roughly 16.1 billion miles (25.9 billion km) away. Moving at a speed of 16.9 km sec (or 60,840 km/hour), this will occur at 0.16 am GMT. See
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5. Public Talk: What has JWST discovered in its first 5 years and what's next? Tickets, Tuesday, December 15 • 6 PM - 7 PM | Eventbrite – In Person Only!
Celebrate five years of JWST discoveries and explore what the future holds for astronomy. Public event, by the RAS. By Professor Gillian Wright, CBE, FRSE, who is the recently retired Director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh and a visiting professor of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. She is European Principal Investigator of the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on JWST
6. Galway Star Party, Sat 30 January, Ardilaun Hotel
Accommodation rates for AstroFest '27 on Sat 30th January have been arranged with the hotel. It's happening on a bank holiday weekend again so the hotel will get busy but they've kindly given us the same rates as last time. https://www.theardilaunhotel.ie
Note from the Ardilaun Hotel > Anyone attending can simply tell our reservations team they are a part of Astro Fest or can use the event code #250091
•Single Room at €120.00 B&B per night.
•Double/Twin at €150.00 B&B per night.
7. NEXT ECLIPSE – COMMENTS & GUIDANCE
Another option for folks thinking of Spain – New Scientist is offering a guided trip to a site near Cadiz.. But NS trips are expensive!. Also -
Nine days of bucket-list Egypt https://share.google/2Rhk4vOADGIXQRGHY
8. ISS. The ISS continues its series of evening passes until 2 December. Details for your location are available on www.heavens-above.com
9. STARGAZING WITH THE IAA at AOP, 28 November
10. VENUS is now visible in the morning sky.
Watch brilliant Venus loop round Spica until 26 November, just over 1 degree away. Venus, at mag -4.5, is 158 times brighter than Spica, which is mag 1,0. It’s still close to the Sun, but moves out into a darker sky, and higher above the horizon, up to late December. In a telescope, it will appear as a large but very narrow crescent.
11. SATURN still well placed. The Ringed Planet is visible for most of the night, nicely up in the SE after sunset. It’s now North of the Equator, giving us better viewing for longer each night.
It will be mag 0.5 and diameter 19”. The angle of the rings is now steadily increasing, about 7.5 degrees, with the South side presented to Earth.
Of the main moons, Titan is by far the easiest to see, reaching mag 8.3 at opposition and just visible in good binocs when at greatest elongation from Saturn. Rhea is visible in any decent amateur telescope, reaching mag 9.7, and next, moving in closer to the planet, are Dione (mag 10.4), Tethys (mag 10.2) and Enceladus, mag 11.7. The next one in is Mimas, challenging at mag 12.9, especially as it never gets far from the bright rings. Much further out from Saturn, beyond Titan, is the mysterious Iapetus, where one side is more than twice as bright as the other, with the mag varying from 10.2 – 11.9.
12. MARS & JUPITER – becoming more visible in the morning sky
Mars in in Leo, still small and faint, with mag 0.8, and a diameter of only 6.8”. Jupiter also lies closeby in Leo, much brighter at mag -1.9, and bigger, with a diameter of 36”
We are in another season of the Mutual Eclipse and Occultation events of Jupiter’s Moons. Details on IMCCE - Research - Observation campaigns
13. T Corona Borealis – Again!
When will the Blaze Star erupt? Will neutrinos give us a warning?
14. EASY TEASER Now classed as ‘Difficult’. I can’t believe that no-one has got this yet, so I’m opening it up to the experts, to see if they get it, without any more clues
What’s special about asteroid 15?
Clue: Do I have to spell it out for you?
Another clue – it’s the only one of the first 200 asteroids (at least) which has this characteristic.
Another clue: Sounds like it’s not a matter of consonance, I hear. (- or of dissonance either.)
And another. What’s in a name?
FINAL CLUE: check the alphabet
15. NEW EASY TEASER
Which constellation has a mouth, but no eyes, ears or nose?
16. NEW DIFFICULT TEASER.
Since the last two have been answered very quickly, I’m upping the ante: you won’t get this one so quickly!
Q: What is the significance of this distance: 122,219,409 km?
CLUE: NO guesses yet, so here’s a clue – it’s made up of two components.
Another CLUE: the two components are close in size, but not the same.
BTW, I’m NOT accusing anyone of using Chat GPT, or any other form of AI, but to be safe, and for my own satisfaction, I’m trying to make the questions as AI-proof as possible!
Remember, send answers to me only at my aol address: terrymosel@aol.com.
17. INTERESTING WEBLINKS (Disclaimer – Use of material herein from various sources does not imply approval or otherwise of the opinions, political or otherwise, of those sources). NB: If the title in the weblink does not indicate the subject matter, I give a brief simple intro before the link. I may also comment about the link afterwards.
ASTRONOMERS
Toby Jones stars in film about Beagle 2 Mars mission - BBC News This is about the late Colin Pillinger
ASTROPHYSICS:
10-solar-mass black hole pulls apart a probe near the horizon | Watch
European survey reveals 900m galaxies – and possibly secrets of ‘dark universe’ https://share.google/PB7gGb6EPBamSaDRh
A suspected black hole turns out to be a rapidly spinning star https://share.google/tJiZ1urgwrYJUMc6l
Astronomers Found an “Invisible” Object That Breaks the Rules: A Supermassive Neutron Star in System J0008+0128 https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2120922318822072444?a=t12m9CXG6dkqMCEPcL8&s=20
Astronomers trace a black hole’s powerful jet to a surprising source https://share.google/diClOn4OiMxmlGGEp
Astronomers stunned after Webb telescope discovers the earliest pair of black hole-powered quasars
AE Aurigae is burning through space like a runaway. https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2120967669172392435?a=EqezGXy2aw8WDWSqcCI&s=20
Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every eight minutes https://share.google/uEhSXvB3n7gjduP6X
The CMB Cold Spot and the Eridanus Supervoid In 2004, maps of the cosmic microwave background revealed an unusually large, anomalously cold region in the constellation Eridanus—the so-called CMB Cold Spot. It is colder than expected from standard statistical fluctuations in the https://t.co/3BWxTgQhBz" / X https://share.google/bVyFJ0fc9i6Ivxw3T
Centaurus A in the spotlight: Plasma simulations reproduce black hole jets' mysterious bright edges https://share.google/bYRWWAFD0ansMTjNK
A Cosmic Odd Couple Caught in a Rare Evolutionary Moment. Deep inside the crowded globular cluster NGC 362, about 29,300 light-years away, astronomers have found a striking stellar pair: a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and the youngest white dwarf companion ever identified next to one. https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2120504314997170485?a=ZX7Nc51216hAWUEOYv4&s=20
XLSSC 122: A Mature Galaxy Cluster That Grew Up Too Fast James Webb is peering deeper into cosmic history, and one of its recent surprises is a massive, already well-developed galaxy cluster called XLSSC 122. At a redshift of z = 1.98, we see it as it was roughly 10.4 billion https://t.co/yLzS8nfcpF" / X https://share.google/FFcx1szYSd6Ts4Mct
The red dot right in the center of the frame is not just a speck of dust on the sensor. It’s one of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen. Its light has been traveling to us for 13.3 billion years. We are seeing it as it was only 420 million years after the Big Bang — at a https://t.co/fmyh29PWug" / X https://share.google/JYQ7wJ8LW3RMqv8zd
Scientists Measure Gravitational Pull Between The Smallest Objects Yet in Quest For Quantum Gravity : ScienceAlert https://share.google/PTrOHjXEY45NaOe4y
Gravitational waves hint at black holes born from failed supernovae https://share.google/t5n8JWZiHOZ9BDHsE
Are James Webb Space Telescope's mysterious little red dots tiny black holes from the Big Bang?
Astronomers spot white dwarf star with two rings of planetary debris | Reuters https://share.google/0qkdnnhS0hUC0ji7S
Chandra explains giant erupting star
https://x.com/chandraxray/status/2119824548233425040?a=wvrdD_PiQs3WyhEGQ3I&s=20
El Gordo is an enormous galaxy cluster made up of two smaller clusters colliding at thousands of kilometres per second. Its light has travelled for roughly seven billion years to reach us. The distribution of its galaxies, hot gas and dark matter offers a way to investigate how https://t.co/orzWPkY8WX" / X https://share.google/D2JhdePZkkr7Ah4x0
A Mighty Wind Blew Away Gas and Made Early Galaxies Brighter - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-mighty-wind-blew-away-gas-and-made-early-galaxies-brighter
This image contains 60 million stars and covers 22 times the area of the full moon | Watch
Meet OJ 287: the binary black hole system where one partner is so unimaginably huge it could swallow our entire solar system nine times over. Four billion light-years away, two supermassive black holes locked in a cosmic dance. The primary is an ultramassive monster of roughly https://t.co/d4UMwnToyy" / X https://share.google/d4dUUm0kH6p0pnWc9
Scientists have found strange objects in deep space unlike anything seen before and they could help solve a huge mystery in space science
Ancient star collisions could explain mysterious Little Red Dots and 'impossible' black holes
Scientists have found strange objects in deep space unlike anything seen before and they could help solve a huge mystery in space science
The red dot right in the center of the frame is not just a speck of dust on the sensor. It’s one of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen.
https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2118333007367209151?a=iwWIYqNP5w6atfqXg7Q&s=20
"A newborn star is throwing a spectacular, light-year-long tantrum. Deep inside a dark molecular cloud in the constellation Orion, roughly 1,300–1,500 light-years away, a young protostar is still gorging on the swirling disk of gas and dust that surrounds it. As material spirals https://t.co/irAdg2Pmht" / X https://share.google/XJIkB6rlXC7t0JZfJ
ALMA Reveals a Jet of Cool Gas from a Microquasar - Universe Today https://share.google/yvBb3OZHytTMgcsEN
How the cosmic environment depletes galaxies of their gas https://share.google/mMiCpu9u5AZcfcnPg
European survey reveals 900m galaxies – and possibly secrets of ‘dark universe’ https://share.google/PB7gGb6EPBamSaDRh
COSMOLOGY
Stunning new simulation shows the first galaxies breaking through the cosmic dark age
The James Webb telescope found a galaxy shining just 280 million years after the Big Bang and it is far brighter than any model allows - Space Group https://share.google/orcyM7zYFXLp831d3 Or else the Universe is older than we think!
Dark matter breakthrough coming? Euclid space telescope unveils 1st look into the dark universe
Webb's controversial 'little red dots' may finally have an explanation https://share.google/OZtzlhNVmYuiX9zvy
Einstein's equations predict that gravity can 'tear and reconnect' like the sun's magnetic field does, new study finds | Live Science
Are James Webb Space Telescope's mysterious little red dots tiny black holes from the Big Bang?
This bold theory says the Big Bang wasn't our beginning - I never really liked ‘Inflation’ – a prime example of an ad hoc theory, with no theoretical basis, and a very artificial aura about it. In any case, the need for it weakens all the time, as the universe appears not to be homogenic or isotropic after all – there are really huge structures like Lanikea, which argue against it.
There’s also no really convincing explanation as to why inflation suddenly stopped- imagine a grenade exploding, and all the bits flying apart at huge speed – and then they suddenly slow down and only separate at about walking speed. It doesn’t make sense.
See the early universe like never before: Simulation reveals what happened in first 2 billion years
26.7-billion-year-old universe without dark matter passes Big Bang test
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose argues the Big Bang was not the beginning of our universe — but the end of a previous one. Penrose's idea is called conformal cyclic cosmology. Here’s what it means about the birth and death of our universe. In his model, the universe https://t.co/stHerPOb4l" / X https://share.google/pPJRmDKWJtr9In6yQ - Something similar was proposed by Dr Ernst Opik, then at Armagh Observatory, in his book “The Oscillating Universe” (which I have), published in about 1963,
Untangling the patterns of the cosmic microwave background to better understand the early universe https://share.google/CbQ9S82y9cDhDRLTT
EARTH & MOON
‘A new age of climate extremes’: Earth accumulating heat at accelerating rate | Cop31 | The Guardian https://share.google/jLu2mAXoYQf6p8Le3
China recruits international partners for 34-satellite cislunar constellation - SpaceNews https://share.google/Kwu0D1HIkTB8i786f
There's a really weird-looking hole on the moon and no one knows why
Want to live and work on the moon? NASA is hiring. | Mashable
NASA proceeds with plans to convert Mars rover engineering model into a lunar rover
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A new mini-moon for Earth! Meet 2026 QQ8
Cambridge study finds cometary origin of life highly unlikely
A long lost planet once orbited next to Earth, Apollo-era moon rocks suggest
EXOLIFE
NASA found a rock covered in strange spots on Mars - scientists say it could hold evidence of ancient microbial life | Watch
Astrophysicists discover the best locations for life in the universe https://www.independent.co.uk/space/universe-space-milky-way-galaxy-life-b3083091.html
Is distant exoplanet LHS 1140b our best hope for finding cosmic biology?
Scientists simulate an Earth without life to help hunt for aliens and inhabited worlds
NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory to search for extraterrestrial life | Watch
EXOPLANETS
How ripples in space-time can reveal new exoplanets https://share.google/pgQC3IJ3bk09nVQDX
Scientists watched a planet for years – then it disappeared. They've worked out what happened to it and when it's coming back
Giant exoplanet emerges from the dark when the James Webb Space Telescope turns out the starlight
Astronomers spot white dwarf star with two rings of planetary debris | Reuters https://share.google/0qkdnnhS0hUC0ji7S
Is distant exoplanet LHS 1140b our best hope for finding cosmic biology?
Software squeezes more data out of Webb Telescope for imaging exoplanets - Ars Technica https://share.google/lCG8D5RU9WXe5uglU
Inside the blue planet that rains shards of glass: 'Death by a thousand cuts'
IMAGES:
Rubin Observatory unveils stunning first images of deep space | Watch
AFGL 3068: The Clockwork Spiral of a Dying Star Three to four thousand light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, a cosmic pinwheel is slowly unwinding. AFGL 3068 (also called LL Pegasi) is a pre-planetary nebula sculpted by an aging binary system hidden inside a thick https://t.co/mGrvGTz8Ic" / X https://share.google/K1g5TxBIzJAxdjpUX
Nebula SH2-170, also known as the Little Star! It is located in the constellation Cassiopeia, approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth, within the Perseus Arm of our galaxy. https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2121225063332536634?a=Vclj8Ijn2qgGG-Q-p4Q&s=20
Astrophotographer captures stunning image of galactic witch playing with her crystal ball | Digital Camera World https://share.google/dPGrEpXxUzcNZ25o5
Witness a supernova’s evolution in new Dark Energy Camera timelapse | Watch
A Detailed Look at the Lion Nebula The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planetary nebula NGC 2392, which resembles a lion’s face. Although the Hubble Space Telescope observed it back in 2000, Webb’s infrared capabilities have revealed previously hidden https://t.co/ZFCGDreUVl" / X https://share.google/E3u2zPs3qtDB3zE4Y
Earth, Jupiter & Venus seen from Mars https://share.google/V8A3WMkeO1avEEF2A That’s looking ‘inward’, as seen from Mars. But if Jupiter was at opposition, as seen from Mars, particularly if Mars was at aphelion, it would be much brighter than from Earth!
"The Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944) Imagine a cosmic barnyard on the run — a vast, glowing cloud of hydrogen, dust, and newborn stars stretching nearly 100 light-years across in the southern constellation Centaurus, about 6,500 light-years from Earth. This beautiful emission https://t.co/PZ2Mz6bCDQ" / X https://share.google/YK6rHEKSQirei3Ajt But did it get across the road???
Tycho's Supernova: Death of a Star ⭐ In November 1572, a brilliant new light appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, catching the attention of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and other skywatchers. What seemed like a new star was actually the violent destruction of a https://t.co/QX5phAFoDP" / X https://share.google/yT8mDLRKxepiaLdaH
Motorist in awe as fireball streaks across sky in eastern China | Watch
N44 is a cosmic masterpiece—an intricate, glowing nebula wrapped around a mysterious superbubble an astonishing 250 light-years across.
https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2118483498537480367?a=SqfdDH6RSoPubq3bx2U&s=20
This image contains 60 million stars and covers 22 times the area of the full moon | Watch
An image of HDW 3 (Hartl-Dengel-Weinberger 3) by amateur astronomer Alpha Zhang. This is a very old and faint planetary nebula located in the constellation Perseus. Its unusual shape is due to the interaction between the nebula’s material and the interstellar gas. https://t.co/lxuYBskjS7" / X https://share.google/OkOGOOjhxfilOEEF6
Light & Space Pollution
Our increasingly cluttered skies https://share.google/8L6Zez2aXjAFYbdKy
Kiwi photographer captures images of hundreds of satellites in the night sky | Stuff https://share.google/BAL2s5qoCXxjEXMAP
Elon Musk Defends Space AI Satellites & Asserts They Will Emit 1,300W/m² In Heat For Rapid Cooling https://share.google/Ra8pED554pSWC2fbo
Community Foundation Ireland Funding Supports Dark Sky Ireland’s Work to Protect the Night Philanthropic support will help Dark Sky Ireland continue its work towards lasting policy and legislation on light pollution.
Dark Sky Ireland, the all-island organisation working to protect and restore the night-time environment, is delighted to announce that it has received a grant from Community Foundation Ireland under its Opportunities 2026 funding round.
SOLAR SYSTEM
‘Rosetta Stone for Mars:’ Martian meteorite hints at ancient life
China’s Tianwen-4 Jupiter mission to attempt Callisto moon landing - SpaceNews https://share.google/pC6Fb2EiYk7Xmk72H
Scientists have calculated the height of a dust layer above the icy surface of Enceladus 🤔 This layer of charged dust is situated at an altitude of approximately 2.4 to 8.2 meters. Some of these tiny particles do not fall back onto the surface of this Saturnian moon; instead, https://t.co/UzNMgM3T4j" / X https://share.google/Gq2ZOyIPOHtpEyAXF
Subaru Telescope reveals the shape and temperature of Comet Encke's nucleus Space dust particles point to ancient heavy-oxygen water reservoir in the Kuiper belt https://share.google/xk8m8cmH8UF4VyRia
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This active asteroid has grown a tail! What happened?
Didymos turns every 2.2 hours. Models say that could pull material towards its equator, and might even fling some off. Which could be where little Dimorphos came from.
Our Hera spacecraft first look shows a sharp ridge right where you’d expect it.
"Water ice in Korolev Crater This 82-kilometer-wide crater is located in the northern polar region of Mars ❄️. It contains a large, permanent deposit of water ice. Melting and evaporation are prevented by chilled "air," which creates a protective layer above the surface. https://t.co/ZWcvChV0WO" / X https://share.google/XAVAz2xQLGoWOE7gH
https://www.threads.com/share/BAZL05v5z_
Bennu asteroid analysis suggests unexpected origins for organics in space https://share.google/8cpKVVcWDhhd2nC1X
NASA found a rock covered in strange spots on Mars - scientists say it could hold evidence of ancient microbial life | Watch
Asteroid Mining Will Crash the Platinum Market, But That’s Good News for Earth - Universe Today https://share.google/fuTve7edrvRX3nSHH
NASA kick-starts a fresh push to bring Mars samples home | Space https://share.google/YDtcRpr7Mz0asghWo
NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars probes slingshot around Earth in unprecedented double gravity assist
Uranus has a weird magnetic field that's stumped scientists for 40 years — we may finally know why
NASA found a 400,000-square-kilometer sea on Saturn's largest moon | Watch Prof John Zarnecki who designed and operated the Huygens probe on Titan, gave an excellent talk on that subject at the recent Mayo DSF! I’ve known him for years, so we also had time for a good chat about other things too!
Mars' volcanoes could contain the ingredients needed for alien life to develop, scientists say
Mars was once wet with a thick atmosphere. 3 billion years ago, both disappeared. Now scientists may have found its missing atmosphere and water
Active volcanoes on Mars? Noxious gas discovery says — maybe
Martian dust could be fatal for humans. NASA's Mars rover is helping the first settlers prepare for life on the Red Planet | BBC Sky at Night Magazine https://share.google/MhDjmtrmoY54G1G6R
4-billion-year-old 'Rosetta Stone' found in Sahara Desert could unlock the secret history of water on Mars | Space
The Clearest View of Mars’ North Polar Ice Cap This is a real, high-resolution mosaic of Mars’ North Pole, built from dozens of orbital images taken by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. The bright white region is a permanent cap of water ice roughly 1,000 km across and up to about https://t.co/g0wKHA11pc" / X https://share.google/3xJJkn7WMNjH2N5WH
4-billion-year-old 'Rosetta Stone' found in Sahara Desert could unlock the secrets of water on Mars
Want to live and work on the moon? NASA is hiring. | Mashable
Wacky magnetic fields of ice giants may stem from conductivity changes in their deep interiors https://share.google/xzNe3aJKAXGZN7Bu1
Meteorite that landed in Cape Cod was a 'lone wolf' from the outer solar system, scientists find | Space https://share.google/08cx7yAsuFf6oW2N0
SPACE
Mars robot swarms get new GPS-free navigation tech for exploration https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/germany-gps-free-navigation-mars-robot-swarms
Blue Origin bows out of NASA commercial space station competition - SpaceNews https://share.google/7loI8gDOBNeZHWejf
Pentagon offers Rocket Lab a $150 million loan to speed up Neutron as SpaceX winds down Falcon 9 https://share.google/QsyNOXvPAJjXtQuwz
China recruits international partners for 34-satellite cislunar constellation - SpaceNews https://share.google/Kwu0D1HIkTB8i786f
NASA's secret weapon in the lunar space race may be ... procurement reform? - Ars Technica https://share.google/TWbO02x5pfOfgKWmV
A robot just built a structure autonomously in space for the 1st time ever
Want to live and work on the moon? NASA is hiring. | Mashable
NASA plans aerospace event to rival Paris Air Show, launches astronaut search https://share.google/jEjNe6nRD8R2SP2mw
NASA plans to land a 1,100-pound rover on the Moon before China | Watch
SpaceX will launch epic double-catch Starship Flight 15 test mission on Nov. 13 | Space
'I think we will prevail': NASA chief Jared Isaacman on Artemis, China and the new moon race (exclusive) | Space https://share.google/UQ2zTmb1OW5teMliw
SpaceX prepares for historic Starship flight 15 with double catch attempt | Watch
We can survive the journey to Mars, say scientists, if we do this one key thing. And it's probably something you do already Well, apart from the exposure to radiation, and the inability to exercise all the necessary muscles properly, and the lack of balance after 8 months zero G….
Amazing SpaceX Starship views in space, re-entry & splashdown | Flight 13 highlights | Watch
Back to the moon: how the next lunar mission could pave the way for a new era of space exploration
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is the 1st Black woman to command a space mission. Will we see more diversity in the future on the final frontier? | Space https://share.google/DYoWFKkiP1buVApJP
NASA's Artemis 4 mission features the first Moon landing since Apollo 17 and will use either Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mk2 or SpaceX's Starship. We travelled to @NASA_Marshall to understand the progress of the landers and the choice facing NASA. Full video: https://t.co/B8enkUH1ST https://t.co/mVSjTqzvIx" / X https://share.google/qyPTPFJZtZbLtEmko
3D-printed booster delivers 715,000 pounds of thrust at 30% less mass
Martian dust could be fatal for humans. NASA's Mars rover is helping the first settlers prepare for life on the Red Planet | BBC Sky at Night Magazine https://share.google/MhDjmtrmoY54G1G6R
NASA unveils $10B Moon base contract as SpaceX, Blue Origin join lunar gold rush https://share.google/Gck9DGO8uHEWurhxd
Voyager 1 will reach a distance of 1 Light-Day from Earth on 18 November
NASA proceeds with plans to convert Mars rover engineering model into a lunar rover https://share.google/nZVSbXBa8otl1RXbj
FAA clears Dream Chaser spaceplane built to haul 12,000 pounds https://share.google/pWYHzC0GeyobX6LLw
NASA’s Twin Spacecraft Traveled 1.19 Million Miles From Earth and Captured Data Scientists Call "Unprecedented" https://share.google/dcaLlyfeCpjOKVoe4
Vulcan rocket set for Friday the 13th launch after 9 months grounded https://share.google/ebY48wOrhHMjYHKDL
SUN
Our sun may have swallowed a planet 10 times as big as Earth
TELESCOPES, INSTRUMENTS, TECHNIQUES:
REVIEW: Spectrum Optics SkyPilot 127 | Astronomy.com https://share.google/RJvUWSmtaaMnL5up4
The new Vaonis Vespera 3 is rewarding for astrophotographers | Space https://share.google/FwOgsejOIHzdhD7Fn
How ripples in space-time can reveal new exoplanets https://share.google/pgQC3IJ3bk09nVQDX
ZWO Seestar S30 Plus review - budget smart telescope gets big boost to its twin-lens astrophotography credentials https://share.google/2K6cGbSApnQFUz9SS
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will take better images and last longer than experts predicted | Live Science https://share.google/pTqBzKYIx7O0ZvN8Y
Unless it gets a boost by 2032, Hubble will fall back to Earth. NASA has given industry until November 30 to propose a rescue. Hubble has no engine of its own. Even hundreds of miles up, a thin trace of atmosphere drags on the telescope, and its orbit has been slowly decaying https://t.co/E3qp0V4o0w / X https://share.google/DIVY5a5BdrJ3LKhSD
Software squeezes more data out of Webb Telescope for imaging exoplanets - Ars Technica https://share.google/lCG8D5RU9WXe5uglU
Astronomers deliver the sharpest and deepest view yet of the low-frequency radio sky https://share.google/W9ZtHTTps64sBCfBO
NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory to search for extraterrestrial life | Watch
FINAL WORD:
“The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment." - Johannes Kepler
18. JOINING the IRISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION. This link gives options to join the IAA.
https://irishastro.org/join-the-iaa/ If you are a UK taxpayer, please select the 'gift-aid' box, as that enables us to reclaim the standard rate of tax on your subscription, at no cost to you. You can also make a donation via Paypal if you wish: just click on the 'Donate' button. See also https://irishastro.org/
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DISCLAIMER: Any views expressed herein are mine, and do not necessarily represent those of the IAA.
Clear skies,
Terry Moseley
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