Curated by John Schmit

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Week 29

 


TRENDING THIS WEEK

#meteorshowers #meteors #Chandrayaan-3


Earth-asteroid Encounters This Week

  • Asteroid Date (UT) Distance size (m)
  • 2020 UQ3 2023-Jul-18 3.2 LD 59
  • 2023 NE1 2023-Jul-19 12.7 LD 60
  • 2022 GX2 2023-Jul-20 11.9 LD 5
  • 2023 NL 2023-Jul-20 19.1 LD 44
  • 2020 OM 2023-Jul-20 8.5 LD 14
  • 2023 MX5 2023-Jul-21 11.9 LD 63
  • 2023 MM3 2023-Jul-22 19.1 LD 44

Data from Spaceweather.com

Delta Aquarids meteor shower - July 18, 2022 – Aug. 21, 2022 (Peak July 29-31)


FEATURED


Go Astronomy 

https://go-astronomy.com/

Go-Astronomy provides a comprehensive list of space ports and launch sites. Their motto is - Find. Learn. Share. Repeat. That is what I am doing here. 

As part of my research in space related locations, I was looking for space ports. Go-Astronomy had a very nice list of 35 places. The website is divided into seven sections from observing to learning. Each section has at least four sub-sections. All of which are very complete and detailed in subject matter. 

The is a companion YouTube channel with over 130 videos. The videos are fairly short, about 3 to 7 minutes each. All appear to be produced in the last two years.


Shaun Reynolds

Shaun is an award winning astro-photographer living in the UK. He has had his images published in many magazines and papers.

His website provides a brief biography, an 'All Photos' page with links to more in depth images and a link to his book -  "The Light Of Night". Through the 'All Photos' page you can access 13 sections that contain more specific subjects. There are hundreds of space, terestrial and equipment images to explore. You can share an image, a gallery and a slideshow. Information on what his book includes and how to purchase it are included in that section.





In Case You Missed It


A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses 

Experts on exoplanets met with Northrop Grumman to discuss development of more powerful telescopes and their construction. The result is a new design that uses diffractive lenses to focus incoming light. The new scope ideas can be produced cheaper and are very light weight.


Space-flown Snoopy dolls star in new Schulz Museum exhibit 

The Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California is now hosting a "Snoopy In Orbit" exhibit with space-flown "Peanuts" artifacts. There are 'interactive' aspects to the exhibit as well as the featured dolls. The display will be open through January 14, 2024.


Reinventing cosmology: uOttawa research puts age of universe at 26.7 — not 13.7 — billion years 

Physicists at the University of Ottawa are challenging the current estimates of the age of the universe.  With new techniques and technology, they are estimating an age of about 26.7 billion years. 





News From Around The Web


UK targets laser satellite communications with NorthumbriaU research grant 

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry 

The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy 

New NASA Artemis Instruments to Study Volcanic Terrain on the Moon 

ASKAP Telescope Detects Periodic Radio Emission from Ultracool Dwarf 

Astronomers observe subpulse drifting and nulling of pulsar PSR J0026–1955 

ULA's Vulcan to launch by the end of this year.

China Has Begun Launching its Own Satellite Internet Network 

Capturing the light in dark nebulae 

ESA moves ahead with In-Orbit Servicing missions 

Video - 'Oumuamua Is Not the Only Object Inexplicably Accelerating

At T-1 Month, Multi-National Crew-7 Readies for 15 August Space Station Launch 

Gemini South Telescope Observes Reflection Nebula 

Astrophysicists discover spectacular quasar-driven superbubbles in three luminous red quasars 







4 comments:

  1. What you find out, dear John, that is uniquely great!

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  2. In 3 billion years the Andromeda will be with us, then our sun can refuel hydrogen! LOL

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  3. The thing with the quantization of the gravity I consider as hair-splitting! And just as one applies the double-slit experiment with light to alleged matter, I consider it as nonsense. The screen is visible only with the help of light. And light arises by electrons. And these electrons are matter. Too bad about the chalk!

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