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Kat Troche
@kuiperkat
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Catch me on BlueSky at kuiperkat.org as of March 2026 because social media is hard and I forgot I even had this account? Whoops.
Mark McIntyreThe #NorthernTaurids will be rumbling on for a bit longer. This #meteor shower doesn't have a well defined peak but since mid-September, #ukmon has picked up about 4500 NTAs.
More at https://archive.ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/reports/2022/NTA/index.html
Tune in to NASA.gov/live 5 PM Eastern for an update about #NASAArtemis and the #NASAOrion Spacecraft!
(NASA artist rendition of Orion at the Moon) #ArtemisGeneration #WeAreGoing
Kevin M. GillSaturn's snowball moon Enceladus has a neat feature. While not entirely unique among outer solar system moons, Enceladus has the largest and most active cyrovolanic plumes of water ice. They're fed by large subsurface oceans, even holding evidence of deep hydrothermal vents. All this water must go somewhere: Enceladus is constantly replenishing Saturn's wide and diffuse E Ring.
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
planet4589 (Jonathan McDowell)Artemis-I altitude now 277,300 km
Christian Fröschlin
Saturn, when viewed in the near-infrared methane absorption band, appears blue. You're able to peer through the upper hazes into the clouds below and the bands and belts start to take shape. It's still false color, but almost looks like a whole new planet.
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Gonna have to start getting used to this thing.
If you're in the NYC area, and you wanna do some stargazing, visit aaa.org/calendar before we wrap up our 2022 observing season! Our last large event for the year is with Science Friday in December. This event is going to be part star party, part fundraiser as we continue our efforts to bring the first free public observatory to NYC.
Event Details: https://aaa.org/event/scifri-stargazing/
Support the Observatory: https://aaa.org/observatory/
John L. Taylor"Just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, there are already lots of galaxies," says Tommaso Treu, an astronomer at the University of California at Los Angeles. "JWST has opened up a new frontier, bringing us closer to understanding how it all began."
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137406917/earliest-galaxy-james-webb-telescope-images
