Even though night mode on the iPhone is capable of seeing pretty faint stars, some times it’s nice to have a bit of cloud to block them out & make the constellations more visible 🤷♂️
Here’s the Ursa Major (the plough or big dipper) over the Peterstal, with its famous “arc to Arcturus” along the handle to the left 🧸
A B612 Foundation and Google Cloud collaboration identified 27,500 new asteroids using existing data from NOIRLab. Communication specialist Beth Johnson discussed the program development, the results, and the future of the work with Asteroid Institute Executive Director and former astronaut Ed Lu.
William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew that was the first to orbit the moon, died Friday in a plane crash in Washington state, his son Gregory Anders confirmed. He was 90 years old. Anders took the famous "Earthrise" photo that showed our world with the lunar horizon in the foreground. NBC News has more on the crash and Anders’ life. https://flip.it/0sR1e7 #Science#NASA#Space#SpaceExploration
“The universe is expanding, and faster now than it did in the past. Scientists don't know why, but the leading explanation is that the universe contains something that has a repulsive gravitational effect - it pushes the universe apart instead of pulling it back together. This phenomenon is called dark energy.”
NASA, image by the Euclid European #Space Agency telescope ✨