#astronomy

#astronomy

A rare planetary alignment will occur on August 10, involving Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune visible in an arc in the night sky.

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has predicted that July 22 could come out about a millisecond short of a standard 24-hour spin.

The James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA have observed the protostar HOPS-315, revealing the early moments of planetary creation in a protoplanetary disk about 1,400 light-years away in Orion.

The collision occurred 38 million years ago, but only now is it being picked up by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Open clusters of stars, which consist of dozens up to a few thousand stars, are useful for studying the Universe because they formed more or less at the same time.

The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy, yet, despite their importance, the long-standing puzzle of the exact mechanism triggering their explosion remains unsolved.

In horror fiction, a zombie is a human ghost or spirit "somewhere between living and dead, puppeted by external forces". This book explores real zombies in the natural world: organisms that lose control to exploitative parasites as seen in a tropical wasp that paralyses a cockroach, leading to its consumption by the wasp's young. This concept may extend to humans being susceptible to 'zombie bugs'.

On the evenings of July 3-4, Mercury will reach its eastern elongation, appearing above the western horizon soon after sunset, with orange-tinged Mars above it.

According to his estimates, the bolide passed Stockholm at around an altitude of 30 kilometres. You can see meteors every night, but one this nice you maybe see once every five years.

Scientists have calculated a 3.1% chance of the asteroid YR4 2024 hitting Earth in 2032, now revised down to 0.0017%.

The dramatic first images captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed over 2,000 new asteroids and millions of galaxies, showcasing the power of its large digital camera.

The disk around TWA 7 is one of the youngest debris disks known, allowing for precise estimations of radial distribution and potentially discovering planets.