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Unlocking the Cosmos: What Lies Beyond? 🌌🔍 Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, peering 800 years back in time. SNR 1181, a supernova remnant, reveals its secrets through a stunning composite image. 🌟💥 Why does this matter to us, you ask? It's a glimpse into the past that could unlock the future of space exploration. 🚀✨ From the depths of space, a 'zombie' star emerges, challenging what we thought we knew about stellar life and death. ☄️👻 Chandra X-ray Observatory's dedication, despite facing budget cuts, brings this celestial phenomenon to light. 🛰️💡 Want to dive deeper into this cosmic detective story? 👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/dQmXdXKV Follow us Karmactive for more revelations that are out of this world. 🌍💫 #SupernovaSecrets #SpaceExploration #AstronomyLovers #CosmicMysteries #FollowTheStars

Gum 46: A Bubblegum-pink Nebula | European Southern Observatory FriendsofNASA.org | High-res image: https://lnkd.in/db5JXQa5 This picture shows Gum 46, a stunning gas cloud 5,500 light-years away, observed in brand new detail with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Why does it glow pink? At the heart of Gum 46 there’s a young, hot, and blue star called HD311999. Its intense radiation excites atoms in the surrounding gas. It then re-emits this energy at very specific colors or wavelengths. The pink shade that dominates this image is due to hydrogen atoms, the most abundant element in this nebula and the Universe as a whole. The dark wispy clouds that surround the nebula make for a stunning sight too. These clouds are not intrinsically dark. They are extremely dense regions of dust that block light passing through them, enshrouding the glowing heart of Gum 46. This image was created as part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Cosmic Gems program, an outreach initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The program makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations. All data collected may also be suitable for scientific purposes, and are made available to astronomers through ESO’s science archive. Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Release Date: May 13, 2024 European Southern Observatory European Astronomical Society American Astronomical Society (AAS) Royal Astronomical Society The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada U.S. Department of Education National Science Teaching Association Patrick CUVELIER #NASA #ESO #Space #Astronomy #Science #Nebulae #Nebula #Gum46 #Star #HD311999 #Vela #Puppis #Constellations #MilkyWayGalaxy #Cosmos #Universe #VLT #ParanalObservatory #Chile #SouthAmerica #Europe #STEM #Education

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐓: 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐊𝐀𝐓 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 – 𝐉𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎. 𝐈. 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 When RATT met PARROT – a peculiar pulsar The motion of the planets through the night sky has captivated humanity since prehistoric times. The Great Saturn-Jupiter Conjunction of 2020 was particularly special. This remarkable astronomical event, which brought these two gas giants closer together than they had been for nearly four centuries, offered an enticing spectacle for stargazers worldwide. Professional astronomers, with telescopes capable of seeing well beyond the relative “backyard” of our solar system, also couldn’t resist the temptation to look. Read More on SARAO website https://lnkd.in/dMXp_pAE

Congratulations to UNISTELLAR and SETI Institute citizen astronomers for the confirmation of a warm Jupiter exoplanet! 🪐 In this study, soon to be published in the Astronomical Journal, observers with our Exoplanet Transits program teamed up with NASA Exoplanets Exoplanet Watch to capture the passing of this planet in front of its star and confirm its existence. This gas giant had previously only been a "planet candidate" seen by NASA's TESS mission, but thanks to citizen scientists, it is now an official planet. Thank you Astronomy magazine for this fantastic article! https://buff.ly/3XwOtgf "While the method relies on pure chance, TESS observes so many stars all across the sky that it has so far amassed over 7,000 candidate worlds. But because TESS is so busy trying to detect as many planets as possible, almost all of these detections rely on a single transit event: just one pass of the exoplanet in front of its star. The task of confirming the existence of the exoplanet is left to follow-up surveys with ground-based observatories, which is a tedious, difficult, and time-consuming job. This is where citizen scientists come to the rescue. Using a network of telescopes scattered across the globe, amateur astronomers can perform the necessary observations needed to turn a candidate exoplanet into a confirmed one. Recently, the Unistellar Network and Exoplanet Watch has confirmed a new exoplanet, TIC 393818343 b, which sits about 300 light-years away from Earth."

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https://buff.ly/3Xe06Ia Exoplanets, look out! Two NASA-funded teams of amateur astronomers are tracking you with their backyard telescopes. These two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, have combined forces to confirm a new planetary discovery—a toasty "warm Jupiter". "I pinch myself every day when I recall that I have made a meaningful scientific contribution to astronomy by helping professional astronomers confirm and characterize a new exoplanet,” said Darren Rivett, a volunteer from Australia who contributed to the effort. Planets around other stars, called exoplanets, sometimes block the light from the stars they orbit. When this happens, it’s called a “transit”. Amateur astronomers can observe exoplanet transits with their own telescopes by watching for the light from a nearby star to dim. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sees these dimming events, too—many thousands of them. But just seeing a star dim once is not enough. You need to catch multiple dimming events (and perform various other checks) to know that you’ve found a new exoplanet. That’s where volunteers from the UNITE and Exoplanet Watch projects come in. These two teams of amateur astronomers have collaborated with the SETI Institute to detect the transit of an object called TIC 393818343 b (aka TOI 6883 b)---proving to the world that this object does indeed contain a planet orbiting a star.

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration have achieved the highest-resolution radio observations to date, marking a significant milestone in astronomical research. While not directly capturing an image of a black hole, researchers utilized radio waves to detect distant galaxies, setting the stage for future black hole images to be 50% more detailed than previous endeavors. These groundbreaking findings, detailed in The Astronomical Journal, offer a glimpse into the promising advancements in our understanding of the cosmos. #Astronomy #EventHorizonTelescope #RadioObservations #BlackHoles #Science https://lnkd.in/dFZqKWhP

"The Dark Tower Nebula": Globule GN 16.43.7.01 | ESO FriendsofNASA.org | View full-size image: https://lnkd.in/dzwzQDqt Astronomers are well-known for naming objects with odd conventions, and the cometary globule GN 16.43.7.01 seen in this image is no exception. Cometary globules have nothing to do with comets aside from appearance: they are named for their dusty head and elongated, dark tail, as seen in this image taken with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) hosted at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This globule, dubbed the Dark Tower—astronomers compensate with obvious names—lies about 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion). It contains dense clumps of collapsing gas and dust that will form new stars. The curious shape of this object is carved out from an intense bombardment of radiation from a cluster of young, bright stars located out-of-view to the upper-left. This radiation has swept around and outlined the cometary globule with the characteristic pink glow of hot, excited matter. Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VPHAS+ Team Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (CASU) Release Date: March 11, 2024 European Southern Observatory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center American Astronomical Society (AAS) European Astronomical Society Royal Astronomical Society The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) U.S. Department of Education National Science Teaching Association #NASA #ESO #Space #Astronomy #Science #Nebula #Stars #StellarNursery #BokGlobule #GN1643701 #Scorpius #Constellation #MilkyWayGalaxy #Cosmos #Universe #Telescope #VST #ParanalObservatory #Chile #SouthAmerica #Europe #STEM #Education

This is an exciting time for those engaged in astronomical #research!! These incredible telescopes are like time-traveling wizards, revealing exoplanets, gravitational waves, and all kinds of enigmatic phenomena. As these developments unfold, I find myself contemplating the existential nature of what it means to be human in this seemingly unending vastness of space. This truly is an incredibly moving moment in human history.

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