Comet ISON comes in from the bottom right and moves out toward the upper right, getting fainter and fainter, in this time-lapse image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The image of the sun at the center is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. ESA/NASA/SOHO/SDO/GSFC From our January newsletter, By Dr Jenny Morris 2 December: …
This plot shows the range of possible locations where the small asteroid 2014 AA struck Earth’s atmosphere early on January 2, 2014. Bill Gray / Project Pluto Discovered on New Year’s Eve by a telescope in Arizona, a small asteroid struck Earth somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean — apparently unnoticed — about 25 hours …
Greetings All Jupiter is in opposition on Sunday 5 January at 23h00 says my new copy of SGAS. It is then a mere 630 million kms from us. I have attached a distillation of the best Jupiter Events to observe during the month. For shadow transits, Io, is the closest moon to the planet and …
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Backyard astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere get an eyeful this week, when four comets will be visible with binoculars or small telescopes in the early morning sky. First up, the most famous of the bunch is Comet ISON, which is currently speeding towards its close encounter with …
