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Lois M.
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An astronomy, Star Trek/Star Wars, news/weather nerd; Rutgers 2017 BS Geology grad, research assistant, and foram picker extraordinaire.
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Northern Lights, West Virginia - ©Jonathan Eggleston - PicHD PicAbout Astronomy Picture Of the Day#astrophotos@shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

A gravel country lane gently winds through this colorful rural night skyscape. Captured from Monroe County in southern West Virginia on the evening of October 10, the starry sky above is a familiar sight. Shimmering curtains of aurora borealis or northern lights definitely do not make regular appearances here, though. Surprisingly vivid auroral displays were present on that night at very low latitudes around the globe, far from their usual northern and southern high latitude realms. The extensive auroral activity was evidence of a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME), an immense magnetized cloud of energetic plasma. The CME was launched toward Earth from the active Sun following a powerful X-class solar flare. Growing Gallery: Global aurora during October 10/11, 2024
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Ring of Fire over Easter Island - ©Yuri Beletsky - PicHD PicAbout Astronomy Picture Of the Day#astrophotos@shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, making its only major landfall near the southern tip of South America, and then ending in the southern Atlantic. The dramatic total annular eclipse phase is known to some as a ring of fire. Also tracking across islands in the southern Pacific, the Moon's antumbral shadow grazed Easter Island allowing denizens to follow all phases of the annular eclipse. Framed by palm tree leaves this clear island view is a stack of two images, one taken with and one taken without a solar filter near the moment of the maximum annular phase. The New Moon's silhouette appears just off center, though still engulfed by the bright disk of the active Sun.
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Yeah, didn't need darker yesterday - I'm in NJ, but it's still close enough to NYC that if you go to certain locations, you can look beyond the river and there it is, skyscrapers and all - so, lots of light pollution. And even I looked out the window for the hell of it and saw lots of pink!

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"A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." - Carl Sagan 🌋 📚 🔭 #LGM⚾️#MayTheForceBeWithYou#LLAP🖖 🌔 🗻🔬

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I guess that's it though - or if I could get rid of those trees over there and the houses, then maybe it's still going on. Not sure - definitely my first time with the auroras!

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While I'm in NJ, we are close enough to NYC that when the beams of light for the former WTC go on, we can see them... so plenty of light pollution, our own in the neighborhood and from around us - and yet, even I saw this huge patch of pink sky that I came back to google whether that was it.

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The Long Tails Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS - © Jose Santivañez Mueras - PicHD PicAbout Astronomy Picture Of the Day#astrophotos@shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

A bright comet is moving into the evening skies. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) has brightened and even though it is now easily visible to the unaided eye, it is so near to the Sun that it is still difficult to see. Pictured, Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS was captured just before sunrise from an Andes Mountain in Peru. Braving cold weather, this unusually high perch gave the astrophotographer such a low eastern horizon that the comet was obvious in the pre-dawn sky. Visible in the featured image is not only an impressively long dust tail extending over many degrees, but an impressively long and blue ion tail, too.  This month, as the comet moves out from the Sun and passes the Earth, evening observers should be able to see the huge dirty ice ball toward the west just after sunset. Growing Gallery: Comet Tsuchinsan-ATLAS in 2024
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M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center - © Ali Al Obaidly - PicHD PicAbout Astronomy Picture Of the Day#astrophotos@shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M106? A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus, as shown in the featured image taken from the Kuwaiti desert. The core of M106 glows brightly in radio waves and X-rays where twin jets have been found running the length of the galaxy. An unusual central glow makes M106 one of the closest examples of the Seyfert class of galaxies, where vast amounts of glowing gas are thought to be falling into a central massive black hole. M106, also designated NGC 4258, is a relatively close 23.5 million light years away, spans 60 thousand light years across, and can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici).
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A close-up of the Olympus Mons Caldera - ESA Mars Express Full size image 7000x3938: flic.kr/p/2qkqVX9 🔭 Credit: Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY Raw data: ESA/@DLR@social.bund.de /FUBerlin Altitude: 273 km Orbit: 37 Instrument: HRSC Time: 2004-01-21T11:43:16.443Z Filters: RE+GR+BL+S2

A high-resolution image of Mars' Olympus Mons caldera captured by the ESA's Mars Express. The image shows a large, circular volcanic caldera with several concentric depressions and ridges. The colors are rusty red. Very light clouding is visible on the caldera.
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Andromeda M31 Galaxy. Need more data but pleased with my first attempt. #astrophotography

Photograph of M31 Andromeda Galaxy taken from a dark sky site in Wales
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Lois M.
@ov099.bsky.social
An astronomy, Star Trek/Star Wars, news/weather nerd; Rutgers 2017 BS Geology grad, research assistant, and foram picker extraordinaire.
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