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This is the Eagle Nebula. It is otherwise known as M-16 or "the Pillars of Creation". As a star forming region, it has long been studied. The Hubble's images from the nineties have given us a better look at it than ever before. We can now see structures that no telescope ever before could resolve. This gave us a chance to see these gems. All of these artifacts are gas, dust, multiple stars in the process of formation and their interactions. The Demon is five major stars forming and, probably, a dozen more we can't see. The Sleeping Cat is formed by hot stellar winds interacting with cold nebula gas. Hooters is formed by two big, bright stars and numerous smaller pre-stellar objects. Fred is two newly formed stars and a cluster of stars for the nose. A dark nebula forms his mustache. Sadly, this region is thousands of light years from here and no longer looks like this. Much of the gas will have burned off and the infants stars will be further along in their life cycle. It really is a glimpse at creation as we are seeing new worlds being born. -JS
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Look out for the Moon this weekend when it rises above the horizon on 22/23 June. It will appear unusually large for two reasons - it's proximity to landmarks / features near the horizon increases its apparent size due to an optical illusion but it will also in fact be bigger than a normal full moon because it will be at perigee, the closest it comes to the Earth in its orbit, and it will also be the moon’s closest encounter with Earth during 2013. These things happening together mean the Moon should be well worth looking at. Unless you're clouded in - which it will be in the UK, guaranteed Here's what the 2012 supermoon looked like from Rio *OK, OK - it was taken with a long lens * http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/19/next-supermoon-to-appear-on-june-23/
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Space weather update "Yesterday, Jan. 7th, an X1-class explosion in the sunspot's magnetic canopy hurled a coronal mass ejection [CME] in our direction. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras on Jan. 9th when the cloud arrives. NOAA forecasters estimate a 60% chance of strong geomagnetic storms" "The X1-flare that hurled the CME toward Earth also accelerated a swarm of high-energy protons in our direction... The source of all this activity is AR1944, one of the biggest sunspots of the past decade. The sprawling active region is more than 200,000 km wide and contains dozens of dark cores. Its primary core, all by itself, is large enough to swallow Earth three times over. To set the scale of the behemoth, Karzaman Ahmad inserted a picture of Earth in the corner of this picture he took on Jan. 7th from the Langkawi National Observatory in Malaysia:" This mass of highly charged particles is travelling towards us at around 8m kph and is due to impact Earth's upper atmosphere around 8.00am GMT tomorrow. Due to the intensity auroras may be visible at lower latitudes during darkness for a day or so and Canada and parts of northern USA may be well placed to see it. Also auroras may be visible across parts of Northern Europe and possibly southern parts of the UK tomorrow night. Because of this "Orbital Sciences Corp. scrubbed today's launch of the company's first resupply mission to the International Space Station due to an unusually high level of radiation following yesterday's solar flare. A launch at 1:10 p.m. EST Thursday is still being considered, but no decision has been made." http://spaceweather.com/ http://www.nasa.gov/
