6 Great Space Images in October By Michael RostonOct. 31, 2023

       6 Great Space Images in October

       Michael RostonEditing space and astronomy news. The GOES-East weather satellite captured the journey of the moon’s shadow during a “ring of fire” solar eclipse on Oct. 14.

       Here are five more images from October →

       Colorado State University

       It looks like cosmic Silly String or celestial spaghetti. What you’re really seeing is a confused space telescope. Europe’s Euclid spacecraft, which launched in July to study dark energy and dark matter, had difficulties with a sensor that uses stars for navigation. A software update has addressed the problem.

       ESA/Euclid Consortium/TAS-I

       India’s space agency is preparing to send astronauts to orbit on Gaganyaan, a homegrown spacecraft. On Oct. 18, it completed the first uncrewed flight of the astronaut capsule, testing an escape system that jettisons the crew to safety during a launch problem. It reached an altitude of about 10 miles before parachuting into the Bay of Bengal.

       Indian Space Research Organization

       There are spirals like the Milky Way. There are spherical galaxies and irregular blobby ones too. Some are big. Some are small. Astronomers collected data on nearly 400,000 galaxies in the Milky Way’s cosmic neighborhood, including the dozens above, for the Siena Galaxy Atlas.

       CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/J. Moustakas

       Io, a moon of Jupiter, is extremely volcanically active. Juno, the NASA spacecraft, has been exploring Jupiter’s moons and flew by Io on Oct. 15 at a distance of about 7,000 miles. In December it will get even closer, passing within 1,000 miles of its surface.

       NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Ted Stryk

       One more view of the Oct. 14 eclipse, using a radio observatory. New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers used radio waves to capture dramatic views of the corona, the fiery outer section of the sun’s atmosphere, which typically can’t be seen from the ground.

       Sijie Yu

       Get updates about space and astronomy events on your personal digital calendar.

       NASA Launches Psyche, a Mission to Explore a Metal Asteroid

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       6 Great Space Images in October

       Michael RostonEditing space and astronomy news. The GOES-East weather satellite captured the journey of the moon’s shadow during a “ring of fire” solar eclipse on Oct. 14.

       Here are five more images from October →

       Colorado State University

       It looks like cosmic Silly String or celestial spaghetti. What you’re really seeing is a confused space telescope. Europe’s Euclid spacecraft, which launched in July to study dark energy and dark matter, had difficulties with a sensor that uses stars for navigation. A software update has addressed the problem.

       ESA/Euclid Consortium/TAS-I

       India’s space agency is preparing to send astronauts to orbit on Gaganyaan, a homegrown spacecraft. On Oct. 18, it completed the first uncrewed flight of the astronaut capsule, testing an escape system that jettisons the crew to safety during a launch problem. It reached an altitude of about 10 miles before parachuting into the Bay of Bengal.

       Indian Space Research Organization

       There are spirals like the Milky Way. There are spherical galaxies and irregular blobby ones too. Some are big. Some are small. Astronomers collected data on nearly 400,000 galaxies in the Milky Way’s cosmic neighborhood, including the dozens above, for the Siena Galaxy Atlas.

       CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/J. Moustakas

       Io, a moon of Jupiter, is extremely volcanically active. Juno, the NASA spacecraft, has been exploring Jupiter’s moons and flew by Io on Oct. 15 at a distance of about 7,000 miles. In December it will get even closer, passing within 1,000 miles of its surface.

       NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Ted Stryk

       One more view of the Oct. 14 eclipse, using a radio observatory. New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers used radio waves to capture dramatic views of the corona, the fiery outer section of the sun’s atmosphere, which typically can’t be seen from the ground.

       Sijie Yu

       Get updates about space and astronomy events on your personal digital calendar.

       NASA Launches Psyche, a Mission to Explore a Metal Asteroid

       A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky

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