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http://knro.blogspot.com/2024/08/kstars-372-released.html
KStars v3.7.2 is released on 2024.08.03 for Windows, MacOS & Linux . It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. A...
I have no photos or videos, but I was on Topsail Island on vacation on June 4th around 11pm, where I saw a decently bright moving object erupt with a huge v-shaped tail for atleast 30 seconds. The tail was a faint green color. It fell from the eastern sky into the northeastern sky.
Google has been particularly unhelpful. Was wondering if you fine folks had any idea. I'm assuming space debris. But I cant find any other reports of anyone seeing it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/science/cosmic-inflation-microwave-background-simons-observatory.html?u2g=i&unlocked_article_code=1.xE0.PAaU.HkEYriFSk234&smid=url-share
As it studies cosmic microwaves, the Simons Observatory in Chile aims to help prove or disprove cosmic inflation, a notion that the universe expanded rapidly in the moment after the Big Bang.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/science/astronomy-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.r00.Xtd3.W_fdO0rJ5d9G&smid=url-share
A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis.
https://nautil.us/nine-rebel-astronomy-theories-that-went-dark-544315/
Bright ideas from astronomy’s biggest stars haven’t always worked out.
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-black-hole-sun-1.html
In a hypothetical scenario, small, primordial black holes could be captured by newly forming stars. An international team, led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, has now modeled the evolution of these so-called "Hawking stars" and found that they can have surprisingly long lifetimes, resembling normal stars in many aspects. The work is published in The Astrophysical Journal.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-to-see-in-the-sky-in-january-meteor-showers-planets-comets-180983514/
From the Quadrantids to a "swarm of stars," here are the celestial spectacles you won’t want to miss this month