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So, I currently use clip studio to draw, but today I wanted to try medibang paint pro, Oooof! I really like it! Altough the blenders weren't the best, but no complaints, I really liked this drawing
Regrann from @nasa - What's Up in the night skies this June? First up is Venus. It reaches its highest sunset altitude for the year this month and sets more than two hours after sunset. Then, you can't miss Jupiter, only a month after its opposition--when Earth was directly between Jupiter and the Sun. The best time to observe Jupiter through a telescope is 10:30 p.m. local time at the beginning of the month and as soon as it's dark by the end of the month. Just aim your binoculars at the bright planet for a view including the four Galilean moons. Or just enjoy Jupiter with your unaided eye! Credit: NASA #nasa #space #jupiter #venus #planets #stargazing #astronomy #solarsystem #nightsky #whatsup #lookup #sky #stars #june
Regrann from @nasa - What’s up for April in the night sky? This month, you won’t want to miss red Mars and golden Saturn in the south-southeast sky. By April 7, the Moon joins the pair and if you’re in a dark area, you may see some glow from the nearby Milky Way. Credit: NASA #nasa #space #mars #saturn #moon #planets #south #southeast #stargazing #astronomy #solarsystem #pair #milkyway #nightsky #whatsup #lookup #sky #stars #april
Hubble has discovered a dwarf star that devours its own solar system. It's like a cosmic cannibal
Astronomers used archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories to analyze the spectral properties of the white dwarf star G238-44.
Detected elements show that the dead star swallows debris from both the inside and the outside of its system. It's a case of "cosmic cannibalism," say the study's authors, published on the Hubble Telescope website.
G238-44 was a Sun-like star that lost its outer layers and no longer burned fuel through nuclear fusion. The discovery that stellar debris simultaneously captures matter from its asteroid belt and Kuiper belt-like regions at the edge of the solar system, including ice bodies, is significant because it suggests that a "water tank" may be a common feature in outer areas. of planetary systems.
‼️When a star like the Sun expands and becomes a red giant, at the end of its life, it loses mass by releasing its outer layers.
➡️A consequence of this may be the gravitational scattering of small objects, such as asteroids, comets and satellites, to the large planets in the system. Hit in this way, surviving objects can be thrown into very eccentric orbits.‼️
☑️ "After the phase of the red giant, the remaining white dwarf star is compact - no bigger than Earth. The planets get very close to the star and experience strong forces of attraction that break them to pieces, creating a disk of gas and dust that eventually falls on the surface of the white dwarf star, "said Johnson.
Check out the meteor shower this week. At it ‘s peak tomorrow morning Aug 12 between 2 am and sunrise. nordgrenexperience.com
The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Here!
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Perseids are at their peak this week!
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the biggest meteor showers of the year, will be at its brightest early in the morning on Wednesday, August 12. Read on for some tips on how to watch the night sky this week – and to find out: what exactly are the Perseids, anyway?
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Your best chance to spot the Perseids will be between 2 AM and dawn (local time) the morning of August 12. Find a dark spot, avoid bright lights (yes, that includes your phone) and get acclimated to the night sky.
Your eyes should be at peak viewing capacity after about 30 minutes; though the Moon may block out some of the dimmer meteors, you should still be able to see up to 15-20 an hour. If you’re not an early bird, you can try and take a look soon after sunset (around 9 PM) on the 11th, though you may not see as many Perseids then.
Credit: NASA/MEO
If it’s too cloudy, or too bright, to go skywatching where you are, you can try again Wednesday or Thursday night – or just stay indoors and watch the Perseids online!
Our Meteor Watch program will be livestreaming the Perseids from Huntsville, Alabama on Facebook (weather permitting), starting around 9 p.m. EDT on August 11 and continuing through sunrise.
So… why are they called the Perseids?
Because all of a meteor shower’s meteors have similar orbits, they appear to come from the same place in the sky – a point called the radiant.
The radiant for the Perseids, as you might guess from the name, is in the constellation Perseus, found near Aries and Taurus in the night sky.
But they’re not actually coming from Perseus, right?
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Right! The Perseids are actually fragments of the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits within our solar system.
If you want to learn more about the Perseids, visit our Watch the Skies blog or check out our monthly “What’s Up” video series. Happy viewing!
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“Perseid Rain ” Is the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day of today, August 15, 2021
My new fibre optic colour changing lamp 😍 It’s so stimmy and calming!!
“A Perseid Meteor and the Milky Way ” Is the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day of today, August 03, 2021
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What’s Up for October 2016?
What’s Up for October? Moon phases, Astronomy Day, meteors and Saturn!
The new moon phase starts the month on October 1. Of course, the new moon isn’t visible, because it’s between Earth and the sun, and the unlit side is facing Earth.
Night by night the slender crescent gets bigger and higher in the sky and easier to see just after sunset. On the 3rd and 4th, the moon will pass just above Venus!
A week later on the 9th the moon has traveled through one quarter of its 29-day orbit around Earth, and we see the first quarter phase. Also look for Mars just below the moon.
Join us in celebrating International Observe the Moon Night Saturday, October 8th, with your local astronomy club or science center. Conveniently, the 8th is also Fall Astronomy Day, celebrated internationally by astronomy clubs since 1973.
One week later on the 16th the moon reaches opposition, or the full moon phase, when the moon and the sun are on opposite sides of Earth. And the sun completely illuminates the moon as seen from Earth.
During this phase, the moon rises in the east just as the sun is setting in the west. Overnight, the moon crosses the sky and sets at dawn.
A week later, on the 22nd of October, the last quarter moon rises at midnight. Later, the pretty and bright Beehive Cluster will be visible near the moon until dawn.
To wrap up the month, 29 days after the last new moon we start the lunar cycle all over again with another new moon phase on October 30th. Will you be able to spot the one-day old moon on Halloween? It will be a challenge!
There are three meteor showers in October–the Draconids, the Taurids and the Orionids. Try for the Draconids on October 8th.
See the Taurids on October 10th.
The Orionids will be marred by the full moon on the 21st, but all three meteor showers will offer some possible bright meteors.
Finally, you’ll have an especially pretty view of Saturn, when it forms a straight line with Venus and the red star Antares on the 27th.
You can catch up on NASA’s lunar mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Cassini Mission to Saturn and all of our missions at www.nasa.gov.
Watch the full October “What’s Up" video for more:
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Some meteors from the Geminid Meteor shower in Banff, Alberta
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no edit. shot on iphone in my backwoods using a red LED light.
“You’re basically seeing all of the sunrises and sunsets across the world, at once, being reflected off the surface of the moon” – NASA
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