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Saturday Space Bits and Bobs
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Saturday, 14-December-2024 17:09:10 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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NASA Takes A Deep Dive Into Uranus And Solves Gassy Giant's Hidden Secrets. It's been a while since Uranus was probed up close, but old data is proving to be quite valuable in solving a few decades old oddities. The last spacecraft that flew by Uranus was NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1986.
A former NASA engineer turned YouTuber has found a round-a-bout way to give people the opportunity to snap a selfie of themselves from space. The satellite will also send an alert to a person when it is above their location on Earth, making it possible to photobomb themselves in their own selfie from space.
NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across.
ESO’s VLT refuses to be put out to pasture. It is still capable of delivering images such as the one of a dying star some 160,000 light years from Earth. “For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” remarked an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello.
And the last one from our General Astro, Cosmo and Space thread.
Australia's top meteor shower, the Geminids, will grace our skies again this weekend. The annual shower, which is formed when the Earth moves through the debris of a weird asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, peaks in the early hours of Saturday, December 14. Keen stargazers might also catch some meteors in the early hours of Friday and Sunday if you know where — and most importantly — when to look.
Thanks JSmith for the links and post. And if you're in SEQ, forget it this year.
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