The spacecraft came within 5.3 million miles of the solar surface while moving at 364,610 miles per hour. The spacecraft emerged from the solar flyby healthy and operating normally.
Close Encounters with the Sun
Lunar Anomalies Part 2 – 1366 and All That
Solar activity 3000 BC to present, by Nick Portwin after John A. Eddy).Find out more in this article by Duncan Lunan
The Sky Above You – July 2023
The Moon will be Full on July 3rd, a Supermoon when it is at its closest to Earth as well as Full. It will be New on July 17th, near Venus and Mercury on the 19th and 20th, with Mars in the background but now very much fainter than the inner planets.
More Lunar Anomalies – Part 1
‘Crossing the Crater’ by cosmonaut artist Andrei Sokolov. Reported sightings of strange events involving the Moon go back for at least a thousand years…
The Ownership of the Moon, Part 2
“The US Astrobotic Peregrine and Griffin landers are coming, much bigger vehicles which already have dozens of contracts to deliver payloads to the Moon”
The Lunar Farside
“Hard though it is to believe now, in 1959 the standard method of returning images to Earth was by bringing back the exposed film in capsules. The US was doing it with its Discoverer satellites, and the off-course fall of one off Spitsbergen was the inspiration for Alastair Maclean’s Ice Station Zebra. “
The Sky Above You – June 2023
The Moon will be New on June 4th, and it will be Full on June 18th, near Venus and Mars on the summer solstice, June 21st.
Observing the Moon
Even if you live in the heart of a city, the one thing we can all see in the night sky is the Moon.
Book Review: Incoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite
“Ted Nield is a doctor of geology and editor of the journal Geoscience. Written from that perspective, his book is an excellent introduction to meteoritics (the science of meteorites and impacts) as well as to the ongoing dynamic processes which shape the Earth.”
In a galaxy 9.6 billion light years away from the Earth…
An artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806 showing the supermassive black hole and the extremely high velocity wind. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than the Milky Way, and is powered by the earliest known supermassive black hole, which weighs in at more than 1.6 billion times the mass of the Sun. Image credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
