Two stories for today: The Apollo 8 astronauts were the first to view the Moon’s hidden side with the unaided eye & Mars’s tiny moon Phobos has strange track-like groves crisscrossing it.
Today @Nmcanopus will discuss about a beach ball sized object came from asteroid belt that entered Earth atmosphere and night sky measurement at Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary
Kepler Spacecraft found Random Transiter had random sharp narrow dips in brightness in only 87 days & Radio astronomers covet the dark side of the Moon. #365DaysOfAstro
NASA team who plans to fly a drone like aircraft called Dragonfly around the surface of Saturn’s Moon Titan. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Imagine being under a clear natural night sky crawling with hundreds of artificial satellites! More at #365DaysOfAstro with @Nmcanopus
The most dangerous member of the 1,839 asteroids discovered in 2018 is the 500 foot diameter asteroid now named 2018 LK.
The discovery of potentially hazardous asteroid 2018 XV5 and 2018 GG5 by Alex Gibbs. #365DaysOfAstro
Today we have stories from near earth object discoveries by Brian Africano and Greg Leonard.
Although you can’t see the extremely faint geocorona, you can observe other components of the Earth’s nightly airglow.
Travelers in the night will talekd about Project Breakthrough Starshot
and the data sent back by The New Horizons spacecraft at #365DaysOfAstro