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Bright Memory: Infinite ‘Chinese New Year Update’ now available, adds third-person ‘Perspective-Assist’ mode
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Here’s when Houstonians can see a rare bright green comet
The icy, celestial object will make its closest approach to Earth in early February.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility last year in early March.
Dan BartlettA newly discovered bright green comet flying past Earth for the first time in 50,000 years will be visible from Houston starting on Friday. Dubbed C/2022 E3 (ZTF), the cosmic snowball from the distant outer solar system was first discovered by astronomers last March using a the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility in California, when the comet was already inside the orbit of Jupiter. Since then, the icy celestial object has “brightened substantially,” NASA said.
The last time humans spotted the rare comet was during the Upper Paleolithic period, when Neanderthals still roamed Earth. Photos of the C/2022 E3 (ZTF) show its coma, an enveloping cloud of gas and dust, glowing with a greenish hue and a long, faint tail extending from it. On Thursday, the fuzzy, icy visitor made its closest approach to the Sun. It’s expected to be even brighter as it nears Earth in early February, so much so that NASA said it could be visible under dark skies with the naked eye. While the green comet won’t be quite as visible compared to 2020’s NEOWISE comet, it might be the brightest comet of 2023.
To see the green comet, you’ll likely need binoculars or a telescope, and to head to a rural area to avoid city light pollution. EarthSky, a website dedicated to skywatching and astronomy, recommends Northern Hemisphere observers to look low on the northeastern horizon between midnight and dawn. To snap a picture of the object, EarthSky advises to point a camera toward its approximate location in the sky and take long-exposure photos of 20 to 30 seconds. The technique may reveal a fuzzy, tailed object even is the comet isn’t visible to the naked eye. You can also watch a livestream of the event from home through the Virtual Telescope Project.
From Houston, per the astronomy guide website In the Sky, Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) made its closest approach to the sun on Thursday, at a distance of 1.11 AU. On Feb. 1, the comet will make its closest approach to the Earth and is forecast to reach its brightest point at a distance of 0.28 AU. It will lie at a distance of 1.16 AU from the Sun. Here’s when the comet will be visible in Houston:
- Jan. 13: Visible from 2:49 a.m. until 6:15 a.m.
- Jan. 15: Visible from 2:31 a.m. until 5:15 a.m.
- Jan. 17: Visible from 2:11 a.m. until 6:15 a.m.
- Jan. 19: Visible from 1:47 a.m. until 6:15 a.m.
- Jan. 21: Visible from 1:16 a.m. until 6:14 a.m.
- Jan. 23: Visible from 12:32 a.m. until 6:14 a.m.
- Jan. 25: Visible from 11:23 p.m. until 6:13 a.m.
- Jan. 27: Visible from 6:52 p.m. until 6:13 a.m.
- Jan. 29: Visible from 6:54 p.m. until 6:12 a.m.
- Jan. 31: Visible from 6:56 p.m. until 6:11 a.m.
Full ‘cold moon’ shines bright and eclipses Mars in a rare event
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December’s full moon, also known as the “cold moon,” will shine bright in the night sky this Wednesday, peaking at 11:08 p.m. ET.
Jupiter, Saturn and Mars will also be visible in the night sky Wednesday, with an extraordinarily rare phenomenon, known as a lunar occultation of Mars, set to happen around the moon’s peak fullness, according to EarthSky.
At this point, the red planet will disappear behind the moon for a short period of time. This highly unusual event will be visible in parts of the Americas, Europe and Northern Africa.
December 7 also marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission launch — the last time humans set foot on the moon. This year’s cold moon, then, offers viewers both the chance to enjoy a lunar spectacle and reflect on the monumental space exploration humanity has achieved.
“When you look up at the moon, you should appreciate that it’s not only beautiful … but that it’s a very scientifically important object,” said Dr. Noah Petro, chief of NASA’s planetary geology, geophysics and geochemistry lab.
“There is no other planet in our solar system that has a moon quite like ours. It is unique in many, many ways, and we, as a society, the whole of humanity, are very fortunate to have it literally in our backyard.”
The Mohawk people deemed the December full moon “tsothohrha,” or time of cold — in reference to the frigid weather it would usually accompany, according to the Western Washington Planetarium site. Like many other Native American tribes, the Mohawks kept track of the months by giving a name to each full moon.
This full moon has also been known as the “moon before Yule” in Europe, to mark the Yuletide festival, and as the “long night moon” by the Mohicans, due to its proximity to the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, which falls on December 21 this year, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
The full moon will make its way across the sky starting at sunset. And with the sun going down earlier in the Northern Hemisphere, there is a longer time period for those looking to catch sight of the lunar event. Anywhere with a clear view of the sky will suffice, Petro said, though for best viewing, he recommends finding an area free from tall buildings and trees.
“The day before and a day after, the moon will still appear full to the naked eye,” Petro said. “So, if it’s cloudy on the seventh, you can try again on the eighth.”
The forecast for Wednesday evening will be partly cloudy skies in New York City, mostly clear skies in Los Angeles and mostly cloudy skies in Chicago, according to Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologist.
Those in the Southern Hemisphere will get the same view of the full moon during nighttime hours, although the orientation will be flipped, as always.
The Apollo 17 spaceflight launched on December 7, 1972. It was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program and brought the number of humans who have walked on the moon to a grand total of 12. The three crew members, Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, returned to Earth on December 19 after a 12-day mission.
Today, NASA has successfully kicked off its Artemis program, which aims to establish the first lunar outpost and further explore the moon. The Artemis I mission launched November 16, sending the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a 25.5-day journey to circumnavigate the moon, with an expected return date of December 11, four days after the full moon.
The space agency hopes further lunar discoveries will in turn lead to the first human setting foot on Mars.
“(The moon) is a very important extension of our own planet that we’ve had the fortune of having visited with humans … and that we’re preparing to return to with both robotic and crewed explorers,” Petro said.
“I would hope that people take a moment to pause and look up and think, ‘wow, how fortunate we are as a planet to have this moon with us.’”
The cold moon marks this year’s last full moon event, but December’s skies will also feature two more meteor showers. Sky gazers won’t want to miss the vibrant Geminids, which peak on December 14 — and the Ursids swiftly follow and are set to peak on December 22, according to EarthSky’s 2022 meteor shower guide.
Hundreds report seeing a bright fireball in northeastern U.S.
Less than two weeks after a bright fireball lit up the sky above the Great Lakes, scattering space pebbles on their shores, another spectacular meteor impressed skywatchers in the Northeast.
The streak of light that sliced through the sky on Thursday (Dec. 1) at about 7:30 p.m. EST (0030 GMT on Dec. 2), was seen by at least 737 witnesses across the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, and South and North Carolina according to the American Meteor Society (opens in new tab) (AMS). Sightings in Canada’s Ontario province were also reported.
Quite a few doorbell cameras as well as meteocams (cameras aimed skyward to capture fireballs) captured the meteor, prompting their owners to proudly share the footage with the AMS as well as on Twitter.
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“Just watched a gorgeous green & orange bolide zoom to Earth east of Granville — anyone else see a meteor tonight in eastern Ohio?” Twitter user Jeff Gill (opens in new tab) shared shortly after the event.
His tweet elicited quite a few responses from other lucky witnesses.
Phil Haddad from Pittsburgh was even luckier, catching the fireball on his doorbell camera.
“I don’t often tweet, but when I do it’s because I captured a meteor on my doorbell cam #pittsburgh #meteor,” he said, sharing the footage (opens in new tab) proudly on Twitter.
Another Twitter user, Robert Tinney from Cleveland, responded by sharing his doorbell cam (opens in new tab) footage.
No further information about the nature of this space rock, which AMS labeled 9579-2022, has been made available so far, including whether any of it could have reached the ground.
On Nov. 19, fragments of a 3-foot (1 meter) space rock fell in the same region on the shores of Lake Ontario. Astronomers detected that space rock three hours before it entered Earth’s atmosphere and were able to calculate where it might hit the ground. The rock was only the sixth ever detected before smashing into our planet.
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Bright Flash Detected in February Was a Black Hole Jet Pointed Straight at Earth
On February 11, astronomers saw a distant flash of light that seemed to come from a source as bright as a quadrillion suns. They alerted other scientists to the event, and several telescopes quickly pivoted to focus on the flash. Now, two teams of researchers have identified its source: a black hole feasting in the distant universe.
Black holes are famously dark; their gravitational pull is so strong that even light cannot escape their event horizons. In this case, the bright flash was caused by how energetically the black hole consumed its meal, a star that had passed too close to the ravenous compact object. Details of this luminous feast were published today in papers in Nature and Nature Astronomy.
“This particular event was 100 times more powerful than the most powerful gamma-ray burst afterglow,” said Dheeraj Pasham, an astrophysicist at MIT and lead author of the Nature Astronomy paper, in a press release. “It was something extraordinary.”
Every so often, an unlucky star is caught up in the inescapable gravity of a black hole. The spinning black hole tears the star limb from metaphorical limb, until the star’s material is just a superheated swirl around the black hole. These feedings can give off lots of light. AT 2022cmc is the brightest and most distant tidal disruption event yet-known; its source is a supermassive black hole about 8.5 billion light-years away.
Tidal disruption events are useful for astrophysicists; they can reveal how fast black holes are spinning and the rate at which the behemoth objects are feeding. They also can reveal how supermassive black holes grow and shape the galaxies that ensconce them.
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Sometimes—and astronomers think they might now know exactly how often— the black hole spews superheated jets of material out into space. The energized jets are accelerated to nearly the speed of light and can be very difficult to see unless they’re pointed directly at us. Which was the case for 2022cmc.
Because the black hole’s jet is pointed at Earth, it appears much brighter to us than it would otherwise. That helped the two research teams observe the light source, despite its extraordinary distance.
Twenty-one telescopes around the world viewed the jet in the X-ray, radio, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths. It’s the first time a jetted tidal disruption event has been seen at optical wavelengths, the region of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can see.
The X-ray emissions fluctuated dramatically over the course of the observations. The researchers suspect this may be due to a period in which the black hole accreted (i.e. collected) a ton of material around itself.
Comparing the light from this event to other luminous happenings in the cosmos, the teams determined that a jetted tidal disruption event was the sole possible culprit.
“The universe is truly full of surprises and we have to be ready to catch them,” Andreoni said. “Developing more tools and new technology is surely a pathway to discovery, but also persistence and really the wish to be thrilled by the sky at any time when we least expect it.”
Pasham added that other sky surveys could reveal more tidal disruptions in the future, which could then be scrutinized by space-based observatories like the Webb Telescope.
Tools like the LSST Camera—which will be the world’s largest digital camera when it’s mounted at the Rubin observatory in Chile—will be a remarkable resource for regularly imaging the night sky and all the dynamic events in it.
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Leonid meteor shower: Fast, bright meteors light up the night sky
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Known as some of the fastest meteors around, the Leonids blaze across the night sky annually during the month of November. Historically, they are considered to be one of the most impressive meteor showers on record, largely due to the meteor storm they form roughly every 33 years, causing thousands of meteors to rain down in the night sky.
This is not a year for a storm, but there are still many chances to see the brilliant Leonids. On Thursday night, the shower is expected to peak at 7 p.m. ET, according to EarthSky. The celestial event will be visible to all of those on the night side of the world at that time.
The Leonid meteor shower is active through December 2, alongside the tail end of the North Taurid meteor shower. Around their peak, sky gazers could potentially observe 10 to 15 meteors per hour. The meteors move in the opposite direction of Earth’s rotation, causing an almost head-on collision with the atmosphere when they intersect. The space rocks are often recorded shooting through the sky at 44 miles per second (71 kilometers per second) — some of the fastest meteors produced from one of the major annual meteor showers, according to Robert Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society.
The brighter meteors often leave behind glowing trails and can even leave smoke streaks in the sky for up to several minutes, Lunsford said.
The Leonids are also known for striking fireballs, which are meteors so large they shine brighter than Venus, and Earth grazers, meteors that streak close to the horizon and are known for their long and colorful tails, according to NASA.
“They are the fastest meteors produced among the major annual meteor showers, and they have a certain look to them, like lances, very long and sharp,” Lunsford said. “They are very impressive, especially the bright ones, so that’s why they’re probably among my favorites.”
The forecast for Thursday evening, around the time of this peak, will be mostly clear skies on the United States’ coasts (New York City and Los Angeles) with a 0% chance of rain, according to Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologist. Those in the Midwest (Chicago) will have less favorable conditions for sky watching, with overcast skies and a 30% chance of snow.
The best time to stay out to look for a meteor is this Thursday evening into Friday morning, but the meteor society has predicted that Earth may also pass through a condensed stream of debris left behind in 1733 from the Leonids’ parent comet, Tempel-Tuttle.
If this occurs, for a short time on Saturday morning at around 1 a.m. ET, there could be up to 250 meteors visible per hour, according to Lunsford. If you are on the night side of Earth during this time, you could spot a meteor, but it’s best to keep an eye on the eastern horizon to increase your chances. (Those on the West Coast of the United States will have an even shorter window to see this outburst, as Leo, the constellation from which the meteors appear to radiate from, will still be below the horizon.)
“We’ve gone back hundreds of years — because the comet passes through the inner solar system maybe every 33 years — so each one of those paths has been mapped out,” Lunsford said. “We can pretty much nail the time and the date, but we have no idea what the density of the particles are. So, it could be exciting, or it could be a dud.”
The meteor society recommends going outside at least 30 minutes prior to the shower’s peaks, to allow your eyes to adjust to the dark. Since the moon will rise near the same time as the radiant constellation, it’s best to look in a direction away from its light.
“Anybody can contribute scientifically useful information by just taking a few notes on these meteors. … You can go out and count how many you can see.” Lunsford said.
“It’s fun, it’s cheap and it’s a good way for families to get together. If your skies are clear at that time, I wouldn’t want to miss it.”
There are only two more meteor showers you can see before the end of the year, according to EarthSky’s 2022 meteor shower guide. Here’s when they peak:
• December 14: Geminids
• December 22: Ursids
There is one more full moon on the The Old Farmer’s Almanac calendar for 2022: Check out the cold moon on December 7.
Leonid meteor shower 2022 peaks this week. Best times to see November’s bright fireballs.
Just a week after a total lunar eclipse turned November’s full moon into a rusty-reddish color, another notable sky event is on the way. This time it’s the 2022 Leonid meteor shower, which is set to reach its peak in the coming days.
Known as one of the top meteor showers in the fall season because of its bright fireballs, the Leonids are expected to be at their best from the late-night hours on Thursday, Nov. 17, into the early-morning hours on Friday, Nov. 18, according to astronomy experts. And some say there could be a bigger burst of shooting stars early Saturday morning, Nov. 19.
During an average year, the Leonid shower usually generates 10 to 15 meteors per hour in dark areas away from city lights. And some years this shower has had massive outbreaks of bright fireballs, numbering in the hundreds.
“While it might not live up to its historical reputation, it could end up being one of the best astronomy events of the year,” AccuWeather said in a preview of the 2022 Leonids.
AccuWeather says two meteor experts from the American Meteor Society have analyzed the timing of when the Earth will move through different trails of space debris from a comet known as 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, and they believe our planet could see the biggest burst of shooting stars early Saturday morning.
If their analysis is correct, AccuWeather says, sky watchers “could see anywhere from 50 to 200 meteors per hour” during a short time-frame on Saturday. (They say the main window for that big burst could be between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. Eastern time Saturday.)
Other experts, however, aren’t convinced that the Leonids will put on a spectacular sky show this year. But they say it’s still worth watching late Thursday night, early Friday morning and again late Friday night into early Saturday.
The EarthSky astronomy website agrees the Leonid meteor shower sometimes over-performs, with huge numbers of shooting stars. But, “in most years, the Lion whimpers rather than roars.”
Experts say the Leonids are already visible in small numbers and will continue to be visible through Dec. 2, but the next few days (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) will feature the biggest numbers.
The Leonid meteor shower occurs each November when the Earth passes through tiny particles of space debris from a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle. Some years the shower produces big numbers of bright fireballs.Shutterstock
When and where to look
First things, first. You can see the Leonid meteors from almost anywhere, but experts say you will increase your chances if you go to a park or open area in a rural place, as far away as possible from bright city lights and street lights.
Bring a blanket or a lawn chair for comfort, and bundle up, because temperatures are running far below normal in our region this week. And give your eyes about 20 minutes to adjust to the dark sky when you’re looking up.
Thrillist.com says “the best time to see the Leonids will be after midnight and toward morning local time” on Friday. “The earlier end of that window may be best, though, because the last quarter moon will be rising after midnight, “possibly obscuring your view of fainter meteors.”
Forecasters from AccuWeather say the sky conditions should be good in the New Jersey region for people to see the Leonid meteor shower. The shower is expected to peak late Thursday night into early Friday morning, but some experts say another big burst could occur early Saturday.AccuWeather
As to which part of the sky to look at, Thrillist recommends looking near the constellation Leo, which is the Leonids’ radiant — the area of the sky where the meteors appear to be originating from as they shoot out.
“However, don’t look right at the radiant,” the website says. “The meteors will be moving away from that point. You’ll see more meteors by looking anywhere else in the sky.”
Space.com says the Leonids are among the fastest meteors of any major shower, “zipping through the sky at 44 miles per second.” Rapid speeds like that “tend to produce bright and colorful meteors with hues of white, blue, aquamarine and even green, which leave long-lasting streaks or trains in their wake,” the space website notes.
These are the dates and most common nicknames of all 12 full moons in 2022.Len Melisurgo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Final full moon of 2022
The last of 12 full moons of 2022 will be shining in the night sky on Wednesday, Dec. 7, officially turning full at 11:08 p.m. Eastern time.
Its most common nickname is the “cold moon,” because it appears when the chill of winter starts to set in.
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