Astronomy - Stargazing General Thread

[Skyentist]

Had this sent to me yesterday.

A 20 year time lapse of the blackhole at the center of our galaxy! It loops a few times.

[JonnyRedHed]

Parker Solar Probe - The Fastest, Hottest Space Probe Ever - Scott Manley discusses

[JonnyRedHed]

Parker Solar Probe: Nasa delays mission to unlock Sun’s mysteries - bbc

US space agency Nasa has delayed its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before.

The Parker Solar Probe was set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday, but last-minute investigations have delayed it for 24 hours. It is now scheduled to blast off - on board the mammoth Delta-IV Heavy rocket - on Sunday morning.

[JonnyRedHed]

Parker Solar Probe: Nasa launches mission to ‘touch the Sun’ - bbc

NASA Launches Daring Solar Probe Mission to Kiss the Sun

[JonnyRedHed]

New Cameras to Track Perseid Meteor Shower from Meteor Crater - spacedotcom

Scientists are hoping to see one of the year’s best meteor showers from one of the most scenic places on Earth: Arizona’s Meteor Crater.

[JonnyRedHed]

Hubble Space Telescope Gyroscope Failure - How Scientists Will Keep It Alive - Scott Manley discusses

[JonnyRedHed]

Scott Manley discusses

[JonnyRedHed]

Blast-off for BepiColombo on mission to Mercury - BBC

Scott Manley discusses

[JonnyRedHed]

Happy Carl Sagan day.

I keep coming back to this series of videos by Reid Gower - done to Carl Sagans spoken audio.

THE SAGAN SERIES - The Pale Blue Dot (HD)

Check out the rest in the series here: http://saganseries.com/

[JonnyRedHed]

Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star - BBC

[JonnyRedHed]

Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe arrives at Asteroid Bennu - BBC

NASA/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

[JonnyRedHed]

Parker Solar Probe: Sun-skimming mission starts calling home - BBC

NASA/NRL/PARKER SOLAR PROBE

Parker took this image of a streamer, a dense part of the corona, on 8 November

[JonnyRedHed]

Nasa’s Jupiter mission Juno reveals giant polar storms - BBC

Nasa’s Juno mission to the gas giant Jupiter has reached its halfway mark and has revealed new views of cyclones at the poles.

[DirkLarien]

Stunning details.

[JonnyRedHed]

Nasa’s New Horizons probe on course for historic flyby on new years day - BBC

[JonnyRedHed]

New Horizons: Nasa probe survives flyby of Ultima Thule - BBC

Source: NASA
A good, clear signal was picked up by the radio antenna system in Spain

[JonnyRedHed]

Nasa’s New Horizons: ‘Snowman’ shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed - BBC

NASA/JHU-APL/SWRI

The “snowman” completes a full rotation every 15 hours

[JonnyRedHed]

Scott Manley discusses what Rock Star Brian May Discovered About Interplanetary Dust

[JonnyRedHed]

Scott Manley tells us about a A Space Rock Hitting The Moon During The Eclipse

[JonnyRedHed]

Scott Manley discusses new images from New Horizons - NASA Shows Alien World Is Flat