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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perseid meteor shower\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.amsmeteors.org/2022/08/viewing-the-perseid-meteor-shower-in-2022/\">reach its peak\u003c/a> activity in the early mornings on Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13. In the hours leading up to dawn, you could see as many as 50 meteors per hour – almost one a minute – with clear, dark viewing conditions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual Perseids meteor shower in August is \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/perseids/in-depth/\">one of the best and most reliable shooting star shows of the year\u003c/a>. The full moon will be in the sky all night and moonlight will challenge you to see fainter Perseids, but the brighter ones will still be easy to spot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1968031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows streaks of light all coming from one area in the dark sky. The streaks fan across the image from left of center in all directions.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time lapse image taken during the Perseid meteor shower in 2009. When viewing this meteor shower with your eyes, you will usually see only one meteor at a time, about once per minute on average. The time lapse image reveals how the Perseids seem to radiate from a common point, the shower’s “radiant point.” \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Where do I look?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After midnight, looking to the northeast will face you toward the Perseids’ “radiant point,” the spot in the sky they will streak from. This is in the constellation \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://astrobackyard.com/perseus-constellation/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perseus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the shower’s namesake. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find a good viewing location with a dark sky and a clear view to the east, free of obstructions like hills, trees and buildings. Get comfortable and watch the sky. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though the meteors will radiate from the vicinity of Perseus, they can flash across any part of the sky. You never know when or where one will appear, so set your sights on the entire scene, just like you would watch a big-screen action film you haven’t seen before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a dark blue northeastern sky, with a narrow curve of buildings and trees below. The image shows how the sky will look on the morning of August 12, 2022. The constellations of Ursa Major, Lynx and Orion are barely visible, rising above the horizon, with Aunga and Taurus just above them. Across the middle of the image are Ursa Minor, Camelopardalis and Perseus, the constellation from where the Perseid meteors come. To the right of Perseus, Mars is a bright circle in the sky. At the top of the image are the Cassiopeia, Triangulum and Aries.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of how the northeastern sky will look at 2:00 a.m. on the morning of August 12, featuring the location of the constellation Perseus and the radiant point of the Perseids meteor shower. Mars will shine bright in the east as well. \u003ccite>(Ben Burress - chart made using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where do I go to see them?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can see the Perseids shower from anywhere with an unobstructed view of the sky, even your own backyard. If you live in a city, the number of falling stars you might catch will be limited by the height of obstacles around you and by light pollution from streetlights, buildings, and cars – so it helps to get away from that if possible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">there are places around the Bay where you can find relatively dark skies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> if you’re willing to travel a bit. These include \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=561\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Henry Coe State Park\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the south bay, Mount Diablo in the east, just about anywhere in the north bay area, and along Skyline Boulevard on the peninsula. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/calendar/perseids-meteor-shower/\">Chabot Space & Science Center\u003c/a> is holding a meteor watching party on its observatory deck, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stay safe, check the weather forecast for clear skies, and dress appropriately. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a view of the night sky as a circle bounded by trees below and the curve of a lens above. The Milky Way runs bright in white, blue and purple through the center of the image. The streak of a meteor shoots from the center of the image up toward the right.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small-768x611.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Perseids meteor caught in the skies of West Virginia in 2016. \u003ccite>(NASA/Bill Ingalls)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What causes meteor showers?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A meteor is a small speck of rock or metal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that strikes Earth’s atmosphere at speeds measured in tens of miles per second. Friction with the atmosphere quickly heats the pebble-sized grain and it vaporizes in a flash, leaving a brilliant streak behind. Most meteors burn up 40 or 50 miles above Earth’s surface, so those luminous trails can be dozens of miles long. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/meteor-shower/en/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meteor \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shower\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> happens when Earth moves through a cloud of dust\u003c/span>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> left behind by a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=name+asc&search=&condition_1=102%3Aparent_id&condition_2=comet%3Abody_type%3Ailike\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">comet that flew by the sun\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at some time in the past. When a comet passes close to the sun, solar heating vaporizes ice on the comet’s surface, which then blows off into space to form the familiar comet tail. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Ron Garan took this image from the International Space Station, featuring a Perseids meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere as seen from space. \u003ccite>(NASA/Ron Garan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The comet also sheds dust embedded in its ices, leaving behind a trail. Each year when Earth returns to the same point in its orbit, we pass through the dust trail and enjoy the fiery demise of meteors. Meteor showers are visible in the morning hours because that’s when we’re on the side of the Earth plowing into the dust – kind of like how we only see bugs hit the windshield of a car and not the rear window. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each different meteor shower throughout the year comes from the dust trail of a different comet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/109p-swift-tuttle/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Perseids’ parent comet is named \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swift-Tuttle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, discovered in 1862 independently by Lewis Swift and Horace Parnell Tuttle. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swift-Tuttle orbits the sun once every 133 years, and last passed by Earth’s neighborhood in the solar system in 1992.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perseid meteor shower\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will \u003ca href=\"https://www.amsmeteors.org/2022/08/viewing-the-perseid-meteor-shower-in-2022/\">reach its peak\u003c/a> activity in the early mornings on Friday, August 12 and Saturday, August 13. In the hours leading up to dawn, you could see as many as 50 meteors per hour – almost one a minute – with clear, dark viewing conditions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual Perseids meteor shower in August is \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/perseids/in-depth/\">one of the best and most reliable shooting star shows of the year\u003c/a>. The full moon will be in the sky all night and moonlight will challenge you to see fainter Perseids, but the brighter ones will still be easy to spot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1968031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1968031\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows streaks of light all coming from one area in the dark sky. The streaks fan across the image from left of center in all directions.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/08/perseids-2009-nasajpl.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time lapse image taken during the Perseid meteor shower in 2009. When viewing this meteor shower with your eyes, you will usually see only one meteor at a time, about once per minute on average. The time lapse image reveals how the Perseids seem to radiate from a common point, the shower’s “radiant point.” \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Where do I look?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After midnight, looking to the northeast will face you toward the Perseids’ “radiant point,” the spot in the sky they will streak from. This is in the constellation \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://astrobackyard.com/perseus-constellation/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perseus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the shower’s namesake. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find a good viewing location with a dark sky and a clear view to the east, free of obstructions like hills, trees and buildings. Get comfortable and watch the sky. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though the meteors will radiate from the vicinity of Perseus, they can flash across any part of the sky. You never know when or where one will appear, so set your sights on the entire scene, just like you would watch a big-screen action film you haven’t seen before. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979921\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a dark blue northeastern sky, with a narrow curve of buildings and trees below. The image shows how the sky will look on the morning of August 12, 2022. The constellations of Ursa Major, Lynx and Orion are barely visible, rising above the horizon, with Aunga and Taurus just above them. Across the middle of the image are Ursa Minor, Camelopardalis and Perseus, the constellation from where the Perseid meteors come. To the right of Perseus, Mars is a bright circle in the sky. At the top of the image are the Cassiopeia, Triangulum and Aries.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/Clipboard01.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of how the northeastern sky will look at 2:00 a.m. on the morning of August 12, featuring the location of the constellation Perseus and the radiant point of the Perseids meteor shower. Mars will shine bright in the east as well. \u003ccite>(Ben Burress - chart made using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where do I go to see them?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can see the Perseids shower from anywhere with an unobstructed view of the sky, even your own backyard. If you live in a city, the number of falling stars you might catch will be limited by the height of obstacles around you and by light pollution from streetlights, buildings, and cars – so it helps to get away from that if possible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">there are places around the Bay where you can find relatively dark skies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> if you’re willing to travel a bit. These include \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=561\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Henry Coe State Park\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the south bay, Mount Diablo in the east, just about anywhere in the north bay area, and along Skyline Boulevard on the peninsula. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chabotspace.org/calendar/perseids-meteor-shower/\">Chabot Space & Science Center\u003c/a> is holding a meteor watching party on its observatory deck, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stay safe, check the weather forecast for clear skies, and dress appropriately. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979920\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows a view of the night sky as a circle bounded by trees below and the curve of a lens above. The Milky Way runs bright in white, blue and purple through the center of the image. The streak of a meteor shoots from the center of the image up toward the right.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/2016perseid-small-768x611.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Perseids meteor caught in the skies of West Virginia in 2016. \u003ccite>(NASA/Bill Ingalls)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What causes meteor showers?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A meteor is a small speck of rock or metal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that strikes Earth’s atmosphere at speeds measured in tens of miles per second. Friction with the atmosphere quickly heats the pebble-sized grain and it vaporizes in a flash, leaving a brilliant streak behind. Most meteors burn up 40 or 50 miles above Earth’s surface, so those luminous trails can be dozens of miles long. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/meteor-shower/en/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meteor \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shower\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> happens when Earth moves through a cloud of dust\u003c/span>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> left behind by a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=name+asc&search=&condition_1=102%3Aparent_id&condition_2=comet%3Abody_type%3Ailike\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">comet that flew by the sun\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at some time in the past. When a comet passes close to the sun, solar heating vaporizes ice on the comet’s surface, which then blows off into space to form the familiar comet tail. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/08/1280px-Swift-Tuttle_Comet_Particles-small-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astronaut Ron Garan took this image from the International Space Station, featuring a Perseids meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere as seen from space. \u003ccite>(NASA/Ron Garan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The comet also sheds dust embedded in its ices, leaving behind a trail. Each year when Earth returns to the same point in its orbit, we pass through the dust trail and enjoy the fiery demise of meteors. Meteor showers are visible in the morning hours because that’s when we’re on the side of the Earth plowing into the dust – kind of like how we only see bugs hit the windshield of a car and not the rear window. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each different meteor shower throughout the year comes from the dust trail of a different comet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/109p-swift-tuttle/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Perseids’ parent comet is named \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swift-Tuttle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, discovered in 1862 independently by Lewis Swift and Horace Parnell Tuttle. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swift-Tuttle orbits the sun once every 133 years, and last passed by Earth’s neighborhood in the solar system in 1992.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\">\u003cstrong>Updated July 12, 2022 at 11:35 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The universe’s splendor and breadth are on display like never before, thanks to a new batch of images that NASA released from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images from the new telescope are “really gorgeous,” said NASA’s Jane Rigby, the operations project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that has been true for every image we’ve gotten with Webb,” she added. “We can’t take blank sky [images]. Everywhere we look, there’s galaxies everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images reflect five areas of space that researchers agreed to target: the exoplanet WASP-96 b; the Southern Ring Nebula; the Carina Nebula; Stephan’s Quintet (five galaxies in the constellation Pegasus); and the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A nursery for the stars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the most eye-popping images released on Tuesday depicts what looks to be cosmic cliffs, valleys and mountains — albeit with mountains that stretch to seven light-years in height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-800x463.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-1020x591.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-768x445.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-1536x889.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-1920x1112.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The image captures part of a “stellar nursery called NGC 3324 at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula,” NASA said. It’s roughly 7,600 light-years from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The blistering, ultraviolet radiation from the young stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away,” the agency added. “Dramatic pillars tower above the glowing wall of gas, resisting this radiation. The ‘steam’ that appears to rise from the celestial ‘mountains’ is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to the relentless radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Galaxies from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ stun scientists\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The tight galaxy group called Stephan’s Quintet is a “laboratory” for scientists to study the powerful effects galaxies can exert on each other, thanks to new data from the Webb telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-800x767.jpg\" alt=\"An enormous mosaic of Stephan's Quintet is the largest image to date from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon's diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The visual grouping of five galaxies was captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).\" width=\"800\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-800x767.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-1020x978.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-160x153.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-768x736.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-1536x1472.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-1920x1840.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An enormous mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet is the largest image to date from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The visual grouping of five galaxies was captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers hope to learn more about how galaxies merge and interact, including triggering each other to form new stars, and how those processes might be impacted by supermassive black holes. The image casts the quintet in a new light, after they \u003ca href=\"https://www.wral.com/Classic-film-Its-a-Wonderful-Life-features-angelic-galaxies/18849527/\">represented angels\u003c/a> in Frank Capra’s classic film \u003cem>It’s a Wonderful Life\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter,” NASA said. “It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Catch a dying star\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Webb pulled the veil back on the second star in the Southern Ring Nebula, using mid-infrared wavelengths to capture it in extraordinary detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The star closely orbits its companion as it periodically ejects layers of gas and dust,” \u003ca href=\"https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-033?Collection=First%20Images#section-id-2\">NASA said\u003c/a>. “Together, the swirling duo have created a fantastic landscape of asymmetrical shells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new image shows the nebula from a nearly head-on view. But if we could see it from its edge, NASA says, “its three-dimensional shape would more clearly look like two bowls placed together at the bottom, opening away from one another with a large hole at the center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Webb delivers a portrait of a puffy giant\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas,” NASA said. “The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency didn’t release a photo but rather a spectrum analysis of WASP-96 b’s atmosphere, garnered from Webb sighting the WASP-96 b as it transited in front of a star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb's Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-1536x1033.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-2048x1378.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-1920x1292.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"A light curve from Webb's Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) shows the change in brightness of light from the WASP-96 star system over time as the planet transits the star. A transit occurs when an orbiting planet moves between the star and the telescope, blocking some of the light from the star.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-768x515.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-2048x1374.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-1920x1289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A light curve from Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) shows the change in brightness of light from the WASP-96 star system over time as the planet transits the star. A transit occurs when an orbiting planet moves between the star and the telescope, blocking some of the light from the star. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The analysis found the “chemical fingerprint” of water in the atmosphere, said Knicole Colon, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A look at some of the universe’s first galaxies ever\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The trove of images comes one day after a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110810946/webb-telescope-pictures-nasa\"> jaw-dropping first image\u003c/a> was published by NASA and the White House, more than six months after the telescope was launched from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first image showed the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979825\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-800x816.png\" alt=\"NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, this composite image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-800x816.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-1020x1041.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-160x163.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-768x784.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-1505x1536.png 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-1920x1959.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b.png 1960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this composite image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arm’s length, that is the part of the universe you are seeing — just one little speck of the universe,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that speck contains multitudes. And thanks to the telescope’s deep and sharp infrared images, Earthlings are getting a more detailed look at distant galaxies than was ever possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first image comprises thousands of galaxies, with even faint and diffuse structures visible for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks,” NASA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stunning displays amount to a rich lesson in the history of the universe: some of the galaxies are more than 13 billion years old, meaning they formed relatively soon after the Big Bang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 amounts to a snapshot from 4.6 billion years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from gaping at stunning views like everyone else, researchers will use data from the Webb telescope “to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions,” according to NASA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Webb Space Telescope is the culmination of an international program led by NASA. Its partners include the European Space Agency, or ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=NASA%27s+James+Webb+telescope+captures+groundbreaking+images+of+distant+galaxies&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\">\u003cstrong>Updated July 12, 2022 at 11:35 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The universe’s splendor and breadth are on display like never before, thanks to a new batch of images that NASA released from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images from the new telescope are “really gorgeous,” said NASA’s Jane Rigby, the operations project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that has been true for every image we’ve gotten with Webb,” she added. “We can’t take blank sky [images]. Everywhere we look, there’s galaxies everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images reflect five areas of space that researchers agreed to target: the exoplanet WASP-96 b; the Southern Ring Nebula; the Carina Nebula; Stephan’s Quintet (five galaxies in the constellation Pegasus); and the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A nursery for the stars\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the most eye-popping images released on Tuesday depicts what looks to be cosmic cliffs, valleys and mountains — albeit with mountains that stretch to seven light-years in height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-800x463.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-1020x591.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-768x445.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-1536x889.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258-1920x1112.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/carina-nebula1_custom-e11504c2139c38b4b011a923e622269cf98d4258.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The image captures part of a “stellar nursery called NGC 3324 at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula,” NASA said. It’s roughly 7,600 light-years from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The blistering, ultraviolet radiation from the young stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away,” the agency added. “Dramatic pillars tower above the glowing wall of gas, resisting this radiation. The ‘steam’ that appears to rise from the celestial ‘mountains’ is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to the relentless radiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Galaxies from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ stun scientists\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The tight galaxy group called Stephan’s Quintet is a “laboratory” for scientists to study the powerful effects galaxies can exert on each other, thanks to new data from the Webb telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979822\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-800x767.jpg\" alt=\"An enormous mosaic of Stephan's Quintet is the largest image to date from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon's diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The visual grouping of five galaxies was captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).\" width=\"800\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-800x767.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-1020x978.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-160x153.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-768x736.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-1536x1472.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9-1920x1840.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/stephan-s-quintet-new-_custom-ab2dbcd7c9812c8522d21cad50d61434a34554e9.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An enormous mosaic of Stephan’s Quintet is the largest image to date from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The visual grouping of five galaxies was captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers hope to learn more about how galaxies merge and interact, including triggering each other to form new stars, and how those processes might be impacted by supermassive black holes. The image casts the quintet in a new light, after they \u003ca href=\"https://www.wral.com/Classic-film-Its-a-Wonderful-Life-features-angelic-galaxies/18849527/\">represented angels\u003c/a> in Frank Capra’s classic film \u003cem>It’s a Wonderful Life\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter,” NASA said. “It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Catch a dying star\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Webb pulled the veil back on the second star in the Southern Ring Nebula, using mid-infrared wavelengths to capture it in extraordinary detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The star closely orbits its companion as it periodically ejects layers of gas and dust,” \u003ca href=\"https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-033?Collection=First%20Images#section-id-2\">NASA said\u003c/a>. “Together, the swirling duo have created a fantastic landscape of asymmetrical shells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new image shows the nebula from a nearly head-on view. But if we could see it from its edge, NASA says, “its three-dimensional shape would more clearly look like two bowls placed together at the bottom, opening away from one another with a large hole at the center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Webb delivers a portrait of a puffy giant\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas,” NASA said. “The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency didn’t release a photo but rather a spectrum analysis of WASP-96 b’s atmosphere, garnered from Webb sighting the WASP-96 b as it transited in front of a star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb's Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-768x517.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-1536x1033.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-2048x1378.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-1-_custom-3517330aec3f673e09ee74cc7301b912cf6ca9fa-1920x1292.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979824\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979824\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"A light curve from Webb's Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) shows the change in brightness of light from the WASP-96 star system over time as the planet transits the star. A transit occurs when an orbiting planet moves between the star and the telescope, blocking some of the light from the star.\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-768x515.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-1536x1031.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-2048x1374.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/wasp-96-b-2-_custom-64ecae55c04b3300b81b29aab98e8d4d1e9d01a7-1920x1289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A light curve from Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) shows the change in brightness of light from the WASP-96 star system over time as the planet transits the star. A transit occurs when an orbiting planet moves between the star and the telescope, blocking some of the light from the star. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The analysis found the “chemical fingerprint” of water in the atmosphere, said Knicole Colon, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A look at some of the universe’s first galaxies ever\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The trove of images comes one day after a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110810946/webb-telescope-pictures-nasa\"> jaw-dropping first image\u003c/a> was published by NASA and the White House, more than six months after the telescope was launched from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first image showed the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979825\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979825\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-800x816.png\" alt=\"NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, this composite image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-800x816.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-1020x1041.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-160x163.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-768x784.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-1505x1536.png 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b-1920x1959.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/07/smacs-0723-2021_custom-7fb7471427de70e2d4d62d0a620f5da245e7777b.png 1960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this composite image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. \u003ccite>(NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arm’s length, that is the part of the universe you are seeing — just one little speck of the universe,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that speck contains multitudes. And thanks to the telescope’s deep and sharp infrared images, Earthlings are getting a more detailed look at distant galaxies than was ever possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first image comprises thousands of galaxies, with even faint and diffuse structures visible for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks,” NASA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stunning displays amount to a rich lesson in the history of the universe: some of the galaxies are more than 13 billion years old, meaning they formed relatively soon after the Big Bang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 amounts to a snapshot from 4.6 billion years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from gaping at stunning views like everyone else, researchers will use data from the Webb telescope “to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions,” according to NASA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A spectacular summer lineup is on the schedule for June, and it isn’t on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From mid-June to almost the end of the month, \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/\">a family of planets will come together in the early morning sky\u003c/a>, in a glittering bracelet of celestial gems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From June 16 on, starting around 4 a.m., look to the southeast. Strung in a line stretching from the east toward the west shine all five of the planets visible to the unaided eye — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — and our waning gibbous moon as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/planetalignment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/planetalignment2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/planetalignment2-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/planetalignment2-768x472.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking east in the morning after June 16, 2022, the five planets possible to see with the naked eye — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — stretch westward from the predawn twilight near the horizon. Until June 24, the moon also will be visible, moving night to night from its gibbous phase on June 16, west of Saturn, toward a thin crescent between Venus and Mars on June 24. \u003ccite>(Made by Ben Burress using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mercury and Venus form the pair nearest the horizon while Mars and Jupiter hang out higher in the southeast. Saturn shines highest of all, almost directly south.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tips for spotting all five\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mercury doesn’t stray far from the sun and can be challenging to spot, hiding in the glow of twilight or lost in the sun’s glare. To find Mercury you’ll need a clear eastern horizon, free of obstacles like trees, buildings and hills. Fortunately, brilliant Venus, the brightest of the planets, is nearby, and can be used as a signpost to spot the elusive innermost planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Center your sights on Venus, then look down and to the left about 10 degrees, roughly the width of your fist. There, you may glimpse a fiery spark in the growing twilight: Mercury. If you are successful, enjoy the moment, for it is a rare sighting!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 994px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"994\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422.jpg 994w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422-800x454.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercury is a difficult planet to spot under the best of conditions, but in late June 2022, especially around June 24, Venus is well-positioned to aid in finding the elusive innermost planet. Bright Venus is easy to see, and on this morning, Mercury is found down and to the left at a distance about the width of your fist held against the sky. \u003ccite>(Made by Ben Burress using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On June 24, the waning moon will move farther east and diminish to a delicate crescent, staging a finale for this rare and beautiful assembly of celestial orbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after, the moon will dive into the dawn, and Mercury will disappear quickly into the sun’s glow, followed in August by Venus. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will remain prominent well into autumn, but spread farther and farther apart over the weeks, dissolving their close partnership of summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How rare is this alignment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All five visible planets gathering in the same patch of sky occurs, on average, every 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matchups of two planets happen regularly. As the \u003ca href=\"https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/orbit_viewer.html\">planets circle the sun\u003c/a> at their various orbital velocities, they pass each other like cars on a freeway moving at different speeds. Mars makes a complete circuit around the ecliptic — the great circle that the sun and planets travel along as seen from Earth — about every two years, reliably buzzing Jupiter and Saturn each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/i/inferior+planet\">inner planets Mercury and Venus\u003c/a> — closer to the sun than Earth — move more quickly, emerging from the sun’s glare in the morning and evening in seasonal turns, cyclically lining up with more distant planets as they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1135px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1135\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy.jpg 1135w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1135px) 100vw, 1135px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The orbital positions of the planets out to Saturn in the second half of June 2022. As viewed from Earth, the five planets possible to see with the naked eye fall in a westward sweeping line from the sun, all appearing together in a dazzling lineup before fading in dawn’s light. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL/Orbit Viewer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sometimes these pairings are breathtakingly close, bringing a pair of planets within a thumb’s width of each other, or closer. Venus and Jupiter had such a rendezvous in late April, passing less than half a degree from each other as seen from Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the chance to see all five of the visible planets in one vista is rare. The celestial math of the planets’ dance only brings them together every couple of decades, and when the sun gets into the act we may not see the performance at all. The last time these planets clustered together, in May of 2000, the sun was right in the middle of the stage and outshined all the other luminaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So June brings a rare opportunity to gaze upon all the visible planets, compare their brightness and color, and appreciate the celestial choreography that allows us to witness such splendor. You need to get up early to enjoy the show, but it’s worth it!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Center your sights on Venus, then look down and to the left about 10 degrees, roughly the width of your fist. There, you may glimpse a fiery spark in the growing twilight: Mercury. If you are successful, enjoy the moment, for it is a rare sighting!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 994px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"994\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422.jpg 994w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422-800x454.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/venus-and-mercury-062422-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mercury is a difficult planet to spot under the best of conditions, but in late June 2022, especially around June 24, Venus is well-positioned to aid in finding the elusive innermost planet. Bright Venus is easy to see, and on this morning, Mercury is found down and to the left at a distance about the width of your fist held against the sky. \u003ccite>(Made by Ben Burress using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On June 24, the waning moon will move farther east and diminish to a delicate crescent, staging a finale for this rare and beautiful assembly of celestial orbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days after, the moon will dive into the dawn, and Mercury will disappear quickly into the sun’s glow, followed in August by Venus. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will remain prominent well into autumn, but spread farther and farther apart over the weeks, dissolving their close partnership of summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How rare is this alignment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All five visible planets gathering in the same patch of sky occurs, on average, every 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matchups of two planets happen regularly. As the \u003ca href=\"https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/orbit_viewer.html\">planets circle the sun\u003c/a> at their various orbital velocities, they pass each other like cars on a freeway moving at different speeds. Mars makes a complete circuit around the ecliptic — the great circle that the sun and planets travel along as seen from Earth — about every two years, reliably buzzing Jupiter and Saturn each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/i/inferior+planet\">inner planets Mercury and Venus\u003c/a> — closer to the sun than Earth — move more quickly, emerging from the sun’s glare in the morning and evening in seasonal turns, cyclically lining up with more distant planets as they go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1135px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1135\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy.jpg 1135w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/Untitled-2-copy-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1135px) 100vw, 1135px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The orbital positions of the planets out to Saturn in the second half of June 2022. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Strawberry supermoon rose over fields, buildings and wild landscapes around the globe. Here’s a sampling of photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A soft, pale orange moon fills the frame against a black sky. Arcing across the moon in sharp outline is a leafy branch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full strawberry supermoon is seen on June 14, 2022 in Ungaran, Central Java Province, Indonesia. \u003ccite>(WF Sihardian/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A huge white and grey moon hangs over downtown in Sydney, Australia. At the bottom of the image, there are low office buildings, a tall building glowing rose gold, and the an observation tower -- a round observation platform on a narrow column with a spire on top. A black bird flies between the buildings and the moon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Strawberry Supermoon, is seen over the skyline of the central business district in Sydney, Australia June 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Steven Saphore/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full moon, known as the Strawberry moon rises over the sky in Brussels, Belgium on June 15, 2022. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-800x1164.jpg\" alt=\"A huge full moon glowing yellow and orange looms over a medieval tower, a stone column with turrets at the top. Behind is a dark blue sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1164\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-800x1164.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-1020x1484.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-160x233.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-768x1118.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-1056x1536.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-1407x2048.jpg 1407w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-scaled.jpg 1759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full strawberry super moon rises behind medieval tower of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in Italy on June 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Two tree branches with long pine needles angle in silhouette across the face of a glowing white moon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Strawberry Supermoon” full moon rises behind a tree branch on June 14, 2022, as seen from Lawndale, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A dark bird sits on a tower in silhouette, with the huge white and grey moon behind. The sky is inky black. Dark branches from a tree lean in from the left.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Strawberry Moon rises over the sky in West New York of New Jersey, United States on June 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Islam Dogru/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post, Published June 10, 2022:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you ready to see something \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">super\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the night sky? If your answer is “always,” you’re in luck: June and July bring us super-sized full moons this year — bigger, brighter s\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">upermoons\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Full moons on June 14 and July 13 take place when the moon is near its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit, called its perigee — 26,000 miles closer than its greatest distance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bigger and brighter\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This makes a supermoon look larger and more dazzling than a typical full moon. Compared to when it is farthest from Earth, called its apogee, the moon will look 15% larger and 30% brighter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 803px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy.jpg 803w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy-768x546.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The full moon looks 15% larger and 30% brighter when it occurs at lunar perigee (when the moon is closest to the Earth) than at its farthest distance, its apogee. \u003ccite>(Ben Burress/NASA/Hubble Space Telescope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you could \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/diy-moon-orbit/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">compare the full moon\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at apogee (sometimes called a “micromoon”) and the perigee supermoon side by side, the difference in size would look the same as a penny and a nickel held at arm’s length.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Supermoon” has no official astronomical definition, but is a popular term for a full moon, or a new moon, close to perigee — how close depends on whom you ask. If you want the scientific term for this event, it’s called a “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2017/11/15/whats-a-supermoon-and-just-how-super-is-it/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">perigee syzygy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” — a syzygy (\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SIH-zih-gee)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> being when Earth, the moon, and the sun all fall into a straight line with each other.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979459\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 824px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy.jpg 824w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical, coming closest to us at perigee and farthest away at apogee. This causes the moon’s observed size in the sky to vary by up to 15%, and its brightness by 30%. \u003ccite>(Ben Burress/Chabot Space & Science Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Best time to enjoy a supermoon\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full moon rises around sunset and remains in the sky all night long, setting around dawn. But to maximize your viewing experience, catch the moon when it is near the horizon — just after moonrise or as moonset approaches.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At these times, the moon may appear extra large, by virtue of what is called the “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1191/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moon illusion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” It’s a trick of perception our brains play on us that makes the moon appear notably larger when close to the horizon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is not fully understood why we see this, but one idea is that when the moon is near the horizon, our brains judge its distance in the realm of earthly objects (trees, hills, buildings) and adjust its perceived size accordingly, fitting it into the landscape.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a supermoon, when the moon’s disk is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">actually\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> larger than usual, the illusion may be enhanced, producing a lunar orb over the landscape that poets write about and artists can’t resist painting — perhaps enlarging it even more with license of their imagination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tides: higher highs, lower lows\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The powers of a supermoon go beyond how big and bright it appears. The closer the moon is to Earth, the greater its gravitational influence on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/tide-cause.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ocean tides\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a supermoon (full or new), the difference between high and low tide is about two inches greater than usual — subtle, but maybe you’ll see a few more tide pools and the creatures within. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979458\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/A_Full-moon-illusion-NASA-TR_ST-529x360-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/A_Full-moon-illusion-NASA-TR_ST-529x360-1.jpg 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/A_Full-moon-illusion-NASA-TR_ST-529x360-1-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human perception of the moon’s size in the sky is influenced by its surroundings, and how far away our brains judge it to be. This is called the moon illusion. On any given night, however, the moon’s apparent size is the same whether it seems large near the horizon or smaller high in the sky. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Super strawberry moon?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">June’s full moon might be called a super strawberry moon, and July’s a super buck moon. No, these are not the names of characters out of an epic anime saga.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Full moons have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-are-names-full-moons-throughout-year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">proper names\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> given to them by different cultures to mark the time of year they take place. You may have heard of the harvest moon of autumn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several Native American tribes named June’s full moon a strawberry moon after the time of year when berries begin to ripen. Other cultures have named June’s moon honey moon, horse moon or hot moon, among others. Similarly, July’s full moon has been called hay moon and thunder moon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whatever you care to call them, the full moons of June and July are one of the night sky’s celestial wonders. Host a super moon viewing!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Strawberry supermoon rose over fields, buildings and wild landscapes around the globe. Here’s a sampling of photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A soft, pale orange moon fills the frame against a black sky. Arcing across the moon in sharp outline is a leafy branch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56639_GettyImages-1241307881-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full strawberry supermoon is seen on June 14, 2022 in Ungaran, Central Java Province, Indonesia. \u003ccite>(WF Sihardian/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979541\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A huge white and grey moon hangs over downtown in Sydney, Australia. At the bottom of the image, there are low office buildings, a tall building glowing rose gold, and the an observation tower -- a round observation platform on a narrow column with a spire on top. A black bird flies between the buildings and the moon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56643_GettyImages-1241316693-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Strawberry Supermoon, is seen over the skyline of the central business district in Sydney, Australia June 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Steven Saphore/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56637_GettyImages-1241316939-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full moon, known as the Strawberry moon rises over the sky in Brussels, Belgium on June 15, 2022. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-800x1164.jpg\" alt=\"A huge full moon glowing yellow and orange looms over a medieval tower, a stone column with turrets at the top. Behind is a dark blue sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1164\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-800x1164.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-1020x1484.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-160x233.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-768x1118.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-1056x1536.jpg 1056w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-1407x2048.jpg 1407w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56645_GettyImages-1241298840-qut-scaled.jpg 1759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full strawberry super moon rises behind medieval tower of Santo Stefano di Sessanio in Italy on June 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Two tree branches with long pine needles angle in silhouette across the face of a glowing white moon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56638_GettyImages-1241318675-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “Strawberry Supermoon” full moon rises behind a tree branch on June 14, 2022, as seen from Lawndale, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A dark bird sits on a tower in silhouette, with the huge white and grey moon behind. The sky is inky black. Dark branches from a tree lean in from the left.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/RS56642_GettyImages-1241323129-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Strawberry Moon rises over the sky in West New York of New Jersey, United States on June 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Islam Dogru/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post, Published June 10, 2022:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you ready to see something \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">super\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the night sky? If your answer is “always,” you’re in luck: June and July bring us super-sized full moons this year — bigger, brighter s\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">upermoons\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Full moons on June 14 and July 13 take place when the moon is near its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit, called its perigee — 26,000 miles closer than its greatest distance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bigger and brighter\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This makes a supermoon look larger and more dazzling than a typical full moon. Compared to when it is farthest from Earth, called its apogee, the moon will look 15% larger and 30% brighter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 803px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979457\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy.jpg 803w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/supermoon-micromoon-copy-768x546.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The full moon looks 15% larger and 30% brighter when it occurs at lunar perigee (when the moon is closest to the Earth) than at its farthest distance, its apogee. \u003ccite>(Ben Burress/NASA/Hubble Space Telescope)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you could \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/diy-moon-orbit/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">compare the full moon\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at apogee (sometimes called a “micromoon”) and the perigee supermoon side by side, the difference in size would look the same as a penny and a nickel held at arm’s length.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Supermoon” has no official astronomical definition, but is a popular term for a full moon, or a new moon, close to perigee — how close depends on whom you ask. If you want the scientific term for this event, it’s called a “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2017/11/15/whats-a-supermoon-and-just-how-super-is-it/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">perigee syzygy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” — a syzygy (\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SIH-zih-gee)\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> being when Earth, the moon, and the sun all fall into a straight line with each other.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979459\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 824px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979459\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy.jpg 824w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy-800x591.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/moons-orbit-copy-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical, coming closest to us at perigee and farthest away at apogee. This causes the moon’s observed size in the sky to vary by up to 15%, and its brightness by 30%. \u003ccite>(Ben Burress/Chabot Space & Science Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Best time to enjoy a supermoon\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full moon rises around sunset and remains in the sky all night long, setting around dawn. But to maximize your viewing experience, catch the moon when it is near the horizon — just after moonrise or as moonset approaches.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At these times, the moon may appear extra large, by virtue of what is called the “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1191/the-moon-illusion-why-does-the-moon-look-so-big-sometimes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moon illusion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.” It’s a trick of perception our brains play on us that makes the moon appear notably larger when close to the horizon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is not fully understood why we see this, but one idea is that when the moon is near the horizon, our brains judge its distance in the realm of earthly objects (trees, hills, buildings) and adjust its perceived size accordingly, fitting it into the landscape.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a supermoon, when the moon’s disk is \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">actually\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> larger than usual, the illusion may be enhanced, producing a lunar orb over the landscape that poets write about and artists can’t resist painting — perhaps enlarging it even more with license of their imagination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Tides: higher highs, lower lows\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The powers of a supermoon go beyond how big and bright it appears. The closer the moon is to Earth, the greater its gravitational influence on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/tide-cause.htm\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ocean tides\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a supermoon (full or new), the difference between high and low tide is about two inches greater than usual — subtle, but maybe you’ll see a few more tide pools and the creatures within. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979458\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979458\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/A_Full-moon-illusion-NASA-TR_ST-529x360-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/A_Full-moon-illusion-NASA-TR_ST-529x360-1.jpg 529w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/06/A_Full-moon-illusion-NASA-TR_ST-529x360-1-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human perception of the moon’s size in the sky is influenced by its surroundings, and how far away our brains judge it to be. This is called the moon illusion. On any given night, however, the moon’s apparent size is the same whether it seems large near the horizon or smaller high in the sky. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Super strawberry moon?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">June’s full moon might be called a super strawberry moon, and July’s a super buck moon. No, these are not the names of characters out of an epic anime saga.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Full moons have \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-are-names-full-moons-throughout-year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">proper names\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> given to them by different cultures to mark the time of year they take place. You may have heard of the harvest moon of autumn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several Native American tribes named June’s full moon a strawberry moon after the time of year when berries begin to ripen. Other cultures have named June’s moon honey moon, horse moon or hot moon, among others. Similarly, July’s full moon has been called hay moon and thunder moon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whatever you care to call them, the full moons of June and July are one of the night sky’s celestial wonders. Host a super moon viewing!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "How to See Sunday’s ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse in the Bay Area | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the most beautiful sights of the night sky is the appearance of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/eclipses/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">total lunar eclipse\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, when the moon makes a rare passage straight through Earth’s shadow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rare, yes, but on the West Coast, the spheres will align on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2022May16T.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 15 \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to give us a front-row seat to the spectacle — and at a convenient time of night, as well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>When is the eclipse?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the moon rises, shortly after 8 p.m. PDT on Sunday, the eclipse will already be in progress. But don’t worry about missing the beginning; The best is yet to come.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The eclipse will enter “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">totality”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — when the moon is fully engulfed in Earth’s shadow — at 8:29 p.m., reach maximum darkness at 9:11 p.m., and end at 9:54 p.m. When totality ends, the moon will reenter a partial eclipse phase, gradually moving back into the sun’s light.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1041px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0.jpg 1041w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram showing the relationship of the Sun, Earth and moon during a total lunar eclipse, when the moon passes through Earth’s full ‘umbral’ shadow. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>How do you see the eclipse?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The moon will rise in the southeast, and by the time totality begins at 8:29 p.m., it will have risen 12 degrees above the southeastern horizon — about the span of your open hand. So, you simply need to find a moon-watching spot with a clear view of the southeastern horizon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unlike observing fainter celestial events like meteor showers, you don’t need to travel to a dark sky location to enjoy the eclipse. Even when the moon is dimmest, at maximum eclipse, it will be a prominent object in the heavens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What will you see?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this lunar eclipse\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will already be in progress when the moon rises, what would be a full moon will have a large, dark “bite” taken out of one side. Some ancient cultures even explained a lunar eclipse as a celestial being — a dragon, or a dog — devouring the moon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During totality, the moon will darken significantly, as well as change color from full-moon-white to a rusty orange or even blood red, depending on atmospheric conditions. That’s why a total lunar eclipse is often called a blood moon. 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On the top and bottom of Earth, cone-shaped rainbows of light from an unpictured sun extend off into space. the image shows the blue light heading off into space, while the red spectrum of light shines on the moon, hidden in Earth's shadow. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s atmosphere scatters sunlight. The blue light from the sun scatters away, and longer-wavelength red, orange and yellow light passes through, turning our moon red. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the most beautiful sights of the night sky is the appearance of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-in-motion/eclipses/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">total lunar eclipse\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, when the moon makes a rare passage straight through Earth’s shadow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rare, yes, but on the West Coast, the spheres will align on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2022May16T.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 15 \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to give us a front-row seat to the spectacle — and at a convenient time of night, as well.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>When is the eclipse?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the moon rises, shortly after 8 p.m. PDT on Sunday, the eclipse will already be in progress. But don’t worry about missing the beginning; The best is yet to come.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The eclipse will enter “\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">totality”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — when the moon is fully engulfed in Earth’s shadow — at 8:29 p.m., reach maximum darkness at 9:11 p.m., and end at 9:54 p.m. When totality ends, the moon will reenter a partial eclipse phase, gradually moving back into the sun’s light.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979299\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1041px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1979299\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0.jpg 1041w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/lunar-eclipse-diagram_0-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram showing the relationship of the Sun, Earth and moon during a total lunar eclipse, when the moon passes through Earth’s full ‘umbral’ shadow. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>How do you see the eclipse?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The moon will rise in the southeast, and by the time totality begins at 8:29 p.m., it will have risen 12 degrees above the southeastern horizon — about the span of your open hand. So, you simply need to find a moon-watching spot with a clear view of the southeastern horizon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unlike observing fainter celestial events like meteor showers, you don’t need to travel to a dark sky location to enjoy the eclipse. Even when the moon is dimmest, at maximum eclipse, it will be a prominent object in the heavens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>What will you see?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">this lunar eclipse\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will already be in progress when the moon rises, what would be a full moon will have a large, dark “bite” taken out of one side. Some ancient cultures even explained a lunar eclipse as a celestial being — a dragon, or a dog — devouring the moon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During totality, the moon will darken significantly, as well as change color from full-moon-white to a rusty orange or even blood red, depending on atmospheric conditions. That’s why a total lunar eclipse is often called a blood moon. The effect can make the moon look three-dimensional, like a coppery ball hanging in the sky — almost like you could reach out and touch it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The orange and red tones during totality are caused by the filtering of sunlight by Earth’s atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1979338\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"On the left is a blue ball representing Earth. On the top and bottom of Earth, cone-shaped rainbows of light from an unpictured sun extend off into space. the image shows the blue light heading off into space, while the red spectrum of light shines on the moon, hidden in Earth's shadow. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/suns-light-around-Earth.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s atmosphere scatters sunlight. The blue light from the sun scatters away, and longer-wavelength red, orange and yellow light passes through, turning our moon red. 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"content": "\u003cp>For years, the supermassive black hole in the dark center of the Milky Way galaxy has been theorized about and studied — and finally, it’s been captured in an image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*,” an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ehtelescope/status/1524737908892049408\">announced on Thursday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the dawn of a new era of black hole physics,” it added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black hole is often referred to as Sgr A*, pronounced \u003cem>sadge ay star\u003c/em>. Its mass is about 4 million times that of the sun, and it’s about 27,000 light years from Earth, \u003ca href=\"https://news.mit.edu/2022/first-supermassive-black-hole-sagitarrius-0512\">according to MIT\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' citation='Feryal Özel, University of Arizona']‘It seems that black holes like donuts.’[/pullquote]Black holes have long been a source of public fascination, but they also pose notorious challenges to researchers, mainly because their gravitational fields are so strong that they either bend light or prevent it from escaping entirely. But scientists have been able to detect and study them based on the powerful effects they exert on their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Sgr A*, scientists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/black-hole-SagittariusA.html\">previously observed stars\u003c/a> orbiting around the Milky Way’s center. Now they have a direct view of what Feryal Özel, a professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona, called the “gentle giant” itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting the size of the black hole into an Earthling’s perspective, the team said that seeing it from the surface of our planet would be like trying to spot a donut on the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What made it extra challenging was the dynamic environment of Sgr A*, a source that burbled then gurgled as we looked at it,” Özel said, “and the challenges of looking not only through our own atmosphere, but also through the gas clouds in the disk of our galaxy towards the center. It took several years to refine our image and confirm what we had, but we prevailed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1979320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Stars glow as orange dots against a black background. Cool gasses glow in purple. At the center of the image are bright blue and white lights, showing the location of the black hole. An inset panel shows the black hole as a dark center with puffs of orange and yellow light in a circle around it, kind of like a donut.\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole.jpg 1041w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main panel of this graphic shows hot gas, in blue, that was blown away from massive stars near the black hole. Infrared light depicts stars as orange and cool gas as purple. A pull-out shows the new image of the black hole named Sagittarius A*. \u003ccite>(X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/HST/STScI. Inset: Radio, EHT Collaboration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 300 researchers collaborated on the effort to capture the image, compiling information from radio observatories around the world. To obtain the image, scientists used observations from April 2017, when all eight observatories were pointed at the black hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although we cannot see the black hole itself, because it is completely dark, glowing gas around it reveals a telltale signature: a dark central region (called a ‘shadow’) surrounded by a bright ring-like structure,” the EHT team said in its announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers announced the news Thursday morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., but it was simultaneously released around the world, in a series of news conferences held in Mexico City, Shanghai, Tokyo, and other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity,” \u003ca href=\"https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-reveal-first-image-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy\">said EHT Project Scientist Geoffrey Bower\u003c/a>, from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Academia Sinica in Taipei.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discovery comes three years after the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711723383/watch-earth-gets-its-first-look-at-a-black-hole\">first-ever image of a black hole\u003c/a> — but that work focused on the center of galaxy Messier 87, tens of millions of light-years away from Earth in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on the similarities of the two images, of a dark shadow surrounded by a bright ring, Özel stated, “It seems that black holes like donuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, the two black holes are very different from one another — for one thing, the Milky Way’s black hole isn’t as voracious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one in M87 is accumulating matter at a significantly faster rate than Sgr A*,” she said. “Perhaps more importantly, the one in M87 launches a powerful jet that extends as far as the edge of that galaxy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Black holes have long been a source of public fascination, but they also pose notorious challenges to researchers, mainly because their gravitational fields are so strong that they either bend light or prevent it from escaping entirely. But scientists have been able to detect and study them based on the powerful effects they exert on their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Sgr A*, scientists have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/black-hole-SagittariusA.html\">previously observed stars\u003c/a> orbiting around the Milky Way’s center. Now they have a direct view of what Feryal Özel, a professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona, called the “gentle giant” itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting the size of the black hole into an Earthling’s perspective, the team said that seeing it from the surface of our planet would be like trying to spot a donut on the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What made it extra challenging was the dynamic environment of Sgr A*, a source that burbled then gurgled as we looked at it,” Özel said, “and the challenges of looking not only through our own atmosphere, but also through the gas clouds in the disk of our galaxy towards the center. It took several years to refine our image and confirm what we had, but we prevailed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1979320\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1979320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Stars glow as orange dots against a black background. Cool gasses glow in purple. At the center of the image are bright blue and white lights, showing the location of the black hole. An inset panel shows the black hole as a dark center with puffs of orange and yellow light in a circle around it, kind of like a donut.\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/05/black-hole.jpg 1041w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main panel of this graphic shows hot gas, in blue, that was blown away from massive stars near the black hole. Infrared light depicts stars as orange and cool gas as purple. A pull-out shows the new image of the black hole named Sagittarius A*. \u003ccite>(X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/HST/STScI. Inset: Radio, EHT Collaboration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 300 researchers collaborated on the effort to capture the image, compiling information from radio observatories around the world. To obtain the image, scientists used observations from April 2017, when all eight observatories were pointed at the black hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although we cannot see the black hole itself, because it is completely dark, glowing gas around it reveals a telltale signature: a dark central region (called a ‘shadow’) surrounded by a bright ring-like structure,” the EHT team said in its announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers announced the news Thursday morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., but it was simultaneously released around the world, in a series of news conferences held in Mexico City, Shanghai, Tokyo, and other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were stunned by how well the size of the ring agreed with predictions from Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity,” \u003ca href=\"https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-reveal-first-image-black-hole-heart-our-galaxy\">said EHT Project Scientist Geoffrey Bower\u003c/a>, from the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Academia Sinica in Taipei.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discovery comes three years after the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711723383/watch-earth-gets-its-first-look-at-a-black-hole\">first-ever image of a black hole\u003c/a> — but that work focused on the center of galaxy Messier 87, tens of millions of light-years away from Earth in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on the similarities of the two images, of a dark shadow surrounded by a bright ring, Özel stated, “It seems that black holes like donuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, the two black holes are very different from one another — for one thing, the Milky Way’s black hole isn’t as voracious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one in M87 is accumulating matter at a significantly faster rate than Sgr A*,” she said. “Perhaps more importantly, the one in M87 launches a powerful jet that extends as far as the edge of that galaxy. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are you doing between midnight and dawn on April 22? Sleeping? There’s a better option: Watch the annual Lyrids meteor shower, and catch up on sleep later.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early morning hours of Friday, April 22, especially in the last few hours before dawn, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/lyrids.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyrids shower\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will reach its peak of activity, producing as many as 18 meteors per hour under good viewing conditions and a dark sky. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s one meteor every three minutes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you watch the Lyrids?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meteor watching requires minimal planning.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, find a safe viewing location as far from city lights and overhead obstructions as possible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second, plan your viewing for after midnight — best in the last hours before dawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And third, bring a snack and a hot beverage, and something comfortable to sit or lie down on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you live in or around the cities of the Bay, you may have to travel a bit to find a spot shielded from urban lights. Fortunately, the Bay Area is fringed with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">decent viewing locations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> protected by surrounding topography — nothing like you can find far out in the country, but better than downtown San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978878\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-800x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-800x269.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-1020x343.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-768x259.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-1536x517.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-2048x689.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-1920x646.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low fog partially blanketing the city lights of Oakland and San Francisco, as seen from Chabot Space and Science Center. Urban light pollution is caused by particles in the atmosphere that reflect city lights back to the ground, interfering with our viewing enjoyment of faint celestial objects, like stars and meteors. \u003ccite>(Carter Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyrid meteors streak from a point near the constellation \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://stardate.org/astro-guide/lyra-harp-0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyra\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, their namesake. After midnight, Lyra will be high in the eastern sky, marked by the bright star Vega, one of the luminary members of the\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/tonight/summer-triangle-predominates-during-the-summer-seaso/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Summer Triangle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you find your viewing spot, get comfortable and look toward the east. Though the meteors will radiate from the direction of Lyra, their streaks can appear anywhere, so anchor your sight on Vega, but soften your gaze to see as much of the sky as you can. Now, wait for your reward. Seeing even one shooting star is a thrill. Then, wait for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lyrids shower also has been known to produce \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fireballs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/listening-to-fireballs-the-explosively-brilliant-m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exploding meteors\u003c/a> — that look like quick, bright bursts of light. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the morning of the Lyrids shower offers a dramatic display from the planets in our solar system. You can spot a lineup of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn, gradually rising around 4:30 to 5:00 a.m., strung out along the southeastern horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1033px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1033\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732.jpg 1033w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1033px) 100vw, 1033px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the southeastern sky will look around 4 a.m. on April 22, 2022, with Lyrid meteors appearing to streak from the radiant point. Also in the sky are the waning gibbous moon and the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn. \u003ccite>(Map made at Chabot Space and Science Center using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The waning gibbous moon will rise around 1 a.m. and climb higher in the eastern sky for the rest of the night. Moonlight will wash out some of the fainter meteors, but won’t prevent you from seeing the brighter ones. \u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where do meteors come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meteor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a tiny bit of space rock or metal incinerated in a flash as it streaks through Earth’s upper atmosphere, at speeds of tens of miles per second. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are you doing between midnight and dawn on April 22? Sleeping? There’s a better option: Watch the annual Lyrids meteor shower, and catch up on sleep later.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early morning hours of Friday, April 22, especially in the last few hours before dawn, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/lyrids.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyrids shower\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will reach its peak of activity, producing as many as 18 meteors per hour under good viewing conditions and a dark sky. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s one meteor every three minutes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do you watch the Lyrids?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meteor watching requires minimal planning.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, find a safe viewing location as far from city lights and overhead obstructions as possible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second, plan your viewing for after midnight — best in the last hours before dawn. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And third, bring a snack and a hot beverage, and something comfortable to sit or lie down on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you live in or around the cities of the Bay, you may have to travel a bit to find a spot shielded from urban lights. Fortunately, the Bay Area is fringed with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/155/dark-secrets\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">decent viewing locations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> protected by surrounding topography — nothing like you can find far out in the country, but better than downtown San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978878\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-800x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-800x269.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-1020x343.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-160x54.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-768x259.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-1536x517.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-2048x689.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/low-fog-1920x646.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low fog partially blanketing the city lights of Oakland and San Francisco, as seen from Chabot Space and Science Center. Urban light pollution is caused by particles in the atmosphere that reflect city lights back to the ground, interfering with our viewing enjoyment of faint celestial objects, like stars and meteors. \u003ccite>(Carter Roberts)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyrid meteors streak from a point near the constellation \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://stardate.org/astro-guide/lyra-harp-0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyra\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, their namesake. After midnight, Lyra will be high in the eastern sky, marked by the bright star Vega, one of the luminary members of the\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/tonight/summer-triangle-predominates-during-the-summer-seaso/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Summer Triangle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you find your viewing spot, get comfortable and look toward the east. Though the meteors will radiate from the direction of Lyra, their streaks can appear anywhere, so anchor your sight on Vega, but soften your gaze to see as much of the sky as you can. Now, wait for your reward. Seeing even one shooting star is a thrill. Then, wait for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lyrids shower also has been known to produce \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fireballs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/listening-to-fireballs-the-explosively-brilliant-m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exploding meteors\u003c/a> — that look like quick, bright bursts of light. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the morning of the Lyrids shower offers a dramatic display from the planets in our solar system. You can spot a lineup of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn, gradually rising around 4:30 to 5:00 a.m., strung out along the southeastern horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1033px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1033\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732.jpg 1033w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-1020x632.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lyrids_shower_radiant-e1648668475732-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1033px) 100vw, 1033px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How the southeastern sky will look around 4 a.m. on April 22, 2022, with Lyrid meteors appearing to streak from the radiant point. Also in the sky are the waning gibbous moon and the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn. \u003ccite>(Map made at Chabot Space and Science Center using Stellarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The waning gibbous moon will rise around 1 a.m. and climb higher in the eastern sky for the rest of the night. Moonlight will wash out some of the fainter meteors, but won’t prevent you from seeing the brighter ones. \u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where do meteors come from?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=id+asc&search=&condition_1=meteor_shower%3Abody_type\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meteor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a tiny bit of space rock or metal incinerated in a flash as it streaks through Earth’s upper atmosphere, at speeds of tens of miles per second. Usually no larger than pebbles, meteors can put on a brilliant light show, sometimes even revealing color — orange, blue or green — depending on composition and temperature.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978877\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2471px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978877\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2471\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-scaled.jpg 2471w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-800x829.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-1020x1057.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-160x166.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-768x796.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-1482x1536.jpg 1482w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-1977x2048.jpg 1977w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/meteors-leonids-carter-roberts-train1-2126-1920x1989.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2471px) 100vw, 2471px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composite photograph of meteors from the annual Leonids meteor shower, which takes place in November. \u003ccite>(Carter Roberts/Eastbay Astronomical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meteor shower\u003c/span>\u003c/a> happens when the Earth moves through a trail of dust left behind by the passage of a \u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">comet\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As Earth slams into the dust trail at its orbital speed of 18 miles per second, the friction vaporizes the dust grains.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We see meteor showers under morning skies when we’re on the side of the Earth plowing into the comet’s dust trail — inconvenient if you’d like to get a good night’s sleep, but a spectacular show.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dust trail supplying the Lyrids shower comes from a comet named \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/c-1861-g1-thatcher/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">C/1861 G1, or Thatcher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/l/Long-period+Comets#:~:text=Long%2Dperiod%20comets%20have%20orbital,known%20as%20the%20Oort%20Cloud.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">long-period\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” comet that orbits the sun every 415 years and last passed by the inner solar system more than 160 years ago. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time humans landed on the moon, “The Godfather” was a hit movie and Roberta Flack and Don McLean had hit songs. Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt were the last people to leave footprints on the moon’s cratered surface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time humans land on the moon might be only three years from now with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram\">NASA’s Artemis missions\u003c/a>, and this time a woman and a person of color will step down from the landing capsule onto the dusty ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978702\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 566px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/566px-Illustration_of_Orion_over_lunar_surface_with_Earthrise_32125696615_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/566px-Illustration_of_Orion_over_lunar_surface_with_Earthrise_32125696615_cropped.jpg 566w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/566px-Illustration_of_Orion_over_lunar_surface_with_Earthrise_32125696615_cropped-160x169.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist illustration of the Orion spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the moon during NASA’s Artemis missions. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To get ready for the adventures of Artemis, NASA has a lineup of robotic missions to map the trail, testing everything from the orbital mechanics for a space station to navigational technologies that will allow future spacecraft to operate with less dependence on controllers back on Earth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One robotic scout is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/capstone\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAPSTONE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a 55-pound “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/home/CubeSats_initiative\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cubesat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” no larger than a desktop computer. CAPSTONE is scheduled to launch this Saturday, on March 19, on a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rocketlabusa.com/launch/electron/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocket Lab “Electron”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rocket from New Zealand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, possibly as early as April, the first Artemis test flight is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center on NASA’s new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Space Launch System\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (SLS) rocket. Artemis 1 will send an uncrewed \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/index.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Orion spacecraft\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to within 60 miles of the moon’s surface, testing the system’s flight readiness and orbital trajectories before returning to Earth three weeks later. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mapping a trail for Artemis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAPSTONE (ready for this? It’s: Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) will, among other things, scout out a unique trajectory planned for a moon-orbiting space station, literally breaking trail for the lunar space station. The station, which NASA calls\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/gateway\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Gateway\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, will be a home base for astronauts to live between flights to and from Earth, and landings on the lunar surface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist illustration of Gateway, NASA’s planned moon-orbiting space station, with an Orion spacecraft approaching for docking. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAPSTONE will maneuver into and maintain this orbit for at least six months, verifying the mathematics and orbital mechanics prior to Gateway’s construction. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA has plotted Gateway’s path with special considerations in mind. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Angelic_halo_orbit_chosen_for_humankind_s_first_lunar_outpost\">orbit is a highly elongated ellipse\u003c/a>, swooping to within 1,000 miles of the moon’s southern polar region and then flinging to a far distance of 43,500 miles, circling the moon every seven days. The orbit takes advantage of the point of balance between the gravity of Earth and the moon, which means it’s a very stable orbit that requires minimal fuel for a spacecraft to maintain over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gateway’s orbit will make it easier for spacecraft flying to and from the moon’s surface — particularly the south polar region that NASA is interested in exploring — to rendezvous with the station. And at the far end of the loop, away from the moon, spacecraft departing for Earth (and future destinations like Mars) won’t need to burn as much fuel to break free of the moon’s gravity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978703\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 985px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/capstone-orbit-large.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"528\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of the near rectilinear orbit that NASA’s CAPSTONE will test in preparation for the building of the Gateway space station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another advantage of Gateway’s orbit is that it keeps an almost constant line of sight with Earth, allowing near continuous communication between the station and controllers at home. The orbit also provides coverage to the moon’s far side, where the body of the moon blocks radio signals from Earth. For future missions that will land on the far side of the moon, Gateway will serve as a Wi-Fi connection in the sky. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Untethering (a little) from Mission Control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another of CAPSTONE’s goals is to test new navigational technologies that will help future moon-bound spacecraft to operate with less dependence on controllers back on Earth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of this test, CAPSTONE will communicate directly with the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which has been circling the moon for over a decade now, making a high-resolution image survey of the lunar surface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAPSTONE will use this orbiter as a form of lunar GPS, a navigational reference to determine its own location and orbital trajectory. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Coming up: astronauts aboard Artemis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Named for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Artemis/artemis.html\">Greek moon goddess\u003c/a> and twin sister of the sun god Apollo, the Artemis missions \u003c/span>mark not only the first human-crewed expeditions to the moon since Apollo 17, five decades ago, but also the first time humans have ventured farther than 300 miles from Earth’s surface since that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1041px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/artemis_1_map_october_2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1041\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/artemis_1_map_october_2021.jpg 1041w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/artemis_1_map_october_2021-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/artemis_1_map_october_2021-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/artemis_1_map_october_2021-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/artemis_1_map_october_2021-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diagram illustrating the planned flight of the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, which will launch as early as April 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Artemis 2, planned to launch in May 2024, will carry human astronauts around the moon, then back home again. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/05/Artemis_3_step-by-step\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Artemis 3\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will land astronauts on the lunar surface as early as 2025. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA has announced that the spacecraft will carry the first woman and first person of color to the moon’s surface. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The plan is to send the two astronauts to a site in the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/moon-s-south-pole-in-nasa-s-landing-sites\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moon’s southern polar region\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where they will explore for about a week. A third astronaut will remain aloft in Gateway. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why are we going to the moon?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good question. The moon is a valuable resource, not only as a place for humans to explore, or a repository of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/ice-confirmed-at-the-moon-s-poles\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">natural resources \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to fuel missions on the moon and destinations beyond, such as Mars, but also as a unique \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/planetarymissions/LSITP.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">platform for scientific observation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the universe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1214px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lunar_south_pole_lroc-illuminationmap-NASA-GSFC-Arizona-State-University.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1214\" height=\"1214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lunar_south_pole_lroc-illuminationmap-NASA-GSFC-Arizona-State-University.png 1214w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lunar_south_pole_lroc-illuminationmap-NASA-GSFC-Arizona-State-University-800x800.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lunar_south_pole_lroc-illuminationmap-NASA-GSFC-Arizona-State-University-1020x1020.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lunar_south_pole_lroc-illuminationmap-NASA-GSFC-Arizona-State-University-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/lunar_south_pole_lroc-illuminationmap-NASA-GSFC-Arizona-State-University-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1214px) 100vw, 1214px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ‘illumination map’ composite image of the moon’s south pole, created from images collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter over about four weeks — one full lunar day. The brightness at any spot represents the percentage of a lunar day that spot was in sunlight. Black reveals locations that are in permanent shadow, where no sunlight ever reaches — deep crater floors where water ice may have built up over millennia. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The far side of the moon, which always faces away from Earth, is protected from the radio noise that human civilization generates and spews into space, a natural shelter where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/lunar-farside\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sensitive radio observatories\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> may probe the cosmos. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But, until the exciting human expeditions of Artemis come to pass, we can look forward to the adventures through the exploits of our \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/viper\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">robotic explorers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time humans landed on the moon, “The Godfather” was a hit movie and Roberta Flack and Don McLean had hit songs. Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt were the last people to leave footprints on the moon’s cratered surface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time humans land on the moon might be only three years from now with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram\">NASA’s Artemis missions\u003c/a>, and this time a woman and a person of color will step down from the landing capsule onto the dusty ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978702\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 566px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/566px-Illustration_of_Orion_over_lunar_surface_with_Earthrise_32125696615_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/566px-Illustration_of_Orion_over_lunar_surface_with_Earthrise_32125696615_cropped.jpg 566w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/566px-Illustration_of_Orion_over_lunar_surface_with_Earthrise_32125696615_cropped-160x169.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist illustration of the Orion spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the moon during NASA’s Artemis missions. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To get ready for the adventures of Artemis, NASA has a lineup of robotic missions to map the trail, testing everything from the orbital mechanics for a space station to navigational technologies that will allow future spacecraft to operate with less dependence on controllers back on Earth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One robotic scout is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/small_spacecraft/capstone\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAPSTONE\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a 55-pound “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/home/CubeSats_initiative\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cubesat\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” no larger than a desktop computer. CAPSTONE is scheduled to launch this Saturday, on March 19, on a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rocketlabusa.com/launch/electron/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rocket Lab “Electron”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rocket from New Zealand. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, possibly as early as April, the first Artemis test flight is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center on NASA’s new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Space Launch System\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (SLS) rocket. Artemis 1 will send an uncrewed \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/index.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Orion spacecraft\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to within 60 miles of the moon’s surface, testing the system’s flight readiness and orbital trajectories before returning to Earth three weeks later. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mapping a trail for Artemis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAPSTONE (ready for this? It’s: Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) will, among other things, scout out a unique trajectory planned for a moon-orbiting space station, literally breaking trail for the lunar space station. The station, which NASA calls\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/gateway\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Gateway\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, will be a home base for astronauts to live between flights to and from Earth, and landings on the lunar surface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/gateway_orion_approaching-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist illustration of Gateway, NASA’s planned moon-orbiting space station, with an Orion spacecraft approaching for docking. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CAPSTONE will maneuver into and maintain this orbit for at least six months, verifying the mathematics and orbital mechanics prior to Gateway’s construction. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA has plotted Gateway’s path with special considerations in mind. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Angelic_halo_orbit_chosen_for_humankind_s_first_lunar_outpost\">orbit is a highly elongated ellipse\u003c/a>, swooping to within 1,000 miles of the moon’s southern polar region and then flinging to a far distance of 43,500 miles, circling the moon every seven days. The orbit takes advantage of the point of balance between the gravity of Earth and the moon, which means it’s a very stable orbit that requires minimal fuel for a spacecraft to maintain over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gateway’s orbit will make it easier for spacecraft flying to and from the moon’s surface — particularly the south polar region that NASA is interested in exploring — to rendezvous with the station. And at the far end of the loop, away from the moon, spacecraft departing for Earth (and future destinations like Mars) won’t need to burn as much fuel to break free of the moon’s gravity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978703\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 985px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/03/capstone-orbit-large.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"528\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of the near rectilinear orbit that NASA’s CAPSTONE will test in preparation for the building of the Gateway space station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another advantage of Gateway’s orbit is that it keeps an almost constant line of sight with Earth, allowing near continuous communication between the station and controllers at home. The orbit also provides coverage to the moon’s far side, where the body of the moon blocks radio signals from Earth. 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And sometimes the sound is loud enough that it’s actually destroying them from the inside physiologically, because sound in the ocean flows through the skin into the watery bodies of creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If we care about maintaining and expanding sonic diversity at this stage, where Earth is rapidly changing, what can we do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a number of things we can do. One of the things I tried to do with my students over the years is open our senses to the stories that are present around us every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sound is an invitation into appreciation of the diversity of life, the many voices of other species. It’s also a great teacher about problems of environmental injustice and environmental racism. Why is it that certain neighborhoods and cities have highways routed through them, and are exposed to higher levels of urban noise and traffic noise and air pollution than others? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last June, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA’s Juno\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spacecraft \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/see-the-first-images-nasas-juno-took-as-it-sailed-by-ganymede\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">whizzed past Jupiter’s largest moon\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Ganymede, zipping along at over 40,000 miles per hour. Juno swung within 645 miles of the moon’s surface — the closest any spacecraft has come to it in two decades. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it flew by, Juno raked the moon for data with its cameras and host of scientific instruments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One instrument in particular, called “Waves,” has delivered something beyond the dazzling imagery we’ve come to expect from solar system exploration: a 50-second sweep of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">magnetic \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">measurements, later \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09R6jIo74U\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">converted to audio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> frequencies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09R6jIo74U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dynamic whistles and whirs of the soundtrack \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">off\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">er a rare opportunity to imagine ourselves exploring deep space in person, via the telepresence of a robot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ve heard direct recordings of sound from different places in the solar system before, like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/huygens_alien_winds_descent.mp3\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the Huygens probe descended, or the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25714/perseverance-rovers-supercam-records-wind-on-mars/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">winds of Mars\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> heard by the Perseverance rover. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in this case, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-spacecraft-hears-jupiters-moon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juno’s “ear,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the Waves instrument, measures the properties of magnetic fields the spacecraft passes through, giving us the chance to hear something normally inaccessible to human senses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978258\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos.jpg\" alt=\"Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, etches a curve of white against a black sky. The planet's surface is a crisscrossing network of dun-colored streaks, punctuated by white sparks. \" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up image of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its June 7, 2021, flyby. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Moonlighting at Ganymede\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juno’s primary mission is to explore the planet \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jupiter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but NASA often takes advantage of serendipitous encounters to explore more. On June 8, 2021, the close flyby of Ganymede created an opportunity for some side work beyond the mission routine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/ganymede/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ganymede \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the largest moon in the solar system and the only one to possess a significant global enveloping magnetic field — a magnetic field that extends from the moon into space. This is a feature that even the planets Venus and Mars\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do not possess. If Ganymede orbited the sun instead of Jupiter, it would be considered a planet, larger even than Mercury. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ganymede’s mystery runs below its icy, cratered, cracked surface. Hidden beneath that frosty shell may be an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://scitechdaily.com/first-evidence-of-water-vapor-at-jupiters-moon-ganymede-may-hold-more-water-than-all-of-earths-oceans/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ocean\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, one that contains more water than all of Earth’s. This alone ranks Ganymede as prime real estate for the search for extraterrestrial life, like other tantalizing moons where we have detected the presence of liquid water — Jupiter’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/europa/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Europa \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Saturn’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/science/enceladus/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enceladus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-800x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-800x778.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-1020x992.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-160x156.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-768x747.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-1536x1493.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-2048x1991.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-1920x1866.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juno’s batch of flyby data most likely won’t discover extraterrestrials, but magnetic and other data collected by instruments like Waves may provide insights into the ocean lurking beneath Ganymede’s crust, such as its depth, volume, salinity and other properties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Juno’s day job\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA launched Juno a decade ago on a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/juno/overview/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mission to explore Jupiter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to give us our first-ever look at the gas giant’s mysterious polar regions, and to probe its interior by measuring its magnetic and gravitational fields. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since arriving in 2016, Juno has circled the giant planet on an elongated orbit that sends it buzzing close to Jupiter’s polar regions every 53 days, cruising to within 2,100 miles of its cloud tops, arguably one of the most stunning vista points in the solar system. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From this vantage, Juno has captured thousands of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?featured=1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">captivating images\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of Jupiter’s colorful cloud belts, swirling storm systems and auroras. And we have glimpsed processes and structures of the planet’s interior that may help scientists understand how Jupiter originally formed and evolved. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1742px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichst%C3%A4dt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1742\" height=\"1742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS.jpg 1742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1742px) 100vw, 1742px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images of Jupiter’s turbulent cloud and storm systems during a close flyby of the gas giant world by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, some of Juno’s major discoveries include: insights into a mysterious magnetic anomaly near Jupiter’s equator, called the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25035-mapping-jupiters-great-blue-spot\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Great Blue Spot\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; similarities in patterns between \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25037-vortices-on-jupiter-and-earth\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jupiter’s swirling cyclones\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and vortices in Earth’s oceans; and detailed imagery of the thin \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/multimedia/largest/rings.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ring of dust encircling Jupiter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and its relationship to the two tiny moons Metis and Adrastea. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Future of Juno\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA has extended Juno’s mission through September 2025, so more discoveries about the king of planets and its entourage of amazing moons are sure to come. Whether the solar-powered spacecraft will survive Jupiter’s deadly radiation belts until then remains to be seen, but for now we can continue to enjoy the grand vista.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last June, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA’s Juno\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spacecraft \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/see-the-first-images-nasas-juno-took-as-it-sailed-by-ganymede\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">whizzed past Jupiter’s largest moon\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Ganymede, zipping along at over 40,000 miles per hour. Juno swung within 645 miles of the moon’s surface — the closest any spacecraft has come to it in two decades. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it flew by, Juno raked the moon for data with its cameras and host of scientific instruments. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One instrument in particular, called “Waves,” has delivered something beyond the dazzling imagery we’ve come to expect from solar system exploration: a 50-second sweep of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">magnetic \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">measurements, later \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09R6jIo74U\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">converted to audio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> frequencies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_09R6jIo74U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_09R6jIo74U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dynamic whistles and whirs of the soundtrack \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">off\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">er a rare opportunity to imagine ourselves exploring deep space in person, via the telepresence of a robot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ve heard direct recordings of sound from different places in the solar system before, like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/huygens_alien_winds_descent.mp3\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the Huygens probe descended, or the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25714/perseverance-rovers-supercam-records-wind-on-mars/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">winds of Mars\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> heard by the Perseverance rover. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in this case, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-spacecraft-hears-jupiters-moon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juno’s “ear,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the Waves instrument, measures the properties of magnetic fields the spacecraft passes through, giving us the chance to hear something normally inaccessible to human senses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978258\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos.jpg\" alt=\"Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, etches a curve of white against a black sky. The planet's surface is a crisscrossing network of dun-colored streaks, punctuated by white sparks. \" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/ganymede-060721-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Thomas-Thomopoulos-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up image of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its June 7, 2021, flyby. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Moonlighting at Ganymede\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juno’s primary mission is to explore the planet \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jupiter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but NASA often takes advantage of serendipitous encounters to explore more. On June 8, 2021, the close flyby of Ganymede created an opportunity for some side work beyond the mission routine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/ganymede/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ganymede \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the largest moon in the solar system and the only one to possess a significant global enveloping magnetic field — a magnetic field that extends from the moon into space. This is a feature that even the planets Venus and Mars\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do not possess. If Ganymede orbited the sun instead of Jupiter, it would be considered a planet, larger even than Mercury. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ganymede’s mystery runs below its icy, cratered, cracked surface. Hidden beneath that frosty shell may be an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://scitechdaily.com/first-evidence-of-water-vapor-at-jupiters-moon-ganymede-may-hold-more-water-than-all-of-earths-oceans/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ocean\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, one that contains more water than all of Earth’s. This alone ranks Ganymede as prime real estate for the search for extraterrestrial life, like other tantalizing moons where we have detected the presence of liquid water — Jupiter’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/europa/in-depth/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Europa \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Saturn’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/science/enceladus/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enceladus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978261\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1978261\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-800x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-800x778.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-1020x992.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-160x156.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-768x747.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-1536x1493.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-2048x1991.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22949NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-Kevin-M.-Gill-1920x1866.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juno’s batch of flyby data most likely won’t discover extraterrestrials, but magnetic and other data collected by instruments like Waves may provide insights into the ocean lurking beneath Ganymede’s crust, such as its depth, volume, salinity and other properties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Juno’s day job\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA launched Juno a decade ago on a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/juno/overview/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mission to explore Jupiter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to give us our first-ever look at the gas giant’s mysterious polar regions, and to probe its interior by measuring its magnetic and gravitational fields. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since arriving in 2016, Juno has circled the giant planet on an elongated orbit that sends it buzzing close to Jupiter’s polar regions every 53 days, cruising to within 2,100 miles of its cloud tops, arguably one of the most stunning vista points in the solar system. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From this vantage, Juno has captured thousands of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?featured=1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">captivating images\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of Jupiter’s colorful cloud belts, swirling storm systems and auroras. And we have glimpsed processes and structures of the planet’s interior that may help scientists understand how Jupiter originally formed and evolved. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1742px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichst%C3%A4dt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1742\" height=\"1742\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS.jpg 1742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia22692_hires-Enhanced-Image-by-Gerald-Eichstädt-and-Sean-Doran-NASA-JPL-Caltech-SwRI-MSSS-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1742px) 100vw, 1742px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images of Jupiter’s turbulent cloud and storm systems during a close flyby of the gas giant world by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, some of Juno’s major discoveries include: insights into a mysterious magnetic anomaly near Jupiter’s equator, called the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25035-mapping-jupiters-great-blue-spot\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Great Blue Spot\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; similarities in patterns between \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25037-vortices-on-jupiter-and-earth\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jupiter’s swirling cyclones\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and vortices in Earth’s oceans; and detailed imagery of the thin \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/multimedia/largest/rings.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ring of dust encircling Jupiter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and its relationship to the two tiny moons Metis and Adrastea. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Future of Juno\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">NASA has extended Juno’s mission through September 2025, so more discoveries about the king of planets and its entourage of amazing moons are sure to come. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of NASA’s many launches, those with a fiery blastoff and a gleaming aerial ascent into space get the most love from space fans — but not all missions fly on rockets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take Sentry II. It’s not a spacecraft or even a ground-based telescope. It’s a computer algorithm designed to forecast \u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-1994-pc1-closest-jan-18-2022/\">future asteroid \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">near-misses\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and collisions with Earth. To do that, it must search through mountains of asteroid orbital data collected by many observatories. In December, NASA launched Sentry II on its mission.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The inaugural “flight” of a computer program may not sound flashy, but Sentry II’s \u003ca href=\"https://minorplanetcenter.net/\">mission to sift through tens of thousands of known asteroid orbits\u003c/a> looking for those that could pose a threat to us is both an enormous task and vitally important to predicting potential calamity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Keeping an eye on traffic\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Think of it like this: You’re driving your car on a crowded freeway, sharing the road with hundreds of other cars all moving along with you, changing lanes, speeding up, slowing down. You constantly monitor other cars through your windshield, out the side windows and in your rearview mirror.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/600px-Asteroids-KnownNearEarthObjects-Animation-UpTo2018010-NASAJPLCALTECH1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Animation of known near-Earth asteroids and the inner solar system. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the cars you can safely ignore: those two or three lanes over, slower traffic falling behind, or that speeder up ahead disappearing into the distance. Nothing to worry about at the moment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there are the cars you watch more closely, those whose speed and trajectory you judge may bring them close. To avoid a collision, you want as much advance warning as possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now imagine your task is to monitor 27,000 cars and predict potential near-car encounters years into the future. That’s like what the Sentry algorithms do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Sentry II’s fresh perspective\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The original Sentry algorithm, in operation since 2002, did its job very well, projecting asteroids’ paths and gravitational interactions with the sun and planets a century into the future. But Sentry I had limitations, and humans had to step in and do some of the math themselves. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, it could not account for changes in an asteroid’s trajectory from influences such as \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/the-yarkovsky-effect-pushing-asteroids-around-with-sunlight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heating effects by sunlight\u003c/a>; these are nongravitational influences that cause small but constant deviations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sentry I also had difficulty plotting how much the course of an object would deviate when it swung close to Earth and our planet’s gravity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like a Gen-Z youngster with technical savvy that puts older generations to shame, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-next-generation-asteroid-impact-monitoring-system-goes-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sentry II\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes these influences into account with finesse, coming swiftly to more accurate projections and predictions. This high-powered mission is well equipped to take on the rising tide of orbital data flooding in from around the world. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Near-Earth asteroids\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the first asteroid was discovered on New Year’s Day in 1801, generations of astronomers have found many, many more space rocks lurking in the dark. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 872px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"872\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission.jpg 872w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission-800x368.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission-768x353.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph showing all near-Earth asteroids discovered each year, by mission or survey, since 1995. \u003ccite>(NASA/Center for Near-Earth Object Studies)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the last two centuries, larger and more sensitive telescopes, and more recently spacecraft, have probed for the faint, elusive dots of light crawling against the starry backdrop of space. In the last few decades, \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/totals.html\">our awareness of them has risen exponentially\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To date, astronomers know of more than 27,000 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">near-Earth asteroids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and discover about 3,000 more every year. Of these, 9,948 are larger than 460 feet across, and 889 are larger than a half mile in diameter, large enough to inflict regional or global devastation should they impact our planet — so the importance of tracking their orbital motions and projecting their paths into the future is plain. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021.jpg 770w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radar image of 2021 PJ1, the 1,000th near-Earth asteroid detected by radar observations since 1968. 2021 PJ1 is a 65- to 100-foot asteroid that passed about 1 million miles from Earth in August 2021. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/basics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit\u003c/a> and present the possibility of collision are, obviously, the ones to keep the closest eye on. Those larger than 460 feet (about the length of one-and-a-half football fields) are considered potentially hazardous objects — the cars on the freeway that can make your heart jump. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>What would happen if an asteroid hit Earth?\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s happened before: a major asteroid or comet impact with Earth. Sixty-six million years ago, a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/regional-effects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">6-mile-wide asteroid\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hit the northern top of the Yucatan Peninsula and wrought global devastation that contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs, along with 75% of all species living at the time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On average, an impact on the scale of the dinosaur-killer happens about every 100 million years. The good news is, pretty much all asteroids even approaching that size have been found and their orbits mapped out very accurately, and none of them is projected to come near Earth. Their orbits are fairly stable and can be accurately predicted far into the future. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 985px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020.jpg 985w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of near-Earth asteroid 2020 QG, an SUV-sized rock that passed within 1,830 miles of Earth’s surface in August 2020. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But smaller asteroids are another matter. Their orbits are more strongly influenced by gravitational interactions with planets and other effects, which complicates predictions of their future whereabouts. They’re also harder to detect, so there are many yet unknown. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smaller asteroids also are more numerous, and they both pass near and impact Earth more frequently. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 1908, a collision\u003c/a> by a large object caused an aerial explosion over Siberia that flattened forests for miles around and sent tremors through Earth that were detected by seismographs in London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/five-years-after-the-chelyabinsk-meteor-nasa-leads-efforts-in-planetary-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2013, a 20-meter object\u003c/a> exploded in Earth’s atmosphere above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The shockwave shattered windows and caused some brick structures to collapse, and though there were no fatalities, over 1,400 people were injured by indirect causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smaller chunks of rock burn up in Earth’s atmosphere or hit the ground on a daily basis, and though their effects may be minor, they usually go undetected until only hours before impact, if at all, coming at us with little or no advance warning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like a fender bender in traffic, even the smallest meteorite impact could spoil someone’s day, or worse, so keeping tabs on the traffic around Earth is important. Knowing what’s coming at you is the first step in predicting, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://b612foundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">possibly avoiding\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a collision. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of NASA’s many launches, those with a fiery blastoff and a gleaming aerial ascent into space get the most love from space fans — but not all missions fly on rockets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take Sentry II. It’s not a spacecraft or even a ground-based telescope. It’s a computer algorithm designed to forecast \u003ca href=\"https://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-1994-pc1-closest-jan-18-2022/\">future asteroid \u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">near-misses\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and collisions with Earth. To do that, it must search through mountains of asteroid orbital data collected by many observatories. In December, NASA launched Sentry II on its mission.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The inaugural “flight” of a computer program may not sound flashy, but Sentry II’s \u003ca href=\"https://minorplanetcenter.net/\">mission to sift through tens of thousands of known asteroid orbits\u003c/a> looking for those that could pose a threat to us is both an enormous task and vitally important to predicting potential calamity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Keeping an eye on traffic\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Think of it like this: You’re driving your car on a crowded freeway, sharing the road with hundreds of other cars all moving along with you, changing lanes, speeding up, slowing down. You constantly monitor other cars through your windshield, out the side windows and in your rearview mirror.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/600px-Asteroids-KnownNearEarthObjects-Animation-UpTo2018010-NASAJPLCALTECH1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Animation of known near-Earth asteroids and the inner solar system. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the cars you can safely ignore: those two or three lanes over, slower traffic falling behind, or that speeder up ahead disappearing into the distance. Nothing to worry about at the moment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there are the cars you watch more closely, those whose speed and trajectory you judge may bring them close. To avoid a collision, you want as much advance warning as possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now imagine your task is to monitor 27,000 cars and predict potential near-car encounters years into the future. That’s like what the Sentry algorithms do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Sentry II’s fresh perspective\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The original Sentry algorithm, in operation since 2002, did its job very well, projecting asteroids’ paths and gravitational interactions with the sun and planets a century into the future. But Sentry I had limitations, and humans had to step in and do some of the math themselves. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, it could not account for changes in an asteroid’s trajectory from influences such as \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/the-yarkovsky-effect-pushing-asteroids-around-with-sunlight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heating effects by sunlight\u003c/a>; these are nongravitational influences that cause small but constant deviations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sentry I also had difficulty plotting how much the course of an object would deviate when it swung close to Earth and our planet’s gravity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like a Gen-Z youngster with technical savvy that puts older generations to shame, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-next-generation-asteroid-impact-monitoring-system-goes-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sentry II\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> takes these influences into account with finesse, coming swiftly to more accurate projections and predictions. This high-powered mission is well equipped to take on the rising tide of orbital data flooding in from around the world. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Near-Earth asteroids\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the first asteroid was discovered on New Year’s Day in 1801, generations of astronomers have found many, many more space rocks lurking in the dark. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 872px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"872\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission.jpg 872w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission-800x368.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission-160x74.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/CNEOS-graphofNEOdiscoveriesbymission-768x353.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph showing all near-Earth asteroids discovered each year, by mission or survey, since 1995. \u003ccite>(NASA/Center for Near-Earth Object Studies)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the last two centuries, larger and more sensitive telescopes, and more recently spacecraft, have probed for the faint, elusive dots of light crawling against the starry backdrop of space. In the last few decades, \u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/totals.html\">our awareness of them has risen exponentially\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To date, astronomers know of more than 27,000 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">near-Earth asteroids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and discover about 3,000 more every year. Of these, 9,948 are larger than 460 feet across, and 889 are larger than a half mile in diameter, large enough to inflict regional or global devastation should they impact our planet — so the importance of tracking their orbital motions and projecting their paths into the future is plain. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021.jpg 770w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/asteroid_2021PJ1-JPL-Sept2021-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radar image of 2021 PJ1, the 1,000th near-Earth asteroid detected by radar observations since 1968. 2021 PJ1 is a 65- to 100-foot asteroid that passed about 1 million miles from Earth in August 2021. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/basics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asteroids that cross Earth’s orbit\u003c/a> and present the possibility of collision are, obviously, the ones to keep the closest eye on. Those larger than 460 feet (about the length of one-and-a-half football fields) are considered potentially hazardous objects — the cars on the freeway that can make your heart jump. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>What would happen if an asteroid hit Earth?\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s happened before: a major asteroid or comet impact with Earth. Sixty-six million years ago, a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/regional-effects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">6-mile-wide asteroid\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hit the northern top of the Yucatan Peninsula and wrought global devastation that contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs, along with 75% of all species living at the time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On average, an impact on the scale of the dinosaur-killer happens about every 100 million years. The good news is, pretty much all asteroids even approaching that size have been found and their orbits mapped out very accurately, and none of them is projected to come near Earth. Their orbits are fairly stable and can be accurately predicted far into the future. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 985px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020.jpg 985w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/01/pia24037_nasa-2020QG-SUV-aug2020-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of near-Earth asteroid 2020 QG, an SUV-sized rock that passed within 1,830 miles of Earth’s surface in August 2020. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But smaller asteroids are another matter. Their orbits are more strongly influenced by gravitational interactions with planets and other effects, which complicates predictions of their future whereabouts. They’re also harder to detect, so there are many yet unknown. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smaller asteroids also are more numerous, and they both pass near and impact Earth more frequently. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 1908, a collision\u003c/a> by a large object caused an aerial explosion over Siberia that flattened forests for miles around and sent tremors through Earth that were detected by seismographs in London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/five-years-after-the-chelyabinsk-meteor-nasa-leads-efforts-in-planetary-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In 2013, a 20-meter object\u003c/a> exploded in Earth’s atmosphere above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The shockwave shattered windows and caused some brick structures to collapse, and though there were no fatalities, over 1,400 people were injured by indirect causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smaller chunks of rock burn up in Earth’s atmosphere or hit the ground on a daily basis, and though their effects may be minor, they usually go undetected until only hours before impact, if at all, coming at us with little or no advance warning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like a fender bender in traffic, even the smallest meteorite impact could spoil someone’s day, or worse, so keeping tabs on the traffic around Earth is important. Knowing what’s coming at you is the first step in predicting, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://b612foundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">possibly avoiding\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a collision. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>NASA is performing the final physical exam on its James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor of the venerable Hubble Space Telescope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will launch the telescope on a European \u003ca href=\"https://www.arianespace.com/vehicle/ariane-5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Ariane 5 rocket\u003c/a> from French Guiana, sending it into space on a historic mission to probe currently unobservable reaches of our universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally scheduled to launch on Dec. 18, NASA experienced a hiccup during its launch preparations — what the agency is describing as an “\u003ca href=\"https://scitechdaily.com/launch-of-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-delayed-after-incident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incident”\u003c/a> — and delayed liftoff until no earlier than Dec. 22 to give engineers time to ensure flight readiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The telescope’s destination is a million miles from Earth, a long voyage to a lofty vantage point from where it will peer farther into the universe than we have ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its many mission goals, the James Webb Space Telescope will explore how \u003ca href=\"https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">early galaxies formed\u003c/a> and evolved, probe the atmospheres of distant \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extrasolar planets\u003c/a> looking for the chemical signatures of life, observe the \u003ca href=\"https://hubblesite.org/hubble-30th-anniversary/hubbles-exciting-universe/beholding-the-birth-and-death-of-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">birth of new stars\u003c/a>, and stare down the ominous darkness of galactic \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/06/16/how-supermassive-black-hole-originates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supermassive black holes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1977778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1977778 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/JWST_NASADesiree-Stover-1920x1256.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a multi-mirror array of 18 hexagonal sections, which combined are 6.5 meters across. The mirror array will capture more than five times as much light as the Hubble Space Telescope. \u003ccite>(NASA/Desiree Stover)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The observatory is named after \u003ca href=\"https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/whoIsJamesWebb.html\">James E. Webb\u003c/a>, who led NASA from 1961 to 1968.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A high bar for discovery\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://hubblesite.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hubble Space Telescope\u003c/a> has operated for over three decades, orbiting close to home at roughly 300 miles from Earth’s surface and setting\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/2017/highlights-of-hubble-s-exploration-of-the-universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a high bar\u003c/a> for future space discovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The telescope made thousands of observations with its \u003ca href=\"https://hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/the-telescope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2.4-meter telescope\u003c/a>, delivering jaw-dropping revelations about the size, age, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/mystery-of-the-universe-s-expansion-rate-widens-with-new-hubble-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expansion\u003c/a>, and evolution of the universe. As well as the birth and death of stars, the formation of planets, and many hidden wonders spread across our own solar system. It’s fair to say that no other observatory, ground- or space-based, has revealed more about the cosmos than Hubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The James Webb \u003ca href=\"https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telescope mirror\u003c/a> is much larger than Hubble’s at 6.5-meters and can collect over five times the amount of light, enabling it to probe distances and scales of the universe where Hubble sees only darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telescopes let us look back in time, since it takes the light emitted by distant objects time to reach us. Hubble captured images of distant galaxies as they appeared about 13.5 billion years ago, when the universe — which \u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/ast25may99_1\">Hubble itself determined\u003c/a> to be 13.8 billion years old — was still in the early stages of forming galaxies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The James Webb telescope will look further and deeper into the past, observing infant galaxies as they were only 200 million years after the universe was born in the \u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-powered-the-big-bang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Bang\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within our galaxy, it will probe \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-spots-swirls-of-dust-in-the-flame-nebula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">giant molecular clouds\u003c/a> to see as never before how primordial star systems and planets formed, providing insight to how our own solar system and planet came to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even closer to home, NASA’s new flagship space telescope will follow up on new discoveries of \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1674/nasas-tess-discovers-new-worlds-in-a-river-of-young-stars/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extrasolar planets\u003c/a> by measuring their atmospheres, \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1577/a-new-view-of-exoplanets-with-webb/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looking for signs\u003c/a> of water and the chemical telltales of possible extraterrestrial life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA developed the James Webb telescope in partnership with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not just a larger Hubble\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>NASA’s new telescope is different from Hubble in several ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1977777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1977777\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Eagle Nebula, a molecular cloud in which new stars are being born. The left image was captured in visible light, while the right is an infrared image revealing heat sources that penetrate obscuring dust, allowing us to peer within. Both images were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. \u003ccite>(NASA/ESA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Hubble focused on the visible light emitted by stars, nebulas, galaxies and more, the Webb telescope will specialize in \u003ca href=\"https://webbtelescope.org/webb-science/the-observatory/infrared-astronomy\">infrared astronomy\u003c/a>, collecting and analyzing lower energy electromagnetic radiation. Not only will this allow the study of cooler objects and materials, like atmospheres of distant planets and clouds of gas and dust that give birth to new star systems, it will open a window on an infrared universe. Here, observations from Earth’s surface cannot access since the atmosphere blocks most wavelengths of infrared light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Webb will not orbit Earth as Hubble does. Instead, it will circle the sun at Earth’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/L2_the_second_Lagrangian_Point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> “L2” Lagrangian point\u003c/a>, where the gravitational pull of Earth and sun cancel each other, forming a stable pocket of space where a spacecraft can loiter indefinitely. 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The telescope’s light-collecting apparatus comprises 18 individual hexagonal mirrors that will be unfolded after launch during the monthslong journey to its destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operators expect the observatory will be ready for scientific observations about six months after launch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What will we see?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in 1995, researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope made an observation that expanded our vision of the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1977775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1977775 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1045\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI.jpg 1045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-800x784.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-1020x1000.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-160x157.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-768x753.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Hubble Deep Field image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Within this tiny pinpoint on the sky, Hubble revealed over 3,000 distant galaxies never before seen. \u003ccite>(NASA/ESA/STScI/Robert Williams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They focused Hubble’s powerful eye on a patch of space where other observatories could perceive only darkness. The telescope zoomed in on a spot of sky no larger than Franklin Roosevelt’s eyeball on a dime’s surface and captured an image now known as the “\u003ca href=\"https://esahubble.org/science/deep_fields/\">Hubble Deep Field\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This famous picture revealed over 3,000 distant, never-before-seen galaxies. From this image and others like it, astronomers were able to estimate that there are about 2 trillion galaxies within the observable universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine what the far more discerning eye of the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal of the cosmos.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s fair to say that no other observatory, ground- or space-based, has revealed more about the cosmos than Hubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The James Webb \u003ca href=\"https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telescope mirror\u003c/a> is much larger than Hubble’s at 6.5-meters and can collect over five times the amount of light, enabling it to probe distances and scales of the universe where Hubble sees only darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telescopes let us look back in time, since it takes the light emitted by distant objects time to reach us. Hubble captured images of distant galaxies as they appeared about 13.5 billion years ago, when the universe — which \u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/1999/ast25may99_1\">Hubble itself determined\u003c/a> to be 13.8 billion years old — was still in the early stages of forming galaxies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The James Webb telescope will look further and deeper into the past, observing infant galaxies as they were only 200 million years after the universe was born in the \u003ca href=\"https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-powered-the-big-bang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Bang\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within our galaxy, it will probe \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2021/hubble-spots-swirls-of-dust-in-the-flame-nebula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">giant molecular clouds\u003c/a> to see as never before how primordial star systems and planets formed, providing insight to how our own solar system and planet came to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even closer to home, NASA’s new flagship space telescope will follow up on new discoveries of \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1674/nasas-tess-discovers-new-worlds-in-a-river-of-young-stars/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extrasolar planets\u003c/a> by measuring their atmospheres, \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1577/a-new-view-of-exoplanets-with-webb/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">looking for signs\u003c/a> of water and the chemical telltales of possible extraterrestrial life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA developed the James Webb telescope in partnership with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not just a larger Hubble\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>NASA’s new telescope is different from Hubble in several ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1977777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1977777\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/eaglenebula-nasa-esa-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Eagle Nebula, a molecular cloud in which new stars are being born. The left image was captured in visible light, while the right is an infrared image revealing heat sources that penetrate obscuring dust, allowing us to peer within. Both images were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. \u003ccite>(NASA/ESA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Hubble focused on the visible light emitted by stars, nebulas, galaxies and more, the Webb telescope will specialize in \u003ca href=\"https://webbtelescope.org/webb-science/the-observatory/infrared-astronomy\">infrared astronomy\u003c/a>, collecting and analyzing lower energy electromagnetic radiation. Not only will this allow the study of cooler objects and materials, like atmospheres of distant planets and clouds of gas and dust that give birth to new star systems, it will open a window on an infrared universe. Here, observations from Earth’s surface cannot access since the atmosphere blocks most wavelengths of infrared light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Webb will not orbit Earth as Hubble does. Instead, it will circle the sun at Earth’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/L2_the_second_Lagrangian_Point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> “L2” Lagrangian point\u003c/a>, where the gravitational pull of Earth and sun cancel each other, forming a stable pocket of space where a spacecraft can loiter indefinitely. The location offers a double advantage, holding the observatory within easy communication range while keeping it away from Earth’s intense electromagnetic interference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1977776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1977776\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/jwst-cleanroom-nasa-chris-gunn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/jwst-cleanroom-nasa-chris-gunn.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/jwst-cleanroom-nasa-chris-gunn-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/jwst-cleanroom-nasa-chris-gunn-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/jwst-cleanroom-nasa-chris-gunn-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, folded into its launch configuration, which will allow it to be packed into the payload compartment of its Ariane 5 launch rocket. \u003ccite>(NASA/Chris Gunn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Engineers designed Webb’s primary mirror, which is almost three times the diameter of Hubble’s, to fit compactly within its launch rocket. The telescope’s light-collecting apparatus comprises 18 individual hexagonal mirrors that will be unfolded after launch during the monthslong journey to its destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Operators expect the observatory will be ready for scientific observations about six months after launch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What will we see?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in 1995, researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope made an observation that expanded our vision of the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1977775\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1977775 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1045\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI.jpg 1045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-800x784.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-1020x1000.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-160x157.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2021/11/1045px-HubbleDeepField.800px-Robert-Williams-NASA-ESA-STScI-768x753.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Hubble Deep Field image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. 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