![]() Each one comes with a greeting card showing the ornament in flight and extra materials decoding the markings on the disk.Īll sales support hands-on STEM education The students are selling these unique ornaments to support their cosmic ray ballooning program. Having touched the edge of space, it's the closest thing on Earth to an actual Golden Record. The 4-inch aluminum disk is imprinted with instructions intended for extraterrestrials, telling them how to play the phonographs now sailing through interstellar space onboard NASA's Voyager probes. 15th, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus launched it to the stratosphere onboard a cosmic ray research balloon: VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD ORNAMENT: This is a must-have Christmas ornament for space fans: The Voyager Golden Record. The growing space station is now about as bright as a 1st magnitude star when it flies overhead in the night sky.To see it, visit Heavens Above and select Tiangong for local flyby predictions. When it is completed in December 2023, Tiangong with be a Mir-class facility massing nearly 70 tons with living space for as many as 7 astronauts and even a Hubble-class telescope to view the cosmos. The ISS is still much larger, but China is catching up. With solar arrays, a robotic arm, multiple modules, and two spacecraft (Tianzhou 4 and Shenzhou 14) waiting at docking ports, Tiangong is starting to resemble the ISS. ![]() Smith has created a composite of recent observations showing how the shape of Tiangong has changed. The move makes room for another module, Mengtian, which is scheduled to be launched around the end of this year. The space station is now in an L shape as a result. What happened? The Wentian science laboratory was recently moved to the side port of the space station's core module. "The space station was in a new configuration," he says. ![]() 15th he looked at it again-and something was not right. Solar flare alerts: SMS TextĪ SUDDEN CHANGE IN CHINA'S SPACE STATION: China's new space station, Tiangong, is only a year and a half old, yet astrophotographer Philip Smith has seen it many times flying over his backyard in Manorville, New York. Today's sun looks more like a porcupine, signalling that Solar Max is on its way. At Solar Maximum, however, streamers can pop up anywhere, turning the solar disk into a porcupine of plasma quills. During Solar Minimum, streamers emerge primarily from the sun's equator, giving the sun a Saturn-like appearance. This image tells us something interesting about the solar cycle. Streamer #1, pointing almost directly toward Venus, has roots near the sun's north pole. There are four streamers in today's coronagraph image. The solar wind stretches them into long narrow structures with pointy tips. Streamers are magnetic loops emerging from the surface of the sun. This coronagraph image comes from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Today it is less than an arcminute away from a bright polar streamer: VENUS AND THE POLAR STREAMER: Venus is passing by the sun this week as it heads for superior solar conjunction on Oct. More: sky map, photo gallery, observing tips. The best time to look is between 1:00 am and sunrise. At that speed, they often leave glowing "trains" (incandescent bits of debris) that linger for minutes, swirling among the glittering stars of Orion, Gemini, and Taurus. Orionids strike Earth's atmosphere traveling 148,000 mph. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Oct. ORIONID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is entering a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Neutron counts from the University of Oulu's Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory show that cosmic rays reaching Earth are slowly declining-a result of the yin-yang relationship between the solar cycle and cosmic rays. Credit: SDO/HMIĬosmic Rays Solar Cycle 25 is beginning, and this is reflected in the number of cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere. New sunspot Ar3126 is growing rapidly and crackling with C-class solar flares.
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