Any stargazers out there...?

[mikadonovan]

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Closest pictures of Sun reveal mysterious '''campfires'''

The closest-ever images taken of the sun have revealed mini solar flares called “campfires” dotted across its surface.
The images were captured last month by the Solar Orbiter, a European Space Agency (ESA) probe designed and built in the UK. Scientists say the pictures could shed light on the mysterious process that means the outer layer of the star is so much hotter than the layers below.
The spacecraft came within 47 million miles of the sun’s surface and passed between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.


Pretty cool stuff!

Good info. It's nice to see a post that sticks with the spirit of this thread.

[emujo2]

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Yeah it got pretty heated..I had a facebook war with a Flat Earther...He was convinced the Sun was only a few hundred thousand miles away and was only as big as the moon..He reasoning was that as you move away from something it gets smaller and dimmer. His example was a satellite picture of our sun (the yellow orange one we can look at) and he held it over his head and walked away..After a short distance you could no longer see it, so he surmised that the stars in the sky could not be light years away...I tried to tell him that he was in fact correct, brightness drops by 1/R2, but no matter how many times you cut the distance in 1/2 you can never make it 0, and the light coming from his reflected picture of the sun was not quite as bright as the light coming from a distant sun. He said my science was flawed. E

[theengel]

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flat earth-- ha ha-- did you guys see this?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/23/mad-mike-hughes-dead/

I'm kind of surprised that they were surprised by this. I mean, we've known about the solar flares, and we've known that some are bigger than others. Why wouldn't there almost be an assumption that there are lots of others that are so small that we can't see them?

[20 year tech]

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NASA's Osiris touches an asteroid. amazing accomplishment.

404 | NASA

[copiertec]

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Meteor showers on the 16th

Leonid meteor shower kicks off early week of Nov. 16

[FrohnB]

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degree apart, which is just 1/5 of a full moon diameter.


Photos! Jupiter and Saturn rapidly approaching December 21 conjunction | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky

[slimslob]

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Jupiter, Saturn Will Soon Form First Visible ‘Double Planet’ In Nearly 800 Years


Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in the solar system, will soon line up and look like a double planet, a sight not seen since the Middle Ages.
The rare celestial event will occur after sunset on Dec. 21, 2020, the start of the winter solstice.
At their closest, they’ll be only 0.1 degree apart, which is just 1/5 of a full moon diameter.


Photos! Jupiter and Saturn rapidly approaching December 21 conjunction | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky

According to Amy Oliver of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the maximum conjunction will occur at 1:20 p.m. ET. The last time Jupiter and Saturn came this close was 1623, but that conjunction was too near the sun to be seen by Earthlings. So 1226 is actually the most recent time such a close conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was visible to humans. Worlds align this winter solstice: Look for Jupiter, Saturn in December skies