Light pollution obscuring stars faster than satellites data shows!
Research shows light pollution is worsening faster than what has been shown in satellite measurements of the Earth’s surface brightness at night.
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Here are this week's best International Space Station flyovers for and the #GTA. Clear skies! astrogeo.ca/greater-toront
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The "Green Comet" passing the Red Planet, with Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) 2° south of Mars on Feb 11, 2023. Captured in 4 x 2-minute exposures with a SharpStar 94mm refractor (420mm focal length).
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Three views of the "green comet" Comet ZTF in Taurus and near orange Mars from Feb 10, with 70mm to 200mm lenses tracking the sky for stacks of 2-minute exposures.
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Building blocks of life found in coldest region of space.
The research forms part of the Ice Age project, one of Webb’s 13 Early Release Science programs.
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This Week’s Sky: February 13-19
Weather permitting, take a look at the spectacular Orion Nebula on Feb. 17, 2023 at 8 p.m.
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Dickinson took over the writing of SkyNews in the early 1990s, when it was a newsletter sent out by the CSTM. Read about Terence's contributions on SkyNews:
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Canada joins Mars sample return prep team!
NASA’s Perseverance rover aims to deliver rocks back to Earth by 2033; a Canadian will be involved in bringing these precious payloads home.
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The oncoming of a solar eclipse
Two eclipses are coming up for people in North America to view: an annular solar eclipse in 2023 and a total solar eclipse in 2024.
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Video interview: discusses upcoming eclipses
SkyNews Editor Carina Ockedahl interviews Chris Vaughan, senior astronomer and earth scientist at AstroGeo.ca, about the 2023 and 2024 eclipses.
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#Astronomy #Skylights for this week, with worldwide content. Clear skies! (APOD image by Michael Watson)
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Dickinson was the founding editor of , a lifetime member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, author of numerous books and a popular teacher and commentator regarding amateur astronomy.
spaceq.ca/terence-dickin
(my story in )
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A panorama of the winter stars over the Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park on Feb 4, 2023 with the waxing gibbous Moon providing the illumination. The labeled version points out the little green dot of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) near Capella. #CometZTF
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This Week’s Sky: February 6-12
Keep an eye on Comet E3 ZTF this week, while also looking for the zodiacal light and the stars of Orion’s Belt.
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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) by Adam Cohen
"My first Comet! Captured Jan 17. This was 1 of 3 successful nights I attempted charging the ‘Green Comet,' Discovered only recently, the green comet has appeared in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years."
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Planets at a Glance: February 2023
Keep an eye on the planets this month, as February promises some interesting views (weather pending).
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SkyNews Editor Carina Ockedahl interviewed Senior Astronomer about the 2023 annular eclipse and the 2024 total solar eclipse.
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We are extremely saddened to hear of Terence Dickinson's passing. He (November 10, 1943 - February 1, 2023) was editor of SkyNews Magazine from its first issue in May/June 1995 until the May/June 2016 issue.
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Black hole shreds wayward star.
The gorging was spotted on March 1, 2022, in a galaxy 300 million light years away.
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‘New’ #exoplanet undergoing nuclear fusion!
Its discovery could help scientists clarify how they classify objects that are either a brown dwarf or an extrasolar planet.
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Canada prepares for asteroid sample return
Bits of asteroid Bennu will parachute back to Earth from space later this year, on Sept. 24, 2023.
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This Week’s Sky: January 30-February 6
The long-period comet designated C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is predicted to become bright enough to be seen by Northern Hemisphere skywatchers on February 1.
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Supernova remnant and SH2-216, by Bill Batchelor
He won Photo of the Week for the period of Jan. 7-13, 2023.
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-The Tadpoles in Auriga-
Got 3 clear nights in January and tried to make the most of them.
I shot 13hrs of narrowband data on IC410 at 2000mm FL with my 10” truss RC.
QHY268m and Antlia filters.
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The Wizard Nebula, by Steve Leonard
Steve Leonard won Photo of the Week for the period of Dec. 31, 2022 to Jan. 6, 2023.
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‘Stone Age’ comet begins closest approach to Earth
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)’s trajectory shows that it last flew by Earth roughly 50,000 years ago.
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A spacecraft descent capsule bearing samples of asteroid #Bennu will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, capping off a seven-year mission for OSIRIS-REx.
skynews.ca/canada-prepare
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“For many years, Canadian satellites have launched from sites in other countries and it’s time for us to start launching them right here at home,” said Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra. From
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Comet ZTF (C2022 E3) on Jan 24 from home in Alberta, in a close-up telescopic view, and a wide-angle view with it as a green blip between the two Dippers. It was easy in binoculars but not naked eye. The camera picked up the long ion tail tonight.
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Canada to promote commercial space launch industry
The federal government plans to develop a new regulatory framework for this emerging sector.
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Milky Way survey reveals billions of celestial objects
It is the largest such catalog ever produced from a single camera, “in terms of the number of objects observed,” according to researcher Andrew Saydjari.
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This Week’s Sky: January 23-28
The Moon takes centre stage this week — joining the Venus-Saturn conjunction, passing Neptune and Vesta, sharing a view with Jupiter and Juno, and shining close to Uranus.
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Mars in Opposition, by Oleg Bouevitch.
Oleg Bouevitch won Photo of the Week for the period of Dec. 24-30, 2022, and Kimberly Sibbald’s “Noctilucent Clouds with Aurora” received an honourable mention.
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Dark Dragons in #SH124 by
"Clear skies are making a comeback here in Ontario, with a complementary -16C. I am far from finishing anything new, and I am still missing parts for using the reducer
But I’m getting close."
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Earth-size #exoplanet confirmed in star’s habitable zone
TOI 700 e is nearly as big as Earth, likely rocky, and has a 28-day orbit around an M dwarf star located 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.
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#Exoplanet slowly heading towards the fiery demise
The planet’s doom is found in the same tidal forces responsible for the daily rise and fall of Earth’s oceans.
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Strange periods found in 40-year study of #Jupiter
The study found that Jupiter’s temperatures rise and fall following definite periods that are outside the planet’s normal seasonal cycle.
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A nice green and red auroral arc across the north last night, Jan 14, set between the setting summer Milky Way (left) and rising winter Milky Way (right). This is a 7-section panorama with the Venus Optics 15mm f/2 lens, shot from home in southern Alberta.
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This Week’s Sky - January 16-22:
Every week, SkyNews publishes a list of key events in the Canadian sky in This Week’s Sky. This week you can view the Pleiades, Jupiter at Perihelion and more!
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