The new James Webb space telescope has suffered slight damage from a tiny meteoroid - and there have been several other minor impacts already.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257 

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The new James Webb space telescope has suffered slight damage from a tiny meteoroid - and there have been several other minor impacts already.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257

I spotted that story, Peter. There's a lot of stuff swilling about up there and it does not have to be big to be a problem, given the kinetic energy involved. They have procedures in place to hopefully compensate for the occasional "dings" that will inevitably happen.

This kind of scenario was a popular story line in early 20cent Sci Fi - Heinlein etc.

"Dodson, Jarman and Jensen ship out on the Aes Triplex. Their first real mission is to help search for a missing research vessel, the Pathfinder, in the asteroid belt. They find it, but all aboard are dead, the unlucky victims of a fast-moving object that punctured the ship when the armored outer airlock door was open...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet

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Turd 14th June 2022
MAGNIFICENT CME: Earlier today, an unusually slow solar flare hurled a magnificent CME into space. The explosion and its afterglow lasted nearly 8 hours. The CME could sideswipe Earth's magnetosphere later this week, producing minor geomagnetic storms

Arrival time of 0900 UT on June 15th? Glancing blow?

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Roger

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Turd 14th June 2022
MAGNIFICENT CME: Earlier today, an unusually slow solar flare hurled a magnificent CME into space. The explosion and its afterglow lasted nearly 8 hours. The CME could sideswipe Earth's magnetosphere later this week, producing minor geomagnetic storms

Arrival time of 0900 UT on June 15th? Glancing blow?

https://spaceweather.com/

Roger

Hopefully a full on blow. I'd like to see how the plebs cope without electricity for a few weeks

 

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Check out this link - the chap managed to get a sequence of the International Space Station in transit across the sun. Great capture!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61856975 

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Check out this link - the chap managed to get a sequence of the International Space Station in transit across the sun. Great capture!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61856975

Thanks for that, V-3. Really impressive.

Nearest thing like that I've observed myself [no photo] was an RAF Tornado superimposed on the Sun on a solarscope.  

Roger

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">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-61856975

Thanks for that, V-3. Really impressive.

Nearest thing like that I've observed myself [no photo] was an RAF Tornado superimposed on the Sun on a solarscope. 

Roger

 

What a shame not to get that photo Roger! I presume it was over in the blink of an eye?

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NASA will release the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week. [12th] Watch out for it!
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon

The next perigee full Moon will occur on 13 July 2022, making it a 'supermoon'.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/supermoon-what-when-next/

Heads up on 13th!

Roger

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NASA will release the first full-colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope next week. [12th] Watch out for it!
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon

The next perigee full Moon will occur on 13 July 2022, making it a 'supermoon'.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/supermoon-what-when-next/

Heads up on 13th!

Roger

BBC2 Super Telescope : Mssion To The Edge Of The Universe

Thursday 14th July 20:00-21:00

Story of the James Webb Telexcope and hopefully the new images

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BBC2 Super Telescope : Mssion To The Edge Of The Universe

Thursday 14th July 20:00-21:00

Story of the James Webb Telexcope and hopefully the new images

Thanks for that, Lanky. Here's their link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2022/28/super-telescope

R

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First full-colour picture from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been released:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62122859

 

First full-colour picture from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been released:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62122859

 

“My God -- it's full of stars! - Dave Bowman.” [Arthur C. Clarke - 2001 - A Space Odyssey]

Roger

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First full-colour picture from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been released:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62122859

 

How incredible is that .....

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A bit of slightly different Solar news...
"The impact of a “snake-like filament” from the Sun, which Nasa predicts will happen on 19 July, will be a “direct hit” according to Dr Tamitha Skov, adding that we should “expect signal disruptions on Earth’s nightside”. It is also possible that aurora might be visible in some regions of the Earth."

Solar storm about to strike Earth in a ‘direct hit’ - Independent Mon 18th
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/news/solar-storm-strike-earth-direct-101857526.html

Roger

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Space Weather:
SOLAR TSUNAMI AND CME: An explosion on the sun during the early hours of July 21st created a solar tsunami wave and hurled a CME toward Earth. The CME's arrival on July 23rd could spark minor to moderate geomagnetic storms with auroras at high latitudes
https://spaceweather.com/ 

Roger

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Some more news from Space - BBC

 

The Gravitational Wave Optical Transient observer (GOTO) detects dead suns colliding:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61911047.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals millions of galaxies:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62259492.

Plus, the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank to become space light show:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62269520.

 

Enjoy! 

I note that Russia will quit the ISS in 2024.

I note that Russia will quit the ISS in 2024.

The word "decommissioning" was used and I wondered what that might actually involve.

R.

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You may not have seen this latest mind-boggling photo in New Scientist.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2331880-jwst-has-released-a-striking-new-image-of-the-strange-cartwheel-galaxy/

"The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a picture of the Cartwheel galaxy, which got its weird wheel-like shape when a smaller galaxy crashed through it."

Roger

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You may not have seen this latest mind-boggling photo in New Scientist.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2331880-jwst-has-released-a-striking-new-image-of-the-strange-cartwheel-galaxy/

"The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a picture of the Cartwheel galaxy, which got its weird wheel-like shape when a smaller galaxy crashed through it."

Roger

 

Thanks Roger - that image is absolutely fantastic. The galaxy is apparently 150,000 light years across which makes the head swim! Normally a galaxy is described as being X million light years away which the mind can't really grasp, but seeing that galaxy side on and knowing it's 150,000 light years across really brings the scale to life.

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