Researchers at LIGO have picked up a gravitational 'chirp' from a mysterious celestial object: heavier than a neutron star, but lighter than any known black hole.
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Comet Pons-Brooks, photographed yesterday from southern Spain by Fritz Helmut Hemmerich. The eerie green glow is from diatomic carbon.
So beautiful.
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Great perspective shot of a jet flying across the April 8 eclipsed Sun. Notice how the contrails refract the edge of the disk? The Sun is about 30,000,000 times wider than the jet.
(Photo: Bobby Goddin, Bloomington, IN)
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An airplane transits the moon during totality in Fort Worth, Texas.

A crazy perspective. Each one of those solar flare prominences are multiple times bigger than the entire earth. 🤯
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Today's solar eclipse filmed in 4K video by our satellite. We are downlinking some more and longer videos within the next hour or so #Eclipse2024

Celestial events

We live at a special time in cosmic history. If Earth were just 15% older, the Moon would be farther away and we would never see a total solar eclipse.
Enjoy the good stuff while you can.
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Johannes de Sacrobosco ('John of Hollywood') published detailed geometric descriptions of a solar eclipse in the year 1230. People in the 'dark ages' were not so dumb!
I look at 5000 years of eclipse investigations in my latest column:
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