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In the Sky this Week – April 19, 2022

By Robert Trembley  |  19 Apr 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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This entry is part 88 of 98 in the series Diary

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Feature|The Sky|The Moon|The Sun|Asteroids|Fireballs|The Solar System|Spacecraft News|Exoplanets|Aurora|Light Pollution|The Universe|

The Plane of the Ecliptic

I was showing students in my after-school astronomy club how several planets were visible, all in a line, in the morning sky. I asked them if they knew why they were lined up, and they did not. So I launched NASA’s solar system exploration website’s orrery, and zoomed to the Earth. I framed the image to look like this:

Planets seen from Earth
Planets seen from Earth on April 19, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes Orrery.

I asked the students if they’d ever heard of the “Plane of the Ecliptic” – they had not. So I zoomed way out in the orrery to the outer solar system, and framed the image to look like the one below. I explained how the major planets all orbit in the same plane (for the most part).

Plane of the Ecliptic
Plane of the Ecliptic on April 19, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes Orrery.

The first thing one of my students said was “Look at Pluto – it’s tilted!” Why YES it is! I then went on to play around with Pluto’s orbit, tilting it back and forth. I explained how “when I was your age,” Pluto was classified as a Planet, and it crossed the orbit of Neptune, but only when seen from top-down. Seen from an oblique angle, Pluto misses Neptune’s orbit by a LOT, and the period Pluto crosses the orbit of Neptune happens when Pluto is far above the plane of the ecliptic.

I gotta tell ‘ya – having an interactive web-based solar system model you can use to show students stuff is REALLY COOL!

The Sky - In the Sky

Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn continue to appear in the southeastern predawn sky all week.

East-southeastern sky before sunrise
Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn appear in the east-southeastern sky before sunrise all week. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

By next week, Venus and Jupiter will appear much closer; the Moon joins the planets before sunrise on April 24th and 25th – appearing south of Saturn on the 24th, and between Mars and Saturn on April 25th.

East-southeastern sky before sunrise
The Moon appears between Mars and Saturn on the morning of April 25th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon appears west of the star Antares in the southern sky before sunrise on April 19th.

Southern sky before sunrise
The Moon near Antares in the southern sky before sunrise on April 19th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon appears east of the star Antares in the southern sky before sunrise on April 20th.

Southern sky before sunrise
The Moon near Antares in the southern sky before sunrise on April 20th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Just a friendly reminder:

Comparison of Antares and the Sun
Red giant Antares compared with the Sun – close up. Credit: Bob Trembley / Universe Sandbox
Comparison of Antares and the Sun
Red giant Antares compared with the Sun. Credit: Bob Trembley / Universe Sandbox

The Moon appears in the constellation Sagittarius before sunrise in the southern sky on April 21st and 22nd.

Southern sky before sunrise
The Moon in Sagittarius in the southern sky before sunrise on April 21st. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon - In the Sky
  • The Moon is a Waning Gibbous – rising after sunset, visible high in the sky after midnight, and visible to the southwest after sunrise.
  • The Third Quarter Moon occurs on April 23rd – rising around midnight, and visible to the south after sunrise.
  • After April 23rd, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent – visible low to the east before sunrise.
Moon
The Moon from April 19-25, 2022. Visualizations by Ernie Wright / NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.

If you click on the Moon image above, or click this link, you will go to NASA’s Moon Phase and Libration, 2022 page – it will show you what the Moon looks like right now. If you click the image on that page, you will download a high-rez TIFF image annotated with the names of prominent features – helpful for logging your lunar observations!

Moon News

Back to the VAB with the SLS.

LIVE NOW: We’re discussing the status of the next “wet dress rehearsal” test ahead of the @NASAArtemis I mission.

Due to required updates, @NASAGroundSys teams will roll the @NASA_SLS rocket & @NASA_Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building: https://t.co/vLI6fohLbN pic.twitter.com/0pPdIoxtLB

— NASA (@NASA) April 18, 2022

The Sun - In the Sky

Oh WOW! Sunspots galore, and another one emerging (left side).

Spaceweather.com says: “NOAA forecasters say there is a 75% chance of M-class solar flares today, April 19th, and a 25% chance of powerful X-flares. The most likely source would be sunspot complex AR2993-94, which is crackling with flares as it turns toward Earth..”

The Sun on April 19, 2022. Credit: SDO/HMI

The Sun seen in 193 angstroms on April 18th.

A couple moderate-sided coronal holes on the Sun’s face – that patch of sunspots is glowing very brightly as it rotates into view,

 

 

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/04/18/20220418_1024_0193.mp4

The Sun seen in 304 angstroms on April 18th.

Lot of prominences and lots of little flares all over the place!

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/04/18/20220418_1024_0304.mp4

Videos courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
You can view the Sun in near real-time, in multiple frequencies here: SDO-The Sun Now.
You can create your own time-lapse movies of the Sun here: AIA/HMI Browse Data.
You can browse all the SDO images of the Sun from 2010 to the present here: Browse SDO archive.


Amateur Solar Astrophotography

Sun
Sun on April 19, 2022. Credit: Jorge Mendes

Solar Corona

Solar wind speed is 514.0 km/sec ▲ with a density of 7.2 protons/cm3 ▼ at 1530 UT.

Sun
SOHO LASCO C2 Latest Image

Click here to see a near real-time animation of the corona and solar wind from the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

Sun News:

The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on April 16, 2022, peaking at 11:34 p.m. ET. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which was classified as significant. Learn more ⬇️ https://t.co/k7JavScAZO pic.twitter.com/BeKW2A0oxW

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) April 18, 2022

Asteroids - In the Sky
  • Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) discovered this month: 118, this year: 956 (+10), all time: 28,884 (+10)
  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs): 2260 (+5 updated 2022-04-19)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (MPC): 1,194,161 (-28 updated 2022-04-19)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (NASA): 1,113,527 (updated 2021-08-17) – This value has not changed for months.

Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Velocity (km/s) Diameter (m)
2022 FN3 2022-Apr-19 15.1 LD 6.3 39
2022 GU3 2022-Apr-22 4.6 LD 8.7 25
2017 UR2 2022-Apr-22 19.4 LD 9.3 10
2020 VN1 2022-Apr-25 19.3 LD 2.3 9
418135 2022-Apr-28 8.5 LD 10.4 466
2017 XO2 2022-May-01 18.8 LD 12.4 125
2017 HG1 2022-May-04 18.2 LD 6 11
467460 2022-May-09 14.9 LD 11.3 513
2019 JE 2022-May-11 4.9 LD 7.2 20
2012 UX68 2022-May-15 2.8 LD 8.2 54
388945 2022-May-15 15 LD 8.2 290
2013 UX 2022-May-17 16.8 LD 16.3 141
2021 WY 2022-May-18 16.9 LD 9 65
7335 2022-May-27 10.5 LD 13.1 1058
2021 KO2 2022-May-30 3.1 LD 14.8 9
2020 DA4 2022-Jun-01 5.5 LD 8.9 26
2021 GT2 2022-Jun-06 9.5 LD 7.5 50
2018 LU2 2022-Jun-09 14.8 LD 10.7 16
2006 XW4 2022-Jun-12 5.9 LD 7.3 49
Notes: LD means “Lunar Distance.” 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

Click here to see NASA’s interactive “Eyes on Asteroids” close approach watch

Asteroid News:

Document from @US_SpaceCom claims that #asteroid that hit Earth in 2014 is of interstellar origin. Check out this @CNN article for details of what could be the first record of an interstellar object to collide with our planet:https://t.co/VJyenLrfGN pic.twitter.com/UGmK40LzDV

— Asteroid Day ☄ (@AsteroidDay) April 19, 2022

Fireballs - In the Sky

On April 18, 2022, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network reported 10 fireballs!
(10 sporadics)

In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point–Earth. The orbits are color-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue). Credit: SpaceWeather.com

Fireball News:

Anyone else in the #Seattle area catch this beauty on their cams? This is looking NE from West Seattle. If so, plz consider sending a report to @amsmeteors at https://t.co/vrbsWLCMpC to contrib to their great work! #wawx @westseattleblog @WestSeaWx @NWSSeattle @SeattleWXGuy pic.twitter.com/QZQbiUYRrH

— Kevin Freitas (@kevinfreitas) April 12, 2022

If you see a bright meteor or a fireball, please REPORT IT to the American Meteor Society and the International Meteor Organization!

The Solar System - In the Sky

Position of the planets & several spacecraft in the inner solar system on April 19th:

Inner Solar System
Top-down view of the inner solar system on April 19, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Position of the planets in the middle solar system – April 2022:

Middle Solar System
Top-down view of the middle solar system on April 12, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Position of the planets in the outer solar system first half of 2022:

Outer Solar System
Top-down view of the outer solar system on Mar. 15, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

Solar System News

Planetary Decadal Survey is out! Uranus to get an orbiter! I was literally bouncing around the house!

Top programmatic recommendations:

– Uranus orbiter and probe flagship
– Enceladus orbiter/lander
– continue but expedite Mars Sample Return
– two (!) New Frontiers 6 selections
– augmented budgets for SIMPLEx, Discovery, and NF
– augmented R&A budget!#PlanetaryDecadal pic.twitter.com/15OTK5LII8

— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) April 19, 2022

In the “It’s hard to believe you can actually do that in Kerbal Space Program” department – a VERY well thought-out interplanetary mission, and amazingly well produced video of a crewed mission to Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus. Note: the spacecraft uses some drive tech we don’t have, yet.

Spacecraft News - In the Sky

James Webb Space Telescope is COOL

Click to see JWST on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

#ICYMI, Webb’s MIRI instrument recently cooled to less than 7 K (-447 F or -266 C)! How’d the team do it? To ask a question, tweet using #UnfoldTheUniverse anytime during the Space, or request to speak LIVE during our Q&A portion by tapping on the mic. 🎙

— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) April 18, 2022

Mars Helicopter - One Year Later

 

 

On April 19, 2021, our #MarsHelicopter made history by completing the first powered flight on another planet. The flight lasted 39.1 seconds. One year later, Ingenuity has logged over 46 minutes aloft and traveled 3.6 miles (5.8 km). See what’s next: https://t.co/sOjNE1g7MR pic.twitter.com/19wyExAXHy

— NASA (@NASA) April 19, 2022

Almost there!

Click to see Perseverance on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

My long haul to the ancient river delta is almost done. Up ahead: layered rocks, laid down in water, sure to hold secrets of what their environment was once like. Could they even give hints about past life? Time will tell…

More in the latest team blog: https://t.co/OH4pflHxaI pic.twitter.com/Nq5x0x1TkC

— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) April 15, 2022

HiRISE - Beautiful Mars

Click to see Mars on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

HiPOD: Layered Sediments in Valles Marineris

Sediments rich in hydrated sulfates may have filled central Valles Marineris, but debates persist as to how these deposits grew or formed.https://t.co/e4wFhuNrce
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona#Mars #science #NASA pic.twitter.com/hBoQ3BTHcQ

— HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) (@HiRISE) April 19, 2022

International Space Station

Click to see the ISS on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

Due to unfavorable weather conditions, we are waving off tonight's undocking of the #Ax1 mission from @Space_Station. The integrated Axiom Space, @NASA and @SpaceX teams are assessing the next best opportunity for the return of Ax-1, the first all-private mission to the ISS.

— Axiom Space (@Axiom_Space) April 19, 2022

NASA’s CAPSTONE Prepares to Enter Lunar Halo Orbit

It'll be great to see the results of @NASA_Technology's CAPSTONE. This small satellite will be an excellent pathfinder, literally, for @NASA_Gateway, allowing us to validate our predictive models for Gateway's orbit. Latest here: https://t.co/lT3JzovD9A pic.twitter.com/i10UYLUv1y

— Jim Free (@JimFree) April 18, 2022

Europa Clipper - Spectrometer First Light

"First light" is a major milestone for any optical instrument, and our MISE (Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa) is no different. MISE will offer clues to Europa's habitability by mapping surface composition in detail. See our latest mission dispatch: https://t.co/smhCIqpD4F pic.twitter.com/DHPpSyvclz

— NASA Europa Clipper (@EuropaClipper) April 13, 2022

Space Junk

Iodine-based ion propulsion could power small satellites and help solve our space junk problem. https://t.co/qtfHNCDqQJ

— Astronomy Magazine (@AstronomyMag) April 15, 2022

CO2

420.49 ppm #CO2

📈420.49 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere April 18, 2022 📈Mauna Loa Observatory data from @Keeling_Curve / @Scripps_Ocean / UCSD 📈Data unavailable so far from NOAA because its Global Monitoring Lab site has been down 📈Track the signal at https://t.co/DpFGQoH37B as levels change https://t.co/7YZ5EfUmkG

— CO2_Earth (@CO2_earth) April 19, 2022

Climate

UPDATE: Global average sea level has risen about 102 millimeters (about 4 inches) since 1993 as a result of human-caused global warming, with recent rates being unprecedented over the past 2,500-plus years. #NASAEarthling https://t.co/f8Cpqo7QQT

— NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) April 19, 2022

See a list of current NASA missions here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions?mission_status=current

Exoplanets - In the Sky

ex·o·plan·et /ˈeksōˌplanət/, noun: a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun.

All Exoplanets 5011 (+2)
Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler 2709
Kepler Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 2057
Confirmed Planets Discovered by K2 537
K2 Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 959 (+1)
Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS 205 (+1)
TESS Project Candidates Integrated into Archive (2022-04-12 13:00:02) 5488
Current date TESS Project Candidates at ExoFOP 5488
TESS Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 3691 (-4)
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive

* Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS refers to the number planets that have been published in the refereed astronomical literature.
* TESS Project Candidates refers to the total number of transit-like events that appear to be astrophysical in origin, including false positives as identified by the TESS Project.
* TESS Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed refers to the number of TESS Project Candidates that have not yet been dispositioned as a Confirmed Planet or False Positive.

Exoplanet News:

April 14, 2022:

Two New Planets, Including AB Aur b

The AB Aur system is the second protoplanetary disk where an embedded exoplanet has been found, which supports the “disk instability” theory of planet formation. Read NASA’s media release and the discovery paper.

The other new planet is TOI-620 b. There are also new parameters for TOI-2076 b, c, & d, TOI-216 b & c, KELT-24 b (MASCARA-3 b), and WD 0806-661 (GJ 3483 b).

Access all of these new data from the Planetary Systems Table and its companion table, Planetary Systems Composite Parameters, which offers a more complete table of planet parameters combined from multiple references and calculations. – exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu

Learn about 2 recently discovered gas giant #exoplanets, known as hot Jupiters, in the #STIoftheWeek! These exoplanets were monitored by @NASAExoplanets TESS Mission. https://t.co/7B5QDsQheO

Then learn more about TESS: https://t.co/aaq4e3s5ut pic.twitter.com/UlLghpQudD

— NASA STI Program (@NASA_STI) April 18, 2022

Aurora - In the Sky
Aurora at midnight. Taken by Christopher Mathews  on April 19, 2022 @ Hraunborg, southern Iceland

SpaceWeather.com Realtime Aurora Gallery: https://spaceweathergallery.com/aurora_gallery.html

Latest Aurora Oval Forecast

Aurora – 30 Minute forecast. Credit: NOAA. Click image to see northern and southern hemisphere Aurora forecast.
Light Pollution - In the Sky

International Dark Sky Week: April 22-30

International Dark Sky Week is April 22-30. Whether you live in a rural community, a big city, or in between, there are so many ways to participate & help raise awareness about light pollution.

Here are 6 ways to take action: https://t.co/DDKFhKceoz#IDSW2022 #DiscovertheNight

— IDA Dark-Sky (@IDADarkSky) April 18, 2022

We are proud to be a founding partner of the Responsible Outdoor Lighting at Night Conference! This May, join renowned speakers from around the world to learn insights about responsible outdoor lighting. More info & register: https://t.co/OvoGGgMUaE pic.twitter.com/B1D8tWgb1j

— IDA Dark-Sky (@IDADarkSky) April 19, 2022

  • Visit an International Dark Sky Park: https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/parks/
  • If you live in Michigan, visit the Michigan Dark Skies site: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/darkskies/
The Universe - In the Sky

NASA STEM

How will @NASAArtemis astronauts get to the Moon?🤔

This week's @NASA Artemis STEM Learning Pathway newsletter has the answer!

Find #NASASTEM resources related to @NASA_SLS, @NASA_Orion & @NASAGroundSys.

Read & subscribe: https://t.co/tbwmIPb3KW pic.twitter.com/9CfgENF0Nr

— NASA STEM (@NASASTEM) April 19, 2022

Messier Tour: M13 – The Great Cluster in Hercules

M13
Messier 13 (M13). Credit: Sid Leach, Adam Block, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter.

Messier 13 (M13), also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is a globular cluster located in Hercules constellation. It is one of the brightest and best known globular clusters in the northern sky. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 5.8 and lies at a distance of 22,200 light years, or 6,800 parsecs, from Earth. Its designation in the New General Catalogue is NGC 6205.

The Hercules Globular Cluster has an estimated age of 11.65 billion years and contains about 300,000 stars. The estimated mass of the cluster is about half a million solar masses. – messier-objects.com

M13
Artist’s depiction of M13’s position in relation to the Sun and the Milky Way’s core. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

The Hercules Globular Cluster was discovered by the English astronomer Edmond Halley in 1714. 

William Herschel first observed the cluster on August 22, 1779 and resolved it into stars.- messier-objects.com

M13
Artist’s depiction of the Sun and Milky Way’s core seen from near M13. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

I noticed that M13 was WAY above the disk of the Milky Way – I wondered what the night sky might look like on a planet orbiting a star in the far-reaches of M13. I travelled to M13, and found a star with planets. I apparently timed it well, because I also had a random comet in scene!

M13
Artist’s depiction an exoplanet and moon in the outskirts of M13. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

Imagine one side of the night sky being filled with the stars of M13 and the disk of the Milky Way.

M13
Artist’s depiction a ringed exoplanet and moon in the outskirts of M13 – looking towards the Milky Way’s core. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

And the other side of the sky – looking out into intergalactic space – almost completely empty! I have to wonder what a night sky like this would have done to our study of astronomy throughout the ages.

M13
Artist’s depiction a ringed exoplanet with several moons in the outskirts of M13 – looking towards intergalactic space. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.
Click here to view M13 in the Worldwide Telescope web client

Cover Image: Messier 13. Credit: Sid Leach, Adam Block, Mount Lemmon SkyCenter.

Messier Object List: [Link]

Software Apps used for this post:

NASA Eyes on the Solar System: an immersive 3D solar system and space mission simulator – free for the PC /MAC.
Stellarium: a free web-based planetarium app. It’s a great tool for planning observing sessions.
SpaceEngine – Explore the universe in 3D and VR!
Worldwide Telescope – operated by the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

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