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In the Sky this Week – August 9, 2022

By Robert Trembley  |  9 Aug 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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This entry is part 239 of 253 in the series In the Sky This Week

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

CNEOS 2014-01-08 – First Interstellar Meteor

If a news story makes me jump out of my chair, say WOW, and run upstairs to tell everyone about it, that is the story that gets the feature of the week!

On January 8, 2014, at 17:05:34 UT, a meter-sized rock from space streaked through the sky off the coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, burning up with an energy equivalent to about 110 metric tons of TNT and raining debris into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Similar-sized fireballs are not uncommon occurrences in Earth’s skies; in fact, a few dozen of them occur every year. But what was notable about this particular meteor was the very high speed and unusual direction at which it encountered our planet, which collectively suggested it came from interstellar space.

Scientific American

The authors of the paper arXiv:1904.07224 identified the meteor in 2019 as originating from interstellar space, which was later confirmed in 2022 by the U.S. Department of Defense.

So we have the first confirmed first interstellar meteor, which left meteoritic fragments on the bottom of the ocean – seismometers even recorded the impact! The authors of the paper have stated their intent to mount an ocean expedition to retrieve those fragments. I sure hope they offer some way to follow the expedition’s progress on social media.

Depiction of a large meteor impacting the ocean. Credit: lweb.cfa.harvard.edu
The Sky - In the Sky

Morning: Venus and the constellation Orion appear low above the eastern horizon before dawn.

Eastern horizon before dawn
Venus appears low above the eastern horizon before dawn. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Morning: Jupiter and Saturn appear in the south-southwestern predawn sky – Saturn is still above the southwestern horizon as both planets fade into the light of morning.

South-southwestern predawn sky
Jupiter and Saturn appear in the south-southwestern predawn sky. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Evening: A thin Waxing Crescent Moon appears in the western sky at dusk on August 1st.

South-southeastern sky after sunset
On August 9th, the Moon appears in Sagittarius in the southern sky after sunset, and Saturn appears in the sky to the east of the Moon. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon appears near Saturn in the southeastern sky after sunset on August 11th.

Southeastern sky after sunset
The Moon appears near Saturn in the southeastern sky after sunset on August 11th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon appears near Jupiter in the eastern sky after sunset on August 14th and 15th.

Eastern sky after sunset
The Moon appears near Jupiter in the eastern sky after sunset on August 14th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.
Eastern sky after sunset
The Moon appears near Jupiter in the eastern sky after sunset on August 15th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

The Moon - In the Sky
  • The Moon is a Waxing Gibbous – visible to the southeast in early evening, and up for most of the night.
  • The Full Moon occurs on August 11th – rising at sunset, visible high in the sky around midnight, and visible all night.
  • After August 11th, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous – rising after sunset, visible high in the sky after midnight, and visible to the southwest after sunrise.
Moon
The Moon from August 9-15, 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! (See below)

Moon Close-up: August 15th

Moon
Annotated Moon Close-Up August 15, 2022. Visualizations by Ernie Wright / NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.

Moon News

The hatch on @NASA_Orion is now closed in the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy. The Artemis I deep space spacecraft will soon travel 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) beyond the far side of the Moon, farther than any other human rated vehicle ever has. pic.twitter.com/cRB84lGoax

— NASA's Exploration Ground Systems (@NASAGroundSys) August 9, 2022

Speaking of the Full Moon, don’t miss the VO’s Full Moon Zoom with Katie Steinke this Thursday!

Join us for our Full Moon Meetup! Our guest will be Katie Steinke – former Development Director for the Vatican Observatory Foundation.https://t.co/q8O3DBCRg5

— Vatican Observatory vaticanobservatory.bsky.social (@VaticanObserv) August 5, 2022

Visit the Moon on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

The Sun - In the Sky

The Sun has five named sunspots – one is rotating out of view.

Spaceweather.com says: “All of these sunspots have stable magnetic fields that pose little threat for strong flares.” However, that was not the case two days ago: “A solar wind stream hit Earth’s magnetic field on August 7th. At first, the stream’s velocity was low, but during the day it sped up to more than 600 km/s, ultimately triggering a G2-class (moderately strong) geomagnetic storm. This event was not in the forecast, so the resulting auroras came as a surprise.”

The Sun on August 9, 2022. Credit: SDO/HMI

The Sun seen in 193 angstroms on August 8th.

Two large coronal holes appear on the Sun’s face; the north pole coronal hole appears to have opened up again.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/08/08/20220808_1024_0193.mp4

The Sun seen in 304 angstroms on August 8th.

Prominences and filaments everywhere, again!  Two very long filaments stretch from the top and bottom of the northern and southern hemispheres across the Sun’s face to meet up at the equator in a sideways V formation.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/08/08/20220808_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 August 7, 2022. Credit: Osamu Oshima

Solar Corona

Solar wind speed is 584.3 km/sec ▲ with a density of 7.53 protons/cm3 ▲▲ at 1715 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:

Yup! I’ve been grousing about this for years! Radiation is a real problem for anything outside of Earth’s magnetic field – like the lunar Gateway and any crewed Moon and Mars missions.

Can’t get enough of the Sun? ☀️

Check out our YouTube playlist to get your solar fix.

Watch incredible videos of the Sun in action. Learn how NASA is studying our nearest star and its influence on us. Find out some of the things we’ve discovered lately.https://t.co/PWLsSY3rYv pic.twitter.com/GvYAwg17mL

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) August 6, 2022

Asteroids - In the Sky
  • Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) discovered this month: 19, this year: 1559, all time: 29,380 – getting close to 30K!
  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs): 2281 (+5 updated 2022-08-09)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (MPC): 1,217,424 (-145 updated 2022-08-09)

Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Velocity (km/s) Diameter (m)
2022 OC4 2022-Aug-09 4 LD 7.5 11
2022 PF 2022-Aug-09 4.5 LD 9.6 14
2022 PA1 2022-Aug-10 2.7 LD 16.3 18
2015 FF 2022-Aug-12 11.2 LD 9.2 17
2022 OT1 2022-Aug-13 12.4 LD 5.8 36
2022 OA4 2022-Aug-14 18.2 LD 7.9 23
2022 PW 2022-Aug-16 1.4 LD 7.5 29
2022 PC 2022-Aug-18 16.5 LD 4.1 61
2019 AV13 2022-Aug-20 13.8 LD 9.2 135
2020 QW3 2022-Aug-22 14.1 LD 18.1 30
2015 QH3 2022-Aug-22 5.6 LD 7 14
2017 BU 2022-Aug-29 15.8 LD 7 32
2021 CQ5 2022-Sep-01 8.7 LD 13.5 7
2020 PT4 2022-Sep-15 19.7 LD 10.8 39
2016 HF2 2022-Sep-29 19.2 LD 5.6 21
2018 ER1 2022-Oct-02 14.7 LD 4 27
2018 VG 2022-Oct-05 18.5 LD 6.7 12
2021 TJ10 2022-Oct-06 19.6 LD 8.1 6
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:

In 2016, the #PlanetaryDefense Coordination Office was established to manage @NASA's efforts in defending the planet from hazardous near-Earth objects and #asteroids. Now, a new book details the history leading to this important work.🌎

Free download: https://t.co/SOLFOuxuhy pic.twitter.com/okcFoLOtQr

— NASA Asteroid Watch (@AsteroidWatch) August 2, 2022

Fireballs - In the Sky

On August 8, 2022, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network reported 51 fireballs!
(27 sporadics, 22 Perseids, 2 Delta Aquariids)

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). Source: SpaceWeather.com

Fireball News:

W is for ‘Wow'!
Great to get this super Alpha Capricornid #meteor last night over my garden, disintegrating while descending ~30 km in height over nearby Norfolk. Here, it 'intersects' the famous ‘W constellation’ Cassiopeia!
@UKMeteorNetwork @VirtualAstro @DavidBflower @RedSpmn pic.twitter.com/u4MEWhDA49

— David Hatton (@davidhhatton) August 5, 2022

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

Visit the Vatican Observatory’s Tucson Meteor-Cam Page
The Solar System - In the Sky

Position of the planets & several spacecraft in the inner solar system on August 9th:

Inner Solar System
Top-down view of the inner solar system on August 9, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

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

Middle Solar System
Top-down view of the middle solar system on August 9, 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

Click here to see NASA’s interactive solar system website

Solar System News

I love this mission! I tried recreating it in Kerbal Space Program – 3 of my 4 probes burned up prematurely…

🎶 One, two, three four five, #OTD in 1978 we went for a ride!

Our Pioneer Venus Multiprobe journeyed to the planet that has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth’s and is hotter than the melting point of zinc and lead. Find out what it showed us: https://t.co/gcLvaJqTFm pic.twitter.com/ewcZyqpJZ4

— NASA Ames (@NASAAmes) August 8, 2022

Spacecraft News - In the Sky

You may have used Landsat data!

Click to see Landsat 9 on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

Maps became one of the most widespread uses for #Landsat data, especially after 2008, when the Department of the Interior made all the imagery available free of charge.

Apps for hikers, runners, and bikers, for example, rely on #Landsat. pic.twitter.com/iVhqmNY8C5

— NASA Landsat (@NASA_Landsat) August 4, 2022

HiRISE - Beautiful Mars

See the MRO mission on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

 

Monitor slopes of crater on floor of Coprates Chasma - https://t.co/ejGQ0uFE9B pic.twitter.com/Ylv9e7pq1S

— HiRISE Bot (@HiRISEBot) August 9, 2022

Students talk to astronauts on the International Space Station!

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

#BackToSchool is all about student opportunity, and we know two groups of students who are going to have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity this week!

Tune in to NASA TV while they ask their questions to astronauts living aboard the @Space_Station.https://t.co/G6UUQXLdlr pic.twitter.com/IDZmpNfRcE

— NASA STEM (@NASASTEM) August 8, 2022

International Space Station

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

The Exp 67 crew explored how space affects the skin healing process and ways to expand crop production farther away from Earth today. More... https://t.co/cwsGX7d7fh pic.twitter.com/i6z8vdMoSR

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) August 8, 2022

NASA OCO2

Click to see the OCO2 Satellite on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

Have you ever seen a tree explode? @NASAJPL scientist Tom Pongetti did during a Sept 2020 Southern California wildfire.

When devastating fires like this happen, NASA-JPL satellites like #OCO2, which measures CO₂, have a bird’s-eye view. Full story: https://t.co/8NEQM06Aw6 pic.twitter.com/pkj5cQGAYM

— NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) August 9, 2022

CO2

418.19 ppm #CO2

📈 418.19 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere for the 31st week of 2022 📈 Up from 415.10 a year ago 📈 @NOAA Mauna Loa data: https://t.co/CkSjvjkBfQ 📈 https://t.co/DpFGQoYEwb updates: https://t.co/idlRE62qB1 📈 Add a weekly CO2 tracker to your site: https://t.co/NnwgaBoCCa 📈 pic.twitter.com/B1c306hEHc

— CO2_Earth (@CO2_earth) August 8, 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 5069 (+6)
Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler 2711
Kepler Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 2056
Confirmed Planets Discovered by K2 537
K2 Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 969
Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS 233 (+2)
TESS Project Candidates Integrated into Archive (2022-07-29 13:00:02) 5808 (+14)
Current date TESS Project Candidates at ExoFOP 5808 (+14)
TESS Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 3876 (+9)
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.

Click here to see NASA’s interactive exoplanet website

Exoplanet News:

August 4, 2022

Seven New Planets, One Demotion

We’ve added seven planets this week, including KMT-2020-BLG-0414L b, the lowest mass-ratio microlensing planet to date. We’ve also demoted HD 92987 b to false positive planet status based on a published refutation. Note: The false positive planet’s data are still available on the HD 92987 System Overview page.

The new planets are CoRoT-35 b, CoRoT-36 b, HD 93963 A b & c, GJ 3929 c, and KMT-2020-BLG-0414L b & c.All new data from this week’s release can also be found in the Planetary Systems Table and its companion table, Planetary Systems Composite Parameters. – NASA

We've confirmed more than 5,000 planets beyond our solar system — so far. The latest total is 5,069. We classify them by size: terrestrial (Earth- size and smaller); super-Earths (bigger than Earth, smaller than Neptune); Neptune sized, and gas giants. https://t.co/Q72MwrjTwX pic.twitter.com/APggqBtQyS

— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) August 5, 2022

All These Worlds

An ever-growing slideshow with exoplanet images I’ve created for these posts:

M25

M24

M23

M22

M21

M21

M20

M18

M17

M16

M15

M13

M13

M13

Groombridge 1618 b

Groombridge 1618

DE CVn

Artistic rendering of an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 3622

Gliese 876

Gliese 1002

Gliese 1002

Gliese 229

Luyten 145-141

Gliese 687

Gliese 674

Exoplanet

Wolf 1061 b

Lacaille 8760

Lacaille 8760

Artistic rendering

Artistic rendering

Luyten's Star

Sunset on YZ Ceti b

YZ Ceti b

Exoplanet Gliese 1061 b

Epsilon Indi Ab

Groombridge 34 Ab

Ross 128 b

Lacaille 9352

Ringed Exoplanet

Ross 154

Wolf 359 b

Exoplanet

51 Eri b

Dimidium

Proxima Centauri b

Hot Exoplanet PSR J1719-14 b

Exoplanet near Trifid Nebula

Exoplanet

Betelgeuse

Exoplanet Kepler-903 b

Hypothetical Exoplanet

NGTS-4b

Exoplanet artwork

Exoplanet Artwork

Exoplanet PSR B1257+12 b

Hypothetical exoplanet

Blue Sunrise

Red Sunrise

Kepler-16b

Hypothetical exoplanet RSC 10389-10378-1-1-11 3

Exoplanet WASP 12 b

Exoplanet Kepler-1449 b

Exoplanet Art

Exoplanet 55 Cancri e

Exoplanet Artwork

Exoplanet Artwork

Exoplanet Kepler-47 c

M22

M22

Aurora - In the Sky
Aurora
Auroras and noctilucent clouds. Taken by Tom Eklund  on August 8, 2022 @ Akaa, Finland

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

Globally we spend at least $50 billion in energy costs each year to produce light that escapes into space. Light pollution reduction should be an essential component of every city, country, & business’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy. Learn more: https://t.co/zT0vJlCCNk

— DarkSky International (@IDADarkSky) August 4, 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

You Are Here

I’ve always liked those Milky Way “You Are Here” posters – I decided to make one using my new wide-screen monitor – the full-rez version is a monster!

You Are Here
You Are Here! Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

Messier Tour: M25

Messier 25. Image: Wikisky

Messier 25 (M25) is a bright, prominent open cluster located in Sagittarius constellation. The cluster lies at a distance of 2,000 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 4.6. Its designation in the Index Catalogue is IC 4725.

Messier 25 is about 19 lights across, covering an area of 32 arc minutes in the sky. It is one of the Messier objects that are visible to the naked eye under good conditions, with clear, dark skies and no light pollution.

Messier 25 is pretty easy to locate with binoculars. It lies 6.5 degrees north and a little east of Lambda Sagittarii (Kaus Borealis), the star that marks the top of the Teapot asterism in Sagittarius. – messier-objects.com

Messier 25. Credit: University of Massachusetts & California Institute of Technology.

Messier 25 contains 601 known members. The cluster is home to two giant stars of the spectral type G and appears to contain two M-class giants which are not really members of the cluster. In 1956, J.B. Irwin discovered a variable star in M25. The Delta Cephei-type variable U Sagittarii has a period of 6.74 days and changes from magnitude 6.3 to 7.1.

With an estimated age of 90 million years, M25 is not a particularly young star cluster. – messier-objects.com

Location of M25 in the Milky Way

M25
Depiction of M25’s position in relation to the Sun and the Milky Way’s core – top-down view. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

Here’s my obligatory “What would a planet look like if it were near that Messier object” pic:

I found a hypothetical planetary system orbiting one of the main-sequence stars of M25; I went to this moon of a Neptune-like gas giant. The part of the moon which is in shadow from the star is illuminated with an eerie glow of the gas giant. When I time-accelerated to get the shadow on the moon the way I wanted, the nearby stars of M25 in the background shifted with a huge parallax.

M25
Depiction of an exomoon lit by the eerie blue glow of a Neptune-like gas giant parent in M25. Credit: Bob Trembley / Space Engine

Click here to view M25 in the Worldwide Telescope web client

Cover Image: Messier 25. Credit: Wikisky

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. Latest update released on July 7, 2022.
SpaceEngine – Explore the universe in 3D and VR! Latest update released on July 6, 2022.
Worldwide Telescope – operated by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Latest update released on March 31, 2022.

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