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In the Sky this Week – July 12, 2022

By Robert Trembley  |  12 Jul 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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This entry is part 236 of 244 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|

James Webb Space Telescope First Image

NASA has released the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope – more of a “teaser” image to get everybody hyped-up for more images to come today… And the hype worked – President Biden even got a piece of the action!

This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks.

NASA

JWST
Webb’s First Deep Field – galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

While I was writing this post, NASA released four additional images – I’ll be covering those in a separate post.

The Sky - In the Sky

Morning: Venus, Uranus and Mars appear in the eastern predawn sky.

Eastern predawn sky
Venus, Uranus and Mars appear in the eastern predawn sky. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Morning: Jupiter and Saturn appear in southern predawn sky.

Southern predawn sky
Jupiter and Saturn appear in the southern predawn sky. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Evening: The Moon appears in the southeastern sky after sunset on July 12th.

Southeastern sky after sunset
The Moon appears in the southeastern sky after sunset on July 12th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Early morning: The Moon appears near Saturn in the southeastern sky after midnight on July 15th and 16th.

Southeastern sky after midnight
The Moon appears near Saturn in the southeastern sky after midnight on July 16th. Credit: Bob Trembley / Stellarium.

Early morning: The Moon appears near Jupiter in the eastern sky after midnight on July 19th.

Eastern sky after midnight
The Moon appears near Jupiter in the eastern sky after midnight on July 19th. 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 Wednesday July 13th – rising at sunset, visible high in the sky around midnight, and visible all night.
  • After July 13th, 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 July 12 – July 18, 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

Our CAPSTONE CubeSat is taking a unique, fuel-efficient path on its four-month journey to the Moon—and you can follow along in real-time with our interactive @NASA_Eyes 3D visualization: https://t.co/KNCE3EOPDJ pic.twitter.com/lpFmze2lUE

— NASA (@NASA) July 9, 2022

Visit the CAPSTONE Mission on NASA’s Solar System Orrery
Visit the Moon on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

The Sun - In the Sky

The Sun has seven named sunspots.

Spaceweather.com says: “Multiple sunspots (especially AR3056) are crackling with C-class solar flares.” And “Minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on July 13th when a high-speed stream of solar wind is expected to hit Earth’s magnetic field. The stream is a mix of plasma flowing from two small holes in the sun’s atmosphere. Any auroras will have to compete with the bright light of a full Moon.”

The Sun on July 12 2022. Credit: SDO/HMI

The Sun seen in 193 angstroms on July 11th.

No large coronal holes appear on the Sun’s face; the north pole appears to have reopened

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/07/11/20220711_1024_0193.mp4

The Sun seen in 304 angstroms on July 11th.

Very active Sun – filaments cover the Sun’s face, flares crackle everywhere, lots of prominences.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/07/11/20220711_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

Prominence lifting off. Image by Jim Ferreira.

Image details: 30 minutes of images from this morning of the south west limb prominence lifting off. Shot with a 4 inch ED refractor @ f/28 with a Daystar iON 0.8A H-alpha filter and ZWO ASI174MM CMOS video camera.

Jim Ferreira

Solar Corona

Solar wind speed is 451.8 km/sec ▼ with a density of 4.27 protons/cm3 ▼ at 0226 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:

It’s EZIE!

The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) has passed a key developmental milestone, moving it on to the construction phase. EZIE's three CubeSats will study auroral electrojets, intense electrical currents in Earth’s atmosphere.

For more: https://t.co/D9RsJ6sc76 pic.twitter.com/EvnDZDVVwB

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) July 11, 2022

Asteroids - In the Sky
  • Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) discovered this month: 28, this year: 1409 (+51), all time: 29,223 (-58)
  • Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs): 2270 (updated 2022-06-14)
  • Total Minor Planets discovered (MPC): 1,207,337 (-76 updated 2022-07-12)

Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Velocity (km/s) Diameter (m)
2022 NO 2022-Jul-06 13.2 LD 10.9 31
2022 NE 2022-Jul-06 0.4 LD 10.7 7
2022 NE1 2022-Jul-06 1.6 LD 13.7 21
2022 NQ 2022-Jul-07 15.6 LD 8.5 25
2022 NF 2022-Jul-07 0.2 LD 11.4 7
2022 NR 2022-Jul-10 1 LD 8.3 25
2022 NS 2022-Jul-10 3.4 LD 11.9 15
2019 NW5 2022-Jul-10 14.9 LD 16 62
2022 NC1 2022-Jul-11 16.9 LD 9 32
2022 NH 2022-Jul-11 3.9 LD 10.1 21
2015 OQ21 2022-Jul-12 18.3 LD 6.6 9
2022 NF1 2022-Jul-12 5.1 LD 12.8 34
2022 NX 2022-Jul-12 11.5 LD 4.6 17
2022 NY 2022-Jul-14 7.2 LD 8.2 26
2022 NC 2022-Jul-14 7.6 LD 7.5 33
2022 NJ 2022-Jul-15 3.4 LD 8.9 24
2022 LR1 2022-Jul-16 9.3 LD 4.7 42
2022 KY4 2022-Jul-17 15.9 LD 7.6 91
2021 OT 2022-Jul-17 16.5 LD 11.2 20
349068 2022-Jul-19 17.6 LD 22.9 756
2017 RX2 2022-Jul-24 17.2 LD 14.2 17
2022 ML3 2022-Jul-26 7.6 LD 1.5 13
2016 CZ31 2022-Jul-29 7 LD 15.6 129
531944 2022-Jul-30 18.2 LD 5.9 192
2020 PP1 2022-Aug-01 13.1 LD 3.7 17
2020 PN1 2022-Aug-03 9.7 LD 4.6 29
2015 FF 2022-Aug-12 11.2 LD 9.2 17
2019 AV13 2022-Aug-22 19.1 LD 8.8 135
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
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:

I know most of us are talking about the 1st image of JWST and Booster 7 explosion today, but here's some exciting news from China: a DART-like asteroid mission to launch in 2026 by a Long March 3B! Target is 2020PN1 & the plan is "orbit + impact + orbit", so it's probably like… pic.twitter.com/DR5E5Yytng

— China 'N Asia Spaceflight🙏 (@CNSpaceflight) July 12, 2022

Fireballs - In the Sky

On July 11, 2022, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network reported 8 fireballs!
(8 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). Source: SpaceWeather.com

Fireball News:

Look carefully to this impressive recording of a #MeteoriteDroppingBolide much brighter than the full Moon over #Chile. Hopefully there are other recordings to do a careful search for #meteorites!@AsteroidDay @asteroidday_chi @meteoritoschile https://t.co/5mM2yqpLy7

— Dr. Josep M. Trigo ⭐🎗#PlanetaryDefense #DART HERA (@Josep_Trigo) July 9, 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 July 12th:

Inner Solar System
Top-down view of the inner solar system on July 12, 2022. Credit: Bob Trembley / NASA Eyes on the Solar System

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

Middle Solar System
Top-down view of the middle solar system on July 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

Click here to see NASA’s interactive solar system website

Solar System News

Has it been six years already!?

July 4th marks six years since our #JunoMission spacecraft fired its main engine and slipped into orbit around the solar system's largest planet. It's been re-writing textbooks ever since. To celebrate, here are some of our favorite online resources related to Juno. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/2EOdbkcNKT

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) July 4, 2022

Spacecraft News - In the Sky

James Webb Space Telescope - Images

I’ll be covering these images in a separate post.

The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope’s first full-colour images & spectroscopic data were released today. Read more here https://t.co/kdD6ew5306 or👇 pic.twitter.com/BXYYHq8yY9

— ESA Webb Telescope (@ESA_Webb) July 12, 2022

Lucy Mission Solar Panel Deployment

The #LucyMission team has made significant progress in deploying the spacecraft's solar array: https://t.co/nF36cK0pqJ pic.twitter.com/X19aY58zIx

— NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) June 28, 2022

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

See the MRO mission on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

 

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)

With humans to scale.

High res download : https://t.co/f296DpTmQP pic.twitter.com/RFUH6TBTjK

— WikiArchives.Space 🚀 (@archives_space) July 9, 2022

HiRISE - Beautiful Mars

Click to see Mars on NASA’s Solar System Orrery

South pole residual cap yearly monitoring - https://t.co/8p83lcVpVi pic.twitter.com/SulidN4kQH

— HiRISE Bot (@HiRISEBot) July 12, 2022

International Space Station

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

The Exp 67 crew preps for this week's @SpaceX #Dragon cargo mission and next week's spacewalk to configure the @ESA robotic arm. https://t.co/65wsyEo3VO

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) July 11, 2022

Space Debris Avoidance

Collision avoided! 💥 Yesterday might well have been #AsteroidDay, but our primary concern for Swarm Alpha was a small, unknown bit of space debris passing too close for comfort. @esaoperations had to manoeuvre the satellite down to avoid it at 22:29 last night 🕹️🛰️🚀 pic.twitter.com/l4uY4GmkIm

— ESA Swarm mission (@esa_swarm) July 1, 2022

CO2

419.08 ppm #CO2

📈 419.08 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere on July 11, 2022
📈 Up from 416.95 ppm a year ago
📈 @NOAA Mauna Loa data & graphic: https://t.co/nu6ktMn2wU 🌎 More https://t.co/DpFGQoYEwb details at https://t.co/PTTkLiPGm2 🙏 Re-broadcast this important signal and impetus for action 🙏 pic.twitter.com/qtbOlk4I90

— CO2_Earth (@CO2_earth) July 12, 2022

Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation Mission

A new mission to monitor climate change is set for launch to the @Space_Station aboard @SpaceX's Dragon resupply spacecraft.

How to learn more about our Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, and watch the July 14 liftoff from @NASAKennedy: https://t.co/equljH1vvG pic.twitter.com/lCBF8wIFZb

— NASA (@NASA) July 9, 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 5054 (+10)
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 969
Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS 227 (+6)
TESS Project Candidates Integrated into Archive (2022-07-09 13:00:02) 5767 (+9)
Current date TESS Project Candidates at ExoFOP 5767 (+9)
TESS Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 3852 (-2)
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:

June 30, 2022

Ten Planets Added, Including Two Rocky Neighbors

This week’s 10 new planets include two super-Earths in the HD 260655 system that are only 33 light-years from Earth, making them some of the closest-known rocky, transiting exoplanets to date. Read about it in NASA’s Discovery Alert.

All of the new planets are HD 150010 b, HD 174205 b, HD 19615 b, HD 260655 b & c, HD 33142 d, TOI-2081 b, TOI-3629 b, TOI-3714 b, and TOI-4479 b. Find their data in the Planetary Systems Table and its companion table, the Planetary Systems Composite Parameters.

We’ve also added new parameter sets for 12 planets already in the archive: iot Dra b, TOI-1696 b, TOI-1807 b, HD 29021 b, HD 81040 b, HD 87883 b, HD 98649 b, HD 106252 b, HD 106515 A b, HD 171238 b, HD 196067 b, and HD 221420 b. – NASA

Among @NASAWebb's first images was something different: an exoplanet spectrum! There's more to study, but scientists can see water vapor and the presence of clouds and possible haze. Peaks plus other data indicate an atmospheric temperature of ~1350°F (725°C). It's beautiful! pic.twitter.com/tYB4p2UKvw

— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) July 12, 2022

All These Worlds

A slideshow with exoplanet images I’ve created for these posts:

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

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Aurora - In the Sky
Early July 4th Aurora light show in Minnesota. Taken by Greg Ash  on July 4, 2022 @ Ely, Minnesota

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

Time is running out to send in submissions for the 2022 IDA Awards! If you know a dark sky advocate who deserves recognition for their work protecting the night from light pollution, you have until July 15. Learn more & nominate your an advocate today: https://t.co/YgrKFvILOS pic.twitter.com/37yDcMcg05

— IDA Dark-Sky (@IDADarkSky) July 11, 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

Beautiful Universe

Barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 was brought up during last night’s meeting of the Warren Astronomical Society – it’s very likely what our Milky Way looks like.

Galaxy UGC 12158. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Messier Tour: M22 – The Sagittarius Cluster

Messier 22 (M22) – the Sagittarius Cluster. Credit: Bob Birket / Sky and Telescope

Messier 22 (M22) is a globular cluster located near the Milky Way bulge, the tightly packed group of stars near the galactic centre. The cluster lies in the constellation Sagittarius. It is one of the brightest globular clusters in the sky and was one of the first objects of this kind to be discovered and studied.

M22 is also one of the nearest globulars to the solar system. The only globular cluster closer to us is Messier 4, located in the neighboring constellation Scorpius. M22 is elliptical in shape and lies at a distance of 10,600 light years from Earth. Its designation in the New General Catalogue is NGC 6656. – messier-objects.com

Messier 21. Image: Wikisky

Two black holes were discovered in M22 and confirmed by the Chandra X-ray telescope in 2012. The objects have between 10 and 20 solar masses. Their discovery suggests that there may be between 5 and 100 black holes within the cluster and that multiple black holes may exist in other clusters as well. The presence of black holes and their interaction with the stars of M22 could explain the cluster’s unusually large central region.

The two black holes, designated M22-VLA1 and M22-VLA2, are both part of binary systems. Each has a companion star and is pulling matter from it. The stolen material – gas and dust – forms an accretion disk around each black hole and emissions from these disks are what scientists were able to detect. Without them, the black holes would have stayed hidden.

M22
Artist’s depiction of a close binary pair with a main sequence star and black hole in globular cluster M22. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

Messier 22 is one of only four globular clusters that contain a planetary nebula. The only other globular listed in Messier’s catalogue known to have a planetary nebula is Messier 15, located in the constellation Pegasus.

The nebula in M22, catalogued as GJJC1 or IRAS 18333-2357, was discovered by the infrared satellite IRAS in 1986 and identified as a planetary nebula in 1989. The nebula is only 3 arc seconds in diameter and lies 1 arc minute to the south of the cluster’s centre. It is extremely difficult for observers to find. The nebula has an estimated age of only 6,000 years and has a blue star at its core. – messier-objects.com

Location of M21 in the Milky Way

Unlike many of the other globular clusters I’ve covered in my Messier series, M22 lies within the disk of the galaxy, rather than somewhere above or below it.

M22
Artist’s depiction of M22’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:

M22
Artist’s depiction of a ringed exoplanet orbiting a binary star within globular cluster M22. Credit: Bob Trembley / SpaceEngine.

Here are shots of the surface of the same planet at sunrise and midday.

M22

M22

Click here to view M22 in the Worldwide Telescope web client

Cover Image: Messier 22. Credit: Bob Birket / Sky and Telescope

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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238  |  In the Sky this Week – July 26, 2022

By Robert Trembley  |  26 Jul 2022  |  Sacred Space Astronomy

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