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In the Sky This Week – October 27, 2020

By Robert Trembley  |  27 Oct 2020

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This entry is part 171 of 253 in the series In the Sky This Week

I’m a volunteer ambassador for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission – I can not tell you how excited I am about the recent successful, maybe overly successful, sample acquisition from the surface of asteroid Bennu! The sample head is full of rocks an dust, and apparently a large rock has prevented a mylar flap from sealing the sample head, and some smaller rocks are escaping! The sample head should be safely stowed away today  – that can’t happen soon enough for me!

The pandemic has prevented me from doing in-person lectures about the mission, but I’ve been covering the mission in these weekly posts, and I was able to book Dolores Hill from the OSIRIS-REx mission to speak at the Astronomy at the Beach event – so I don’t feel too awful about my lack of lecturing…

The red giant star Arcturus competes with Venus for the title of “morning star” in the eastern predawn sky … Venus wins!

Eastern predawn sky Venus and the red giant star Arcturus appear in the eastern predawn sky all week. Credit: Stellarium / Bob Trembley.

The Moon dances with Mars from Oct. 27th – 31st in the eastern sky after sunset.

Conjunction The Moon dances with Mars from Oct. 27th – 31st in the Credit: Stellarium / Bob Trembley.

Saturn and Jupiter appear in the southern sky at sunset – the pair of planets appear low on the southwestern horizon at 10:30 PM.

Southwestern sky at dusk Saturn and Jupiter appear in the southwestern sky at dusk. Credit: Stellarium / Bob Trembley.

The Moon is a waxing gibbous – visible to the southeast in early evening, up for most of the night.

The full Moon occurs on Nov. 1st – it rises at sunset, is visible high in the sky around midnight, and is visible all night.

After Nov. 1st, 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 2020-10-27 – 2020-11-02. 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, 2020 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 TIF image annotated with the names of prominent features – helpful for logging your observations!

Moon Annotated close-up of a section of the Moon on Oct. 27th (left) and Nov. 2nd (right) – showing the play of shadows. Visualizations by Ernie Wright / NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.

Moon News

We’ve known that hydroxyl (OH and/or H2O) exists on the Moon for over a decade, since detection from the missions @CassiniSaturn, Deep Impact, and @ISRO's Chandrayaan-1, but these missions could not separate the OH signal from an H2O signal.

Full video: https://t.co/32sqpu606N pic.twitter.com/YnuKI1E4E0

— NASA Moon (@NASAMoon) October 26, 2020

Sunspot AR2778 is the largest of new solar cycle #25; SpaceWeather.com says “The primary dark core of AR2778 is about the size of Earth. Altogether, the sunspot group sprawls 90,000 km across the face of the sun, dimensions which make it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Amateur astronomers with safely-filtered optics are encouraged to monitor developments.” When I was editing the image below, I noticed the tiny sunspot in the upper right – it’s not labeled on SpaceWeather.com, and I’m not sure if this is a new sunspot or an older one.

Sunspots Sunspots on 2020-10-27. Credit: NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams. Edited by Bob Trembley.

The southern coronal hole has diminished from last week – the northern coronal hole has made up for it in size and tendrils; there are several regions of intense coronal loop activity.

The Sun seen in 193 angstroms (extreme ultraviolet) October 26, 2020:

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2020/10/26/20201026_1024_0193.mp4

 

Prominences everywhere! Keep you eye on the middle of the Sun’s northern hemisphere during the last second of the video below!

The Sun seen in 304 angstroms (extreme ultraviolet) October 26, 2020:

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2020/10/26/20201026_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.

Solar Activity on Facebook – Run by Volunteer NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador Pamela Shivak

Sun The SOLARACTIVITY PICTURE OF THE DAY for October 27th, 2020 is this awesome prominence lifting off by Jim Ferreira from California using a Daystar filter.

Solar Corona

Solar wind speed is 508.0 km/sec (↑↑), with a density of 7.9 protons/cm3 (↑) at 1320 UT.

Near real-time animation of the corona and solar wind from the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):

SOHO LASCO C2 Latest Image Animated LASCO C2 Coronograph showing the solar corona above the Sun’s limb (the white circle). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech-SOHO

Sun News

Our STEREO mission launched 14 years ago today! STEREO provides valuable data on the Sun, its atmosphere, and the inner solar system. Earlier this year, STEREO captured these views of comet ATLAS as it swooped by the Sun. https://t.co/UdrmLJJvbh pic.twitter.com/7WLXsxtyvT

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) October 25, 2020

As you get into the sinister spirit for #Halloween, look to the cosmos for creepy celestial displays. 👻✨ In 2014, active regions on the Sun traced out an eerie jack-o’-lantern’s face, seen in ultraviolet light by our Sun-watching satellite. https://t.co/uI9DCMr3RQ pic.twitter.com/CZDb0hdzwL

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) October 24, 2020

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) discovered this month: 313, this year: 2400, all time: 24,254  (+245)
Potentially hazardous asteroids: 2037  (last updated  June 2, 2020)
Total Minor Planets
discovered (NASA): 1,019,529  (+3,464)
Total Minor Planets discovered (MPC): 993,960

Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:

Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Velocity (km/s)
Diameter (m)
2020 UU4
2020-Oct-27
1.9 LD
11.1
15
2020 TD8
2020-Oct-27
1.6 LD
7.6
14
2020 UC4
2020-Oct-27
6.2 LD
8.8
21
2005 UV64
2020-Oct-27
19.3 LD
3.5
18
2020 TQ2
2020-Oct-27
16.3 LD
5.2
26
2020 TR5
2020-Oct-28
4 LD
8.8
20
2020 TS5
2020-Oct-28
9.4 LD
5.7
21
2020 UN1
2020-Oct-28
4.1 LD
10.1
29
2020 TM7
2020-Oct-28
5.4 LD
12.9
28
2020 OK5
2020-Oct-29
6.4 LD
1.3
29
2020 UD4
2020-Oct-29
9.5 LD
7.6
16
2020 TO8
2020-Oct-29
14.7 LD
8.9
24
2020 TR2
2020-Oct-29
8.8 LD
14.5
54
2020 UN5
2020-Oct-30
11.5 LD
9.1
14
2020 UX3
2020-Oct-31
13.4 LD
16.2
36
2018 VP1
2020-Nov-02
1.1 LD
9.7
2
2020 UA3
2020-Nov-03
5.6 LD
6
16
2020 UW1
2020-Nov-03
20 LD
12.8
58
2020 HF4
2020-Nov-03
16.2 LD
2.9
11
2020 UR2
2020-Nov-04
13.9 LD
4.7
27
2020 UM2
2020-Nov-04
14.9 LD
2.8
13
2010 JL88
2020-Nov-05
10.5 LD
15.7
16
2020 UW2
2020-Nov-06
14.7 LD
6.2
39
2020 TY1
2020-Nov-07
14.7 LD
13
107
2019 XS
2020-Nov-07
15.5 LD
9.4
51
2018 VS4
2020-Nov-09
14.9 LD
10.1
25
2020 UN3
2020-Nov-10
11.7 LD
7.6
55
2020 UL3
2020-Nov-10
15.4 LD
11.2
79
2020 TB9
2020-Nov-14
13.1 LD
6
24
2020 ST1
2020-Nov-14
19.1 LD
8.1
149
2019 VL5
2020-Nov-15
8.5 LD
8.2
23
2020 UB5
2020-Nov-16
20 LD
4.4
36
2017 WJ16
2020-Nov-23
5 LD
4.8
49
2020 TJ8
2020-Nov-24
16.8 LD
4.6
32
2018 RQ4
2020-Nov-26
8.1 LD
7.4
15
2020 KZ2
2020-Nov-28
5.7 LD
3.9
10
153201
2020-Nov-29
11.2 LD
25.1
490
2020 SO
2020-Dec-01
0.1 LD
3.9
6
2019 XH2
2020-Dec-02
16.1 LD
6.4
6
2018 PK21
2020-Dec-08
12.2 LD
3.1
23
2019 XQ1
2020-Dec-13
18.4 LD
8.6
30
2017 XQ60
2020-Dec-21
10.8 LD
15.6
47
2011 CL50
2020-Dec-24
3.1 LD
3.4
11

Notes: LD means “Lunar Distance.” 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. Red highlighted entries are asteroids that either pass very close, or very large with high relative velocities to the Earth. Table from SpaceWeather.com

On October 26, 2020, the NASA All Sky Fireball Network reported 8 fireballs. 
(6 sporadics, 2 Orionids)

Orbits 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

Uma bola de fogo brilhante explodiu no céu noturno em Porto Rico por volta de 07:45 UTC em 17 de outubro de 2020.

A trajetória sugere que ela se moveu sobre o canal de Mona em direção a Desecheo, de acordo com a Sociedade de Astronomia de Caribe (SAC).#boladefogo #fireball pic.twitter.com/db6jQIVKMr

— EXOSS Meteors 🇧🇷 ☄️💫 (@exossorg) October 25, 2020

Position of the planets in the inner solar system:

Inner Solar System Position of the planets and a couple spacecraft in the inner solar system, 2020-10-27. Credit: NASA Eyes on the Solar System / Bob Trembley.

Position of the planets in the middle solar system:

Middle Solar System Position of the planets in the middle solar system, 2020-10-27. Credit: NASA Eyes on the Solar System / Bob Trembley.

Position of the planets, some dwarf planets and some transneptunian objects in the outer solar system.

Outer Solar System Position of the planets and some transneptunian objects in the outer solar system, 2020-10-27 – the orbit of TNO Haumea is highlighted. Credit: NASA Eyes on the Solar System / Bob Trembley.

Solar System News

Soooooo, about that whole "phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus" thing.https://t.co/o4JJsJ75RW

— Phil (Newsletter link in bio) Plait (@BadAstronomer) October 26, 2020

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission:

Tomorrow, the OSIRIS-REx mission will begin the process to stow its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu. It’s a few days earlier than originally anticipated, but the team is working hard to make sure we get every bit of Bennu we possibly can. More details: https://t.co/b7Wnoz219q pic.twitter.com/PXIlkZhnzi

— NASA's OSIRIS-REx (@OSIRISREx) October 26, 2020

International Space Station: #SpaceStation20th

For 20 years, astronauts have been snapping photos of Earth from the @Space_Station. Astronauts are trained for the job of collecting images for this scientific dataset, now more than 3 million pictures strong. #SpaceStation20th pic.twitter.com/8fzqgLAo8H

— ISS Research (@ISS_Research) October 26, 2020

Calling all Kerbonauts! We’re partnering with @NASA to celebrate 20 years of human presence on the @Space_Station. What would 20 years of Kerbal presence look like? Read the thread for details. ⬇️ #SpaceStation20th pic.twitter.com/KoTeGVp5vQ

— Kerbal Space Program (@KerbalSpaceP) October 26, 2020

HiRISE – on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:

HiPOD 27 Oct 20: Irregular Depressions near Makhambet Crater

Also visible in a Context Camera image, our image shows a small section of irregular, circular depressions, filled with small crested dunes. https://t.co/L5xhPI6bFl

NASA/JPL/UArizona#Mars #science pic.twitter.com/tyRQp5860Z

— HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) (@HiRISE) October 27, 2020

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:

After Chandrayaan-1, the next evidence for water on the moon came from @LRO_NASA in 2013, confirming the existence of hydrogen-rich areas near the Moon's south pole and strongly suggesting the presence of water! pic.twitter.com/mdnxIK9ZLi

— NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) October 22, 2020

Climate: View the Earth as your Mother, not as a trash can.

"We are interdependent on each other, as well as on our Mother Earth." — His Holiness Pope Francis (@Pontifex) https://t.co/W33P8D2qWk

— TEDCountdown (@TEDCountdown) October 25, 2020

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

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

All Exoplanets 4296  (+4)
Confirmed Planets with Kepler Light Curves for Stellar Host 2412
Confirmed Planets Discovered by Kepler 2392
Kepler Project Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 2368
Confirmed Planets with K2 Light Curves for Stellar Host 443
Confirmed Planets Discovered by K2 422
K2 Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 889
Confirmed Planets Discovered by TESS 81 (+2)
TESS Project Candidates Integrated into Archive (2020-10-24 13:00:01) 2330  (+45)
Current date TESS Project Candidates at ExoFOP 2330  (+45)
TESS Candidates Yet To Be Confirmed 1445  (+41)

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.

💀 Dead galaxies!
☢️ Radiation bursts!
👻 Ghostly matter!

Our new Galaxy of Horrors posters are here, just in time for #Halloween! Download them now … if you dare: https://t.co/w7soVV982L #NASAHalloween pic.twitter.com/y6OVCROYbB

— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) October 26, 2020

Have you registered for the 2020 Global Conference yet? Join us 11/13-14 for a global conversation about the cultural and environmental threat that #lightpollution poses to people worldwide. Advance registration is free but required to reserve your spot: https://t.co/Lwl8j4dwGO pic.twitter.com/U44uq6Ytb1

— DarkSky International (@IDADarkSky) October 26, 2020

Hubble: Beautiful Universe

This #HubbleClassic features a cluster of stars called Hodge 301, at lower right, embedded in the Tarantula Nebula. Many of the cluster's stars have already exploded as supernovae, shocking gas in the nebula and creating the filaments in the upper left: https://t.co/ttgN82J5Tc pic.twitter.com/Ph6JqW6LSI

— Hubble (@NASAHubble) October 27, 2020

Tour of the Local Stellar Neighborhood

Continuing with my visual tour of nearby stars and their systems, we travel to the Ross 780 (Gliese 876) system, about 15 light years distant.

Gliese 876 Gliese 1002 is about 15 light years from Sol; the plane (green) is aligned with the orientation of the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: SpaceEngine / Bob Trembley.

Gliese 876

Gliese 876 is a red dwarf approximately 15 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. It is one of the closest known stars to the Sun confirmed to possess a planetary system with more than two planets, after Gliese 1061, YZ Ceti, Tau Ceti, and Luyten’s Star; as of 2018, four extrasolar planets have been found to orbit the star. The planetary system is also notable for the orbital properties of its planets. It is the only known system of orbital companions to exhibit a near-triple conjunction in the rare phenomenon of Laplace resonance (a type of resonance first noted in Jupiter‘s inner three Galilean moons). It is also the first extrasolar system around a normal star with measured coplanarity. While planets b and c are located in the system’s habitable zone, they are giant planets believed to be analogous to Jupiter.

On June 23, 1998, an extrasolar planet was announced in orbit around Gliese 876 by two independent teams led by Geoffrey Marcy and Xavier Delfosse. The planet was designated Gliese 876 b and was detected by Doppler spectroscopy. Based on luminosity measurement, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ) is believed to be located between 0.116 and 0.227 AU. On January 9, 2001, a second planet designated Gliese 876 c was detected, inside the orbit of the previously-discovered planet. The relationship between the orbital periods initially disguised the planet’s radial velocity signature as an increased orbital eccentricity of the outer planet. Eugenio Rivera and Jack Lissauer found that the two planets undergo strong gravitational interactions as they orbit the star, causing the orbital elements to change rapidly. On June 13, 2005, further observations by a team led by Rivera revealed a third planet, designated Gliese 876 d inside the orbits of the two Jupiter-size planets. In January 2009, the mutual inclination between planets b and c was determined using a combination of radial velocity and astrometric measurements. The planets were found to be almost coplanar, with an angle of only 5.0+3.9
−2.3° between their orbital planes.

On June 23, 2010, astronomers announced a fourth planet, designated Gliese 876 e. This discovery better constrained the mass and orbital properties of the other three planets, including the high eccentricity of the innermost planet. This also filled out the system inside e’s orbit; additional planets there would be unstable at this system’s age. In 2014, reanalysis of the existing radial velocities showed the possible presence of two additional planets. These planets would have almost the same mass as Gliese 876d. In 2018 a study using hundreds of new radial velocity measurements found no evidence for these planets. If this system has a comet disc, it is undetectable “brighter than the fractional dust luminosity 10−5” of a recent Herschel study. None of these planets transit the star from the perspective of Earth, making it difficult to study their properties.

GJ 876 is a candidate parent system for the ʻOumuamua object. The trajectory of this interstellar object took it near the star about 820,000 years ago with a velocity of 5 km/s, after which it has been perturbed by six other stars.  – Wikipedia

Gliese 876 System Diagram

Gliese 876 Ross 780 (Gliese 876) System Diagram. Credit: SpaceEngine / Bob Trembley.

Gliese 876 Orbital Diagrams

Gliese 876 Ross 780 (Gliese 876) Orbital Diagram – Top View. Credit: SpaceEngine / Bob Trembley.
Gliese 876 Ross 780 (Gliese 876) Orbital Diagram – Side View. Credit: SpaceEngine / Bob Trembley.

Artist Rendering of a Hot Subneptune Exoplanet Orbiting Gliese 876

Gliese 876 Artistic rendering of a hot subneptune exoplanet orbiting red dwarf star Gliese 876. Credit: SpaceEngine / Bob Trembley.


Cover Image:

Captured on Oct. 22, this series of three images shows that the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) sampling head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu, as well as the fact that some of these particles are escaping the sampler head. Analysis by the OSIRIS-REx team suggests that bits of material are passing through small gaps where the head’s mylar flap is slightly wedged open. The mylar flap (the black bulge visible in the 9 o’clock position inside the ring) is designed to keep the collected material locked inside, and these unsealed areas appear to be caused by larger rocks that didn’t fully pass through the flap. Based on available imagery, the team suspects there is plentiful sample inside the head, and is on a path to stow the sample as quickly as possible. The images were taken by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera as part of the sample verification procedure following the spacecraft’s Oct. 20 sample collection attempt. The TAGSAM system was developed by Lockheed Martin Space to acquire a sample of asteroid material in a low-gravity environment. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

 

What I was listening to when I was editing this:

Stay safe, be well, and look up!


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. I maintain the unofficial NASA Eyes Facebook page.
Universe Sandbox: a space simulator that merges real-time gravity, climate, collision, and material interactions to reveal the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Includes VR support.
SpaceEngine: a free 3D Universe Simulator for Windows. Steam version with VR support available.
Stellarium: a free open source planetarium app for PC/MAC/Linux. It’s a great tool for planning observing sessions. A web-based version of Stellarium is also available.


Section header image credits:
The Sky – Stellarium / Bob Trembley
Observing Target – Turn Left at Orion / M. Skirvin
The Moon – NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Sun – NASA/JPL-Caltech
Asteroids – NASA/JPL-Caltech
Fireballs – Credited to YouTube
Comets – Comet P/Halley, March 8, 1986, W. Liller
The Solar System – NASA Eyes on the Solar System / Bob Trembley
Spacecraft News – NASA Eyes on the Solar System / Bob Trembley
Exoplanets – Space Engine / Bob Trembley
Light Pollution – NASA’s Black Marble
The Universe – Universe Today

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