Astronomie
Evenementen
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Babelsberger Sternennächte : eROSITA – Die Kartierung des heißen Universums (TV webcast)
Die Babelsberger Sternennächte finden online statt, in der Regel gibt es immer am 3. Donnerstag im Monat einen neuen Vortrag einer Wissenschaftlerin oder eines Wissenschaftlers des AIP, der ab 20 Uhr auf dem YouTube-Kanal von Urknall, Weltall und das Leben ausgestrahlt wird (Playlist).
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Komeet 12P/Pons-Brooks in 2024
De komeet 12P/Pons-Brooks bereikt het perihelium op 21 april 2024, deze periodieke komeet heeft een sterk elliptische baan, met een omlooptijd van circa 71.4 jaar.
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Meteorenzwerm Lyriden in april 2024
De meteorenzwerm Lyriden bereikt op maandag 22 april 2024, rond 11:00, zijn maximum, de meteoren van de Lyriden zijn snel en helder en vertonen soms vuurbollen.
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Our High-Energy Universe: 15 Years with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope – publication
To commemorate a milestone anniversary for NASA’s Fermi spacecraft, the mission team has published an e-book called “Our High-Energy Universe: 15 Years with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope”, readers can download the e-book in PDF and EPUB formats. The e-book is aimed at general audiences with an interest in space.
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Advanced Composite Solar Sail System
A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 (Wednesday, April 24 in New Zealand, the launch window opens at 00:00 April 24 MEST), aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.
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Discourse: Decoding the cosmos
The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street, London, Verenigd KoninkrijkJust a century ago, observational evidence established the existence of other galaxies besides our own.
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An independent hybrid imaging of Sgr A* from the data in EHT 2017 observations – publication
1st image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say.
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World Sun Day 2024
On May 3rd, the whole world annually celebrates the Sun Day.
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Radio-astronomen omzeilen storende aardatmosfeer met nieuwe kalibratietechniek / Characterisation of the decameter sky at sub-arcminute resolution – publication / publicatie
Een internationaal team van onderzoekers, onder leiding van Leidse sterrenkundigen, heeft voor het eerst scherpe radiokaarten gemaakt van het heelal op lage frequenties.
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NASA Simulation’s Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained – publication
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole?
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Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE – publication
Astronomers find 60 Dyson sphere megastructure candidates among millions of searched stars.
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Hendrik de Waard Lecture : Our Universe Through the James Webb Space Telescope
RUG Academy Building Groningen Broerstraat 5, Groningen, NederlandWhere did we come from? What path leads us through the 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe, connecting the particles and energy of the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies like the Milky Way, stars like the Sun and planets like the Earth?