Hello ...
Here's your Cosmic Pursuits newsletter for June 2024!
1. Four bright planets light up the early-morning sky, the June solstice arrives, and the Sun passes in front of Venus (!). Here's what to see in the Night Sky This Month...
2. The Sun released a blast of energetic particles that collided with Earth on May 10, 2024. The result? A spectacular auroral display visible as far south as Florida and Mexico. Alan Dyer captured the show in photo and video which he shared at this link. Quite amazing.
3. In the mid 1800s, the star Eta Carinae grew in brightness a thousandfold and no one exactly knows why. But the star and its surrounding Eta Carinae Nebula remains the largest and most spectacular emission nebula in the sky. Take a tour of this immense nebula, one that fills the field of
view of even wide-field telescopes.
4. Bob King previews Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3), a potentially spectacular comet that may brighten considerably by autumn as it approaches the
Sun.
5. Astronomers revealed the first images from the Euclid space telescope, an instrument that's meant to help explain the nature of the elusive (and as yet unexplained) dark energy that appears to fill the universe. (Gift link from the NY Times).
And the astronomy quote of the month...
“Truth
is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
- Isaac Newton
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Wishing you clear skies!
Brian Ventrudo
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