A Full Strawberry Moon crossed the night sky over Virginia this morning in the constellation Scorpius, dodging some thick clouds and rapidly dipping below the horizon with the red supergiant Antares as the Sun rose in the east. The Moon can appear to have the surface marks of fruit seeds when viewing through a red filter. #FullStrawberryMoon #StrawberryMoon #FullMoon #Moon #NightSky #Astronomy
Yan Dongjie - Discovery to unravel mystery of early universe:
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202501/25/WS6794207ea310a2ab06ea9414.html
#EinsteinProbe #FastXRayTransient #XRay #FXRT #EP240315a #CAS #Cosmology #Astronomy
The Northern Virginia Astronomy Club hosted its annual Star Gaze outreach event at C.M. Crockett Park on Saturday, featuring Astronomy Bingo, a sky tour, telescopes on the observing field after sunset, and lectures by Woody Davis, Alan Goldberg, and Paul Derby. #StarGaze2024 #StarGaze #NOVAC #Virginia #NightSky #Astronomy
Bob King - Harvest Moon Takes a Quick Dip in Earth's Shadow:
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/harvest-moon-takes-a-quick-dip-in-earths-shadow/
#HarvestMoon #Moon #PartialLunarEclipse #Eclipse #Obscuration #Astronomy
Massimo Luciani - Pure sulfur discovered in Gediz Vallis on Mars:
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/07/19/pure-sulfur-discovered-in-gediz-vallis-on-mars/
#CuriosityRover #GedizVallis #Mars #Sulfur #SolarSystemScience #PlanetaryScience #Geology #Astronomy
Massimo Luciani - New evidence for the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole in the Omega Centauri globular cluster:
#OmegaCentauri #BlackHole #Hubble #SpaceTelescope #HST #OrbitalMechanics #Astrophysics #Astronomy
