Visual Astronomy Display: June 2023
Here are some highlights from this month’s Visual Astronomy Display! June Highlights: Have a suggestion for next month? Share your suggestions, questions, and comments. Playlist Archive
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Here are some highlights from this month’s Visual Astronomy Display! June Highlights: Have a suggestion for next month? Share your suggestions, questions, and comments. Playlist Archive
Here are some highlights from this month’s Visual Astronomy Display! Highlights: Have a suggestion for next month? Share your suggestions, questions, and comments. Playlist Archive
Our video wall is almost back in working condition, but until it is, here is the Visual Astronomy Display for April that you can watch on your own! Highlights: Have a suggestion for next month? Share your suggestions, questions, and comments. Playlist Archive
Even though our video wall is still out of commission, you can still watch our Visual Astronomy Display remotely. Highlights… Have a suggestion for next month? Share your suggestions, questions, and comments. Playlist Archive
Highlights… See the different types of snow and frost on Mars; Learn about the Roman Space Telescope’s coronagraph instrument; PBS SpaceTime breaks down the differences between particles and quasi-particles; SciShow reviews what missions are scheduled to launch in 2023; Cool Worlds discusses “the Hubble tension,” the Leavitt law, and the crisis of cosmology! Playlist Archive …
Highlights: See the new Webb images of a “fiery hourglass” protostar; Learn why we might need to change the duration of a “second”; Fermilab reviews the history of physicists calculating the speed of gravity; SciShow breaks down why some astronomers “listen” to space; PBS Space Time asks: what if humanity is among the first spacefaring …
Highlights… See the new Webb images of the “Pillars of Creation”; How to see the Blood Moon lunar eclipse on November 8th; Watch a timelapse of Rome’s partial solar eclipse; Learn the history behind the camera used during the Apollo 11 mission; Cool Worlds asks: what if we could extend the lifespan of stars? Playlist …
Highlights… Highlights…See the Tarantula Nebula views captured by the JWST; Learn how observations of lunar eclipses helped ancient astronomers; Star Wars’ X-wing soon to be on display at National Air and Space Museum; PBS SpaceTime breaks down the mysteries of the Fine Structure Constant; Minute Physics discusses: what if Pluto was entirely made of plutonium?\ …
Highlights… Sky watching tips for September; Atomic clocks have recorded the fastest-ever day on Earth; Watch lightning strike near the Artemis I moon rocket; See Jupiter’s rings in new images from the JWST; PBS SpaceTime asks: what If dark energy is a new quantum field? Extras: Read NASA’s graphic novel The First Woman,the fictional tale …
Highlights… SciShow reviews the first JWST images; Learn the history of Virginia Norwood and the development of the first space-based multispectral scanner; Watch China’s Wentian lab dock with the Tiangong space station; PBS SpaceTime explains how we define states of matter; Cool Worlds asks: “Can Moons Have Moons?” Playlist Archive Suggestions, Comments, or Questions