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It’s been a busy week for NASA in the days leading up to Halloween. In the spirit of the season, the agency recently released a new image of the Eagle Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope where the Pillars of Creation look like a ghostly hand. By coincidence, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory managed to capture a similarly spooky image of the sun.
Say cheese! 📸
Today, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the Sun “smiling.” Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the Sun are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar wind gushes out into space. pic.twitter.com/hVRXaN7Z31
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On Wednesday, the agency shared a capture of the sun “smiling.” As The Guardian points out, more than a few Twitter users were quick to point out how the star looks like a carved pumpkin in NASA’s image. There’s a bit of interesting science behind the resemblance. “Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches on the sun are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar wind gushes out into space,” according to NASA. The sun is constantly sending out solar winds. At times, these geomagnetic storms have been known to knock power out here on Earth, as was the case in part of Canada in 1989.
This isn’t the first time the Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured an interesting image of the sun. In 2016, NASA released an animation of the sun doing a somersault. The capture was the result of a seven-hour maneuver the SDO completes once a year to take an accurate measure of the star’s edge.
A BOLT of lightning zaps the sea in an incredibly rare moment captured on camera.
Experts at Nasa estimate that despite 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface being covered by water, just two per cent of all lightning strikes occur over it.
The incredibly rare moment a bolt of lightning hits the sea off the Dorset coast at Portland Bill[/caption]
The lightning strike close to Portland Bill lighthouse[/caption]
The footage over the English Channel was captured by Charlotte Chapman, at Portland Bill, Dorset, during Sunday afternoon’s thunderstorms.
The 32-year-old said: “I had been watching the storm coming in and managed to get a video and freeze-framed this amazing shot.”
Charlotte said: “I’ve recently moved back to Portland after living in Bristol for the past 11 years.
“And to be honest, all I’ve done is stare out to sea since I’ve been home.
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“I’ve missed this so much and taken it for granted when I lived here as a child and young adult – hence after a quick weekend break with my partner, we both decided to move back home.”
Beyond Earth, there are likely other oceans in our solar system.
Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter’s cracked, ice-blanketed moon Europa harbors a particularly voluminous sea, some 40 to 100 miles deep. Now, for just the third time ever, a spacecraft flew by the icy moon, swooping only 219 miles from Europa’s surface. The other two flybys happened over two decades ago. NASA’s Juno spacecraft, famous for its dazzling views of Jupiter’s roiling clouds, captured some of the clearest, high-resolution images of Europa ever seen, which you can see below.
But that’s not all. Juno’s specialized instruments penetrated through parts of Europa’s ice, which is some 10 to 15 miles thick. This unprecedented data will be parsed by NASA and other researchers to reveal what lies in the icy shell, like potential pockets of water. So stay tuned, in the coming months, for what NASA found.
“Europa is of incredible interest — a high priority target for science,” Scott Bolton, the Juno mission’s principle investigator, told Mashable.
Life thrives in Earth’s salty oceans. There’s certainly no evidence of life on Europa, but it could harbor environments that host life (as we know it). In other words, this moon could be a “habitable” world in space.
“It’s one of few places that potentially has the conditions for habitability,” Bolton emphasized. Bolton works at the Southwest Research Institute, a research organization that often partners with NASA.
NASA released its first official image from this close flyby on Sept. 29. It shows Europa’s wild, icy, cracked crust in a region near the equator dubbed “Annwn Regio.” The terrain is rugged and has been repeatedly fractured apart. Slushy ice, perhaps supplied from relatively warmer regions below, may have filled these cracks.
“It’s very early in the process, but by all indications Juno’s flyby of Europa was a great success,” Bolton said in a statement when the first image was released. “This first picture is just a glimpse of the remarkable new science to come from Juno’s entire suite of instruments and sensors that acquired data as we skimmed over the moon’s icy crust.”
Then, on Oct. 5, NASA released the highest resolution image ever snapped by the Juno spacecraft. The image below (encompassing an area 93 miles across and 125 miles high) shows an area crisscrossed with grooves and ridges. Of note are the peculiar darker blotches. “Near the upper right of the image, as well as just to the right and below center, are dark stains possibly linked to something from below erupting onto the surface,” writes NASA. “Below center and to the right is a surface feature that recalls a musical quarter note, measuring 42 miles (67 kilometers) north-south by 23 miles (37 kilometers) east-west.”
What’s more, all of the imagery captured by Juno is made available for the public — more specifically “citizen scientists” with impressive photo skills and a keen interest in astronomy — to process. Just below is an image tweeted out by professional imaging processor Jason Terry. And under that is a “raw” unprocessed Europa image that NASA posted online.
These new close-up images are like a treasure trove for planetary scientists. Before, they only had data from two flybys from the Galileo spacecraft, years ago. Now there’s a third load of data. “It’s a huge, giant leap,” Bolton said.
What comes next, besides more image releases, will be observations from Juno’s microwave radiometer, an instrument that can penetrate Europa’s thick ice. What’s down there? There could be relatively warmer regions harboring cavities full of water, noted Bolton.
“Is there life elsewhere?”
“I suspect if there’s water it’ll stick out like a sore thumb to us,” he said.
The question that looms large is whether any life might dwell in this water, or in the seas sloshing under the ice. We don’t know. We’re far from any answers. But that’s one of the enticing elements of exploration.
“One of the goals of exploring the solar system and universe is to see if we’re alone,” Bolton told Mashable. “Is there life elsewhere?”
This story will be updated with more Europa images as they’re released.
August 29, 2022, Megan Coombs recorded a strange cloud over The Devil’s Punchbowl (National Trust Site), Hindhead, Surrey, England. She included two still photographs and a short 16-second video of the bizarre cloud.
Tim Binnall, over at the Coast to Coast website, was so intrigued by Coombs’ footage that he posted a write-up about it. “Watch: Bizarre Cube-Shaped Cloud Filmed in Britain. A bewildering video out of Britain shows what appears to be a perfectly cube-shaped cloud hovering in the sky. The puzzling piece of footage was captured earlier this week by Megan Coombs during a visit to a National Trust site in Surrey with the appropriately spooky name ‘Devil’s Punch Bowl.’ Sharing the video on Facebook, she mused that “there is something mega suspicious” about the box-like cloud in the sky that seems to have one of its sides illuminated by the sun.
In response to a friend who said that they wouldn’t have believed the scene was real if it were not for Coombs sharing the footage, she jokingly replied “I’m not even sure I believe it, and I saw it in person myself … I think.” Many observers have suggested, either jokingly or in a serious manner, that the aerial oddity could be alien in nature. Meanwhile skeptical individuals have suggested that perhaps the cube-like appearance of the cloud is merely a trick of light and shadow.”
Some of the posters on Megan’s Facebook page noted that it looked like a “drone cloud” while others suspected that it was a “glitch in the matrix,” a term coined to describe uncanny things that people experience and film. Others thought it was just a weird cloud and nothing more.
Source: coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-bizarre-cube-shaped-cloud-filmed-in-britain
NOTE: Here is a video about the Devil’s Punch Bowl location in Surrey, UK. I have also included a link to an interesting experience reported to me from the same location – Red Eyes in the ‘Devil’s Punch Bowl’ – Lon
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