Posted in Astronomy at 21:00 on 2 March 2024
By which I mean one moon eclipses another.
Neither is Earth’s Moon of course.
Via Astronomy Picture of the Day for 26/2/24 this is Mars’s moon Phobos eclipsing its other moon, Deimos, as seen by European Space Agency‘s probe Mars Express.
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 20 May 2018
Well that’s what this picture looks like to me.
It comes from the European Space Agency (ESA) via Astronomy Picture of the Day for 16/5/18 using data from the Gaia satellite and shows the rotation of the Greater Magellanic Cloud or Large Cloud of Magellan.
Posted in Astronomy at 10:00 on 19 August 2015
As viewed from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko sprays out gas just twelve hours before its closest approach to the sun (on this pass.) From Astronomy Picture of the Day, 15/8/15.
Pecdant’s corner:- USian alert? The APOD page says the comet’s primordial ices are sublimating. That would be subliming, then. In my understanding to sublimate is to suppress or divert an instinct.
Posted in Astronomy at 20:07 on 13 November 2014
Okay, so the harpoons didn’t fire and the lander bounced twice, but to set down on a comet is a stunning achievement.
(Pinched from the Daily Galaxy, picture from ESA/Rosetta/Philae)
*Not quite; but I couldn’t resist.
