I have completed Gateway to LUNAR pre-course.
This gives me access to the first module of Lunar.
I can’t believe that I’ll be launching to Io
https://www.moons-symphony.com/gateway-to-lunar
Carol
My astronomy: On the road again – this time on an adventure of a lifetime.
My destination: Jupiter’s moon, Io
clouds that wander through the sky
sometimes low and sometimes high
in the darkness of the night
in the sunshine warm and bright
ah! I wonder much if you
have any useful work to do
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The telescope points at the night sky and finds a giant molecular cloud hundreds of thousands of light years away. A camera, mounted on the telescope gathers photons and squashes the cloud into one small magnificent and colourful image.
My adventure to these far away clouds began with less sophisticated equipment. I saw no colour just faint smudges and in some I could detect dark blotches, bands or filaments.
Maybe my first observations, without modern interventions were closer to what they might look like if we could one day travel so far.
One thing is for sure. Molecular Clouds have useful work to do. They are the stellar incubators and nurseries. They are the reason we see stars.
The Sun June 25, 2025. Slooh Canary Five Solar Telescope
While I was observing our glorious Sun from a wet and windy Western Cape, South Africa, I wondered: has it or has it not?
The ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has revealed images of the south pole of the Sun. For the first time scientists will be able to unravel the mysteries of the Sun’s poles.
The first observations show a chaotic magnetic field at the Sun’s south pole. Maybe from now on we will know for sure whether the Sun’s magnetic poles have flipped, are flipping or are about to flip, which happens at solar maximum every 11 or so years.
Flippen awesome!