26 september 2022

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Why subscribe? • The ultimate action-packed science and technology magazine bursting with exciting information about the universe • Subscribe today and save an extra 5% with checkout code 'LOVE5' • Engaging articles, amazing illustrations & exclusive interviews • Issues delivered straight to your door or device Wherever you happen to be, the best way to see Jupiter in opposition will be with binoculars or a telescope from a dark and dry area with high elevation. Good binoculars should be enough to see the banding across the center of the gas giant and even some of its larger moons. Viewing with a large telescope should allow the planet's 'Great Red Spot — a storm so wide it could swallow two Earths side-by-side. Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were photographed in 1998 by Voyager 1 and assembled into this collage. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) Despite occurring on similar time scales, Jupiter's opposition and its perigee very rarely coincide, making this a rare unmissable chance to view the massive planet. Jupiter moves in opposition roughly every 13 months at which time it is larger and brighter in the sky than usual. As Earth takes its 365-day orbit around the sun, it also makes its closest approach to Jupiter once every 12 months; Jupiter's orbit around our star takes 12 times as long to complete. While the separation of over 350 million miles between Jupiter is about 484 million miles (778 kilometers) from the sun, over five times the...

High-Level Meetings of the 77th Session Provisional Schedule • Opening of the 77th session of the General Assembly: | Mandated Event • Summit on | Convened by the UN Secretary-General • General debate: Tuesday, 20 September to Monday, 26 September 2022 (including Saturday, 24 September)| Live multimedia coverage • High-level meeting to mark the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the | Mandated Event • High-level plenary meeting to commemorate the | Mandated Event Additional information and modalities • • Calendar of all mandated and non-mandated • • Information for delegations:

• Gunman opens fire on a school in Izhevsk, Udmert Republic in central Russia, killing 17 people including 11 children and injuring 24 • NASA's DART mission successfully crashes into the Dimorphos asteroid in the first planetary defense test • Probable Russian sabotage on two Nord Stream pipelines, delivering Russian gas to Europe, after seismologists record explosions in Swedish and Danish waters where three leaks appear

The DART impact of the little asteroid Didymos B – aka Dimorphos – happened on September 26, 2022. Some 285 hours after the impact – on October 8 – the Hubble Space Telescope caught this image. It shows debris blasted from Didymos B’s surface still moving in space. NASA said on October 11 that the shape of Didymos B’s debris tail has changed over time. Now, scientists are continuing to study this material and how it moves in space. Image via DART impact changed asteroid’s orbit NASA said on October 11, 2022, that analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft did successfully alter the orbit of the little asteroid moon Didymos B, aka Dimorphos. NASA said: This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of Prior to DART’s impact, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its larger parent asteroid, Didymos. But now, since DART’s intentional collision with the small moon on September 26, NASA said: … Astronomers have been using telescopes on Earth to measure how much that time has changed. Now, the investigation team has confirmed the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes, shortening the 11 hour and 55-minute orbit to 11 hours and 23 minutes. This measurement has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus 2 minutes. Before its encounter, NASA had define...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter’s clouds in ... [+] this new image taken on 27 June 2019. NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) Have you seen Jupiter rising? The giant planet—the largest in our Solar System—has been steadily brightening in our night sky, and rising ever earlier, over the last few months. Another advantage of being at “opposition” is that an outer planet rises in the east at sunset and sets in the west at sunrise. It’s therefore “up” all night. However, there’s something very special about Jupiter’s opposition in 2022. It will be exactly 593.6 million kilometers from Earth at its moment of opposition, which is James Webb Space Telescope images of Jupiter display a stunning wealth of detail. A filter sensitive ... [+] to auroral emission from ionized hydrogen (mapped into the red channel) reveals auroral ovals on the disk of the planet that extend to high altitudes above both the northern and southern poles. Image credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Jupiter Early Release Science team. Image processing: Judy Schmidt Jupiter’s opposition won’t go unnoticed. Any planet near to its opposition is visible close to the horizon in the early evening when many people are still outside. The result of that is that it gets noticed much more than when it’s high in the sky during the middle of the night. But take a closer look. With any pair of binoculars ...