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❖❖❖[Luke Chapter 21፡25-26]❖❖❖
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”
🛑 An asteroid which entered the earth’s atmosphere in the early hours of this morning, Monday February 13, has been captured on camera lighting up the sky over Southern England and France.
The one-metre asteroid – named Sar2667 was seen shortly before 3am as it exploded over the English Channel.
The explosion occurred as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere and it was visible from across most of southern Englandf and Wales, and as far south as Paris.
For only the seventh time ever, scientists were able to predict when and where the airburst would happen, after spotting its approach just hours before.
“Can’t believe I actually caught it. Wow!” the caption accompanying the video said.
The ESA tweeted that Sar2667 was expected to “safely” strike the Earth’s atmosphere over northern France shortly before 4 a.m. local time (3 a.m. local time in England).
“This is just the seventh time an #asteroidimpact has ever been predicted before it happens.” the ESA tweeted. “A sign of the rapid advancements in global asteroid detection capabilities!”
👉 What Are Asteroids?
Asteroids are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago, Nasa says. The current known asteroid count is 1,266,098.
The majority are orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. They range in size from Vesta – the largest at about 329 miles in diameter – to bodies that are less than 33ft across.
The total mass of all the asteroids combined is less than that of Earth’s Moon.
Jupiter’s immense gravity and rare close counters with other objects can change their orbits, knocking them out of the main belt into space, occasionally towards other planets.
Scientists continuously monitor Earth-crossing asteroids – those whose paths intersect our orbit – using radar.
By reflecting transmitted signals off an asteroid, images and other information can be derived from the echoes, enabling scientists to learn about its orbit, rotation, size, shape, and metal concentration.
👉 How Likely is an Asteroid to Hit Earth?
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Small objects frequently collide with Earth, many of them so tiny no one even notices as they burn up when they enter Earth’s atmosphere.
Researchers have found that asteroids with a 1km diameter strike Earth every 500,000 years on average. Large collisions – with 5km objects – happen approximately once every 20 million years.
The last known impact of an object of 10km or more in diameter was the Chicxulub asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”
🌞 ‘Scientists have been left stumped after a piece of the sun’s surface broke off and began circling the sun’s north pole like a vortex.
Earlier this week, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope made an unprecedented observation that has made scientists both concerned and excited.
Space weather forecaster Tamitha Shov shared a video sequence showing the intense whirlwind.
“Talk about polar vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our star,” she said.
“Implications for understanding the sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!”
SpaceWeather.com reported that a medium-sized, powerful solar flare even knocked out a shortwave radio over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday (February 7).
According to NASA, an eruptive solar prominence, also known as a filament, is a large, bright feature that extends outwards from the sun’s surface.
Prominences are anchored to the sun’s surface and extend outwards in the sun’s hot outer atmosphere – called the CORONA.
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Mr. Musk knows something and should be investigated meticulously.
❄️ In the 2004 disaster movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ – starring Dennis Quaid and Jack Gyllenhaal – the phrase “polar vortex” quickly entered into all of our vocabularies right after Christmas, when one of the so-called “persistent, large-scale cyclone[s] located near either of a planet’s geographical poles” froze our collective noses off. But did you know that a polar vortex is partially to blame for the severe weather that takes place in The Day After Tomorrow? The movie’s director, Roland Emmerich must feel so vindicated right now.
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💭 The Nebula is named for its resemblance to a burrowing tarantula’s home
NASA released the latest image from its James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday, showing tens of thousands of young stars in a stellar nursery dubbed the “Cosmic Tarantula.”
The nebula, located 161,000 light-years away, is the largest star-forming region of all galaxies close to the Milky Way.
Radiation from young stars, which glow pale blue, has hollowed out a cavity in the nebula that can be seen in the center of the image.
“Only the densest surrounding areas of the nebula resist erosion by these stars’ powerful stellar winds, forming pillars that appear to point back toward the cluster,” NASA explained. “These pillars contain forming protostars, which will eventually emerge from their dusty cocoons and take their turn shaping the nebula.”
Astronomers have long studied the Tarantula Nebula, which got its namesake due to its resemblance to a burrowing tarantula’s home, but Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera brought it into clearer focus than ever before.
💭 See The First Image of an Exoplanet Caught by The James Webb Space Telescope
It really is amazing that I was watching the news about the fire and the cross that survived the fire from churches all over the world at night, and now this new information came out a few minutes ago. The work of the Our Holy Saviour is absolutely wonderful. Today is monthly feast of Holy Savior.
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
The powerful telescope uses infrared light to produce a detailed image of the far-off gas giant.
For the first time ever, astronomers at NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) captured a direct image of an exoplanet using the James Webb Space Telescope. Extra solar planets, or exoplanets, are planets that exist outside of our solar system.
Researchers are currently analyzing the new data from these observations and are working on a paper for peer review. The findings are currently published in a preprint. But Webb’s first capture of an exoplanet already hints at future possibilities for studying distant worlds.
JWST captured the image of the inhabitable gas giant called HIP 65426 b located about 385 light-years away from Earth. It is roughly six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter (our solar system’s biggest planet) and astronomers believe that their observations could help narrow down that estimate. Compared to 4.5 billion-year-old Planet Earth, HIP 65426 b is only 15 to 20 million years-old, so still a young one as far as planets go.
“This is a transformative moment, not only for Webb but also for astronomy generally,” said Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, who led these observations with a large international collaboration, in a NASA blog.
The image released by NASA/ESA/CSA shows the exoplanet through four different light filters. Unlike the human eye, JWST can see the universe in infrared light, which gives astronomers more precise measurements of an exoplanet’s mass and temperature and can even detect clouds moving in a distant planet’s sky. The infrared light pointing the way to future observations that will reveal more information than ever before about exoplanets.
“It was really impressive how well the Webb coronagraphs worked to suppress the light of the host star,” said Hinkley.
While this specific image is new to astronomers, HIP 65426 b is not. The exoplanet was first detected in 2017 using the SPHERE instrument located at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. The ground-based telescope took images of the exoplanet using short infrared wavelengths of light. JWST is able to capture longer infrared wavelengths, revealing some new details that ground-based telescopes can’t necessarily see due to the intrinsic infrared glow of Earth’s atmosphere.
While more than 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered, taking direct images of them is incredibly challenging. Exoplanets revolve around a star just like Earth revolves around the sun, and those stars are typically much brighter than planets. According to NASA, HIP 65426 b is more than 10,000 times fainter than its host star in the near-infrared and a few thousand times fainter in the mid-infrared.
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