
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)’s trajectory shows that it last flew by Earth roughly 50,000 years ago.
WASP-39 b has sulfur dioxide; sodium, potassium, water vapour, and carbon monoxide were also detected in the atmosphere.
Keep an eye out for a collection of about 100 young, massive hot B- and A-class stars around bright star Mirfak on January 10.
Steve Leonard drew inspiration for his Elephant’s Trunk Nebula from the hit TV show on Netflix.
Bill Batchelor won Photo of the Week for the period of Jan. 7-13, 2023.
Steve Leonard won Photo of the Week for the period of Dec. 31, 2022 to Jan. 6, 2023.
The federal government plans to develop a new regulatory framework for this emerging sector.
Oleg Bouevitch won Photo of the Week for Dec. 24-30, 2022, and Kimberly Sibbald’s “Noctilucent Clouds with Aurora” received an honourable mention.
It is the largest such catalog ever produced from a single camera, “in terms of the number of objects observed,” according to researcher Andrew Saydjari.
The Moon takes centre stage this week — joining the Venus-Saturn conjunction, passing Neptune and Vesta, sharing a view with Jupiter and Juno, and shining close to Uranus.
Three major meteor showers, including the Perseids, arrive with the Moon mostly out of the way this year.
The number of active satellites in orbit (as of November 4, 2022 at 16:05:27 UTC) is 6,843 — 3,273 of which are Starlink units, up from 1,655 on September 1, 2021.
Astronomers and NASA had their eye on 2022 WJ1, a small asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
NASA’s MAVEN observed two different types of ultraviolet aurorae simultaneously.
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) began as the Toronto Astronomical Club on December 1, 1868. The eight men who gathered to share their interests were not professional astronomers, just working-class citizens with a passion for astronomy.