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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,
the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets
Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate
on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate
October 2018 Celestial Events & Space Research News
October 2018 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until October 1st
The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date
It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT
October 2018 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
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BBC The Sky at Night – October 2018
Meteorite Times Magazine – October 2018 – available mid-October
At the start of October 2018 the Sunspot Number is 14
October 01 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Deep space could seriously damage astronaut GI tracts”
“‘Goblin’ world found orbiting at the edges of the Solar System”
“The ‘Death Comet’ Will Pass By Earth Just After Halloween”
“Comet landscape”
“A New Look at the Solar Corona”
October 02 2018 – 09:45 UT
Third Lunar Quarter
October 02 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 TB encounter – miss distance 4.8 LD, size = 37 metres
Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup –
Perihelion (1.082 AU)
“Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies”
“How do planetary systems outweigh the disks they formed in?”
“Kiss the Sun: part one”
“New Object Found in Far Outer Solar System”
October 03 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Amor Asteroid 2009 TK –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels –
At Opposition (0.484 AU)
“Extragalactic stars found zipping through the Milky Way”
“Suspected first exomoon comes into tantalizing focus”
“Dark Matter Isn’t Made From Black Holes”
October 04 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia October 04 – October 11”
“Saturn’s ring rain is a downpour, not a drizzle”
“A third box bounced its way across asteroid Ryugu”
“2018 Prospects for Obscure Comet 38P Stephan-Oterma”
“Potential Trouble for Life on Icy Moons”
October 05 2018 – 22:29 UT
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth = 366,396 km)
October 05 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 TZ encounter – miss distance 1.7 LD, size = 16 metres
Asteroid 2018 TU encounter – miss distance 2 LD, size = 11 metres
“A German-French Hopping Robot Just Landed on the Surface of Asteroid Ryugu”
“Four Things We Now Know About Saturn”
“First Exomoon Found! A Neptune-Sized Moon Orbiting a Jupiter-Sized Planet”
October 06 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 TW1 encounter – miss distance 4.3 LD, size = 10 metres
“Microsoft and Partners Hope to Create a Time Capsule… On the Moon!”
October 07 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 TV encounter – miss distance 0.7 LD, size = 7 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2006 HE2 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
Comet 73P-Y/Schwassmann-Wachmann –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.179 AU)
October 08 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
Asteroid 2018 TG2 encounter – miss distance 1.3 LD, size = 5 metres
Asteroid 2018 TE2 encounter – miss distance 1.3 LD, size = 8 metres
Asteroid 2018 TM3 encounter – miss distance 3.6 LD, size = 4 metres
“Hot X-ray glow from massive cluster of galaxie”
“How will we return to the Moon?”
October 09 2018 – 03:47 UT
New Moon
October 09 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
“Draconids outburst on Oct 8-9!”
“Hubble Space Telescope sidelined by gyro problem”
“Meet Proxima Centauri, closest star to sun”
October 10 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Europa … Could Have Towering Walls of Ice Spikes Across its Surface”
“Voyager 2 approaches interstellar space”
“Realtime Meteor Photo Gallery”
October 11 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2015 HG182 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia October 11 – October 18”
“Soyuz rocket failure: What went wrong, and what happens next”
“Emergency escape at 6000 km/h: How near miss Soyuz rocket accident unfolded”
“Black holes can’t explain dark matter”
“Blast from the Past in Today’s Sky”
October 12 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Five in a row – the planets align in the night sky”
“The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star”
“Practising for BepiColombo’s epic escape to Mercury”
October 13 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 TB5 encounter – miss distance 3.1 LD, size = 17 metres
Comet P/2005 J1 (McNaught) –
Perihelion (1.533 AU)
“Neutrinos may help solve long-standing mysteries of the universe”
“Meteor Activity Outlook for 13-19 October 2018”
“Orion, harbinger of winter, begins rising around midnight”
“Moons around ‘rogue planets’ could sustain life — no solar system required”
October 14 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1936 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA)
Mercury
Passes 6.8° From
Venus – as seen from Earth
Apollo Asteroid 2012 CU –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
Aten Asteroid 2016 TH10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
“Earth Dodges a Meteor Storm”
October 15 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The five brightest planets align in the night sky”
“The Path that MASCOT Took Across Asteroid Ryugu During its 17 Hours of Life”
“What are the closest comet encounters with Earth?”
“Hayabusa2’s close encounter with asteroid Ryugu”
“All systems go for second-ever mission to enter Mercury’s orbit”
“Are asteroids hiding among the Taurids?”
October 16 2018 – 18:02 UT
First Lunar Quarter
October 16 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mars Winter Solstice
Apollo Asteroid 2016 UO41 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
“Twenty-five years of using microlensing to study dark matter”
“Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has Earthlike faults”
“Plans for a Modular Martian Base on that Would Provide its own Radiation Shielding”
“Watch BepiColombo launch”
October 17 2018 – 19:16 UT
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth = 404,227 km)
October 17 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 UL encounter – miss distance 0.6 LD, size = 5 metres
Asteroid 2014 US7 encounter – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 19 metres
Aten Asteroid 2014 US7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)
Comet 243P/NEAT –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.496 AU)
“A two per cent Hubble constant measurement from standard sirens within five years”
“Installing life support the hands-free way”
“Black-hole chronicles: chasing the gravitational beast”
“Mission control ready for Mercury”
October 18 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 UO1 encounter – miss distance 1.7 LD, size = 12 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2016 GC221 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
Aten Asteroid 2013 UG1 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
Comet P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff) –
At Opposition (1.241 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia October 18 – October 25”
October 19 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 UA encounter – miss distance 0 LD, size = 3 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2009 UC19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
“Watch the BepiColombo launch live tomorrow” – starts 02:15 UT
“Minerals of the world, unite!”
“Touchdown on Titan: How we landed a probe on another planet’s moon”
October 20 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Orionids Meteor Shower Peak
2018 Orionid Meteor Shower Overnight
“BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury’s mysteries”
“BepiColombo liftoff”
“How the Hubble Unlocked the Universe”
October 21 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 US1 encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 14 metres
Orionids Meteor Shower Peak
2018 Orionids Meteor Shower
Orionids Meteor Shower History & Observing SkyMaps
2018 Orionid Meteor Shower Overnight
October 22 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Orionids Meteor Shower Peak – watch in the early hours before dawn
Comet 243P/NEAT –
At Opposition (1.498 AU)
“To Find Evidence of Life on Exoplanets Scientists Should Search for Purple Earths”
“BepiColombo’s beginning ends”
“See asteroid Vesta shine in Sagittarius”
October 23 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Amor Asteroid 2016 TS55 Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
Aten Asteroid 2014 UR Near-Earth Flyby (0.091 AU)
Comet 267P/LONEOS –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.811 AU)
“Life could thrive in oxygen-rich briny water on Mars”
“Earth Awash in Lights of the Night”
“Gravitational Waves Might be the Key to Finding Dark Matter”
October 24 2018 – 16:45 UT
Full Hunter’s Moon
October 24 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2004 FW1 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.065 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2017 UO7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
Comet P/2005 R1 (NEAT) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.144 AU)
“Solar neutrinos reveal how the Sun shines”
“From mission control to Mercury”
“Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact structures”
“How to build a Moon base
“Lightning Across the Solar System”
October 25 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2017 UH8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia October 26 – November 02”
“Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud”
October 26 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“A changing crater: Honouring a renowned Mars scientist”
“BepiColombo magnetometer boom deployed – gif sequence”
“The politics behind choosing a Mars 2020 landing site”
October 27 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“There’s a Funny Cloud on Mars, Perched Right at the Arsia Mons Volcano”
“Trojan Asteroids Are in a Class of Their Own”
October 28 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Daylight Saving Ends – Set Clock Back 1 Hour – Europe
Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.445 AU)
Comet 73P-T/Schwassmann-Wachmann –
At Opposition (1.725 AU)
October 29 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 475534 (2006 TS7) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
Aten Asteroid 302169 (2001 TD45) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
“Researchers reveal the incredible seasons of Triton”
“Ancient cold front in Perseus”
“Saturn’s Moon Dione Has Some Weird Stripes”
October 30 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury
Passes 3.3° From
Jupiter – as seen from Earth
“Interplanetary dust clouds orbit Earth, Hungarian scientists confirm”
October 31 2018 – 16:40 UT
Third Lunar Quarter
October 31 2018 – 20:05 UT
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth = 370,201 km) M
October 31 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Amor Asteroid 2016 WZ7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
“Scary Giant Blue Stars May Unlock Mysteries of Stellar Evolution”
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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,
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on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate
November 2018 Celestial Events & Space Research News
November 2018 SkyMaps and Sky Guides NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL November 1st
November 2018 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
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BBC The Sky at Night – November 2018
Meteorite Times Magazine – November 2018 – available mid-November
At the start of November 2018 the Sunspot Number is 0
2018 Taurid Meteor Shower – SkyMap looking east 10pm early November
November 01 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Astronomers discover the giant that shaped the early days of our Milky Way”
“Tour November’s Sky: Cassiopeia’s Clan”
“One step closer to the Flyeye network”
November 02 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VP1 encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 2 metres
Asteroid 2018 UD3 encounter – miss distance 1.6 LD, size = 20 metres
Comet 300P/Catalina –
Perihelion (0.833 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia November 02 – November 09”
“Saturn’s moon Dione has mysterious stripes all across its surface”
“Odd Jets Might Signal Dual Black Holes”
“An Extremely Large Hole has Been Dug for the Extremely Large Telescope”
“Organic carbon on Mars come from natural ‘batteries'”
November 03 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
Asteroid 2018 VG encounter – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 13 metres
Amor Asteroid 2016 VH2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)
Comet P/2005 R1 (NEAT) –
At Opposition (1.157 AU)
Comet P/2007 V1 (Larson) –
At Opposition (1.739 AU)
“OSIRIS-REx captures first clear images of asteroid Bennu”
November 04 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Richard Binzel’s 60th Birthday (1958)
Daylight Saving Ends – Set Clock Back 1 Hour – USA
Aten Asteroid 2002 VE68 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels –
Perihelion (1.393 AU)
“Timelapse shows 25 years of Supernova 1987A”
“ESA rocks space weather”
November 05 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
2018 Taurid meteor shower peak
Asteroid 2018 VT5 encounter – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 8 metres
“New Horizons On Approach to the First Exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object”
“Polar lights on Uranus”
“Temporary lakes once filled and refilled across Mars’ surface”
“Exoplanets Will Need Both Continents and Oceans to Form Complex Life”
November 05-09 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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“European Space Weather Week 2018” – University KU Leuven, Belgium
November 06 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VO5 encounter – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 16 metres
Mercury at greatest elongation east (23°) – as seen from Earth
Mercury –
At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (23°) – as seen from Earth
Comet P/2007 V1 (Larson) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.737 AU)
“Catch a glimpse of Mercury just after sunset”
“What is space weather?”
November 07 2018 – 16:02 UT
New Moon
November 07 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2010 VQ –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2015 NU2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
“Astronomers spot one of the oldest stars in the entire universe”
“ESA’s gravity-mapper reveals relics of ancient continents under Antarctic ice”
“Mars InSight Lands on November 26th. Here’s where it’s going to touch down”
“Evidence Mounts for a Magellanic Collision”
November 08 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VS6 encounter – miss distance 1.5 LD, size = 15 metres
Asteroid 2018 VN7 encounter – miss distance 2.6 LD, size = 30 metres
Aten Asteroid 2010 VB –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
“Windy with a chance of magnetic storms – space weather science with Cluster”
“Asking the big questions: What is space weather?”
“Comet tails can be shaped by the Sun’s magnetic field”
“Coronal holes”
November 09 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VA2 encounter – miss distance 1.9 LD, size = 14 metres
Asteroid 2018 VR3 encounter – miss distance 1.9 LD, size = 15 metres
Asteroid 2018 VA8 encounter – miss distance 3 LD, size = 15 metres
Comet P/2011 W2 (Rinner) –
At Opposition (1.551 AU)
“Dust Storm Electricity Might Forge Perchlorates on Mars”
“Not all the Earth’s Water Came From Comets”
“Oxia Planum favoured for ExoMars surface mission”
“ESA watches for solar hazards”
“Amateur Don Machholz Discovers His 12th Comet!”
November 10 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VX1 encounter – miss distance 1 LD, size = 11 metres
Asteroid 2018 VS1 encounter – miss distance 3.6 LD, size = 17 metres
“Space Weather in Wartime: A Sunspot Detonates Naval Mines”
November 11 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VA4 encounter – miss distance 3.1 LD, size = 8 metres
Comet 38P/Stephan-Oterma –
Perihelion (1.589 AU)
“Science confirms: Earth has more than one moon”
“Aging a flock of stars in the Wild Duck Cluster”
November 12 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
2018 Taurid meteor shower peak
Great Leonids Meteor Shower of 1833 – 185th Anniversary (1833)
Asteroid 2018 VN6 encounter – miss distance 1.9 LD, size = 8 metres
Asteroid 2018 VU8 encounter – miss distance 3.5 LD, size = 10 metres
Aten Asteroid 2011 WA –
Near-Earth Fyby (0.067 AU)
“Mysterious interstellar comet not an alien probe, says the scientist who discovered it”
“ESA-Roscosmos Mars rover’s landing spot revealed”
“A tale of two asteroids: The Phaethon-Pallas connection”
“Amateur Astronomers Discover a Bright New Comet”
November 13 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VC7 encounter – miss distance 0.9 LD, size = 12 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2015 VM105 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2016 WC Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
“The Small Magellanic Cloud is running out of gas — fast”
“Has a Piece of the Worlds Oldest Computer Been Found?” – Antikythera Mechanism
“C/2018 V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto Obsv”
“Black hole in the Milky Way: part one”
November 14 2018 – 15:57 UT
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth = 404,341 km)
November 14 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VJ10 encounter – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 7 metres
Asteroid 2018 VX5 encounter – miss distance 3.6 LD, size = 26 metres
Asteroid 2018 VO3 encounter – miss distance 4.1 LD, size = 15 metres
Comet 69P/Taylor –
At Opposition (1.545 AU)
“Astronomers Discover Ghost Galaxy Lurking on Edge of Milky Way”
“Juno orbiter captures another stunning view of Jupiter”
“Super-Earth found orbiting Barnard’s Star just six light years away”
“Catching Asteroid 3 Juno at Its Best”
November 15 2018 – 14:54 UT
First Lunar Quarter
November 15 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia November 15 – November 22”
November 16 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Moon Occults Mars
Asteroid 2018 WG encounter – miss distance 0.1 LD, size = 5 metres
Asteroid 2018 WH encounter – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 4 metres
“Electric blue thrusters propelling BepiColombo to Mercury”
“Close approach of the Moon and Mars”
“Daily briefing: Exoplanet spotted orbiting Barnard’s star”
“Huge Asteroid Impact Crater Found Just Under the Ice in Greenland”
“What does it take to walk off another world?”
November 17 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 VS8 encounter – miss distance 2 LD, size = 13 metres
Leonids Meteor Shower Peak
Leonids SkyMap looking southeast before sunrise Nov, 17-18, 2018
Leonid dust trails
Leonids 2018 Live Counts – LIVE from the IMO
Leonids Meteor Shower History & Observing SkyMaps
2018 Leonid Meteor Shower Overnight
“The 2018 Leonid Meteor Shower”
“New Comet V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto Takes Observers by Surprise”
November 18 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Leonids 2018 Live Counts – LIVE from the IMO
Leonids Meteor Shower Peak – early morning
Asteroid 2018 WE encounter – miss distance 0.6 LD, size = 8 metres
Asteroid 2018 VH10 encounter – miss distance 4.4 LD, size = 35 metres
Comet P/2011 W2 (Rinner) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.539 AU)
November 19 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WJ encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 11 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2009 JL1 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)
“Catastrophic floods rapidly carved the surface of Mars”
“Integral X-rays Earth’s aurora”
“Amateur Planet Hunters Have a New Online Resource”
“Carnival of Space #587”
“How would we save the planet from a killer asteroid?”
November 20 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes –
At Opposition (1.943 AU)
“Jezero Crater Selected as Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover”
“The Power of the Wobble: Finding Exoplanets in the Shifting of Starlight”
“A Sunspot from the Next Solar Cycle”
November 21 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Amor Asteroid 2013 PA7 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.091 AU)
Comet 198P/ODAS –
At Opposition (1.027 AU)
“‘Marsquake’ hunter prepares to land on the red planet”
“Future Moon base”
November 22 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 410088 (2007 EJ) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
“Massive Triple Star System Creates this Bizarre Swirling Pinwheel of Dust”
“Shaping the surface of Mars with water, wind and ice”
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia November 22 – November 29”
November 23 2018 – 05:39 UT
Full Beaver Moon
November 23 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 198P/ODAS –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.026 AU)
“Europe’s Vision of a Future Moon Base. Made out of Moon Dust”
“Exoplanet mission launch slot announced”
“ESA lends a hand at Mars”
November 24 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WD encounter – miss distance 4.5 LD, size = 49 metres
Amor Asteroid 2011 AA37 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
“Quiet Sun Makes ‘Musical Waves’ in Earth’s Magnetic Field”
November 25 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WE1 encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 23 metres
Asteroid 2018 WH1 encounter – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 7 metres
Aten Asteroid 2009 WB105 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
“The Earth’s Wandering Poles Could Have Caused the Ice Age”
“Elysium Planitia”
November 26 2018 – 12:10 UT
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth = 366,623 km)
November 26 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“InSight has landed! Inside the dramatic touchdown”
“InSight Lander Touches Down! Begins Mission to Unlock the Secrets of Mars”
“Comet 46P/Wirtanen Approaches Earth”
November 27 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WZ1 encounter – miss distance 0.3 LD, size = 5 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2008 WD14 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
“Sodom And Gomorrah May Have Been Destroyed By An Asteroid Strike”
“How shooting dust clumps is informing our theories of planetary formation”
November 28 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2001 WO15 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
Aten Asteroid 2013 BT18 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
“Stowaways welcome on India’s upcoming Venus mission”
November 29 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
SkyMap for Comet 46P/Wirtanen – soon to be naked-eye visible
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia November 29 – December 06”
“Asteroid-sampling mission zeroes in on tiny space rock”
“The ‘Chinese Pyramids’ and the pole star”
“Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found on space station toilet”
“Glowing Serpent Found in the Sky”
November 30 2018 – 00:19 UT
Third Lunar Quarter
November 30 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WG2 encounter – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 3 metres
Aten Asteroid 2008 WT62 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
“Turkey’s Harran to serve astronomy again after centuries”
“Cairngorms becomes world’s most northerly dark sky park to attract winter tourists”
“A 2018 Outburst From the December Andromedids?”
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WF2 encounter – miss distance 2.8 LD, size = 8 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2012 MM11 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
Comet 267P/LONEOS –
At Opposition (0.938 AU)
“Space weather and the very real risks the Sun poses to Earth”
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December 02 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WV1 encounter – miss distance 0.1 LD, size = 3 metres
Asteroid 2018 TG6 encounter – miss distance 3.9 LD, size = 13 metres
Comet 247P/LINEAR –
Perihelion (1.489 AU)
“NASA thrilled InSight landed on flat, rock-free ‘sandbox’ on Mars”
December 03 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 XB encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 8 metres
Comet 300P/Catalina –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.041 AU)
“LIGO and VIRGO announce four new gravitational-wave detections”
“Micrometeorite Damage Under the Microscope”
“An artificial Proba-2 view of the solar north pole”
December 04 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 WD2 encounter – miss distance 3.4 LD, size = 22 metres
“Biggest black hole collision yet detected by new gravitational wave discovery”
“The Geminid meteor shower kicks off tonight”
“A Meteor may have Exploded in the Air 3700 Yrs Ago Obliterating Dead Sea Communities”
“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrives at Bennu asteroid”
December 05 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – should be naked-eye visible in dark skies
Aten Asteroid 2017 RH16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
“Will the Long-Forgotten Andromedid Meteors Return with a Flurry Tonight?”
“Experts To Discuss Astronomy As ‘shared Global Heritage'”
“Mercury climbs back into the morning sky”
“First space weather ‘piggyback’ kit launched into space'”
December 06 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – should be naked-eye visible in dark skies
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia December 06 – December 13”
“A Comet as Big as the Full Moon”
“The Saturn system has water just like Earth’s … except for Phoebe”
“Learning from lunar lights”
December 07 2018 – 07:20 UT
New Moon
December 07 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – good for binoculars and small telescopes
Asteroid 2018 XG encounter – miss distance 3.8 LD, size = 17 metres
Asteroid 2018 WX1 encounter – miss distance 4.8 LD, size = 54 metres
Mars
Passes 0.03° From
Neptune – as seen from Earth with a suitably large telescope
Comet 171P/Spahr –
At Opposition (0.864 AU)
“Astronomers Spot Giant Exoplanet Losing Its Atmosphere In A Comet-Like Tail”
“A Big Hole in the Sun’s Atmosphere”
“Mars continues to dazzle as the days grow shorter”
December 08 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – should be naked-eye visible in dark skies
“Hopes of Global Cooling Burst as Study Predicts a Stronger Solar Cycle Ahead”
“China’s rover to probe the ‘dark side’ of the moon; full details”
December 09 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – good for binoculars and small telescopes
Asteroid 2013 VX4 encounter – miss distance 4.1 LD, size = 65 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2013 VX4 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)
Comet P/2010 A1 (Hill) –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.065 AU)
“There’s a Christmas comet on its way — and a meteor shower too”
December 10 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 XX3 encounter – miss distance 1.3 LD, size = 4 metres
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – should be naked-eye visible in dark skies
Apollo Asteroid 2015 XV129 Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2003 NW1 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
Aten Asteroid 2017 NK Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
“Voyager 2 crosses solar boundary, moves into interstellar space”
“Dione and Rhea appear as one”
December 11 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 XA4 encounter – miss distance 1 LD, size = 5 metres
Asteroid 2018 XM4 encounter – miss distance 3.5 LD, size = 51 metres
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – good for binoculars and small telescopes
Comet 60P/Tsuchinshan –
Perihelion (1.623 AU)
“NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft enters into interstellar space”
December 12 2018 – 12:25 UT
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth = 405,177 km)
December 12 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 XL1 encounter – miss distance 2.4 LD, size = 15 metres
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – should be naked-eye visible in dark skies
“Rosetta witnesses birth of baby bow shock around comet”
“China’s Chang’e-4 probe enters lunar orbit”
December 13 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia December 13 – December 20”
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – good for binoculars and small telescopes
Geminids Meteor Shower History & Observing SkyMaps
Geminids Meteor Shower Peak Overnight
SkyMap for the Geminids Meteor Shower tonight – looking west before dawn tomorrow
Apollo Asteroid 2015 XX169 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
Comet 46P/Wirtanen –
Perihelion (1.055 AU)
“Enjoying the Geminids From Above and Below”
“Did a nearby supernova cause one of Earth’s mass extinctions?”
“You Light Up Our Night”
“46P/Wirtanen at perihelion”
December 14 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
SkyMap for the Geminids Meteor Shower Peak – looking west before dawn today
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – should be naked-eye visible now in Taurus
“The Universe of Gaia”
“December comet brings back Rosetta memories”
“Wirtanen In A Colorful Sky”
“The year’s brightest comet makes its closest pass by Earth this weekend”
December 15 2018 – 11:49 UT
First Lunar Quarter
December 15 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – should be naked-eye visible now in Taurus
Asteroid 2018 VO9 encounter – miss distance 2.6 LD, size = 15 metres
Asteroid 2018 XG4 encounter – miss distance 2.7 LD, size = 11 metres
Real Time Comet Photo Gallery – from SpaceWeather.com
Mercury –
At Its Greatest Western Elongation (21°) – as seen from Earth
Comet 171P/Spahr –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.858 AU)
“Why is Wirtanen’s 2018 Apparition Historic?”
December 16 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 XS4 encounter – miss distance 2.8 LD, size = 33 metres
Asteroid 2018 YM encounter – miss distance 4.3 LD, size = 14 metres
Comet 46P/Wirtanen SkyMap for tonight – now at closest approach to Earth in Taurus
46P/Wirtanen reaches its brightest
December 17 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 46P/Wirtanen –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
“Despite concerns, space junk continues to clutter Earth orbit”
“Evergreen Comet: A visit from an old friend”
December 18 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 38P/Stephan-Oterma –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.766 AU)
“Astronomers have found the most distant dwarf planet in the solar system to date”
“Future Planetary Probes Can Learn from Cassini”
“Earth Loses Several Hundred Tons of Atmosphere to Space Every Day?”
December 19 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 358P/PANSTARRS –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.753 AU)
Comet 175P/Hergenrother –
At Opposition (1.873 AU)
“How do stars get so massive? The disks that form them could be to blame”
“An abundance of rare isotopes in a planetary nebula”
“Rosetta witnesses birth of baby bow shock around comet”
“Earthrise at 50”
December 20 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2012 MS4 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia December 20 – December 27”
“Mercury and Jupiter cross paths in the predawn sky during tomorrow’s winter solstice”
“Mars Express gets festive: A winter wonderland on Mars”
“Even if Exoplanets Have Atmospheres With Oxygen, it Doesn’t Mean There’s Life There”
December 21 2018 – 22:23 UT
Alban Arthan
Winter Solstice
December 21 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury
Passes 0.9° From
Jupiter – as seen from Earth
Asteroid 2018 XC4 encounter – miss distance 1.6 LD, size = 20 metres
Comet P/2010 A1 (Hill) –
At Opposition (1.081 AU)
December 22 2018 – 17:49 UT
Full Long Nights Moon
December 22 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1947 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA)
Ursids Meteor Shower Peak
Aten Asteroid 163899 (2003 SD220) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2016 AO131 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
“Radar images reveal near-Earth asteroid on path by Earth”
December 23 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 418849 (2008 WM64) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2010 GT7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2015 YQ1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
“Ultima Thule poses an initial surprise for New Horizons team”
December 24 2018 – 09:52 UT
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth = 361,060 km)
December 24 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 XN5 encounter – miss distance 3 LD, size = 30 metres
“ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars”
December 25 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 357P/Hill –
Closest Approach To Earth (1.955 AU)
December 26 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Saturn might lose its rings much sooner than expected”
December 27 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2018 YL2 encounter – miss distance 0.2 LD, size = 5 metres
Apollo Asteroid 488789 (2004 XK50) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
Comet 358P/PANSTARRS –
At Opposition (1.762 AU)
December 28 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 253P/PANSTARRS –
At Opposition (1.671 AU)
December 29 2018 – 09:34 UT
Third Lunar Quarter
December 29 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 209P/LINEAR –
At Opposition (1.273 AU)
December 30 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
December 31 2018 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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