Slide show 2022
Earth - Meteor
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Ruth Hamilton, sleeping in bed on October 3rd at 11:35PM when this crashed through her ceiling and landed beside her head. Vancouver BC.
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2.8 pounds. "Hammer stone" could be worth $125,000
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Enigma Diamond, 555.5 Caret black diamond from space
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Klet Observatory spotted this asteroid on March 11th. 3 minutes later is entered the atmosphere. 5th time
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Earth - Weather
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Ever Given wedged in Suez Canal March 23
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Ships waiting to be unloaded, Long Beach CA
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Antonov AN-225 destroyed by Russian shells.
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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear reactor, attached on March 4th. 3rd Largest reactor on the planet
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Sateillite imgae of Ukraine, March 8 2022. Power is out.
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It is 70F degrees above normal in eastern Antartica.
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Temperature graph, antartica.
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The Conger Ice sheet has collapsed.
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Island of La Palma after Dec 25 eruption.
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Undersea volcano near Tonga explodes 1/15/2022, tusnami
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Undersea volcano near Tonga explodes 1/15/2022, tusnami
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Catagory 5 hurricane Ida from ISS.
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LandSat 9 takes its first shot. Nepal.
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Earth - Telescopes
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DSS-53 another new antenna for the Deep Space network
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LOFAR, a radio telescope in Norway, finds that ligthning starts in the clouds
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FAST in China detecting FRBs
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Meteor Network camera, North Oxfordshire England. Airplanes are dotted lines.
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Earth - Launches
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NRO launch, June 20, 2021, pad 0B Wallops Island, Virgina, Minotaur 1 rocket, (minute man) made in 1966.
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Artimus moon vehical, shuttle engines and boosters
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Ariane 5 launches from French Guiana, Largest payload into Geosync orbit
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Spin Launch - sub orbital test flight
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SpaceShipTwo Unity, July 11, 2021. Richard Branson finally gets his flight
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Richard Branson in space
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Blue Origin New Shepard, July 20, 2021. Jeff Bezos finally gets his flight.
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Jeff Bezos in space
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William Shatner in space on second flight
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SpaceX - Elon Musk
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Inspriation 4, 4 space tourest launched
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Inspriation 4, first day in space
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Inspiration 4 cupola
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Inspriation 4 splash down
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20 Falcon 9 launches in beginning of 2022, new drone ship needed.
"Shortfall of Gravitas" named after ship in Ian Banks novel.
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Another batch of 47 starlink satellites, March 3, 2022. This is the 12th lunch for this booster.
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Falcon heavy side booster delivered to Rocket garden at Kanaveral
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Dragon Crew launch from orbit.
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SpaceX Falcon9 AXIOM mission and SLS.
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Private space flight AXIOM docking with ISS
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ISS
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New solar arrays being installed on ISS
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The overview effect
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Dragon crew leaves ISS
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New Nauka Russian space station segment, initially planned for 2007.
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Prichal module (docked on Nauka module), adds 4 more docking ports to iss.
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Soyus MS-18/64S undocks from the space station with an actress on board.
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ISS "Dexter" robot arms
Orbit
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China launches 3 people to their space station
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They docked on June 17th
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Tianhe space station, Will take 10 launches to complete
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Shinjan-21 (SJ-21) launched in October 2021 (Long March-3B) just grabbed a Chinese satellite out of GeoSync orbit and moved it.
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HST 1980s ventage primary computer fault
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IXPE Xray telescope launched 12/9/2021
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The James Web Space Telescope
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JWST finally maded it to the launch site
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JWST launch
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Deployment of JWST
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Commisioning phase of JWST
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JWST first image (still unfocused) 2/2/2022
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First light. Star 2MASS J17554042+6551277 red filter
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JWST from GAIA
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Langrange point orbit of JWST
Moon
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South pole, Aitken Basin very old and large impact crater, 2,500 Km wide
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LRO spots Apollo 16's booster rocket found 3/10
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On the dark side of the moon, Path of the chinese rover
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Finding small glass spheres on the surface, caused by impacts.
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From the distance, as mysterious hut on the surface of the moon.
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The great arch on the moon turned out to be a big rock.
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After 50 years, NASA opened up one of the same core samples from Apollo 17
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Lagrange points
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Earth has a Trojan asteroid, 2020 XL5 orbits L4 1.2 KM wide (2010 TK7 also orbits L4)
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On March 13th asteroid 2022ES3 (22 meters) passed slightly within the orbit of the moon.
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Sun
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Massive solar flar on the far side of the sun, January 30 2022
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Parker Solar probe enters the Suns's carona
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Mercury
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BepiColombo first Mercury swing by
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Mercury has a tail. Made of Sodium
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Venus
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Venus appears to have live tectonic faults.
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Mars
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ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has hit a large amount of water ice in Valles Marineris
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Mars Surface
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Curiosity Rover, monte Mercou
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Curiosity find interesting rock on Mars. Size of penny.
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Perseverance rover path
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Scarp a, Jezero Crater Perseverance rover
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Kodiak mount in Jezero Delta
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Using helecoptor as a scout
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Looking at the shadow of helecoptor Ingenuity
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A rock got stuck in from wheel of Perseverance
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Perseverence mars rover sees Phobos eclipse the sun
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Ingenuity expored the back shell of the rover, hit at 200kph.
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China's Zhurong Mars rover, june 11, 2021 from MRO
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China's rover finds its back shell.
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China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter. Image taken by free flying camera.
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Asteroids
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Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 UN271) 100 to 200 km in size, largest comet. Passes 11 AU from sun in 2030.
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Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) between NGC 4631 and NGC 4656 on November 24
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Dart, launched on a Falcon 9 from Vandenburg to impact Dimorphos
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Dart to hig Dimorphos, satellite of Didymos in September 2022
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Lucy, on way to Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Launched. Solar arrays 75 to 95% deployed.
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Trajectory of the Lucy mission
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Jupiter
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2021/09/13, something hits jupiter
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2021/10/15 flash on Jupiter again, seen from Japan and Brazil.
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Juno Digs into the great red spot
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Storm goes 500 km deep. composed of several circulation cells.
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Ganymede from Juno, June 8,2021
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Saturn
Uranus and Neptune
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The outer planets by HST
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ESO, Neptune temperature is dropping 8C over a 17 year period.
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Pluto
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Latest list of dwarf planets
Galaxy
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5,000 Extrasloar planets
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Kepler 1708 has a moon twice the 2.6x size of Earth, 5000 Ly away. 10,000+ Exoplanets
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Z canis Major, two young red dwarf came very close to each other.
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Unknown object beaming our a radio signal every 18 minutes possible Magnitar 4,00 ly away.
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HH 666: Carina Dust Pillar with Jet, HST
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The Milky way galaxy
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New "feathers" of gas found connecting the arms.
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The galaxy in radio waves, from the MeerKAT array.
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Deep Space
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90 gravity wave observations.
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NGC 4676 the mice
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ARP 195 HST shot
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New kind of supernova discovered 2019hgp Icn, WR star. No H, no He
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3 supernova at the same time in the same galaxy. New record
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Supernova 2021afdx in the ring galaxy
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Einstine's ring, galactic lensing
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More galacic lensing from HST, dark matter.
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Galactic lensed red star "Earendel"
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Movies
Tonga explosion
AN225 destroyed
Osiris_res sample video 1:00
Mars Eclipse video
Juno flies over Ganymede 4:00
Falcon Heavy animation 2:29
Osiris_rex video 4:53
Osiris_res sample return video 3:16
Artiums NASA publicity 4:34
Richard Branson Virgin Galactic flight
Jeff Bezos Blue origin flight 3:20
SpaceX Dragon Crew 4:33
SpaceX Starship animation 5:09
China space station docking
IXPE xray telescope 4:06
Roman telescope planet finder
JWST launch simulation 12:02
Opportunity rover on Mars recap 11:06
China's Mars Rover Zhurong 11:23
Curisoty rover clouds
Juno mystery belts