ZenithHarbor Progress

Astronomers are getting really good at weigҺing baby supermassive blacƙ Һoles

ALMA spots tҺe sҺadow of a molecular outflow from a quasar wҺen tҺe universe was less tҺan 1 billion years old

It’s a fine line between a blacƙ Һole energy factory and a blacƙ Һole bomb

This is the northern hemisphere summer Milky Way from Sagittarius (at bottom) to Cygnus (at top) setting into the southwest over the hoodoo formations of Bryce Canyon National Park Utah.

The bright galactic centre area is just above the canyon rim, along with the dark dust lanes of the Dark Horse. At top are the three stars of the Summer Triangle. This was October 11, 2023, by which time in mid-autumn the summer Milky Way is in the southwestern sky setting for the season in the early evening, but standing vertically across the sky.

This was from Sunset Point where there are hoodoo formations to the southwest, allowing this framing on the autumn. Green and red airglow tints the sky toward the horizon.

This is a blend of untracked (for the ground) and tracked (for the sky) exposures: a stack of 2 x 1-minute exposures at ISO 3200 for the ground, blended with a vertical panorama of 6 segments, each single 1-minute exposures at ISO 1600 for the sky, all with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 19mm and f/2.8, and on the stock Canon R5.

I used the Star Adventurer Mini tracker, turning on its tracking motor for the sky images after taking the ground images with the motor off. The ground images were taken under a dark starlit sky just before the Milky Way images were shot; they are not blue hour or sunset lighting images. Clouds moving in prevented me taking more images for stacking. A mild Orton glow added with Luminar Neo.

James Webb Space Telescope observes 19 intricate galaxy structures in stunning detail

Even early galaxies grew Һand-in-Һand witҺ tҺeir supermassive blacƙ Һoles

The Great Attractor is a mysterious gravitational anomaly affecting the motion of galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood.
The concept of a wormhole involves a hypothetical tunnel-like structure connecting two separate points in spacetime.
The Drake Equation is an attempt to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way.

TҺe Solar System used to Һave nine planets. Maybe it still does? Here’s your catcҺ-up on space today