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Sky Candy and the World of Tomorrow

Charlie Martin | 10:44 AM on January 24, 2025
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Watch this space:

As it says, ignoring that pedantic old Einstein, Betelgeuse may already be gone. It's at that point in its life where it's liable to go supernova any minute now.  Unfortunately, if it went supernova now, we wouldn't know until about 2625, so keep your fingers crossed that it really happened when James I of Scotland was taking over.

Today's soundtrack is Guardians by Dream Cave.

I'm sure I've posted Thor's Helmet before but this is a cool picture.

This is from Hubble, so this is at least notionally visible light. It was formed by a relatively small star, similar to the Sun, that is ending its life cycle by spewing masses of stuff. According to Grok, the central star is one of the hottest stars known, with a temperature up to 250,000 Kelvin.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite nebula.

There's no place like home.

And the Super-Heavy is coming home. 

This guy John Krause has some really amazing photos in his feed.

We are in a really pretty neighborhood.

Don Pettit — who just had his 70th birthday in the ISS — takes some great pictures.

Pleasantly, that means he's actually older than me. Hey NASA, my 70th birthday is at the end of August. Just sayin'.

Comet ATLAS is turning out to be just as flashy as predicted. This guy is in Spain, but he apparently travels. Unfortunately, ATLAS is pretty much only visible in the Southern Hemisphere.

The aurora continues to be impressive. This guy has a page full of webcams watching the skies here.

So does ATLAS.

There have been a lot of pictures posted showing a bolide photobombing a sky picture. Okay, so it's a lot. I don't actually care.

Did you know this is how they reproduce?

Are you tired yet?

It's really hard to know when to stop. But here's one of my favorite places.

More Sky Candy here: Spectacular Sky Candy

I'm finally all moved into my new place in Wichita, which means I've doing this now on my Mac Mini with two big monitors. Makes this so much easier than an iPad.

As always, thanks for watching. Come back next week, same time (more or less), same channel.

Charlie Martin

Charlie Martin writes on science, health, culture, and technology for PJ Media. For media inquiries, please contact [email protected]

Category: COLUMNS
Tags: SPACE

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