COMETS

Short Talk: "Chasing Comets" by Doug Bock A brief overview of a recent comet C/2017 T2 (Panstarrs), as observed from the Northern Cross Observatory. Doug Bock is a past President, VP, and WASP editor of the Warren Astronomical Society, and a member since the Spring of 1973. He has also been a member of a ½ dozen other clubs over the years, and chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Great Lakes Region of the Astronomical League in the early ‘80’s. He retired from Ford Motor Company at the end of 2018 and is now a full-time astrophotographer. --- If you would like to present either a short talk (10-15 minutes) or a full-length talk (45-60 minutes) at a future meeting, please email Dale Partin at [email protected] --- The views expressed in presentations are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent, and should not be attributed to, the Warren Astronomical Society.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured images of a rare visitor to our solar system in December 2019, the newly discovered interstellar comet named 2i/Borisov. With SPACETV Writer and Host Cambrie Caldwell. Learn more COMET 2I/BORISOV - https://www.spacetv.net/interstellar-comet-2i-borisov/ INTERSTELLAR OBJECTS - https://www.spacetv.net/interstellar-objects/ ‘OUMUAMUA’ (1I-2017-U1) - https://www.spacetv.net/asteroid-oumuamua-a-2017-u1/ COMETS - https://www.spacetv.net/comets/ Sources: https://earthsky.org/space/interstellar-comet-2i-borisov-perihelion-images Credits Path of Borisov Video (NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio) - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4758 Planets forming around a star (NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook) - https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/astro_am/ Hubble Space Telescope (M. Kornmesser(ESA/Hubble)) - https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1425b/ Hubble image of comet (NASA, ESA and J. DePasquale (STScI)) - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet Rosetta images of Comet 67p (ESA/Rosetta) - ESA/Rosetta - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtwEsg4Qelo Comet photo (NASA) - https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/nasaandyou/home/comets_bkgd_en.html Comet video (ESA/Hubble, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser) - https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1715a/ SPACETV.NET

SETI Institute's Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak talks about Comet 2I/Borisov.

The astronomy and space science news podcast. Stream podcast episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com/spacetime (mobile friendly). *Interstellar comet makes its closest approach to the Sun The Interstellar comet 21 Borisov has now sped past the Sun and has thus begun its journey back out of the solar system. *How Enceladus got its stripes Scientists have finally developed a model which explains how the Saturnian ice moon Enceladus got its iconic south pole tiger stripes and what keeps them open. *New mission to track sea level rise over the next decade The European Space Agency and NASA will monitor changes in sea levels caused by global warming over the next ten years with a new spacecraft called Sentinel six – the latest in the ongoing European Copernicus program to monitor Earth’s changing environment from space. YouTube URL: https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/189501745368 YouTube URL: https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/189525115143 *Blue Origin undertakes its 12th test flight Blue Origin has launched another test flight from its West Texas facility flying its New Shepard rocket beyond the edge of space and returning safely to the ground. YouTube URL: https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/189655369638 *Progress spacecraft docks to the International space station It’s a busy time for the expedition 61 crew aboard the International Space Station with the arrival of another cargo ship loaded with fresh supplies. The Russian Progress MS-13 has just berthed onto the orbiting outpost’s Pirs docking port. YouTube URL: https://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/post/189644707098 *The Science Report A new study confirmed that Greenland has lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992. Kids born from IVF with frozen embryos may have an increased risk of childhood cancer. An environmental plastics disaster continues to develop in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. A new hydrogel material that mimics biological matter such as skin, ligaments and bone. A new study finds that if your over 38 you really should be dead. New research suggests being bright means you’re ever so slightly more likely to be non-religious. For enhanced Show Notes including photos to accompany this episode, visit: http://www.bitesz.com/spacetimeshownotes Get immediate access to over 170 commercial-free, double episode editions of SpaceTime plus extended interview bonus content. Subscribe via Patreon or Supercast....and share in the rewards. Details at www.patreon.com/spacetimewithstuartgary or if you’re not a fan of Patreon, go to Supercast - https://bitesz.supercast.tech/ RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/spacetime Email: [email protected] To receive the Astronomy Daily Newsletter free, direct to your inbox...just join our mailing list at www.bitesz.com/mailinglist

This year, scientists have had a chance to study something pretty mind-boggling: a comet that came from outside of our solar system. Host: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg , Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr.Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/uoc--nni121219.php http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/papers/2019/JHK19.pdf http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/papers/2019/JL19b.pdf http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/2019Q4.html https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1918/ https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/possible-interstellar-comet-headed-our-way/ https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2019/news-2019-61 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/alien-comets-may-be-common-object-beyond-solar-system-suggests https://projectpluto.com/temp/2017u1.htm https://projectpluto.com/temp/2i.htm https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.05851.pdf ------ Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4758 https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/61/4589-Image?news=true https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1918a/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4758 https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1918b/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4758 https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1918/ https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1820c/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milkyway_Swan_Panorama.jpg

What is the current trajectory of the interstellar comet borisov? With finding of interstellar comet borisov and the interstellar object oumuamua how many more interstellar objects are there in our solar system. Could Jupiter hold a repository of interstellar objects waiting for us to study? Should SpaceX build on the moon before going to mars? We explore these questions and more in this current and coming age of space and science discovery with Matt Williams, author and science reporter at Universe Today. Matt William's Links and Books: https://www.universetoday.com/author/mwill/ Jovian Manifest: https://amzn.to/2PDDmxc Cronian Incident: https://amzn.to/2PAlYto Want to support the channel? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow Follow us at other places! Website: https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmgeventhorizon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jmgeventhorizon/ Music featured on Event Horizon https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/ https://migueljohnson.bandcamp.com/ https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ https://aeriumambient.bandcamp.com/

This animation presents the orbit of comet 2I/Borisov.  It is only the second interstellar object known to have passed through our Solar System. More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1922a/ Credit: ESA/spaceengine.org/L. Calçada Music: Johan B. Monell

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging black holes. A team of NASA scientists leveraged LISA Pathfinder's record-setting sensitivity for a different purpose much closer to home — mapping microscopic dust shed by comets and asteroids. Most of these particles, known as micrometeroids, have masses measured in micrograms, similar to a small grain of sand. But at speeds reaching 40,000 mph (64,000 kph), even micrometeoroids pack a punch. The NASA team, led by Ira Thorpe at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, detected 54 impacts during the mission, which lasted from 2015 to 2017. Modeling the strikes allowed the researchers to determine what kinds of objects shed the dust. The findings are broadly consistent with existing ideas of what generates micrometeroids found near Earth. The dusty culprits are mostly short-period comets whose orbits are determined by Jupiter. Comets with longer periods, like Halley’s comet, also contributed dust that LISA Pathfinder sensed. The new measurements could help refine dust models used by researchers in a variety of studies, from understanding the physics of planet formation to estimating impact risks for current and future spacecraft. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/how-lisa-pathfinder-detected-dozens-of-comet-crumbs Music credit: "Vibrating" (Instrumental) and "Treacherous Path" (Instrumental) both from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Lead Producer Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park): Lead Science Writer Tom Bridgman (GST): Lead Visualizer James Ira Thorpe (NASA/GSFC): Scientist Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Animator Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Narrator This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13332 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

The Hubble Space Telescope was able to spot another visitor to our solar system! VIDEO CREDIT: NASA ESA --SOCIAL-- https://www.facebook.com/deepskydude https://twitter.com/DeepSkyDude https://www.instagram.com/deepskydude/ Official Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/deepskydude --Deep Sky Tunes Vol 1-- https://spoti.fi/2XzdbdB --CONTACT-- [email protected] #deepskydude #hubble #interstellarcomet

You can buy Universe Sandbox 2 game here: http://amzn.to/2yJqwU6 Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new discoveries about the second interstellar comet known as Borisov. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10952 Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.03222.pdf Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsta.1988.0064 Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Space Engine is available for free here: http://spaceengine.org Enjoy and please subscribe. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatdamath Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatdamath Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: https://amzn.to/2LZFQCJ Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Specifically, great thanks to the following members: Morrison Waud Mark Teranishi Vlad Manshin TheHuntress Daniel Rosvall Alex M Lilith Dawn Greg Lambros Albert B. Cannon Ralph Spataro adam lee Bartholomew Macaluso Nick Dolgy Henry Spadoni Jer Luminger UnexpectedBooks.com Konrad Kummli Lauren Smith Michael Tiganila George Williams Lyndon Riley Shinne Jakub Glos Johann Goergen Dave Blair Jake Salo LS Greger Marcel Levi Michael Mitsuda Gabriel Seiffert J Carter Mary Kristof Russell Sears Vinod sethi Brian Szkotak Robert Wyssbrod Gordon Cooper L Joseph Parker MD RandalM Tracy Burgess Jayjay Volz Kai Raphahn Sander Stols Sergio Ruelas Anataine Deva Assaf Dar Sagol Liam Moss Timothy Welter MD Olegas Budnik Bodo Graßmann gary steelman Michael Koebel Shelley Passage Steven Aiello xyndicate Honey Suzanne Lyons Dale Andrew Darling Douglas Burns James Myers Jan Šoulák Niji Peter Hamrak Matthew Lazear Becky Steven Anton Newman Charles Nadeau Dave A Doug Baker Doug MacDonald George Lincoln Rockwell GrittyFlix Minovsky Man Mr Fluffington Paul Koploy Sal Carrera Jacob Spencer Veronika A. Czebe brian plummer Daniel Charles Smith Daniel G. Eugene Sandulenko Lee Densmore Max McNally Sir David Coyne Steve Wotton Victor Julian Castillo Daniel Coleman Rock Howard Aaron Fineout Adam Smith Alberto Diaz Saldana Chaos Gamer Kearny Li Rafael Aguila Vincent L. Cleaver Claye Griffith David Lewis JohnTaylorWalker Kyle eagle Michael J Fluharty Tarik Qassem Tedd Speck rfc1135 Greyson Flippo Hampton Tunis Ivan Gallagher Janne Vuorenpää Jordaen Davids Lynn Johnson Rob Law Scary ASMR Thierry Gasnier Troy Schmidt William Warren Arp Lee Jana Persson Lisa Stadlbauer Lisette Ramos-Voigt Márton Fülöp Reynir Örn Guðmundsson Rs Wlms tom g. Arikkat Unnikrishnan Uwe Böhnke Carla Deanna Korell-Hall Dipen Bhattacharya Josh Shultz Samuel Mathison Brittany House David Bennett david jungerman Doug Beeferman JL Solidum Lionel Sleeper Luis M Gaytan Tovar Markus Bidi Martin Swiaczny Matthew C Weiss www.squidlord.us Men I Trust Michael McCloskey Orlando J Carter Peter Sedmák Sol Bergeron Beauchemin Vladyslav Kurmaz Hernán Coronel Christopher Borra Ingmar Rauschert karlos preddie Luis Lengsfeld Lumi Pakkanen Miek Thompson Susanne Bauer Yvan Lengwiler Branden Loizides Bryan Linsley Chris Bingley Chris the Mad Sciencer Dave David Wortz Douglas Wilkinson Hein Spijker James McClarty John Smith Kitara Burke Lance Fielden Laura Coutu MARK ANDERSON Michael R Mendoza Mr. Numi Who- [email protected] Randall J Silva Robert Clyde Steven Uttley Suzanne Brummitt Todd Gregory-Gibbs Walter van der Kamp Łukasz Adamski Adam Burnett Cameron Arno Christian Rane gene valle Jan-Chris Jelle Baris john requa Joseph Conard kristian svensson Qauthar Saleh Tuukka Arola Marcel Barros Bonnie Veldey Christian Jochum Daniel Morris Dreameroutthere Jeff Blakemore Maciej Świerczewski Mahesh Gopalan Marilyn Aldridge Paul Maybury Richard Reich RiddleJacks Sean Spartan Allen DuBeau Bob Goswick Daniel Schakel Derek Bamber Gerald Williams Gideon Falta Gregory T Hart Michael Luce Peyton Vaughn Quasar Robert the Green Sandy Flowers JoachimB Alec Estrada Devonte Foy Gawen Thompson Jessica Ketan More Kevin McCarthy Nina and Ivan PartyMartyy & Dem OTF Bois Patrick Denny PAUL G STEWART Sander Hollebrand Suzanne Miezis Galen Thurber Check Patreon to join!

ESA's Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko ended 3 years ago but its legacy lives on. The ROSINA instrument principal investigator Kathrin Altwegg calls it "one of the most important missions every flown. Story: Comet 67P: Target of Rosetta Mission: https://www.space.com/28724-comet-67p-target-of-rosetta-mission.html Credit: ESA

This movie shows changes in comet C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) tail. More information and download options: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw1940a/ Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

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Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak explains how to get your name associated with an astronomical object such as asteroids, comets, and stars.

Planetary Astronomer Michael Busch and Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak discuss a recent visit from Comet Borisov, C/2019 Q4.

You can buy Universe Sandbox 2 game here: http://amzn.to/2yJqwU6 Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about whether we can actually land on the newly discovered comet C/2019 Q4 Borisov that came from another star system. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.06348.pdf Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Space Engine is available for free here: http://spaceengine.org Enjoy and please subscribe. Music: Home - We're Finally Landing - https://www.last.fm/music/Home Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatdamath Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatdamath Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: https://amzn.to/2LZFQCJ Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Specifically, great thanks to the following members: Morrison Waud Mark Teranishi Vlad Manshin TheHuntress Daniel Rosvall Alex M Lilith Dawn Greg Lambros Albert B. Cannon Ralph Spataro adam lee Bartholomew Macaluso Nick Dolgy Henry Spadoni Jer Luminger UnexpectedBooks.com Konrad Kummli Lauren Smith Michael Tiganila George Williams Lyndon Riley Shinne Jakub Glos Johann Goergen Dave Blair Jake Salo LS Greger Marcel Levi Michael Mitsuda Gabriel Seiffert J Carter Mary Kristof Russell Sears Vinod sethi Brian Szkotak Robert Wyssbrod Gordon Cooper L Joseph Parker MD RandalM Tracy Burgess Jayjay Volz Kai Raphahn Sander Stols Sergio Ruelas Anataine Deva Assaf Dar Sagol Liam Moss Timothy Welter MD Olegas Budnik Bodo Graßmann gary steelman Michael Koebel Shelley Passage Steven Aiello xyndicate Honey Suzanne Lyons Dale Andrew Darling Douglas Burns James Myers Jan Šoulák Niji Peter Hamrak Matthew Lazear Becky Steven Anton Newman Charles Nadeau Dave A Doug Baker Doug MacDonald George Lincoln Rockwell GrittyFlix Minovsky Man Mr Fluffington Paul Koploy Sal Carrera Jacob Spencer Veronika A. Czebe brian plummer Daniel Charles Smith Daniel G. Eugene Sandulenko Lee Densmore Max McNally Sir David Coyne Steve Wotton Victor Julian Castillo Daniel Coleman Rock Howard Aaron Fineout Adam Smith Alberto Diaz Saldana Chaos Gamer Kearny Li Rafael Aguila Vincent L. Cleaver Claye Griffith David Lewis JohnTaylorWalker Kyle eagle Michael J Fluharty Tarik Qassem Tedd Speck rfc1135 Greyson Flippo Hampton Tunis Ivan Gallagher Janne Vuorenpää Jordaen Davids Lynn Johnson Rob Law Scary ASMR Thierry Gasnier Troy Schmidt William Warren Arp Lee Jana Persson Lisa Stadlbauer Lisette Ramos-Voigt Márton Fülöp Reynir Örn Guðmundsson Rs Wlms tom g. Arikkat Unnikrishnan Uwe Böhnke Carla Deanna Korell-Hall Dipen Bhattacharya Josh Shultz Samuel Mathison Brittany House David Bennett david jungerman Doug Beeferman JL Solidum Lionel Sleeper Luis M Gaytan Tovar Markus Bidi Martin Swiaczny Matthew C Weiss www.squidlord.us Men I Trust Michael McCloskey Orlando J Carter Peter Sedmák Sol Bergeron Beauchemin Vladyslav Kurmaz Hernán Coronel Christopher Borra Ingmar Rauschert karlos preddie Luis Lengsfeld Lumi Pakkanen Miek Thompson Susanne Bauer Yvan Lengwiler Branden Loizides Bryan Linsley Chris Bingley Chris the Mad Sciencer Dave David Wortz Douglas Wilkinson Hein Spijker James McClarty John Smith Kitara Burke Lance Fielden Laura Coutu MARK ANDERSON Michael R Mendoza Mr. Numi Who- [email protected] Randall J Silva Robert Clyde Steven Uttley Suzanne Brummitt Todd Gregory-Gibbs Walter van der Kamp Łukasz Adamski Adam Burnett Cameron Arno Christian Rane gene valle Jan-Chris Jelle Baris john requa Joseph Conard kristian svensson Qauthar Saleh Tuukka Arola Marcel Barros Bonnie Veldey Christian Jochum Daniel Morris Dreameroutthere Jeff Blakemore Maciej Świerczewski Mahesh Gopalan Marilyn Aldridge Paul Maybury Richard Reich RiddleJacks Sean Spartan Allen DuBeau Bob Goswick Daniel Schakel Derek Bamber Gerald Williams Gideon Falta Gregory T Hart Michael Luce Peyton Vaughn Quasar Robert the Green Sandy Flowers JoachimB Alec Estrada Devonte Foy Gawen Thompson Jessica Ketan More Kevin McCarthy Nina and Ivan PartyMartyy & Dem OTF Bois Patrick Denny PAUL G STEWART Sander Hollebrand Suzanne Miezis Galen Thurber Check Patreon to join!

Welcome to my channel! This week astronomers have discovered the first ever interstellar comet - C/2019 Q4 Borisov! In this video, I will talk about just how they did it, how they confirmed it and why this kind of object is so important. Extra reading: Original sighting: https://astronomy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,175643.0.html Detection paper: Guzik et al 2019, https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05851 Size paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.07286.pdf Minor planet report: https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html Oumuamua is not an alien spacecraft: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0816-x Oumumua paper, Siraj et al 2019: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/1904.07224.pdf#targetText=Based%20on%20the%20CNEOS%20catalog,outside%20of%20the%20solar%20system. Media credits: Borisov images/comet images: Gennady Borisov Comet: GEMINI observatory/NSF/AURA Borisov/oumuamua trajectory: Tony Dunn Asteroids/comets: ESA/ Hubble/ Calcada/ Kornmesser Pexels: various LSST: Science Office/LSST project/NSF/AURA If you enjoyed the video, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing! I'm also on: twitter: https://twitter.com/space_mog instagram: https://instagram.com/space_mog/ facebook: https://facebook.com/spacemog/

An exploration of the newly discovered interstellar object C/2019 Q4 Comet Borisov and what we might learn from it. Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodier Event Horizon! https://www.youtube.com/eventhorizonshow https://youtu.be/GhkkhPj2TLg Papers: http://www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=1610&lang=en "Interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)", Guzek et al, 2019 https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05851 "Sending a Spacecraft to Interstellar Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)", Hibberd et al, 2019 Music: Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

We have a second interstellar visitor, C/2019 Q4 Borisov is the second interstellar object to come into our solar system. And the first one since the mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua. Science and physics reporter for New Scientist Leah Crane joins John Michael Godier on Event Horizon to discuss the details of the discovery of C/2019 Q4 Borisov and what its current trajectory is. As well as where comet 2I/Borisov is going and where it possibly came from. An Interstellar Comet? C/2019 Q4 Comet Borisov https://youtu.be/rnpn0ZgTm7M We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216237-we-may-have-spotted-an-interstellar-comet-flying-towards-earth/ Leah Crane Twitter: https://twitter.com/DownHereOnEarth Our Website and links: https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/ https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow https://twitter.com/jmgeventhorizon https://www.instagram.com/jmgeventhorizon/

You can buy Universe Sandbox 2 game here: http://amzn.to/2yJqwU6 Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about other interstellar objects similar to Oumuamua and Borisov comets and one specific comet that may have come from a stellar sibling nearby. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.02666.pdf Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Space Engine is available for free here: http://spaceengine.org Enjoy and please subscribe. Music: Home - We're Finally Landing - https://www.last.fm/music/Home Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatdamath Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatdamath Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: https://amzn.to/2LZFQCJ Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Specifically, great thanks to the following members: Morrison Waud Mark Teranishi Vlad Manshin TheHuntress Daniel Rosvall Alex M Lilith Dawn Greg Lambros Albert B. Cannon Ralph Spataro adam lee Bartholomew Macaluso Nick Dolgy Henry Spadoni Jer Luminger UnexpectedBooks.com Konrad Kummli Lauren Smith Michael Tiganila George Williams Lyndon Riley Shinne Jakub Glos Johann Goergen Dave Blair Jake Salo LS Greger Marcel Levi Michael Mitsuda Gabriel Seiffert J Carter Mary Kristof Russell Sears Vinod sethi Brian Szkotak Robert Wyssbrod Gordon Cooper L Joseph Parker MD RandalM Tracy Burgess Jayjay Volz Kai Raphahn Sander Stols Sergio Ruelas Anataine Deva Assaf Dar Sagol Liam Moss Timothy Welter MD Olegas Budnik Bodo Graßmann gary steelman Michael Koebel Shelley Passage Steven Aiello xyndicate Honey Suzanne Lyons Dale Andrew Darling Douglas Burns James Myers Jan Šoulák Niji Peter Hamrak Matthew Lazear Becky Steven Anton Newman Charles Nadeau Dave A Doug Baker Doug MacDonald George Lincoln Rockwell GrittyFlix Minovsky Man Mr Fluffington Paul Koploy Sal Carrera Jacob Spencer Veronika A. Czebe brian plummer Daniel Charles Smith Daniel G. Eugene Sandulenko Lee Densmore Max McNally Sir David Coyne Steve Wotton Victor Julian Castillo Daniel Coleman Rock Howard Aaron Fineout Adam Smith Alberto Diaz Saldana Chaos Gamer Kearny Li Rafael Aguila Vincent L. Cleaver Claye Griffith David Lewis JohnTaylorWalker Kyle eagle Michael J Fluharty Tarik Qassem Tedd Speck rfc1135 Greyson Flippo Hampton Tunis Ivan Gallagher Janne Vuorenpää Jordaen Davids Lynn Johnson Rob Law Scary ASMR Thierry Gasnier Troy Schmidt William Warren Arp Lee Jana Persson Lisa Stadlbauer Lisette Ramos-Voigt Márton Fülöp Reynir Örn Guðmundsson Rs Wlms tom g. Arikkat Unnikrishnan Uwe Böhnke Carla Deanna Korell-Hall Dipen Bhattacharya Josh Shultz Samuel Mathison Brittany House David Bennett david jungerman Doug Beeferman JL Solidum Lionel Sleeper Luis M Gaytan Tovar Markus Bidi Martin Swiaczny Matthew C Weiss www.squidlord.us Men I Trust Michael McCloskey Orlando J Carter Peter Sedmák Sol Bergeron Beauchemin Vladyslav Kurmaz Hernán Coronel Christopher Borra Ingmar Rauschert karlos preddie Luis Lengsfeld Lumi Pakkanen Miek Thompson Susanne Bauer Yvan Lengwiler Branden Loizides Bryan Linsley Chris Bingley Chris the Mad Sciencer Dave David Wortz Douglas Wilkinson Hein Spijker James McClarty John Smith Kitara Burke Lance Fielden Laura Coutu MARK ANDERSON Michael R Mendoza Mr. Numi Who- [email protected] Randall J Silva Robert Clyde Steven Uttley Suzanne Brummitt Todd Gregory-Gibbs Walter van der Kamp Łukasz Adamski Adam Burnett Cameron Arno Christian Rane gene valle Jan-Chris Jelle Baris john requa Joseph Conard kristian svensson Qauthar Saleh Tuukka Arola Marcel Barros Bonnie Veldey Christian Jochum Daniel Morris Dreameroutthere Jeff Blakemore Maciej Świerczewski Mahesh Gopalan Marilyn Aldridge Paul Maybury Richard Reich RiddleJacks Sean Spartan Allen DuBeau Bob Goswick Daniel Schakel Derek Bamber Gerald Williams Gideon Falta Gregory T Hart Michael Luce Peyton Vaughn Quasar Robert the Green Sandy Flowers JoachimB Alec Estrada Devonte Foy Gawen Thompson Jessica Ketan More Kevin McCarthy Nina and Ivan PartyMartyy & Dem OTF Bois Patrick Denny PAUL G STEWART Sander Hollebrand Suzanne Miezis Galen Thurber Check Patreon to join!

The interstellar comet, C/2019 Q4, is inbound toward the Sun, but it will remain farther than the orbit of Mars and will approach no closer to Earth than about 190 million miles (300 million kilometers)

Comet C/2018 W2 (Africano) which is the brightest comet of 2019 coming pretty close tonight (and the next couple of weeks). Regards, Ray Astrophotography #Comet #C2018W2 #live_event

A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The object — designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) — was discovered on Aug. 30, 2019, by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea. The official confirmation that comet C/2019 Q4 is an interstellar comet has not yet been made, but if it is interstellar, it would be only the second such object detected. The first, 'Oumuamua, was observed and confirmed in October 2017. The new comet, C/2019 Q4, is still inbound toward the Sun, but it will remain farther than the orbit of Mars and will approach no closer to Earth than about 300 million kilometers. After the initial detections of the comet, Scout system, which is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, automatically flagged the object as possibly being interstellar. Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL worked with astronomers and the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Coordination Center in Frascati, Italy, to obtain additional observations. He then worked with the NASA-sponsored Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to estimate the comet's precise trajectory and determine whether it originated within our solar system or came from elsewhere in the galaxy. The comet is currently 420 million kilometers from the Sun and will reach its closest point, or perihelion, on Dec. 8, 2019, at a distance of about 300 million kilometers. Currently on an inbound trajectory, comet C/2019 Q4 is heading toward the inner solar system. On Oct. 26, it will pass through the ecliptic plane — the plane in which Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun — from above at roughly a 40-degree angle. C/2019 Q4 was established as being cometary due to its fuzzy appearance, which indicates that the object has a central icy body that is producing a surrounding cloud of dust and particles as it approaches the Sun and heats up. Its location in the sky (as seen from Earth) places it near the Sun — an area of sky not usually scanned by the large ground-based asteroid surveys or NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE spacecraft. Observations completed by astronomers indicate the comet nucleus is somewhere between 2 and 16 kilometers in diameter. Astronomers will continue collect observations to further characterize the comet's physical properties (size, rotation, etc.) and also continue to better identify its trajectory.

We may have a visitor from interstellar space from outside our solar system. Is this another Oumuamua ? I will be watching this with my telescopes and will provide updates to you all frequently. Please stay turned for new information. This is called Comet C/2019 Q4 Borisov. Gennady Borisov's 4th comet discoverly using a custom telescope. Equipment shown in this video: (some of them contains affiliate links) Starizona Microtouch Focuser https://tinyurl.com/y2cfsh4n Starizona Feathertouch focuser for SCT https://tinyurl.com/yxcgwsa3 Celestron EdgeHD 1400 XLT Optical Tube Assembly https://tinyurl.com/yxhtxf5f Celestron CGX-L Equatorial Mount with Tripod https://amzn.to/2Gonw7m Telescope - Celestron 11" f/2.2 Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph Telescope (OTA only) https://tinyurl.com/y6o4yct5 Mount: Celestron CGX Computerized German Equatorial Mount and Tripod https://amzn.to/2E4YFTZ Filters: Baader f/2 High Speed Narrowband CCD Filter Set - 1.25" Mounted - FHSS-1 https://tinyurl.com/yxkhosqm Other Equipment: Baader f/2 High Speed OIII CCD Filter - 2" Mounted - FOIIIHS-2 https://tinyurl.com/y4fs9tqq Baader f/2 High Speed SII CCD Filter - 2" Mounted - FSIIHS-2 https://tinyurl.com/y6m85yyu Baader f/2 High Speed H-Alpha CCD Filter - 2" Mounted - FHALHS-2 https://tinyurl.com/y53rrnb9 Baader f/2 High Speed Narrowband CCD Filter Set - 2" Mounted - FHSS-2 https://tinyurl.com/y4qxvmxm Baader f/2 High Speed H-Alpha CCD Filter - 1.25" Mounted - FHALHS-1 https://tinyurl.com/y5yb96er Baader f/2 High Speed OIII CCD Filter - 1.25" Mounted - FOIIIHS-1 https://tinyurl.com/y65d3k2o Baader f/2 High Speed SII CCD Filter - 1.25" Mounted - FSIIHS-1 https://tinyurl.com/y34ru3hl Elbesee 2HQ14 | Polished Hardwood 14in Quilting Hoop https://amzn.to/2MDxu90 Orion Magnificent Mini AutoGuider Package https://amzn.to/2HQYNZ9 Losmandy 14" Universal Dovetail Plate for Refractors - DUP14 https://tinyurl.com/y55lqlmd Neiko 01409A Electronic Digital Caliper with Extra Large LCD Screen | 0 - 12 Inches | Inch/Fractions/Millimeter Conversion https://amzn.to/2VY6i4S ZWO ASI071MC-Pro 16 Megapixel USB3.0 Color Astronomy Camera for Astrophotography https://amzn.to/2HQDaZV Celestron CGX-L Equatorial Mount with Tripod https://tinyurl.com/y35l5s6d Celestron 80mm Guidescope Package with 125mm Rings and 80mm Guidescope with Extension Tube https://amzn.to/2U5KaVg Orion 52064 StarShoot AutoGuider https://tinyurl.com/y6rwt33d Celestron 51630 Star Pointer Telescope Finderscope, Black https://tinyurl.com/yy4yuzgb Neiko 01409A Electronic Digital Caliper with Extra Large LCD Screen | 0 - 12 Inches | Inch/Fractions/Millimeter Conversion https://amzn.to/2VY6i4S ZWO ASI071MC-Pro 16 Megapixel USB3.0 Color Astronomy Camera for Astrophotography https://amzn.to/2HQDaZV Celestron CGX-L Equatorial Mount with Tripod https://amzn.to/2Gonw7m Celestron 80mm Guidescope Package with 125mm Rings and 80mm Guidescope with Extension Tube https://amzn.to/2U5KaVg Orion 52064 StarShoot AutoGuider https://amzn.to/2BZUGqr Celestron 51630 Star Pointer Telescope Finderscope, Black https://amzn.to/2EskgG0 Other equipment: Celestron Advanced VX Mount with Celestron Polar Axis Finder https://amzn.to/2uKgSkl LensShifter Blue - Balanced Focus and Zoom Grip for DSLR and Mirrorless Camera Lens https://amzn.to/2YEn8rx Rokinon 135mm F2.0 ED UMC Telephoto Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras https://amzn.to/2Uk38uH Dual Narrowband + LPS filter https://www.ebay.com/itm/Filter-Light-Pollution-Nebula-or-Galaxy-Improved-95-T-NPB-DGM-Skyglow-48mm-2/311649571946 ZWO ASI071MC-Pro 16 Megapixel USB3.0 Color Astronomy Camera for Astrophotography https://amzn.to/2HQDaZV ZWO T2 to EOS EF Lens Adapter - 12.5mm or 17.5mm - EOS-T2 https://www.highpointscientific.com/zwo-t2-to-eos-adapter-for-all-asi-cameras-eos-t2 Other Products used in the above demonstration: Mounts: Telescope: Telescope - Celestron EdgeHD 1400 XLT Optical Tube Assembly https://tinyurl.com/yxhtxf5f Explore Scientific Classic White Aluminum ED127 f/7.5 APO Triplet with Hoya FCD100 optics https://amzn.to/2XLQ6VT Guide Scope: Celestron 80mm Guidescope Package with 125mm Rings and 80mm Guidescope with Extension Tube https://amzn.to/2U5KaVg Guide Camera: Orion 52064 StarShoot AutoGuider https://amzn.to/2BZUGqr Red Dot Finder: Celestron 51630 Star Pointer Telescope Finderscope, Black https://amzn.to/2EskgG0 Accessories: Celestron Universal Mounting Plate - https://amzn.to/2PNrg3E Celestron 51630 Star Pointer Telescope Finderscope, Black - https://amzn.to/2PId6AM Move-It 9442 12-Inch Steel Tri-Dolly, 300-lb Load Capacity https://amzn.to/2HQbgxp Filters: Baader UV-IR-CUT Filter - 2" # FUVIR-2 2459210A - https://amzn.to/2QZGMtk Regards, Ray https://www.youtube.com/c/raysastrophotography https://www.facebook.com/raysastrophotography/ https://twitter.com/Raysastrophoto1 https://www.instagram.com/raysastrophotography/ #Visitor #Interstellar #C2019Q4

Astronomers believe they've found an interstellar visitor according to NASA, almost two years after the first, Oumuamua. Interstellar means that the object originated from outside of our solar system and appears to be coming from the direction of the galactic plane in Cassiopeia. On August 30, Gennady Borisov spotted a new comet while at the MARGO observatory in Crimea. After this initial observation, the Scout system at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory also flagged the object as possibly originating from outside of our solar system. The comet is making its way toward our sun. Currently, it's 260 million miles away from our sun and will make its closest approach on December 8. The comet's current velocity is high, about 93,000 mph, which is well above the typical velocities of objects orbiting the Sun at that distance. The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that it will leave and head back to interstellar space. The object, now known as C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), hasn't officially been confirmed to have an origin point outside of our solar system yet. Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chucksastrophotography/

Discovered by an amateur astronomer, the inbound object is only the second of its kind yet detected. In the sleepy predawn hours of August 30, a Ukrainian amateur astronomer named Gennady Borisov spotted a strange comet zooming through our solar system. Now, astronomers have provisionally verified that the object, named C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), is moving too fast for it to be captured by the sun’s gravity—a sign that it’s most likely an interstellar interloper. If these results continue to hold, C/2019 Q4 would be just the second visitor from another star system ever detected, after the 2017 discovery of the enigmatic space rock known as 'Oumuamua. While its origins are not yet entirely certain, C/2019 Q4 is a confirmed comet. Already, astronomers have detected that the object—which is probably a couple miles across—has a coma, the fuzzy sheath of dust and gas that forms as sunlight heats up a comet’s icy surface. That means scientists will be able to collect much more data on its composition than they could for 'Oumuamua. For one, C/2019 Q4 is bigger and brighter, which offers more opportunities to study its light and tease out chemical clues. What’s more, astronomers discovered 'Oumuamua only on its way out of the solar system—but C/2019 Q4 is still inbound. It will make its closest approach to the sun on December 7, and it will come closest to Earth, within 180 million miles, on December 29. “This is the first highly active object that we've seen coming in from something that formed around another star,” says Michele Bannister, an astronomer at Queen’s University Belfast. Bannister adds that observations of C/2019 Q4 can't pick up in earnest until mid-October, due to its position relative to the blinding sun. But then for months to come, astronomers will turn their gaze skyward to get what may be their best look yet at an interstellar visitor. “What’s really fantastic is that this thing should be observable for a year,” says Matthew Holman, interim director of the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which issued the verification of C/2019 Q4’s path through space Wednesday evening. “We get to see one little bit of another solar system,” he adds, “and without necessarily knowing which one it came from, that’s exciting.” Very eccentric. Borisov, a veteran comet hunter, found C/2019 Q4 by focusing his observations at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory on the low horizon to the northeast, in a patch of sky near the constellation Gemini. Astronomers tend to avoid peering into these “bright” patches of sky near the horizon, as they're difficult to see in, and can damage telescopes’ sensitive optics. Early reports of Borisov’s discovery made waves among astronomers. Quanzhi Ye at the University of Maryland first learned of the comet on Sunday, after a colleague commented on the object’s bizarre orbital track on a group email. Ye also noticed that Scout, a comet and asteroid-tracking service run by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, kept calculating that the object didn’t seem to have a circular or elliptical orbit. In particular, Ye grew fascinated with one of the comet’s orbital parameters: its eccentricity. If an orbit’s eccentricity is zero, the object traces a perfect circle around its home star. The more elongated and narrow the orbit, the closer the eccentricity gets to one. If an object in our solar system has an eccentricity greater than one, it means the object has an arc-shaped trajectory and is making a one-time visit. The Minor Planet Center says that C/2019 Q4’s eccentricity exceeds three. According to Ye, it’s unlikely that C/2019 Q4 was a comet that formed on the edge of the solar system and somehow got nudged into an escape trajectory. To get this kind of jolt, a comet would need to come close to an object large enough to alter its course, like a planet. But as far as astronomers know, C/2019 Q4 couldn’t have come anywhere near such usurpers within our solar system. The planets’ orbits around the sun more or less align in the same plane, but C/2019 Q4 appears to be dive-bombing the solar system at a 44-degree angle. “That’s why we say that gravitationalperturbations are almost impossible,” Ye says. Telescope time. Astronomers estimate that at any given time, there's an interstellar comet or asteroid somewhere within the orbit of Mars, and 10,000 or so within the orbit of Neptune—but these objects are tiny and extremely faint, making them nearly impossible to see. If You Like What We Do And You Should Be Sure To LIKE & Subscribe. #AngeliGabriel #comets #interstellar

You can buy Universe Sandbox 2 game here: http://amzn.to/2yJqwU6 Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a newly discovered object that seems to be another 'Oumuamua - an interstellar cometary object coming toward our inner solar system. Observations: https://www.projectpluto.com/temp/gb00234.htm Orbit simulation: http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulatorCloud/yr/gsim2020.html Video: https://in-space.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gb00234.gif Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Space Engine is available for free here: http://spaceengine.org Enjoy and please subscribe. Music: Home - We're Finally Landing - https://www.last.fm/music/Home Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatdamath Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatdamath Bitcoins to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! 1GFiTKxWyEjAjZv4vsNtWTUmL53HgXBuvu The hardware used to record these videos: CPU: https://amzn.to/2LZFQCJ Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Specifically, great thanks to the following members: Morrison Waud Mark Teranishi Vlad Manshin TheHuntress Daniel Rosvall Alex M Lilith Dawn Greg Lambros Albert B. Cannon Ralph Spataro adam lee Bartholomew Macaluso Nick Dolgy Henry Spadoni Jer Luminger UnexpectedBooks.com Konrad Kummli Lauren Smith Michael Tiganila George Williams Lyndon Riley Shinne Jakub Glos Johann Goergen Dave Blair Jake Salo LS Greger Marcel Levi Michael Mitsuda Gabriel Seiffert J Carter Mary Kristof Russell Sears Vinod sethi Brian Szkotak Robert Wyssbrod Gordon Cooper L Joseph Parker MD RandalM Tracy Burgess Jayjay Volz Kai Raphahn Sander Stols Sergio Ruelas Anataine Deva Assaf Dar Sagol Liam Moss Timothy Welter MD Olegas Budnik Bodo Graßmann gary steelman Michael Koebel Shelley Passage Steven Aiello xyndicate Honey Suzanne Lyons Dale Andrew Darling Douglas Burns James Myers Jan Šoulák Niji Peter Hamrak Matthew Lazear Becky Steven Anton Newman Charles Nadeau Dave A Doug Baker Doug MacDonald George Lincoln Rockwell GrittyFlix Minovsky Man Mr Fluffington Paul Koploy Sal Carrera Jacob Spencer Veronika A. Czebe brian plummer Daniel Charles Smith Daniel G. Eugene Sandulenko Lee Densmore Max McNally Sir David Coyne Steve Wotton Victor Julian Castillo Daniel Coleman Rock Howard Aaron Fineout Adam Smith Alberto Diaz Saldana Chaos Gamer Kearny Li Rafael Aguila Vincent L. Cleaver Claye Griffith David Lewis JohnTaylorWalker Kyle eagle Michael J Fluharty Tarik Qassem Tedd Speck rfc1135 Greyson Flippo Hampton Tunis Ivan Gallagher Janne Vuorenpää Jordaen Davids Lynn Johnson Rob Law Scary ASMR Thierry Gasnier Troy Schmidt William Warren Arp Lee Jana Persson Lisa Stadlbauer Lisette Ramos-Voigt Márton Fülöp Reynir Örn Guðmundsson Rs Wlms tom g. Arikkat Unnikrishnan Uwe Böhnke Carla Deanna Korell-Hall Dipen Bhattacharya Josh Shultz Samuel Mathison Brittany House David Bennett david jungerman Doug Beeferman JL Solidum Lionel Sleeper Luis M Gaytan Tovar Markus Bidi Martin Swiaczny Matthew C Weiss www.squidlord.us Men I Trust Michael McCloskey Orlando J Carter Peter Sedmák Sol Bergeron Beauchemin Vladyslav Kurmaz Hernán Coronel Christopher Borra Ingmar Rauschert karlos preddie Luis Lengsfeld Lumi Pakkanen Miek Thompson Susanne Bauer Yvan Lengwiler Branden Loizides Bryan Linsley Chris Bingley Chris the Mad Sciencer Dave David Wortz Douglas Wilkinson Hein Spijker James McClarty John Smith Kitara Burke Lance Fielden Laura Coutu MARK ANDERSON Michael R Mendoza Mr. Numi Who- [email protected] Randall J Silva Robert Clyde Steven Uttley Suzanne Brummitt Todd Gregory-Gibbs Walter van der Kamp Łukasz Adamski Adam Burnett Cameron Arno Christian Rane gene valle Jan-Chris Jelle Baris john requa Joseph Conard kristian svensson Qauthar Saleh Tuukka Arola Marcel Barros Bonnie Veldey Christian Jochum Daniel Morris Dreameroutthere Jeff Blakemore Maciej Świerczewski Mahesh Gopalan Marilyn Aldridge Paul Maybury Richard Reich RiddleJacks Sean Spartan Allen DuBeau Bob Goswick Daniel Schakel Derek Bamber Gerald Williams Gideon Falta Gregory T Hart Michael Luce Peyton Vaughn Quasar Robert the Green Sandy Flowers JoachimB Alec Estrada Devonte Foy Gawen Thompson Jessica Ketan More Kevin McCarthy Nina and Ivan PartyMartyy & Dem OTF Bois Patrick Denny PAUL G STEWART Sander Hollebrand Suzanne Miezis Galen Thurber Check Patreon to join! #gb00234 #c2019q4 #borisov

Wednesday was a double whammy for big astronomy news with 2 groups both announcing the discovery of water in the atmosphere of a small exoplanet named K2 18b while solar system astronomers announced that a recently discovered comet came from interstellar space. The comet C/2019 Q4 Borisov is a pretty big deal for me because the previous interstellar object was small, bizarre and only visible for a short time. This time it's a much large object that's an active comet and will be visible to telescopes for a lot longer. The discovery of water in the atmosphere of K2 18b shouldn't be taken as some sign that it's habitable, because the planet is so large it likely has a thick crushing atmosphere at its surface, but it's a good sign that there may be more objects out there holding on to atmospheres while orbiting in the non-uninhabitable zone of M class stars.

See an orbit animation of a comet named C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), it may be the second interstellar object discovered. Learn more about the first, 'Oumuamua: https://www.space.com/oumuamua.html Further study of the comet is ongoing to determine its origin. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech / mash mix by Space.com's [Steve Spaleta](http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)

Where is Oumuamua? A new interview with Darryl Seligman from the astronomy department at Yale with an update on the subject of Oumuamua. We detail his findings that the interstellar object Oumuamua is an extremely strange object with unknown origins, though there has been some progress in determining it’s shape and composition. Also, ESO has decided on a comet intercept mission that will target interstellar object over the next decade. Mysterious 'Oumuamua interstellar object may have simple explanation after all https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/mysterious-oumuamua-interstellar-object-may-have-simple-explanation-after-all-ncna985466 https://www.darrylseligman.com/ On the Anomalous Acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04723 "COULD SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURE EXPLAIN ‘OUMUAMUA’S PECULIAR ACCELERATION?", Bialy and Loeb, 2018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf The Mysterious Interstellar Object Omuamua With Harvard’s Dr. Avi Loeb https://youtu.be/rDZyI83Bj2w Website: https://www.eventhorizonshow.com/ You can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/EventHorizonShow Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/jmgeventhorizon Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jmgeventhorizon/

English below Dieses Video zeigt die Bewegung des Kometen 260P/McNaught am Nachthimmel des 31. August 2019 im Zeitraum von ca. 105 Minuten. Die Bilder wurden vor Erstellung des Zeitraffers beschnitten. This timelapse video shows the movement of the comet 260P/McNaught on August 31st, 2019 in a timespan of 105 minutes. The images were cropped before creating the timelapse video. Skywatcher 130/650PDS, Canon EOS 760d, 103x60s, ISO 3200 Credits: astropage.eu

Astrophotographer Jacint Roger spotted an object, that has been nicknamed "Churymoon," orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko while mining ESA Rosetta pics. -- Meet Churymoon!: https://www.space.com/churymoon-tiny-comet-67p-moon-rosetta-photos.html Credit: Space.com / footage courtesy: ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/UPD/LAM/IAA/ SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/J. Roger (CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) / produced & edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta

In July 1994, astronomers around the world watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the planet Jupiter. NASA Science: http://science.nasa.gov/

25 years ago, humanity had its first glimpse of a cosmic collision when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter — and the whole world watched. We’ve seen evidence of impacts all throughout our solar system, but we had never before been able to watch an impact while it was happening. And, it was a wake-up call. Today NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office has its eyes to the sky detecting and tracking potentially hazardous and near-Earth objects.

Dieses Zeitraffer-Video zeigt die Bewegung des Kometen C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto am Nachthimmel des 14. Februar 2019. Der Zeitrahmen beträgt 170x30s. Die Bilder wurden vor dem Zeitraffer zurechtgeschnitten. This timelapse video shows the movement of comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto across the nightsky on February 14th, 2019. The timespan is 170x30s. Images were cropped before making the timelapse. Skywatcher 130/650 PDS, NEQ6, Canon EOS 760D, 170x30s, ISO 1600 Credit: astropage.eu

Let's watch Comet C/2018 Iwamoto Live. I will also capture some pictures along with it. Products used - Some of links may be affiliate links: Celestron CGX-L Equatorial Mount with Tripod https://amzn.to/2Gonw7m Celestron CGX Computerized German Equatorial Mount and Tripod https://amzn.to/2E4YFTZ Explore Scientific ED127 Essential Edition ES-ED127075-03 https://amzn.to/2GA23I0 Celestron 11" f/2.2 Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph Telescope (OTA only) https://amzn.to/2WRbZTj Celestron Universal Mounting Plate - https://amzn.to/2PNrg3E ZWO 78mm Holder Ring for ASI Cooled Cameras - RINGD-78 - https://www.highpointscientific.com/z... ZWO ASI071MC Pro Color Astronomy Camera - ASI071MC-P - https://www.highpointscientific.com/z... ZWO T2 to EOS EF Lens Adapter - 12.5mm or 17.5mm - EOS-T2 - https://www.highpointscientific.com/z... Baader UV-IR-CUT Filter - 2" # FUVIR-2 2459210A - https://amzn.to/2QZGMtk Rokinon 135mm F2.0 ED UMC Telephoto Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras - https://amzn.to/2EKpGhY Orion CT80 80mm Compact Refractor Telescope Optical Tube - https://amzn.to/2QZFvT4 Standard 1/4"-20 Male to 1/4"-20 Male Threaded Tripod Screw Adapter Standard Tripod Mounting Thread Camera Screw Adapter Converter, Precision Made (5 Pack) - https://amzn.to/2NQCn9X Celestron 51630 Star Pointer Telescope Finderscope, Black - https://amzn.to/2PId6AM Celestron 93625 Universal 1.25-inch Camera T-Adapter - https://amzn.to/2q1KKpE Celestron Advanced VX Computerized Mount - https://amzn.to/2PQ8kBn ZWO Anti-Dew Strip for Cooled ASI Cameras - DEW - https://www.highpointscientific.com/z... ZWO ASI1600MM Cooled USB 3.0 Monochrome Imaging Camera - ASI1600MM-COOL - https://www.highpointscientific.com/z... Pocket Powerbox - http://www.ontariotelescope.com/ppb.htm Dew Not 3" Dew Heater Strip DN004 - https://amzn.to/2PMcnOW Explore Scientific Carbon Fiber ED102 f/7 APO Triplet with Hoya FCD100 optics https://amzn.to/2DMaVsu Celestron 93648 Deluxe Off-Axis Guider (Black) https://amzn.to/2Qh5XuF Explore Scientific 2" Field Flattener for ED APO https://amzn.to/2r6ehPI Astromania 2" Superior Quality Multiple 5-Position Filter Wheel https://amzn.to/2DWMSbt Please feel free to comment and provide me the feedback. Thanks for checking. Support music provided by https://music.aljoshakonstanty.com/ Very Best Regards, Ray Check my website http://www.whatsupastro.com https://www.youtube.com/c/RaysAstroph... https://www.facebook.com/raysastropho... https://www.instagram.com/raysastroph... #Comet #Iwamoto #C2018

Create a daily learning habit. Sign up at http://www.brilliant.org/answerswithjoe for 20% off a premium subscription. The Oort Cloud is a vast field of icy objects far outside the planets and asteroids of our solar system, and it's the birthplace of some of the most mysterious objects in space - comets. Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Get cool nerdy t-shirts at http://www.answerswithjoe.com/shirts Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe =================== Comets have always held a special place for us. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans looked to the stars and found their gods, their mythologies, and their beliefs. So when an unusual object appeared overhead like a comet, that was considered a harbinger of doom. Over time, we learned our place in the solar system and the universe and understood that comets were just icy objects in extremely long, elliptical orbits around the sun. But the question of where these came from always eluded us. Edmund Halley was the first to make this distinction with the comet that now bears his name. But it wasn't until Jan Oort in 1950, who proposed the idea that there must be a vast cloud of comets just outside the gravity well of the solar system that we finally understood where these comets came from. Today, astronomers are looking for proof of this cloud, not just around our star, but around other stars as well. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile might be able to spot these when it comes on line in 2021.

There's a new comet in town and it goes by the name Comet Iwamoto (C/2018 Y1). The comet is traveling at a speed of 147,948 miles per hour. I was battling a lot of haze last night, but I kept my telescope pointed at this patch of sky for 50 minutes and captured a very speedy comet. This video is a processing tutorial on how to capture and animate a comet and also how to execute batch processes in PixInsight using the Image Container and Process Container. Here is more info on the hardware and software: Target: Comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) Imaging Telescope: Explore Scientific 127mm ED Refractor (952 focal length) Focuser: MoonLite 2.5" Focuser with Motor Auto-Focus Focal Reducer: Orion .8 Focal Reducer Mount: Celestron CGX Polar Alignment: QHYCCD PoleMaster Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool Filter: Optlong L-Pro (gain: 0, offset: 10) Exposure: 30 seconds Frames: 57 frames spanning 50 minutes. Guide scope: Orion ST80 Guide Camera: Lodestar X2 Guide Software: PHD2 Calibration Frames: Darks: 50, Bias: 50, Flats: 50 Capture software: Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) Stacking software: PixInsight Post Processing: PixInsight, PhotoShop Dew Shield, Dew Heater Strip Astrobin: https://astrob.in/390133/0/ #comet #astrophotography #astronomy

ESA's Rosetta-Philae mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was a ground-breaking mission in many ways, but not everything went to plan. So what went wrong? https://brilliant.org/astrum/ ************** A big thank you to Brilliant for supporting this video. Sign up for free using the link above. That link will also get the first 200 subscribers 20% off a premium subscription to the website if you like what you see. ************** SUBSCRIBE for more videos about our other planets. Subscribe! http://goo.gl/WX4iMN Facebook! http://goo.gl/uaOlWW Twitter! http://goo.gl/VCfejs Donate! Patreon: http://goo.gl/GGA5xT Ethereum Wallet: 0x5F8cf793962ae8Df4Cba017E7A6159a104744038 Become a Patron today and support my channel! Donate link above. I can't do it without you. Thanks to those who have supported so far! Image Credits: ESA/Rosetta Music Credits: Aerocity - Lost Love Stellardrone - Billions and Billions

Capturing comet 46P with a static tripod, tracked OTA and piggy backed lens We will discuss 3 potential ways of capturing a moving target, like comet 46P. The first will be using a static tripod, camera and lens to capture a wider field view. The second will be using a traditional tracked mount and OTA to capture a closer in view of the target. Lastly we will discuss the benefit of using a piggyback mount to add a different focal length to the OTA. We will discuss the software used to obtain and image the target, track the section of the sky and lastly some of the processing done to create the slideshows. All of this will be from a relatively novice perspective. Presented by Ryan Blankenship

If you like this content, please consider supporting Deep Astronomy on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy #YourSkyTonight #amateurastronomy #backyardskies In the waning months of 2018, looking up in the eastern, early evening sky in the northern hemisphere, we are provided with a celestial Yuletide present. Moving just above the constellation Taurus the Bull throughout the winter solstice period, lies a Christmas comet. Because of the glare of the waxing Moon, it will require a small pair of binoculars to see, but scanning the skies just above the bright star cluster of the Hyades, you’ll come across a dim, greenish patch of light: a small, short period comet known as 46P/Wirtanen Special Thanks to Alexander Reinders! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddQGMUM5NUerv1mdPh3TdQ Listen to Deep Astronomy on Anchor: https://Anchor.fm/DeepAstronomy Created with Stellarium Open Source Software: http://www.stellarium.org/ Original Music - Mark C. Petersen, Lochness Productions: https://www.lochnessproductions.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

This is a condensed episode (Part 1) of imaging the comet, As this time around was much more successful this time around and got over an hour of it moving through the sky...make sure you are sharing and hitting that notifications button MUSIC CREDITS AS FOLLOWED FOR THIS SESSION Bethlehem - Christmas by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100307 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Away In A Manger by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Angels We Have Heard by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?collection=004&page=1 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Jingle Bells 7 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100189 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Carol Of The Bells by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Carol Of The Bells by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100191 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Hip Hop Christmas by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/ Angels We Have Heard - Christmas by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?collection=004&page=1 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ What Child Is This by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ I Saw Three Ships by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100270 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

I will try for the comet again...and this time it won’t be as cloudy so come out and join me as I’ll do what it takes to get this comet..I’ll be taking calls from you the viewer...as we will all get to celebrate my birthday on stream before the big day (December 19th).....So tell your friends your neighbors and let’s celebrate and have a good time!!!!

Comet 46P/Wirtanen From Monday 17, 2018 6:00pm to January 1, 2019 as it travels threw the sky from Denver, Colorado. Video will play 4 times. Star field 6th magnitude.

Comet 46P Wirtanen In this video I photograph Comet 46P Wirtanen from my backyard. Comet 46P/Wirtanen is 2018’s brightest comet of the year, and will be the 10th closest approach of a comet in modern times. At its closest approach to us on December 16th, the comet will be approximately 30 times the distance of the moon from us is. On December 13th, 2018, I captured this icy snowball with a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR and a 300mm lens. The comet is currently heading towards the constellation Taurus, and can be seen with the naked eye from a dark sky location. iOptron SKyGuider Pro: https://www.ontariotelescope.com/product.asp?itemid=1164&Affid=2 Muisc by Aljosha Konstanty: https://music.aljoshakonstanty.com/ #comet46p

The Geminids meteor shower, one of the best meteor showers of the year, peaks during the night of December 13-14, 2018 and shows up to 100-150 meteors per hour in dark sky. Join Slooh for a live show during which we enjoy live feeds from partner observatories of Geminid meteors and discuss this remarkable annual celestial event.

Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. People around the world have the opportunity to participate in the study of comet 46P/Wirtanen as it has a close approach with Earth in December of 2018.

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Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of Comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 10, 2018. The comet will fly just 7,199,427 miles (11,586,350 kilometers) on Dec. 16. -- How to see the comet in Dec. 2018: https://www.space.com/42575-see-comet-64p-wirtanen-earth-flyby-december-2018.html Best Telescopes for the Money: https://www.space.com/15693-telescopes-beginners-telescope-reviews-buying-guide.html Credit: Space.com / footage courtesy Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project / produced and edited by Steve Spaleta http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta