![]() ![]() ![]() Adding GPS coordinates might help, but so would a road, city and state. If their are multiple locations that have that street or city name, the usefulness of that information is quickly diminished. It’s kind of like someone only telling you the name of the street or city they live in. This is never a problem if you only plan to frequent ones that are near you and few in number, however, if you’d like to travel and plan out night sky observations along your trips the location (geographic) information is not contained in the name of each observatory. That said, not all observatory names tell you about their location. This app gives you timely information about sky conditions for night sky observations across the United States. While Clear Sky Charts are targeted at astronomers, anyone who wishes to look into the heavens, or needs a highly accurate sky forecast can benefit from iCSC: Clear Sky Chart Viewer. Users can then save the charts that they use often. ICSC allows users to find charts by title, location, or with a map. Users can also enable a legend to help read the charts. These charts provide Cloud Cover, Transparency, Seeing, Darkness, Wind, Humidity, and Temperature. There are over 4600 charts available for North America, with data provided by Allan Rahill of the Canadian Meteorological Center. The Clear Sky Chart, invented and maintained by Attilla Danko, shows at a glance when, in the next 48 hours, one might expect clear and dark skies for a specific observing site. With iCSC on your iPhone, you can easily search around for the best location, using Clear Sky Charts published by Attilla Danko. It's a pain to take out your telescope and then having to put it away when clouds quickly roll in. This phenomenon has been hypothesized and predicted for decades, and if confirmed, will be the first time that a black hole has been proven to have been kicked out of its home galaxy.Choosing when and where to observe is hard. Wanting to confirm its location in future observations, astronomers expect that this discovery will be followed up using the Webb Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to corroborate the data. Researchers have also determined that one of the other black holes was probably thrown in the opposite direction. This destabilized the orbits of the binary pair and one of them was thrust out into space (though scientists do not know which one).Īstrophysicists assume that this is the point at which the black hole achieved its impressive velocity within that galaxy. Then, another third rogue black hole flew into the mix. The first two were probably formed when two galaxies collided about 50 million years ago with two super-massive black holes at their center, forming a binary pair. The current hypothesis is that the runaway black hole was probably formed by a group of black holes that merged together over time. However, after examination, they eliminated the possibility of cosmic rays and realized it was actual data which did not look like anything they ever had seen before.īut how was this unique rogue black hole created? The astronomers had been scanning through Hubble images originally looking for something called a globular cluster and noticed a small streak, which they originally thought was the result of a cosmic ray hitting the camera detector, causing a linear imaging artifact. ![]() ![]() This string of stars and material stretches 200,000 light years (twice the width of our Milky Way galaxy) from the location of the black hole in the direction of the galaxy researchers believe it originated from.Īs sometimes happens in astronomy, observing this object was pure serendipity. This gas and dust is able to cool off, creating a string of newly formed stars in its wake as it moves through the universe.Įffectively, what astronomers were observing was the aftermath, like the wake behind a ship with waves, eddies and flowing currents. However, this black hole, rather than just devouring material in its path due to its great velocity, appears to be dragging newly-collected gas and dust. The creation of stars is commonly observed in the gas and dust within the arms of spiral galaxies. This black hole weighs as much as 20 million Suns and is travelling at 3.5 million miles an hour - so fast that if it were in our solar system it would travel 240,000 miles (the distance between the Earth and the Moon) in 14 minutes. Although rogue black holes are nothing new to science, astronomers have never before seen one move this fast or act as this one does anywhere in the universe. A black hole is the densest of objects in space the gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape. Recently, it spotted a unique rogue super-massive black hole rapidly rushing through outer space. Although the Webb Telescope has recently been grabbing all the current astronomical news, the Hubble Space Telescope is still up there making exciting discoveries. ![]()
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