{"id":29917,"date":"2022-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=29917"},"modified":"2022-04-20T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:23:36","slug":"eye-on-the-sky-a-cosmic-pickpocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/2022\/03\/24\/eye-on-the-sky-a-cosmic-pickpocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye on the sky: A cosmic pickpocket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
EYE ON THE SKY<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

A cosmic pickpocket<\/h2>\n\n

A huge galaxy steals from a smaller companion as it brushes up against it in this spectacular new image<\/p>\n\n

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HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 7 FEBRUARY 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The friendship between two near neighbours, the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and galaxy IC 1559 (top), is getting a little too close for the more diminutive of the pair. Collectively known as Arp 282 and found 319 million lightyears away in the constellation of Andromeda, they give us a vivid demonstration of the tidal interactions that occur when galaxies meet.<\/p>\n\n

Thanks to its immense gravitational pull, NGC 169 is causing the smaller satellite to warp and stretch. Captured in such fine detail here, wispy strands of gas, dust and even star systems are being stripped away from the outskirts of the smaller galaxy by its colossal companion.<\/p>\n\n

You can\u2019t blame the bigger galaxy, however: galaxies grow and evolve by cannibalising material from head-on collisions, fleeting encounters and mergers with smaller galaxies. Throughout the cosmos, these small galaxies lose some of their molecular gas when they get close to a larger one. If they lose all of their gas, eventually they have no ability to make new stars, and will fade and die. What\u2019s rare is to see the moment captured so dramatically as in this incredible Hubble image.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

A peek beneath the clouds<\/h4>\n\n
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PARKER SOLAR PROBE, 9 FEBRUARY 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Parker Solar Probe has grabbed an unprecedented glimpse at the surface of Venus during a flyby on its way to the Sun. The first visible light images to penetrate the planet\u2019s thick, largely sulphuric acid clouds (shown left), they match up beautifully with radar data mapped by the Magellan mission (right) in the 1990s. The images of Venus\u2019s whole night side, gathered during three of the probe\u2019s seven scheduled flybys of the Solar System\u2019s hottest planet, have also been combined into a video at bit.ly\/3hp7x9L<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Full blast<\/h4>\n\n
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SOLAR ORBITER, 15 FEBRUARY 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The largest solar prominence ever observed in a single field of view, including the full solar disc, has been snapped by ESA\/NASA\u2019s Solar Orbiter. The solar eruption surged millions of kilometres into space \u2013 luckily from the side facing away from Earth \u2013 and was caught by the probe\u2019s Full Sun Imager (FSI). Currently in the sweetspot for capturing the disc and its surroundings, the orbiter will eventually fly just 42 million kilometres above the surface, capturing images from closer than ever before, including the Sun\u2019s polar regions.<\/p>\n\n

Thar she blows!<\/h4>\n\n
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VERY LARGE TELESCOPE, 7 FEBRUARY 2022 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Gobbling up material and blasting huge amounts of energy out into the cosmos, this supermassive black hole at the core of NGC 7582 was captured by astronomers trying to untangle the connections between black holes, their host galaxies and star formation. Roughly 70 million lightyears away in the constellation of Grus, the Crane, the red glowing areas show star creation, while the dominant blue regions show the cone-shaped material flowing out of the galaxy\u2019s active galactic nucleus.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Weird and wonderful<\/h4>\n\n
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HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 31 JANUARY 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

A world away from a classic spiral galaxy with well-defined arms that glitter with stars, this brooding, cave-like object is the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1705, 17 million lightyears away in the southern constellation of Pictor, the Painter. Within its dimly glowing walls of gas are a group of young stars, the baby boomers produced by a frenetic period of star formation known as a starburst. Odd galaxies like this one, which contain few elements other than hydrogen and helium, provide a window on how the earliest galaxies in the Universe formed.<\/p>\n\n

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    Multiwavelength composite image (x-ray, radio and optical) of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A – KARL JANSKY VERY LARGE ARRAY, HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE & CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY, 2 February 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Optical: NASA\/STScI; Radio: NSF\/NRAO\/VLA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    \u2018Santa Cruz\u2019, a hill in Mars\u2019s Jezero Crater – PERSEVERANCE, 18 February, 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU\/MSSS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    Elektra and its three moons. Elektra is the first ever quadruple asteroid system – VERY LARGE TELESCOPE, 14 FEBRUARY 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: ESO\/Berdeu et al., Yang et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    Arp 298, interacting galaxies NGC 7469 (left) and IC 5283 (right) – HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 21 FEBRUARY 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: ESA\/Hubble & NASA, A. Evans, R. Chandar<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    IC 2431, a triple galaxy merger – HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 14 FEBRUARY 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: \nESA\/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA, SDSS. Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    An intruder object captured flying through and past protoplanetary disk surrounding Z Canis Majoris – ALMA, SUBARU TELESCOPE & KARL JANSKY VERY LARGE ARRAY, 13 JANUARY 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO), S. Dagnello (NRAO\/AUI\/NSF), NAOJ<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    Galaxy NGC 1566 – V\u00cdCTOR M. BLANCO 4-METER TELESCOPE, 2 FEBRUARY 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: Dark Energy Survey\/DOE\/FNAL\/DECam\/CTIO\/NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>
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    Argyre Planitia, an unusual rippled landscape near Hooke Crater in Mars\u2019 southern highlands – EXOMARS, 11 FEBRUARY 2022 – IMAGE CREDIT: ESA\/Roscosmos\/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n
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    MORE ONLINE <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    A gallery of these and more stunning space images<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n

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    Photos: ESA\/HUBBLE & NASA\/J. DALCANTON\/DARK ENERGY SURVEY\/DOE\/FNAL\/DECAM\/ CTIO\/NOIRLAB\/NSF\/AURA\/SDSS, NASA\/APL\/NRL\/MAGELLAN TEAM\/JPL\/USGS, SOLAR ORBITER\/EUI TEAM\/ESA & NASA,ESA\/HUBBLE & NASA, R. CHANDAR, ESO\/JUNEAU ET AL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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