{"id":42467,"date":"2023-03-23T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T09:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/?post_type=purple_issue&#038;p=42467"},"modified":"2023-03-23T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T10:11:02","slug":"eye-on-the-sky-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/2023\/03\/23\/eye-on-the-sky-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye on the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center sans-serif article-standfirst\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-ccp-primary-dark-color\">EYE ON THE SKY <\/span><\/h5>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Serene shining stars<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A moment of calm in a tumultuous Universe<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1943\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-42460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e.jpg 2047w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-1024x972.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-768x729.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-1536x1458.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif article-full-body\"><strong>HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 23 JANUARY 2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif dropcap\">Space is filled with violence. Gigantic explosions, temperatures both incredibly hot and unimaginably cold, forces strong enough to tear stars apart. Yet sometimes it can appear peaceful and serene, as this photo of stars piercing the dust and gas of the Orion Nebula 1,450 lightyears from Earth shows. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">It\u2019s a deceptively beautiful image, however. The main star, V 372 Orionis, is an Orion Variable, a young star prone to sudden variations in luminosity with no pattern or schedule. These stars are often found in the kind of diffuse nebulae Orion is famous for, and are expected to grow out of their variability as they age. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">Also visible in the image are the signatures of Hubble, the four diffraction spikes caused by starlight interacting with the four vanes that support the telescope\u2019s secondary mirror. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1836\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/4f6f3316-3828-4a30-abd9-0d5ff9056023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-42461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/4f6f3316-3828-4a30-abd9-0d5ff9056023.jpg 1836w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/4f6f3316-3828-4a30-abd9-0d5ff9056023-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/4f6f3316-3828-4a30-abd9-0d5ff9056023-918x1024.jpg 918w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/4f6f3316-3828-4a30-abd9-0d5ff9056023-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/4f6f3316-3828-4a30-abd9-0d5ff9056023-1377x1536.jpg 1377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1836px) 100vw, 1836px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h4 class=\"sans-serif article-subhead\">Bear  rock <\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif article-full-body\"><strong>MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, 25 JANUARY 2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">The Moon may have a man in it, but Mars has a bear. This example of pareidolia \u2013 the tendency of the human brain to see faces in things \u2013 joins the famous \u2018face\u2019 in the planet\u2019s Cydonia region. The bear\u2019s nose is a hill, perhaps a volcanic vent, that\u2019s collapsed, creating a distinctive shape joined by two impact craters forming the bear\u2019s eyes. A circular fracture pattern outlining what could be another buried crater provides the finishing touch. <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"no-tts wp-block-purple-slider\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-speed=\"300\" data-effect=\"fade\"><li class=\"no-tts blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/f8dfe46e-c768-4a2f-8e39-403744727510.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"42462\" data-link=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/f8dfe46e-c768-4a2f-8e39-403744727510\/\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"no-tts blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/4fd11713-bca0-4f3e-99c8-898d91b01cdb.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"42463\" data-link=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/4fd11713-bca0-4f3e-99c8-898d91b01cdb\/\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"no-tts blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/551f8f3e-2ed6-4c10-a2c1-80f47f5e47a5.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"42464\" data-link=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/551f8f3e-2ed6-4c10-a2c1-80f47f5e47a5\/\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h4 class=\"sans-serif article-subhead\">Mass transit <\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif article-full-body\"><strong>SOLAR ORBITER, 3 JANUARY 2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">Mercury passes in front of the Sun, showing the sheer scale of our host star. The planet is 5,000km across, yet is dwarfed by the towering structures in the Sun\u2019s outer atmosphere. These video stills were captured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on board ESA\/NASA\u2019s Solar Orbiter spacecraft and show solar atmospheric layers above the photosphere, the star\u2019s outer shell from which its light radiates. You can watch the full video at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mercurytransitvideo\">bit.ly\/mercurytransitvideo<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1578\" height=\"1090\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/53a8e98b-3e68-4d6a-a30b-79f16687910c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-42465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/53a8e98b-3e68-4d6a-a30b-79f16687910c.jpg 1578w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/53a8e98b-3e68-4d6a-a30b-79f16687910c-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/53a8e98b-3e68-4d6a-a30b-79f16687910c-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/53a8e98b-3e68-4d6a-a30b-79f16687910c-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/53a8e98b-3e68-4d6a-a30b-79f16687910c-1536x1061.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1578px) 100vw, 1578px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h4 class=\"sans-serif article-subhead\">Cluster of gems <\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif article-full-body\"><strong>HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 2 JANUARY 2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">Hubble\u2019s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 continue to deliver remarkable images, such as this shot of the tightly packed core of the globular cluster NGC 6355. The cluster resides toward the centre of the Milky Way, around 30,000 lightyears from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, contains over 100,000 solar masses, and is estimated to be 13.2 billion years old. <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1424\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/9da7616a-a313-444e-8744-9d60dbdb184a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-42466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/9da7616a-a313-444e-8744-9d60dbdb184a.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/9da7616a-a313-444e-8744-9d60dbdb184a-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/9da7616a-a313-444e-8744-9d60dbdb184a-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/9da7616a-a313-444e-8744-9d60dbdb184a-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/9da7616a-a313-444e-8744-9d60dbdb184a-1536x1068.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h4 class=\"sans-serif article-subhead\">Collision course <\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif article-full-body\"><strong>CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY, XMM-NEWTON, LOW-FREQUENCY ARRAY, GIANT METREWAVE RADIO TELESCOPE, VERY LARGE ARRAY, 30 JANUARY 2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">Some of the largest structures in the Universe are crashing together to create Abell 2256, a merger of at least three galaxy clusters in Ursa Minor. It took five telescopes recording data from radio waves, X-rays, visible and infrared light to create this image, with hot gas glowing blue in X-rays at the bottom, while red data from radio waves shows jets from supermassive black holes and shock waves at the top that stretch for two million lightyears. <\/p>\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-uagb-section uagb-section__wrap uagb-section__background-color uagb-block-65b8cfae-30e4-4d66-8b0f-92b76b0cce5d\"><div class=\"uagb-section__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-section__inner-wrap\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>MORE ONLINE<br><\/strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-ccp-black-color\">Explore a gallery of these and more stunning space images<\/span> <br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/bonus-content\/9BN84GZ\">www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/bonus-content\/9BN84GZ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<p class=\"footer\">ESA\/HUBBLE &amp; NASA\/J. BALLY\/M. ROBBERTO, NASA\/JPL-CALTECH\/UARIZONA, ESA &amp; NASA\/SOLAR ORBITER\/EUI TEAM, ESA\/HUBBLE &amp; NASA\/E. NOYOLA\/R. COHEN, X-RAY: CHANDRA: NASA\/CXC\/UNIV. OF BOLONGA\/K. RAJPUROHIT ET AL\/XMM-NEWTON: ESA\/XMM-NEWTON\/UNIV. OF BOLONGA\/K. RAJPUROHIT ET AL. RADIO: LOFAR: LOFAR\/ASTRON\/GMRT: NCRA\/TIFR\/GMRT\/VLA: NSF\/NRAO\/VLA\/OPTICAL\/IR: PAN-STARR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our roundup of this month\u2019s best images from the world\u2019s best telescopes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":42460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","purple_page_number":"6","purple_custom_meta_purple_page_number":"6","purple_seq_number":"1","purple_custom_meta_purple_seq_number":"1","purple_source_article":"article_6-1.xml","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_article":"article_6-1.xml","purple_source_issue":"April-2023","purple_custom_meta_purple_source_issue":"April-2023","purple_external_id":"April-2023-6-1","purple_custom_meta_purple_external_id":"April-2023-6-1","purple_issue_code":"|0000086563||","purple_custom_meta_purple_issue_code":"|0000086563||","purple_android_product":"com.im.skyatnight.215","purple_custom_meta_purple_android_product":"com.im.skyatnight.215","purple_ios_product":"com.im.skyatnight.215","purple_custom_meta_purple_ios_product":"com.im.skyatnight.215","purple_web_product":"","purple_custom_meta_purple_web_product":"","purple_publication_id":"075fab74-0a21-4201-866a-899d6c41c40c","purple_migrated":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[14],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"4","apple_news_title":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e.jpg",2047,1943,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-300x285.jpg",300,285,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-768x729.jpg",768,729,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-1024x972.jpg",800,759,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e-1536x1458.jpg",1536,1458,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2023\/03\/cf134b3f-8bfc-4d64-a67e-babd47797e4e.jpg",2047,1943,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Our roundup of this month\u2019s best images from the world\u2019s best telescopes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44042,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42467\/revisions\/44042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}