Jamie Carter
Award-winning science, astronomy, astro-tourism and solar eclipse journalist. @ForbesScience @SPACEdotcom @LiveScience @TheNextEclipse
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forbes.com | Jamie Carter
The galactic centre area of the Milky Way in Sagittarius behind the grand old barn near home in ... More southern Alberta, on June 30, 2019. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere). Check my main feed for more in-depth articles on stargazing, astronomy, eclipses and more.
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forbes.com | Jamie Carter
ToplineIn a moment long-awaited by astronomers, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in the Chilean Andes has today published its first images and time-lapse videos. A combination of a unique telescope and the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy, Rubin will begin a 10-year mission later this year, during which it's expected to discover 10 million supernovas, 20 billion galaxies, and millions of asteroids and comets. Its debut images are being shown live on YouTube today at 11:00 a.m. EDT .
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forbesjapan.com | Jamie Carter
地球の自転速度がまもなく史上最速を記録するかもしれない。 2020年以降、地球の自転は加速傾向が続いており、国際原子時（TAI）のアルゴリズムALGOSが1973年に導入されて以来「最も短い1日」を毎年のように更新している。自転1周期の時間（自転時間）の最短記録は昨年、2024年7月5日に観測されているが、世界時計アプリtimeanddate.comによると、今年7月9日、7月22日、8月5日にも、1日の長さが最短記録に迫ることになりそうだ。 地球の自転に基づく1日の長さは平均24時間になるよう定められており、これは8万6400秒に相当する。2020年まで地球の自転は徐々に減速する傾向にあり、自転時間の最短記録は8万6400秒より1.05ミリ秒短いだけだった。しかし、2020年7月19日の地球は、基準より1.47ミリ秒も短い時間で1回転した。2024年7月5日は、1.66ミリ秒とさらに短かった。...
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inkl.com | Jamie Carter
The ominous Chamaeleon I dark cloud, the nearest star-forming region to Earth, is captured in this image taken with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab.
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forbes.com | Jamie Carter
A crescent Moon with the Pleiades below-right. Jamie Carter If you’re up early on Monday, June 23, you’ll be rewarded with one of the most elegant sights the sky has to offer this month — a slender crescent moon close to a sparkling cluster of stars called the Pleiades. Here's everything you need to know about when and where to see them. Where And When To LookThis is a celestial encounter that lacks convenience.
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RT @PatrickPoitevin: Wow - annular solar eclipse Easter Island. Tandem observation - Clare observing visual. Noticed annularity started mi…
RT @hbhammel: @jamieacarter visits the soon-to-be-finished Rubin Observatory, and shares a wonderful overview of the amazing things in stor…
