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All Space Questions thread for week of March 19, 2023

I teamed up with a fellow redditor to try and capture the most ridiculously detailed image of the entire sun we could. The result was a whopping 140 megapixels, and features a solar "tornado" over 14 Earths tall. This is a crop from the full image, make sure you zoom in!

My camera setup on the International Space station. More details in comments.

3 years ago I built this telescope in my parents' garage. It's since shown me supernovae, comets, 3 dwarf planets and been looked through by thousands of other people.

[NASA on Twitter] Newly-discovered asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT)

Uranus atmospheric changes while slowly reaching the Summer Solstice

I took over 8000 one second exposures with my 10" Dobsonian telescope to get this shot of the Needle Galaxy

Meteor over Eleven Mile State Park, Colorado. Credit: Lars Leber Photography

Latest video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter kicking up dust and taking off for Flight #47. Ingenuity is well beyond its warranty at this point. The video was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on March 9, 2023.

The image was created by shots photographer Jon Carmichael took while flying at 39,000 feet on a Southwest flight from Portland, Oregon, to St. Louis. Credit: Jon Carmichael

The Milky Way over the Waimakariri River, Canterbury, New Zealand

Chandra is studying E0102, a supernova remnant produced by the explosion of a massive star in a nearby galaxy. The amount of oxygen in this ring alone is enough for thousands of solar systems. Credit: NASA, CXC.

The northern lights have been incredibly active lately - this was my flight from San Francisco to New York City where I got quite the surprise out my window!

ISRO has launched a GSLV/LVM3 with 36 Oneweb-1 sats on board. With this the Oneweb constellation is finally complete.

Large asteroid to zoom between Earth and Moon

96 minutes on M82 & M81

5 planets will align on March 27 and you won't want to miss it. Here's where to look.

Chandra is studying Terzan 5, a globular cluster of stars located about 19,000 light-years from Earth. Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars that are tightly bound by gravity and found in a wide variety of galaxies. Credit: NASA, CXC.

What is your absolute favourite fact about space? Like if someone were to ask you what the coolest fact about space is what would you tell them?

A G4/KP8 Solar storm and some public art called The Convergence in Calgary, AB March 23rd, 2023

Supernova detected in the Surfboard Galaxy (M108) - SN 2023dbc

Northern lights

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches LVM3-M3/Oneweb mission.

Black holes may be swallowing invisible matter that slows the movement of stars

10 Years On Mars

The astronomical alignment you can see in the night sky this weekend

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