Skynet 2-18-23 “Four of the Weirdest Objects in Space” & Constellation “Lepus, the Hare” 9PM CT

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Discussion Topic of the Evening.

Discussion Topic of the Evening.

Four of the Weirdest Objects in Space

An image of the area surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, in X-ray and infrared light. X-ray: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al.; IR: NASA/STScI

https://spaceandbeyondbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sagittarius-A.jpg

FORBIDDEN PLANET.  This artist’s impression portrays pulsar PSR B1257+12 as a small point of light in the distance, with its three planets bombarded by lethal X-ray and gamma-ray radiation. NASA/JPL-Caltech

https://spaceandbeyondbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ForbiddenPlanet.jpg

Hoags Object

https://spaceandbeyondbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/hoags-object.jpg

FERMI-MENT FILLER.  Enormous expanding bubbles of ultra-powerful gamma rays, each centered on nothingness, meet at our galaxy’s core, as depicted in this illustration of the Milky Way. Discovered in 2010, the origin of these bubbles remains a complete mystery. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

https://spaceandbeyondbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FermiFiller.jpg

Waz Up
Space Exploration and Space History 

Space Exploration News

1st private Launcher space tug fails after launching on SpaceX rocket

Space Tug

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/i92fbXQP9fSaGncoYQiqDS-970-80.jpg.webp

James Webb Telescope

https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/020923_LG_quenched-galaxy_feat-1030×580.jpg

GS-9209 Sprectograph

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367530041/figure/fig1/AS:11431281115672545@1675049159946/JWST-NIRSpec-observations-of-GS-9209-zoom-in-on-Hb-and-Ha-Data-are-shown-in-blue-with.png

The Kuiper Belt’s dwarf planet Quaoar Hosts an Impossible Ring

Dwarf Planet Quaoar

https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/020823_lg_Quaoar_feat-1030×580.jpg

Rings Around 3 Round Objects in the Solar System

https://www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/020823_lg_Quaoar_inline1_desktop.png

This Week in Space History

1997 February 11

STS-82 Hubble Space Servicing Mission

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/82738054.jpg

2000 February 11

STS-99 STRM Antenna Deployment

https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts099/images/000131srtmconcept.jpg

1961 February 12 

Venera 1

http://mentallandscape.com/V_Venera1i.jpg

2001 February 12 – .

NEAR, Asteroid Eros Landing – . Nation: USA. Spacecraft: NEAR.

Images EROS Landing

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/near_0155981852_plus3.jpg

1972 February 14 

Luna 20 Landing Site

https://moonregistry.forallmoonkind.org/wp-content/uploads/1972/02/luna20-moonscape-1170×570.jpg

2005 February 15 – .

Cassini, Titan Flyby, Successful – . Nation: USA. Spacecraft: Cassini.

1959 February 17

Vanguard 2

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Vanguard2.jpg

1965 February 17

Ranger 8 Launched

Ranger 8 Spacecraft 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Ranger_6789.svg

1973 February 17 – .

MSC Renamed Lyndon B Johnson Space Center

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/msc_renamed_jsc_3_jsc_entrance_sign_0.jpg?itok=Orvf-M2u

Space-Related Birthdays

1960 February 11 – .

Birth of Richard Alan ‘Rick’ Mastracchio

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ST5mnrkwgswWWAxFUGgDFG-970-80.jpg.webp

1923 February 13 – .

Birth of Charles E Yeager

https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f15072d/2147483647/strip/false/crop/2048×1152+0+0/resize/1486×836!/quality/80/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6f%2F48%2F23b2f9f7ac9687e0dc391357b2f6%2Fla-1502907893-x1kosot1qe-snap-image

1942 February 13 – .

Birth of Donald Edward Williams 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Williams-de.jpg

1947 February 14 – .

Birth of Pham Tuan

https://spacelaunchnow-prod-east.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/astronaut_images/ph25e125ba25a1m2520tu25c325a2n_image_20181201190603.jpg

1935 February 15 – .

Birth of Dr Roger Bruce Chaffee

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3mw4iBnKDUZ8Gh7Us9cQZY-970-80.jpg.webp

1944 February 15 – .

Birth of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov

https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/wp-content/uploads/aleksandr2520serebrov_image_20181201215818-1-198×255.jpg?ezimgfmt=rs:198×272/rscb2/ngcb2/notWebP

1964 February 15 – .

Birth of Leland Devon ‘Lee’ Melvin

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/NASA_astronaut_Leland_D._Melvin_with_his_dogs_Jake_and_Scout.jpg/1615px-NASA_astronaut_Leland_D._Melvin_with_his_dogs_Jake_and_Scout.jpg

1953 February 16 – .

Birth of Michael Ray Mantz

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/portraits2/astronauts/mantz_michael.jpg

Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week

Lepus, the Hare

Space Launches For This Week

Space Coast Launches

Space Flight Now Launch Schedule

Feb. 23

Falcon 9 • Starlink 6-1

Launch time: 1837 GMT (1:37 p.m. EST)

Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink internet satellites. This mission will be the first mission to launch a new larger Starlink spacecraft design known as “Starlink V2 Mini.” The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. [Feb. 16]

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Feb. 23/24

Soyuz • Soyuz MS-23

Launch time: 0034 GMT on 24th (7:34 p.m. EST on 23rd)

Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

A Russian government Soyuz rocket will launch the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the International Space Station. The mission was originally supposed to carry Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian flight engineer Nikolai Chub, and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, but managers removed the crew from the mission in order to use the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft as a replacement for the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the space station. The rocket will fly in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. [Feb. 15]

Feb. 26

Falcon 9 • Crew 6

Launch time: 0707 GMT (2:07 a.m. EST)

Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the program’s ninth flight with astronauts. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will launch on the Crew Dragon spacecraft to begin a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. Delayed from Feb. 19. [Jan. 19]

NET Late February

Falcon 9 • Starlink 2-7

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink internet satellites. This mission will deploy the Starlink satellites into a high-inclination orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. [Feb. 16]

March 1

Falcon 9 • OneWeb 17

Launch time: 1944 GMT (2:44 p.m. EST)

Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 40 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing and deploying a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. This will be the third launch of OneWeb satellites with SpaceX, and OneWeb’s 17th 

launch overall. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. [Feb. 16]

March 8/9

Falcon 9 • SES 18 & SES 19

Launch time: 0035 GMT on 9th (7:35 p.m. EST on 8th)

Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch SES 18 and SES 19 communications satellites for SES of Luxembourg. SES 18 and 19, built by Northrop Grumman, will provide C-band television and data services over the United States. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. [Feb. 16]

March 10/11

Falcon 9 • SpaceX CRS 27

Launch time: 0159 GMT on 11th (8:59 p.m. EST on 10th)

Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight is the 27th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. [Feb. 16]

March

Terran 1 • “Good Luck, Have Fun”

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: LC-16, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket will launch on its inaugural demonstration flight. This launch of Terran 1 is the first orbital attempt by Relativity and will not include a customer payload. [Feb. 16]

March

Proton • Olymp-K 2

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

A Russian government Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch an Olymp-K communications satellite for the Russian military. [Feb. 16]  

Recent Astronomical Discoveries 

Black Hole Devouring Encapsulated Star Resembles a Torus-shaped Dynamics

https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/file-uploads/blogs/21727/images/d41a4d4-2328-6e6d-58a-48827bbe6602_BH.jpeg

Final Moments of Star inside Black Hole

Star and Black Hole Progression

https://kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com/kajabi-storefronts-production/file-uploads/blogs/21727/images/dd6c330-ffbe-0dee-83e-30506164604_BHstar.jpeg

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.

All times are “local” (Dallas) time.

Tiangong

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=48274&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST

Feb. 25th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60000.5114213666&type=V

Feb. 26th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60001.4698186431&type=V

Feb. 27th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60002.4950927964&type=V

Hubble Space Telescope

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST

Feb. 19th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=20580&mjd=59995.0303940661&type=V

Check-ins

11.  Astronomical Q and A.

Lean on Chaz KF5JHA, Kelly K5KTX, or Tony NT5TM for any questions.  They are all very knowledgeable and regularly check-in weekly.

Check-ins or comments 

12.  73 Round.

Any checked-in stations with other remarks or questions?

Final Check-Ins?

Does anyone need any fills?

CLOSING

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73 everybody and enjoy the evening discovering the universe

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