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Where Your Elements Came From
2026-09-14
The hydrogen in your body and present in every molecule of water came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. The carbon in your body was made by nucle…
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- Universe Today Don't Get Your Hopes Up for a City on the Moon 2026-09-14 19:57
- NASA New Crops, Health Research Proposals to Help NASA Advance Exploration 2026-09-14 19:00
- Universe Today Tens of Thousands of Fast Radio Bursts Could Help Solve the Greatest Cosmic Mysteries 2026-09-14 18:12
- NASA NASA Welcomes Djibouti as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory 2026-09-14 16:46
- NASA NASA Kicks Off Inspiration Tour with Steelers vs. Falcons Game 2026-09-14 16:04
- NASA NASA Kicks Off Inspiration Tour with Steelers vs. Falcons Game 2026-09-14 16:00
- NASA APOD: 2026 September 14 – Where Your Elements Came From 2026-09-14 04:05
- Universe Today Could the Clues to Ancient Alien Civilizations Be Hiding in a Bucket of Moon Dust? 2026-09-13 13:09
- NASA APOD: 2026 September 13 – Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea 2026-09-13 04:05
- Universe Today A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy 2026-09-13 01:53
Rocket Launches
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1h 34minVega-C | Sentinel-3C & FLEXGo
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6h 37minZhuque-2E Block 2 | Unknown PayloadGo
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22h 7minGravity-1 | Unknown PayloadGo
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1d 1hFalcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-259Go
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1d 13hSoyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P)Go
Space Weather
NOAA
AIA 193 A (Corona) (SDO)
Earth (EPIC/DSCOVR) — 2026-09-12
Moon Phase
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Waxing Crescent
8.6% illuminated
Next Full Moon
26. Sep (12d)
Next New Moon
11. Oct (27d)
Meteor Showers
IMO-
Draconids 23dPeak: 8. Oct 2026 ZHR: ~10 20 km/s21P/Giacobini-Zinner
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Orionids 36dPeak: 21. Oct 2026 ZHR: ~20 66 km/s1P/Halley
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Leonids 63dPeak: 17. Nov 2026 ZHR: ~15 71 km/s55P/Tempel-Tuttle
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Geminids 90dPeak: 14. Dec 2026 ZHR: ~150 35 km/s3200 Phaethon
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Ursids 98dPeak: 22. Dec 2026 ZHR: ~10 33 km/s8P/Tuttle
Near-Earth Asteroids
CNEOSNext 14 days, < 0.1 AU
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2026 RG152026-Sep-15 07:3 0.2 LD 94.753 km 9.1 km/s
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2026 RW372026-Sep-20 19:5 1.2 LD 445.220 km 8.8 km/s
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2026 RA42026-Sep-16 07:4 3.3 LD 1.285.903 km 11.6 km/s
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2026 RR342026-Sep-23 22:1 3.7 LD 1.427.027 km 6.5 km/s
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2026 RF152026-Sep-19 15:3 5.5 LD 2.124.365 km 14.1 km/s
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2026 RJ152026-Sep-22 19:4 5.5 LD 2.124.694 km 10.3 km/s
LD = Lunar Distances (384.400 km)
New Papers
arXiv- The Role of the Core in Setting Massive Neutron-Star Radii
- A Framework for Evaluating Forward Contamination Risk for Bio-ISRU Microorganisms
- Continuous Learning of Gravity Field Irregularities Around Small Bodies via Neural Hamiltonian ODEs
- An unresolved extreme warm infrared excess toward a nearby low-mass star
- Impact of galaxy intrinsic alignments on non-Gaussian weak lensing statistics for modified gravity
- Clustering-based halo mass assignment for high-redshift galaxies: method, validation, and application to JWST
Astronomer's Telegrams
ATel- #18042 Radio Non-detection of Hercules X-1 during the ALS with MeerKAT/X-KAT
- #18041 FSRQ 3C 395: Upper limits from a neutrino search with IceCube
- #18040 The magnetar XTE J1810-197 remains in radio quiescence
- #18039 MAXI/GSC detection of bright X-ray burst-like activity positionally consistent with XTE J1810-197 and XTE J1810-189
- #18038 NuSTAR observation of state transition and Quasi-Regular Modulations in 4U 1630-47
- #18037 XRISM/Xtend Transient Search (XTS) detected an X-ray flare from XRISM J1631-4843
Current Comets
Heavens-Above| Comet | Mag | Constellation | Alt |
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| 10P Tempel 2 | 9.0 | Piscis Austrinus | 2.0° |
| 169P NEAT | 11.2 | Leo | -22.2° |
| 161P Hartley-IRAS | 11.6 | Cetus | 17.1° |
| 220P McNaught | 12.2 | Taurus | 27.7° |
| C/2024 J3 ATLAS | 13.7 | Lyra | 37.3° |
| 260P McNaught | 14.1 | Auriga | 35.2° |
| C/2024 T5 ATLAS | 14.3 | Lepus | -8.4° |
| 78P Gehrels | 14.4 | Gemini | 5.0° |
Live Services
Latest Publications (peer-reviewed)
- ApJ A New Constraint on the Optical Depth from the Reionization History Independent of Cosmic Microwave Background Large-scale E-mode Polarization Yuta Kageura, Masami Ouchi, Fumihiro Naokawa, Hiroya Umeda,
- ApJ Disk Evolution and Planet Formation in the Triple HD 104237 System Antonio S. Hales, James M. Miley, Daniel Ramos, Antoine Alag
- ApJ Correlations of ALMA CO(2–1) with JWST Mid-infrared Fluxes Down to Scales of ≲100 pc in nearby Star-forming Galaxies from PHANGS Tao Jing and Cheng Li
- ApJ An X-Ray Absorption-line Survey of the Circumgalactic Medium of M31 with XMM-Newton Kaile Wang, Zheng Zhou, Taotao Fang and Fabrizio Nicastro
- ApJ HAWC Study on the Ultra-high-energy Gamma-Ray Emissions from the Pulsar Wind Nebula G32.64+0.53 R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, E. Anita-Rangel, M. Araya, J.C. Artea
- ApJ Impact of External Driver on Evolution from Electron-only Reconnection to Standard Reconnection Yundan Guan, San Lu, Quanming Lu, Yukang Shu and Rongsheng W
- ApJ NATA: A Chemical-picture Equation of State for Stellar Merger Hydrodynamics Natalia Ivanova
- ApJ The X-Ray Continuum Emission Region in the Lensed Quasar SDSS J133907.23+131038.6 Is Much Smaller than the Accretion Disk Christopher W. Morgan, James B. Margeson, Gilberto Garcia, X
- ApJL Evidence of Self-organized Criticality in the Prompt Emission of a Bright Gamma-Ray Burst Wen-Long Zhang, Wen-Jun Tan, Hao-Tian Lan, Shuang-Xi Yi, Sha
- ApJL Integrated Mass Loss for Very Metal-poor Stars: Asterosesimic Red Giant Masses of K2 Globular Cluster NGC 5897 Csilla Kalup, László Molnár, Madeline Howell, Attila Bódi an
- ApJL A Homogeneous Survey of JWST-MIRI Transmission Spectra of 10 Exoplanets Martin Binet, Nikku Madhusudhan, Måns Holmberg and Subhajit
- ApJL Sequential Magnetic Reconnections in a Fishbone-like Structure Leading to Recurrent Brightenings Bo Yang, Jiayan Yang, Junchao Hong and Yi Bi
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