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APOD
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2026-10-06
Have you ever seen a complete auroral oval? You can't see one from the ground because it makes too large a circle around one of Earth's magnetic poles. But spacecraft high above the Earth can see them…
Space News
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- ESA Mars’s oddest cloud may be even odder than we thought 2026-10-07 15:00
- Universe Today Thousands of Black Holes Could Be Lurking in Our Backyard—and You Can Help Find Them 2026-10-07 11:10
- NASA APOD: 2026 October 7 – Supernova Remnant Pa 30 2026-10-07 04:05
- Universe Today Wandering Black Holes May Hold Clues to the Evolution of the Universe 2026-10-07 01:26
- Universe Today Galaxy Evolution Can be Affected by Black Hole Jets 2026-10-07 01:25
- NASA NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Spacecraft Departure 2026-10-06 18:31
- NASA Lunar Grounding Challenge 2026-10-06 18:22
- NASA Astronomers Solve Cosmic Cold Case with NASA Hubble Data 2026-10-06 16:17
- NASA Astronomers Solve Cosmic Cold Case with NASA Hubble Data 2026-10-06 16:09
- NASA NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn 2026-10-06 15:30
Rocket Launches
LL2-
LaunchedNuri | NeonSat-2 to 6Success
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15h 48minFalcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer AGo
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2d 3hLong March 12 | Unknown PayloadGo
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3d 6hFalcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25Go
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5d 18hFalcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35Go
Space Weather
NOAA
AIA 193 A (Corona) (SDO)
Earth (EPIC/DSCOVR) — 2026-10-05
Moon Phase
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Waning Crescent
14.9% illuminated
Next Full Moon
26. Oct (18d)
Next New Moon
11. Oct (4d)
Meteor Showers
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Draconids NOWPeak: 8. Oct 2026 ZHR: ~10 20 km/s21P/Giacobini-Zinner
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Orionids 13dPeak: 21. Oct 2026 ZHR: ~20 66 km/s1P/Halley
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Leonids 40dPeak: 17. Nov 2026 ZHR: ~15 71 km/s55P/Tempel-Tuttle
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Geminids 67dPeak: 14. Dec 2026 ZHR: ~150 35 km/s3200 Phaethon
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Ursids 75dPeak: 22. Dec 2026 ZHR: ~10 33 km/s8P/Tuttle
Near-Earth Asteroids
CNEOSNext 14 days, < 0.1 AU
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2026 TU32026-Oct-07 02:5 0.8 LD 317.507 km 14.3 km/s
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2026 TB32026-Oct-09 04:5 1.7 LD 643.858 km 11 km/s
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2026 TQ12026-Oct-08 11:1 2.2 LD 840.958 km 9 km/s
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2026 TX2026-Oct-08 00:1 2.2 LD 841.869 km 10.3 km/s
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2026 TS2026-Oct-18 06:2 2.4 LD 907.445 km 10.3 km/s
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2022 UP62026-Oct-15 20:5 2.6 LD 1.004.947 km 9 km/s
LD = Lunar Distances (384.400 km)
New Papers
arXiv- Relaxation of a Vlasov gas to an inhomogeneous state due to phase space mixing in an axisymmetric potential: A Newtonian analogy of the Kerr orbital motion
- Classification of X-ray Binaries in NGC 6946 with the use of Multiwavelength Data
- An Assessment of the Triangulation Capabilities of a Multi-Site All-Sky Infrared Camera Array
- Power-law Coupling and Mock Validation of a Surface-density Anisotropy Diagnostic for 85 Rich Galaxy Clusters
- Deriving the Continuous $\beta$-FPUT Model for Decayless Solar Coronal Oscillations Directly from Resistive MHD
- The variable mass-loss in low-mass red giant stars: Chromospheric motion across stellar evolution in 47 Tuc
Astronomer's Telegrams
ATel- #18046 Fermi-LAT detection of enhanced gamma-ray activity from the BL Lac PKS 0332-403
- #18045 Detection of superhumps in Gaia16ahk during its ongoing superoutburst
- #18044 The Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mkn 335 in its brighest X-ray state in more than a decade
- #18043 Further classifications at OHP of Gaia Alerted QSO candidates
- #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
Current Comets
Heavens-Above| Comet | Mag | Constellation | Alt |
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| 10P Tempel 2 | 10.0 | Piscis Austrinus | -21.0° |
| 161P Hartley-IRAS | 11.0 | Aquarius | 9.7° |
| 220P McNaught | 13.1 | Taurus | -29.2° |
| 169P NEAT | 13.2 | Sextans | -9.0° |
| C/2024 T5 ATLAS | 13.8 | Lepus | -52.1° |
| C/2024 J3 ATLAS | 14.0 | Lyra | 75.4° |
| C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein | 14.7 | Volans | -64.0° |
| 78P Gehrels | 15.0 | Gemini | -16.8° |
Live Services
Latest Publications (peer-reviewed)
- ApJ Empirical Effective-temperature Calibrations for Galactic BA Supergiants N. L. Vaidman, A. S. Miroshnichenko, Sh. T. Nurmakhametova,
- ApJ Stratified Wind Geometries of GRS 1915+105: Density Profiles and Radii Noa Keshet, Ehud Behar, Jon M. Miller and Joey Neilsen
- ApJ Local Heavily Obscured Active Galaxies Observed with Chandra. I. Spectral Properties of the Nuclear and Extended X-Ray Emission R. Middei, G. Fabbiano, A. Trindade Falcão, D. Ł. Król, W. P
- ApJ A Search for High-energy Counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts Yang Zhang, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Shuo Xiao, Yue Wang, Yi Wen, Shao
- ApJ Efficiency of Tidal Dissipation in Convective Flow Under Rapid Tidal Forcing Hongzhe Zhou and Dong Lai
- ApJ Radial Velocity Evidence for a Post-mass-transfer Massive Binary System NaSt1 Kittipong Wangnok, Samaporn Tinyanont, Ryan M. Lau, Ryan J.
- ApJ Radio Emission with Dust: A Bow-shock Interpretation for the TDE Candidate AT 2019avd Shuyuan Wei, Yanan Wang, Guobin Mou, Linhui Wu, Santiago del
- ApJ Magnetic Fields and Asymmetric Accretion in the Class 0 Protostellar System L1527 IRS Hanju Nam, Woojin Kwon, Youngwoo Choi, Ian Stephens and Lesl
- ApJL Two Exciting High-redshift Galaxy Candidates Turn Out to Be Two Exciting Brown Dwarfs Maruša Bradac, Chris Willott, Yoshihisa Asada, Loïc Albert,
- ApJL Solar Soft X-Ray Coronal Dimming in a Failed Eruption Associated with Plasma Cooling Xinyue Wang, Astrid M. Veronig, Hechao Chen and Hui Tian
- ApJL Negative and Positive Cascade Rates of Slow Alfvénic Turbulence in Switchback and Nonswitchback Intervals: Wind Observations Sofiane Bourouaine
- ApJL Collisionless Shock Driven by a Supersonic Velocity Shear Kazuki Kamiido and Yutaka Ohira
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