NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

Jan 16, 2024

The Orion You Can Almost See

Do you recognize this constellation? Although it is one of the most recognizable star groupings on the sky, this is a more full Orion than you can see an Orion only revealed with long exposure digital camera imaging and post- processing. Here the cool red giant Betelgeuse takes on a strong orange tint as the brightest star on the upper left. Orion's hot blue stars are numerous, with supergiant Rigel balancing Betelgeuse on the lower right, and Bellatrix at the upper right. Lined up in Orion's belt are three stars all about 1,500 light-years away, born from the constellation's well-studied interstellar clouds. Just below Orion's belt is a bright but fuzzy patch that might also look familiar the stellar nursery known as Orion's Nebula. Finally, just barely visible to the unaided eye but quite striking here is Barnard's Loop – a huge gaseous emission nebula surrounding Orion's Belt and Nebula discovered over 100 years ago by the pioneering Orion photographer E. E. Barnard.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html?

Axiom Space Ax-3 private spaceflight with SpaceX: Mission updates

Jan 16, 2024

Axiom Space's Ax-3 mission is the third-ever private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule on Jan. 17 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is expected to return about two weeks later.

The crew includes Ax-3 mission commander and former NASA astronaut Michael "LA" López-Alegría, mission specialist Walter Villadei (who also flew aboard Virgin Galactic's Galactic 01 suborbital spaceflight as VIRTUTE 1 mission commander last summer), Turkey's first astronaut,Alper Gezeravcı and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut reserve member Marcus Wandt.

https://www.space.com/news/live/axiom-space-missions-updates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr8gN1DFj4w

Bizarre Video Of ‘UFO’ Taken By Flight Attendant Over Europe

January 16, 2024 9:01 AM ET

Reports surfaced Tuesday of a UFO flying incredibly close to a Wizz Air flight from Luton, England, to Syzmany, Poland.

Flight attendant Denisa Tanase, 36, captured a video of what appears to be a bright pink UFO not too far outside of the aircraft, according to Luton Today. Tanase was trying to snap a video of the view from the aircraft, as seen in photographs shared on social media, and a video shared by Metro UK.

She apparently thought nothing more of the video until she came to review it 20 minutes later, and saw something that was quite amiss. In the 30-second-ish clip, a bright pink series of swirls can easily be seen outside the window, taking up a huge portion of the skies ahead of her.

The strange object appeared and reappeared in the shot, almost like a reflection on the glass of the plane window. It’s almost like a burning ball in the middle of the sky … the same color as the Wizz Air planes.

“I’ve been a flight attendant for a year and have never seen anything like this. I couldn’t see anything with my bare eyes. But when I checked the video 20 minutes later I spotted it and I spoke to the pilot to ask if they knew anything,” she told Metro UK. “Everyone was confused – they hadn’t seen anything while flying and there had been no turbulence. It was a weird shape, like a circle flashing pink. At first we thought maybe it was a reflection of our pink uniform but on the video you can see the motion – you can see it’s flying.”

Reports of airline pilots and flight attendants spotting UFOs have risen significantly over the last few years, largely due to the drop in stigma around the topic. But will we ever know the full truth of what’s out there? No, not unless these beings tell us themselves.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/16/ufo-wizz-air-flight-attendant-europe-poland-england/