TYB
https://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/2060156011835764740
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 29, 2026
Messier 104
A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting a more popular moniker, the Sombrero Galaxy. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy can be seen across the spectrum and is host to a central supermassive black hole. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Still, the spiky foreground stars in this field of view lie well within our own Milky Way. This broad view of the well-known galaxy was processed to reveal M104's extended halo, as well as a faint tidal stellar stream. It was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJMJvX2-hM
https://x.com/bruce_barrett/status/2060196954403999748
New Pole Shift/Tsunami Model | S0 News and TGIF frens
May.29.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvS5x6UTAls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ava7iJUkduk ((Stefan Burns: Huge Explosions Rock Florida and South Carolina 💥 What's Happening?!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl4-4Q9j4tk (Dobsonian Power: LIVE TELESCOPE - SUPER ZOOM ON THE MOON ANOMALIES)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFH8hjpgcfg (EarthMaster: More Stress Earthquakes Northern California. Manilla Trench review. Thursday Night update)
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/nation-world/mysterious-rattling-in-south-carolina-was-a-sonic-boom-with-an-unknown-cause/507-fa4f0922-e560-476e-872f-4e8ef0cf3fc6
https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-hidden-signal-in-the-sun-study-suggests-2000764654
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1276102
https://meteoagent.com/schumann-resonance-forecast
https://weather.substack.com/p/may-28-2026-thursday-spring-weather
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news/303625/Volcano-earthquake-report-for-Friday-29-May-2026.html
https://www.tornadohq.com/
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/new-solar-wind-display-viewer-available-experimental-product
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-below-normal-2026-atlantic-hurricane-season
https://www.spaceweather.gov/index.php/
https://spaceweather.com/
Bright fireball over New York and Ontario produces sonic boom
Thursday, May 28, 2026 11:52 UTC
A bright fireball was observed over Western New York and Southern Ontario around 09:10 – 09:16 UTC on May 27, 2026 (05:10 – 05:16 EDT). Several witnesses reported hearing a boom associated with the event.
Many people in Western New York and Southern Ontario saw the fireball early Wednesday morning, with some describing the sonic boom it produced as a powerful thunder. A person from Elma, southeast of Buffalo, said the sound woke her up.
Tim Collins, research associate in astronomy at the Buffalo Museum of Science, described the object as a meteor/bolide that broke up after entering Earth’s atmosphere.
The event was captured by multiple web cameras and on NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-19 (GOES-19).
The New York fireball came less than two days after another camera-friendly meteor was recorded over Mayon volcano in the Philippines at 14:33 UTC on May 25.
Interestingly, that object crossed the sky near the erupting volcano before ending in a bright terminal flash.
The event drew extra attention because PHIVOLCS later had to clarify that the meteor disintegrated in the atmosphere and did not strike Mayon’s slopes, after misleading AI-generated videos began circulating online.
https://watchers.news/2026/05/28/bright-fireball-over-new-york-and-ontario-produces-sonic-boom/
https://watchers.news/category/space/meteor-activity/
extra space objects and an unrelated Avi Loeb
https://usaherald.com/a-green-fireball-streaked-across-the-philippine-sky-just-as-mount-mayon-erupted-and-now-scientist-are-racing-to-identify-what-it-was/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/junk-food-in-the-age-of-ai-727c787a401f
Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster
May 29, 2026
The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years.
The galaxy Messier 88 (M88), also known as NGC 4501, is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair).
M88 is an active galaxy, which means that its center harbors a supermassive black hole that is snacking on gas and dust.
Astronomers estimate the black hole is around 100 million times as massive as the Sun, and it appears to be powering outflows of gas from the galaxy’s center.
A population of old, reddish stars around the black hole give M88 its warmly glowing heart.
Spreading out from the galaxy’s center are several tightly wound, symmetrical spiral arms, each outlined by sparkling pink and blue star clusters and knotted clouds of dust.
We see M88 from an angle that makes it appear elongated, and its spiral arms delicately fan out before it.
M88 is a member of the Virgo Cluster, a collection of more than a thousand galaxies held together by gravity.
As this massive galaxy group moves through space, the galaxies themselves are in constant motion as they orbit the cluster’s center of gravity.
M88 itself is on a long and somewhat perilous cosmic journey that will bring it to the innermost reaches of the cluster.
As is the case with any epic journey, M88 will be fundamentally changed by its trek to the center of the Virgo Cluster, about two million light-years from where it is today.
In 200–300 million years, M88 will make its closest approach to Messier 87, the massive elliptical galaxy that anchors the entire cluster.
As it draws close to this gravitational behemoth, M88 will experience intense ram pressure stripping. Ram pressure stripping is a process through which a galaxy’s gas is swept away as it pushes through the ever-present gas between the galaxies in a cluster.
Researchers have already seen this process at work in M88. The galaxy’s swirling disk of gas is truncated and appears compressed on the leading edge of the galaxy, piling up gas and dust like snow before a plough.
In fact, M88 appears to have considerably less cold gas — the raw fuel for star formation — than expected for a galaxy of its size, especially in its outer regions.
This is a clear sign that M88 will be altered by its journey, which will affect its ability to form stars and alter the course of its evolution.
Astronomers observed M88 with Hubble as part of an observing program (#18103; PI: D. Thilker) dedicated to understanding the lives of spiral galaxies in crowded environments.
This program uses Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, which can finely resolve individual star clusters and nebulae in galaxies tens of millions of light-years away.
By studying galaxies on these scales, astronomers can understand how a journey through a cluster impacts a galaxy’s evolution and ability to form new stars.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-m88-on-journey-to-center-of-virgo-cluster/
extra NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/05/28/physics-eye-checks-and-workout-maintenance-fill-day-after-spacewalk/
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-andrew-morgan-retires/
https://www.nasa.gov/general/contractor-to-civil-servant-nasa-welcomes-kenny-heckle/
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/landsat/new-landsat-science-team-holds-first-in-person-meeting/
error message for NASA?
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes in massive fireball during prelaunch test
May 29, 2026
Blue Origin just hit a hurdle on its way to the moon.
The company's powerful New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine prelaunch engine test at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday night (May 28), creating a huge fireball that lit up the dark Space Coast skies.
"We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test," Blue Origin wrote in an statement. " All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more."
Nobody was injured, Blue Origin said in an update on X on Thursday night. But damage to the pad — Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) — could be extensive, judging by the extent of the explosion, which multiple rocket-watchers captured on video.
"All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it," Jeff Bezos, the billionaire and founder of Blue Origin, wrote in a statement on social media.
"Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.
The accident could have big implications for Blue Origin, NASA and the United States' moon plans.
Blue Origin, which Amazon's Bezos founded back in 2000, sees the 320-foot-tall (98 meters) New Glenn as its launch workhorse, a powerhouse rocket that will help humanity establish a foothold away from Earth.
Indeed, New Glenn is the rocket ride for Blue Origin's Blue Moon, one of the two private vehicles (along with SpaceX's Starship) that NASA selected to land astronauts on the moon for its Artemis program.
And the agency announced earlier this week that Blue Moon will land two private lunar rovers on the lunar surface — missions that are key to the buildout of NASA's planned moon base near the south pole.
The agency wants at least one of those rovers to be on the moon before the first crewed Artemis mission (Artemis 4) touches down, a milestone targeted for late 2028.
But Blue Moon is supposed to head to the moon considerably sooner than that. Blue Origin is gearing up to send a robotic prototype of the vehicle, called Blue Moon Mark 1, to the lunar surface later this year, to demonstrate the vehicle’s capabilities.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman addressed the New Glenn explosion on Thursday night, showing how important the rocket is to the agency's plans going forward.
"Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult," Isaacman said in an X post.
"We will work with our partners to support a thorough investigation of this anomaly, assess near-term mission impacts, and get back to launching rockets. We will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available."
New Glenn has flown just three times to date, and things haven't always gone swimmingly. For example, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration grounded the rocket briefly after its third flight, which occurred on April 19.
During that mission, New Glenn failed to deploy its payload, the BlueBird 7 communications satellite, into the proper orbit.
Thursday's explosion occurred during a "hotfire" engine test meant to clear the path for New Glenn's fourth flight, which was supposed to deploy 49 satellites for Amazon's nascent broadband constellation. That mission was scheduled to fly on June 4.
LC-36 is currently the only pad that hosts New Glenn launches, so extensive damage to the pad would likely keep the rocket grounded for a while.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-in-massive-fireball-during-prelaunch-test
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/incredible-videos-show-blue-origin-rocket-explosion-could-be-seen-from-hundreds-of-miles-away
https://x.com/JeffBezos/status/2060182822170902622
https://x.com/SLDelta45/status/2060341071331168558
Anons gonna have to get their own NASA today.
Just not working. Will revisit it tomorrow.
Perhaps indeed.
Another few weeks like the ones we've had lately and it may be obsolete anyways.