▽SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids ●11/22 19:16 speed: 428.0 km/secdensity: 4.67 protons/cm3Updated: Today at 1011 UT6-hr max: C5 0415 UT Updated: Today at: 1015 UTNow: Kp= 0.67 quietBtotal: 5.34 nTBz: -3.59 nT southUpdated: Today at 1010 UTCRYOVOCANIC COMET 29P ERUPTS AGAIN: "We have witnessed another intense eruption on Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann," reports Richard Miles of the British Astronomical Association. "The outburst on No
▽Astronomy Picture of the Day ●11/22 16:15 2024 November 22The Medusa NebulaImage Credit & Copyright: Bruno Rota SargiExplanation: Braided and serpentine filaments of glowing gassuggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula.Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebulasome 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini.Like its mythological namesake, the nebula is associated with a dramatic transformatio