▽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
▽SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids ●11/22 16:15 speed: 380.6 km/secdensity: 3.35 protons/cm3Updated: Today at 0707 UTUpdated: Today at: 0710 UTDaily Sun: 22 Nov 24Sunspots 3901 3903 have 'beta-gamma' magnetic fields that harbor energy for M-class solar flares. Credit: SDO/HMIUpdated 22 Nov 2024Updated 22 Nov 2024today: 30.03x1010 W HotUpdated 21 Nov 2024Updated 22 Nov 2024today: -7.2% Low48-hr change: +0.0%Updated 22 Nov 2024 @ 0