This class will be a kickshaw for sports fan of gawping at space . As well as JWST casually spewing out image ofspiral galaxy like you ’ve never seen before , North America has an especially spectacular solar occultation to calculate forward to , establish that it maycoincide with the solar maximum .
While you expect for that , blank space still has great deal to offer . This week , theVirtual Telescope Projectwill be turn their scope towards the Moon , live streaming as our satellite meet the Pleiades in the night sky . The Pleiades , also known as theSeven Sisters , is a virtuoso cluster in the constellation Taurus , made up of over1,000 stars . The brightest of the stars arehot blue luminous starswhich formed around 100 million years ago .
The whizz clump is refer to as the Seven Sisters by a surprising bit of cultures around the world , which tell similar stories of why there are only six particularly lustrous stars in the sky , with the seventh having conk out in the Indigenous Australian myth , and gone into concealment in the Hellenic myth .
One challenging account give for this byone team of astronomersis that 100,000 years ago , a seventh superstar – Pleione – would have been visible , but it is now too close to Atlas and so they look like a single star to the naked eye . give the lack of physical contact between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the worldly concern for 50,000 years , the team proposed that the myth was told a very long time ago indeed .
" We conceive this movement of the stars can help to explain two teaser : the law of similarity of Greek and primeval tale about these headliner , and the fact so many cultures call the cluster ' seven sisters ' even though we only see six principal today , " the team write in a piece forThe Conversation .
" Is it possible the stories of the Seven Sisters and Orion are so old our ancestors were say these report to each other around campfires in Africa , 100,000 years ago ? Could this be the oldest narrative in the earthly concern ? "
During the alive stream , of course , the stars will be no closer to Earth than common , and will merely be positioned 1 degree off from the tail Sun Myung Moon on February 16 . The effect will be live rain buckets , begin at 20:30 UTC on theVirtual Telescope Projectwebsite .
