10 Astronomical Events That Will Happen In Your Lifetime
There are some things you’d like to happen, and some things you’d wish they rather didn’t.
Some things will happen whether we want them to or not, like astronomical events.
They range from the mildly curious to the astounding.
This video shows ten astronomical events that will happen within the lifetimes of most of us alive today.
The encounter of the Giotto probe, one of five spacecraft sent to Halley’s Comet in 1986 was broadcast live on tv, and provided never-before seen images of a comet at close range.
Giotto flew as close as 370 miles to Halley, and transmissions continuned until it was hit by particles large enough to alter it’s trajectroy, which resulted in the radio antenna swinging away from Earth.
After 32 minutes Giotto re-stabilized itself and continued gathering science data.
Another impact destroyed the Halley Multicolor Camera, but not before it took photographs of the nucleus at closest approach.
Giotto was commanded to wake up on 2 July 1990 when it flew by Earth in order to sling shot to its next cometary encounter.
The probe then flew by the Comet Grigg-Skjellerup on 10 July 1992 which it approached to a distance of about 200 km. Afterwards, Giotto was powered down on 23 July 1992.
Halley is due to return to our vicinity in 2061, and Arthur Clarke used that event as the main theme of his third Odyssey novel.
We should see the birth of a new star during 2022 in the constellation Cygnus, when two proro-stars in the system KIC 9832227 should merge to create a new star, an event known as a Nova. This will allow detailed measurements of the process as it happens.
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