Jan 6 - Galaxy Collision to Send Solar System Flying?

January 6 Galaxy Collision to Send Solar System Flying? by:

View full-sized image. | Here are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, from Gilbert Vancell Nature Photography in November 2018. New work by scientists suggests the Large Magellanic Cloud is on a collision course with our Milky Way. Could a galaxy collision send solar system flying? The Large Magellanic Cloud is hurtling towards our galaxy, for a collision 2 billion years from now. Could it knock our solar system out of the Milky Way? Read more. Dark matter on the move New evidence suggests that dark matter - the mysterious stuff that makes up a significant percentage of the universe's mass - can heat up and move around. Read more. EarthSky's 2019 meteor shower guide All you need to know about major meteor showers in 2019. Are December's solstice and January's perihelion related? Solstice was December 21. Earth was closest to the sun for 2019 on January 2-3. Coincidence?

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Today's partial eclipse over Asia The partial solar eclipse was visible from China, Korea, Japan, Russia, North Pacific Ocean and the Aleutian Islands. Zheng Zhi in Beijing, China wrote: "This morning's partial eclipse attracted a lot of photographers."

See an animation of this huge solar prominence Beautiful shot of a solar prominence, extending from the sun on January 2, from PK Imaging of Adelaide, Australia. See the little Earth, for scale, in the lower right? Click in for the animation. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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