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☆ Graham Sutherland’s study for the portrait Winston Churchill hated goes up for auction
  + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Caitlin Chatterton | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Churchill is talking about his own portrait, commissioned to celebrate his 80th birthday, as it is unveiled in London’s Westminster Hall in November 1954. This painted study of Churchill by Sutherland, made in preparation of the portrait, is up for auction for the first time. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby'sWhile “The Crown” is not a documentary, it is true that the 80th birthday portrait —described by Churchill as “filthy and malignant” in a letter to his personal doctor — was burned. “(Sutherland) caught him in a much more relaxed, intimate way,” Zlattinger said of the study, a small canvas painted in oils. Graham Sutherland, seen with his-then unfinished but eventually much-maligned portrait of Churchill.
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☆ The Leonid meteor shower is peaking tonight, creating up to 15 shooting stars per hour. Here's how to watch.
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Leonid meteor shower is due to peak between Friday night and the early hours of dawn Saturday. The Leonids could offer up to 15 fireballs an hour, per NASA. AdvertisementThe Leonid meteor shower is peaking tonight and could offer skygazers around the world the chance to see up to 15 fireballs an hour. The viewing conditions should be "quite favorable" as the moon will be in its first quarter, so it is unlikely to outshine the meteors with its glare, the Royal Museums Greenwich said on its website. While NASA states the Leonids usually offer up to 15 fireballs per hour, the Royal Museums Greenwich is slightly less optimistic, as it expects only up to 10 fireballs an hour.
Persons: —, Comet Tempel Organizations: NASA, Service, Royal Museums Greenwich Locations: London
☆ September’s full harvest moon is the last supermoon of the year
  + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —The full harvest moon will shine in the early morning hours of September 29, also marking the fourth and final supermoon of 2023. September’s full moon will appear about 5% bigger and 13% brighter than the average full moon, according to NASA. Other monikers for September’s full moon across different indigenous tribes include the corn maker moon from the Abenaki tribe, the moon of the brown leaves from the Lakota people and autumn moon from the Passamaquoddy tribe. Many people associate the harvest moon with being orange in color as it begins to rise, but the same could be said of all full moons. Only part of the moon will pass into shadow as the sun, Earth and moon will not completely align.
Persons: ●, Orionids, Leonids, Geminids, Ursids Organizations: CNN, NASA, Northern, Royal Museums, Planetary Society, Farmers, Meteor Locations: Chuseok, Higan, Royal Museums Greenwich, North, Central, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, South Africa
☆ Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023: Stunning shot of giant plasma arc scoops top prize
  + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —A photograph of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, has won the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition for a team of amateur astronomers. A team of amateur astronomers, led by Marcel Drechsler from Germany and Xavier Strottner from France, discovered a previously unknown galactic nebula. Marcel DrechslerScientists are now investigating the large object, which is in the immediate vicinity of the Andromeda Galaxy, in a transnational collaboration, according to the observatory. The nebula is located in the Centaurus constellation, about 6,000 lights year away from Earth, according to the release. Two 14-year-old boys from China won Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year for their image of The Running Chicken Nebula.
Persons: Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner, Yann Sainty, ”, astrophotographer, —, Runwei Xu, Binyu Wang, Yuri Beletsky, Monika Deviat, Ethan Chappel, Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau, John White, Chandra, Katherine Gazzard Organizations: CNN, Andromeda, Observatory Greenwich, Young, China, Young Astronomy, Sun, Perseus, Art, Royal Museums Greenwich, Maritime Museum Locations: Germany, France, China
☆ Fact Check-Stars not routinely visible in photographs taken from spacecraft due to light exposure on Earth and Moon
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Social media users have claimed that because stars are not routinely visible in photographs taken from spacecraft, space itself is a hoax. One clip that circulated online showed images taken from the Artemis I Orion shuttle with no stars visible. However, the daytime sky on Earth is only blue due to “scattering of light in the Earth’s atmosphere,” Smethurst said. In the case of the Artemis I mission, the settings would be adjusted to focus on the Earth, Moon and the spacecraft itself. This can be tested at home, McCarthy told Reuters, by trying to take a photo of a full moon and stars at the same time.
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