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New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole

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150d

I emailed Neil Tyson Degrasse asking him if lasagna crosses the event horizon of a black hole does it become spaghetti?

#nerlingersjokes #space #deepthoughts #blackholes

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Frankly, it’s depressing how one billionaire can fuck up the night sky for the rest of humanity and our collective ability to try to understand more about the universe.

The new generation of Starlink satellites create even more interference than the old ones.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo

#tech #space #starlink #spacex #elonmusk

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NASA Removes Graphic Novels About Women Astronauts Takahe has limited support for this type: See Original Page

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Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H999s0P1Er0
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-22.0397&mlon=52.4128&zoom=2

#iss #space #earth #nasa #esa #jaxa #csa

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Do we really not yet know if Kosmos 482 has impacted?

#kosmos482 #space

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Onwards & Upwards for Perseverance rover.

Judging by the wheel tracks in this roughly processed post-drive tiled-NavCam from Sol 1342, the drive direction to site 62.2066 appears to be close to west-southwest. The updated map and drive data (JSON) are unlikely to be released until after the holiday weekend, so I'll share the drive data and map as soon as they are available.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Mars #Perseverance #MarsRover #NASA #science #Space #Exploration #Solarocks

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as she keeps going up the route leading to the summit, Perseverance sends us new visions of the crater rim and beyond

#Mars Nov. 30, 2024 (Sol 1344)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#perseverance #rover #Sol1344 #PerseveranceRover #PicoTurquino #JezeroCrater #JezeroCraterRim #RimCampaign #RimScience #Navcam #photography #space #science #STEM #geology #landscape #Mars2020 #solarocks #Astrodon #news

a stitching of two images captured by the navigation camera of the Mars rover Perseverance, showing, from left to right, the slopes of the rim of Jezero crater, that the rover is currently ascending, the distant wall of the crater rim itself, with a mountain showing up in the background, and the floor of the crater, including its fan-shaped delta region. The Pico Turquino hills can also be spotted in the lower right hand side corner of the picture.

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Astronomers have a love-hate relationship with the atmosphere: it's great for, you know, not dying, but it blurs astronomical images. In the latest episode of Chasing Starlight we tell you the inner workings of adaptive optics, a technique where we use powerful lasers and fast shape-shifting mirrors to measure and correct atmospheric turbulence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QC2cLroDc

#astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #space

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#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science

The giant metal frame of a dome takes up most of the picture frame, contrasting with the brown hills and a thin horizontal line of blue sky in the background. The dome's frame is not yet fully covered in the middle, so the dark brown landscape behind it shows. The big opening in the dome's roof shows the interior, still a construction site with a structure of white beams. In front of the big building is one red crane, taller than the dome.

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After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
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Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-starship-explosions-uk-turks-caicos-faa-launches?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SpaceX #Starship #UK #Britain #ElonMusk #Musk #FAA #Aviation #Space

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Martian Memories

Special-Effects Spirit Silhouetted on "Jibsheet"

Created using a photorealistic model of the rover and a false-color mosaic captured at sunset by its panoramic camera on May 19, 2005 (Sol 489). Credit: NASA/JPL-Solar System Visualization Team

📷 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia03232-special-effects-spirit-silhouetted-on-jibsheet/

#Mars #Spirit #Sol489 #Jibsheet #sunset #GusevCrater #Gusev #crater #rover #SpiritRover #Martian #solarsystem #memories #space #science #history #STEM #astrodon #geology #SpecialFX #FX #visualization #NASA #JPL

A synthetic image of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover sitting on top of a rock called "Jibsheet" and contemplating a Martian sunset.

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#HappyNewYear 🎉 Boost your #NewYear resolution with adaptive optics. By deforming a thin flexible mirror a thousand times per second you can correct atmospheric turbulence and get sharp astronomical images!

➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/adaptive_optics/

📷 ESO/P. Weilbacher (AIP)

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

Two telescopic images of the planet Neptune side by side. The left one, labeled "adaptive optics", is very crisp and shows detailed white clouds against the planet's deep blue disc. The right one, labeled "no adaptive optics", shows a blurred disc where no details can be discerned.

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222d

Need more galaxies in your feed? Of course you do.

Over the break I made @ArpBot, mostly because I thought the name "Arp Bot" was funny.

It posts an image of a galaxy in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies twice a day. Images are from the archives of professional observatories and the original 1966 catalog. I curated the images and wrote the image descriptions and most of the alt text.

Give it a follow!

#Astrodon #space #galaxies

A grainy, black and white vertical image of two spiral galaxies next to each other. The galaxies are nebulous structures with denser arms shaped like spirals that meet at the centre of each galaxy. The galaxy at the bottom of the frame is face-on. The galaxy at the top of the frame is somewhat inclined, and they're almost touching. The image is sprinkled with white dots, which are stars.

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Astronomers have long thought that the upper clouds of Jupiter, which create the planet’s iconic pale brown belts, are made of frozen ammonia.

But the joint efforts between an amateur astronomer with his backyard telescope 🔭 and professional scientists with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), have now shown that they're actually made of something completely different 😲

Most likely, they are made of ammonium hydrosulphide mixed with smog, although vertical convection can sometimes bring ammonia ice clouds to the top.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2502a/?lang

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

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Lots of news just came out about strange, rhythmic goings-on in the outer regions of our solar system.

1: An object called 2020 VN40 moves in sync with Neptune (1 orbit for every 10 of Neptune), suggesting a large population of bodies in similar resonances.

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-discover-rare-distant-object-sync-neptune #space #science #astronomy

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, that is moving in rhythm with the giant planet. This image shows the orbits of all of the objects discovered in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. The orbit of 2020 VN40 is the thickest one, tilted up and to the left from the orbits of most of the objects. The orbits of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the white circles.
Credit: Rosemary Pike, CfA

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A Path North
* Image Credit & Copyright: Mario Konang

Explanation:
What happens if you keep going north? The direction north on the Earth, the place on your horizon below the northern spin pole of the Earth -- around which other stars appear to slowly swirl, will remain the same. This spin-pole-of-the-north will never move from its fixed location on the sky -- night or day -- and its height will always match your latitude. The further north you go, the higher the north spin pole will appear. Eventually, if you can reach the Earth's North Pole, the stars will circle a point directly over your head. Pictured, a four-hour long stack of images shows stars trailing in circles around this north celestial pole. The bright star near the north celestial pole is Polaris, known as the North Star. The bright path was created by the astrophotographer's headlamp as he zigzagged up a hill just over a week ago in Lower Saxony, Germany. The astrophotographer can be seen, at times, in shadow. Actually, the Earth has two spin poles -- and much the same would happen if you started below the Earth's equator and went south.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200407.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education

2020 April 7

A Path North
Image Credit & Copyright: Mario Konang

Explanation:
What happens if you keep going north? The direction north on the Earth, the place on your horizon below the northern spin pole of the Earth -- around which other stars appear to slowly swirl, will remain the same. This spin-pole-of-the-north will never move from its fixed location on the sky -- night or day -- and its height will always match your latitude. The further north you go, the higher the north spin pole will appear. Eventually, if you can reach the Earth's North Pole, the stars will circle a point directly over your head. Pictured, a four-hour long stack of images shows stars trailing in circles around this north celestial pole. The bright star near the north celestial pole is Polaris, known as the North Star. The bright path was created by the astrophotographer's headlamp as he zigzagged up a hill just over a week ago in Lower Saxony, Germany. The astrophotographer can be seen, at times, in shadow. Actually, the Earth has two spin poles -- and much the same would happen if you started below the Earth's equator and went south.

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.
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A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.

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#Space picks of the day:

(This is a very large category, so I have left out descriptions to keep the thread size manageable)

SPACE PUBLICATIONS & JOURNALS
@OJ_Astro
@skyatnightmag
@Spacecom

RESEARCH INSTITUTES
@mpsgoettingen
@astron

ASTROPHYSICISTS & ASTRONOMERS
@hfalcke
@sundogplanets
@jknodlseder
@mustapipa
@thomasconnor
@leo
@kellylepo
@evilscientistca
@AlexSanterne
@Robminchin
@mmontarges
@timlichtenberg
@eamonn_kerins
@rdrimmel
@astro_jcm
@jwuphysics

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Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-spacex-rocket-launch-environmental-regulation-rollback?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Environment #Aviation #SpaceX #Space #ElonMusk #Regulation #Trump

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📣 On Saturday 21 June, it's going to be a very busy night in Göttingen - the Night of Science! This channel is going to be equally busy, with a daily countdown giving you previews of activities you'll find at our location. These posts will predominantly be in German.

If this is a bit too verbose for you, you can mute or filter the hashtag #ndwgoecountdown to not see the daily countdown posts.

#ndwgoe #ndwgoecountdown #ndwgoemps #goettingen #mpsgoettingen #space

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Vera Rubin Was a Pioneering Female Astronomer. Her Federal Bio Now Doesn’t Mention Efforts to Diversify Science.
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The edits to the webpage offer a glimpse into how far the Trump administration will go in refusing to acknowledge today’s inequalities as it purges federal initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

https://www.propublica.org/article/vera-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Government #DEI #Science #Astronomy #Space #Trump

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Space Diner (2020). 3D illustration I made based on an original 2D artwork by artist Space Gooose - https://www.artstation.com/spacegooose

#Blender #Blender3D #scifiart #3D #3DArt #space #cats #Art #SciFi #Space #Illustration #DigitalArt

A 3D Sci-Fi diner floating in space. There is an android on the back of the diner smoking a cigarette. A sign on top says "Diner - Coffee Pie Taters." Another sign says "Open 24 hours." Inside the diner there is a table with a cup on it, and a pink cat sitting at the table.

A 3D Sci-Fi diner floating in space. A sign on top says "Diner - Coffee Pie Taters." Inside the diner there is a table with a cup on it, and a pink cat sitting at the table.

A 3D Sci-Fi diner floating in space. There is an android on the back of the diner smoking a cigarette. A sign says "Open 24 hours."

A 3D Sci-Fi diner floating in space. There is an android on the back of the diner smoking a cigarette. Inside the diner there is a table with a cup on it, and a pink cat sitting at the table. This is a screenshot of the Blender viewport with all textures displayed as gray.

A 2D illustration of a Sci-Fi diner floating in space. There is an android on the back of the diner smoking a cigarette. A sign on top says "Diner - Coffee Pie Taters." Another sign says "Open 24 hours." Inside the diner there is a table with a cup on it, and a pink cat sitting at the table.

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PRESS RELEASE: A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric Technosignatures project and the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, set out to answer a simple question: If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology similar to ours, would they be able to detect Earth and evidence of humanity? If so, what signals would they detect, and from how far away? https://youtu.be/Pdg2x3NP2ds

#science #space #scicomm

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Overdue #Introduction:

Hi, I am one of those computer touchers, located in #Berlin, in my late 20s, and this is my first time on any social media.
I have lots of interests (yes #ADHD), like #Vegan #Cooking, #Photography (often #Pets), anything #Space, #Gaming and #GameDev, recently #3DPrinting, trying to do good, the list goes on.
Really enjoying this online space so far, hope to meet and talk to more awesome people on here.

Also some sample pictures I like (with alt-text, of course).
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A photo of Neo, a young black cat, lying on a bed, full mlem (licking his chops). His striking yellow eyes are looking somewhat to the bottom left corner of the frame.
In front of him there is a screwdriver with a hex bit, next to him a medium size DLSR (though out of focus).
In the background, a scratching post is visible, though very blurry.

A photo of a sunrise on the beach. The sand itself is visible towards the bottom of the image, quickly replaced by the small waves of a calm see. The sun is only a few degrees above the horizon, and has a long reflection across the water. The sky is a radial gradient around the sun, staring from warm oranges and ending in a dark blue. In the right third of the image, a stone pier can be seen on the line of the horizon.

A night-time photo of a rearing disco pegasus illuminated with purple lights.
Yes, you read/heard right, a disco pegasus. A pegasus (horse with wings), covered in tiny mirrors, like a disco ball.
There seems to be a fog machine nearby, because some purple (because of the lights) fog seems to be rising from the ground around the pegasus, giving the whole image a majestic vibe (besides the fact that it is a purple disco pegasus, of course).
Otherwise, there are a few trees illuminated in purple in the background as well. And a box of some sort.
But mainly: Purple Disco Pegasus.

A (night-time) photo of someone standing on a road, wearing a Pikachu Hoodie while holding a progress pride flag with confident posture, back towards the camera. Quite in the background and out of focus, a police-person (german Polizei) is walking roughly away from the camera, relaxed posture. Next to that police-person, a building is illuminated with the telltale blue light of a police siren.
There is lots of colour and contrasts in this picture, but somehow the person standing in the center keeps pulling the focus to themself again.
The police was there out of routine with protests in Germany, clearing the roads of for the march. The photo was, of course, taken and published with permission.

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PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/unusual-stellar-nurseries-near-our-galaxys-center-puzzle-scientists

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed that, although the central part of our Galaxy has a much higher density of star-forming material than the rest of the Milky Way, in the Galactic Center, the current rate of formation of massive stars (those larger than 8 times the mass of our Sun) appears to be lower compared to the rest of the Galaxy.

#space #science #scicomm

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