New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole
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I emailed Neil Tyson Degrasse asking him if lasagna crosses the event horizon of a black hole does it become spaghetti?
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.
NASA Removes Graphic Novels About Women Astronauts
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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
Do we really not yet know if Kosmos 482 has impacted?
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
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
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:
#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
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
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
太空吃什么
图书馆借了三本阿波罗11的任务报告回来，里面有两页是他们在太空吃啥。每人的食谱略有差异，但看起来不错嘛，还有Shrimp Cocktail哎！于是就去八了下太空人吃啥。
NASA早的载人航天任务，六十年代初的水星，吃的是牙膏，或者小块的脱水食物，靠宇航员含在嘴里软化。据说非常难吃，宇航员们都很有意见。
到了六十年代中期的双子星任务，已经开始略微好吃点儿了，是冻干食物，加水还原，还是直接拿着袋子吃。
到了阿波罗的时候升级了，冻干食品还有热水用来还原（啊原来之前都是冷水嘛！那得多难吃啊）。菜单看起来不错，一找图片，呃，看起来还是不appertizing，左边那个就是shrimp cocktail，我觉得它就算加水还原我也不想吃。阿波罗计划开始，开始实验用勺子吃有些足够粘度的食物了。
美国的第一个太空站skylab，史上最二的太空站，就必须做到above and beyond了，它上面甚至有个冰箱，宇航员们的生活水平大幅提高（嗯，还有55块肥皂可以洗澡呢）。他们的厨房可以坐下来吃，还有serving tray，全靠食物本身的黏度让它粘在tray和勺子上。
#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)
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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!
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
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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
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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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📣 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
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.
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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
#Blender #Blender3D #scifiart #3D #3DArt #space #cats #Art #SciFi #Space #Illustration #DigitalArt
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
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 high-ranking NASA official warned his employees to “use discretion” in public when displaying badges or emblems that identify them as federal workers — part of an effort, the agency says, to protect its staff amid “stories of possible harassment.”