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GombeenSysadmin, do astronomy w Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down

Did they launch from Woomera or something?

pom, do astronomy w Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down

Or is it just showboating

remotelove, do astronomy w 'Old smokers': Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way
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Betelgeuse is a red giant doing the same thing as described in this article? I wonder what the difference is.

Boddhisatva,

Good question. According to this article, the process going on with Betelgeuse does sound like the same or very similar to the process described in OP’s article.

The great dimming [of Betelgeuse] was caused by the star spitting out a lump of gas and dust, like chewing gum: or what scientists call a “surface mass ejection” caused by an “anomalously hot convective plume”.

OP’s article doesn’t say that the Old Smokers they found are red super-giants but since they called them old smokers, I’m inclined to think that they are. Also because they say that smoke contains much higher levels of heavy elements than is common in the region which would also be consistent with older stars. The article doesn’t say whether or not the stars puff out smoke on a regular schedule like Betelgeuse does, but then maybe they haven’t been watching them long enough to see a pattern yet.

It does seem like they found a bunch of older stars that are pre-supernova, just like Betelgeuse is, and burping out clouds of gas and dust.

remotelove,
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I missed it at first as well. The second paragraph implies they are red giants. However, there is a distinction between a red giant and a red super-giant, if that is what you mean.

The “peculiar” puffing behavior of these stars has never been seen before in such red giants, astrophysicist Philip Lucas told AFP.

Boddhisatva,

Ah, yes, I missed that. Thank you.

remotelove,
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So, in my typical nature, I went right to the source and shot off an email to Professor Philip Lucas from the University of Hertfordshire. He was one of the primary researchers for the original paper. (P.W. Lucas et al.)

If he responds, I’ll post it here.

remotelove,
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Boddhisatva,

Awesome! Thanks for contacting the professor and posting the reply.

remotelove,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

Of course! I was super curious myself.

Teachers generally want to teach so I have had great success reaching out to various people like that.

I don’t abuse that, of course. Keeping questions short and being respectful of their time is a huge plus, in my experience.

remotelove, do astronomy w Doomed US lunar lander now headed for Earth: company
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deegeese, do astronomy w Webb directly images two planets orbiting white dwarfs
Daxtron2, do astronomy w New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like

Ugh well one of us is going to have to change.

JeeBaiChow, do astronomy w New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like

Gotta scale back the saturation on those NASA filters, mate!

Shdwdrgn, do astronomy w New research finds that young planets are flattened structures rather than spherical

Cue the flat-earthers who are going to jump on this while completely ignoring all other aspects including the gravity required to make this happen, and somehow claim this is scientific proof that they were right.

1984,
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I don’t think flat earthers are getting their ideas from mainstream scientific websites.

tunetardis, do astronomy w For your processing pleasure: The sharpest pictures of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in a generation

It’s impressive how much detail Juno was able to capture even on the night side. What I love about Io is how it’s instantly recognizable. Nothing even remotely resembles it in the solar system.

mrlee, do astronomy w For your processing pleasure: The sharpest pictures of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in a generation

Looks thicc

theodewere, do astronomy w For your processing pleasure: The sharpest pictures of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in a generation
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

On Dec. 30, 2023, Juno came within about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the surface of the solar system's most volcanic world. It made a second ultra-close flyby of Io just this week.

spacecraft Juno out there buzzing Io at high speed

GreenPlasticSushiGrass, do astronomy w For your processing pleasure: The sharpest pictures of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in a generation
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Yoink! Second score for my wallpapers folder today!

JoMomma, do astronomy w An astronomer's lament: Satellite megaconstellations are ruining space exploration

You can just say Starlink, it’s the only one

apfelwoiSchoppen,
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Amazon is planning and implementing the same.

Balthazar, do astronomy w An astronomer's lament: Satellite megaconstellations are ruining space exploration

Starlink is causing problems, but it seems to me that this image was made in bad faith to oversell the case. The caption says it’s a combination of 29 separate exposures, but if those exposures were combined properly, you wouldn’t see the satellites (median combination does wonders, and there are more sophisticated techniques which do even better). Some streaks start at one chip edge and extend to another chip edge, without continuity across the focal plane. So it’s not at all clear just how this image was created. And why on earth is it not flat-fielded? Maybe this is just really sloppy image processing, but even amateurs can do far better than this, leaving the final combination with no satellites at all.

ChanchoManco, do astronomy w Dracula's Chivito: New protoplanetary disk discovered with Pan-STARRS

Uruguay noma’

Wondering if Tancredi is related to this somehow.

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