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deegeese, do astronomy w Webb directly images two planets orbiting white dwarfs
Grass, do astronomy w Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

Did anyone ever think it was inhabitable?

thebardingreen,
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The news is really interesting exobiology science, but the headline is terrible.

wintermute_oregon,

Yes. That’s been a theory even since I was a child in the 70’s. They don’t mean humans but life in general

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.

derphurr, do astronomy w Discovery of second ultra-large structure in distant space further challenges our understanding of the universe

It’s not a “new” discovery or even the “second”. I suggest they read the 2015 paper they are almost copying from.

2015 dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1421

Evidence suggests that this feature is the projection of a shell on to the plane of the sky. Voids and string-like formations are common outcomes of large-scale structure. However, these structures have maximum sizes of 150 Mpc, which are an order of magnitude smaller than the observed GRB ring diameter. Evidence in support of the shell interpretation requires that temporal information of the transient GRBs be included in the analysis. This ring-shaped feature is large enough to contradict the CP. The physical mechanism responsible for causing it is unknown.

Weird reporting like this is “new” GRB ring out of Swift and Sloan SDSS data.

Sloan Great Wall, which is around 1.5 billion light-years in length

South Pole Wall, which stretches 1.4 billion light-years across.

Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, which is about 10 billion light-years wide

2015 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_GRB_Ring

It is approximately 9.1 billion light years from Earth and about 5.6 billion light years across

New objects:

Big Ring in the Sky is 9.2 billion light-years from Earth. It has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light-years

Giant Arc in the Sky which is 3.3 billion light-years across,

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.

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.

gravitas_deficiency, do astronomy w Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down
Jeredin, do astronomy w Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? MeerKAT uncovers a mysterious object in Milky Way

I’ve been studying the range of neutron stars for some time and I feel confident it won’t be too long until much of our evidence and observations will show that black holes, quasars, super massive black holes and the range of other black holes are very likely, more extreme neutron stars - if not quark-like stars or stellar quantum-like objects. For fun, I’ve been also been focusing on colloids, extreme condensates and their quantum/relativistic phases/states; very revealing interactions and emergent properties. Now if we could just better observe zero-point energy…

5714,

What is zero-point energy?

Jeredin,
btaf45, do astronomy w Astronomers discover two new Milky Way satellite galaxy candidates

If the distribution of those nine satellite galaxies across the entire Milky Way is similar to what was found in the footprint captured by the HSC-SSP, the research team calculates that there actually may be closer to 500 satellite galaxies

WTF? I was thinking there were around a dozen or so.

teft,
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They solved one conundrum just to find another. Too few dwarfs then too many.

tate, do astronomy w Dark Energy Camera captures remains of a massive star that exploded nearly 11,000 years ago in huge gigapixel image

wtf is a “dark energy camera?” smh

This thing is just a mosaic of ordinary CCDs. I’m sure the name has something to do with it’s specific scientific goals, but that’s not explained at all in this article. They didn’t even attempt to make any kind of connection between the veil and dark energy. Or even between supernovae and dark energy.

ZeroCool, (edited )
Zaktor, do astronomy w Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

It feels like the title should be “uninhabited”. Life on earth doesn’t survive because we continue to be bombarded with nutrient carrying asteroids, it just needed them to kick it off. That few nutrients are likely to make it from the surface to the ocean means the genesis is unlikely to occur, but it doesn’t seem to make a decision about whether an unlikely genesis could survive, even if only in a small pocket of the ocean.

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.

FaceDeer, do astronomy w Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down
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EtherWhack, do astronomy w Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down
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Looks like they forgot the C.A.T. module

Murdoc, do astronomy w Huge star explosion to appear in sky in once-in-a-lifetime event

I wonder if there’s a way to get an alert or something so I don’t miss it. I tried searching for one but so far no luck.

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