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Guest, w Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'

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ChicoSuave, w A black hole ripped apart a supernova

The saga started two years ago at Caltech’s Zwicky Transient Facility located at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. There, astronomers from Harvard University, the Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics, and MIT tasked a newly designed machine learning algorithm to scan the night skies for odd explosions in real time. Operators hoped that quickly flagging possible targets in this way could offer vital extra time for ground and space telescope array observations around the world. In July 2023, the AI system sighted one such event, which astronomers classified SN 2023zkd.

Comparative scanning of the night skies is a good use for AI.

stephen01king,

Yep, finally some proper use of AI instead of shoving them down our throats.

NightFantom,

There’s lots of good uses for AI, but people seem to equate AI with LLMs these days so I feel the need to point out that this is not a good use case for LLMs

XeroxCool, w Total Solar Eclipse - From 30 Years to 3 Minutes & 20 Seconds

I have such mixed feelings about all the time I spent with my cameras during the event. By time I realized I had no practice with the camera and eq mount for daytime use, it was cloudy the whole time at home. Totality is not something you can reasonably practice anyway. So yeah, I have a few cool totality pictures with varying detail and a couple hundred showing the partial phases… But for what? They’re not as good as many other amateurs, let alone professionals. If there was ever a time to deal with the hassle of raw photos, it was then. Part of why I gave up on most astrophotography is because the best I could possibly do is simply match it to scientific equipment. It’s cool to do it, but there’s no personalization. Instead, I look more for nightscapes or wide angle really detailed starfields. I’m still conflicted as to whether or not I experienced it properly. I got to show the pics to some people passing by after, assuming I was the go-to person for info on what they experienced, something I love about night time astronomy, but those aren’t such time-limited events.

I’ll probably revel in memories whenever I actually flip through the pictures. But, personally, I don’t think it was worth spending so much of my time getting pictures of a black hole in a black background rather than just letting my mark 1 eyeballs observe the hole in the blue-fade skies.

However, the one piece I absolutely would bring every single time again is binoculars. Maybe that’s why I feel like I didn’t see the eclipse. The view in my 10x binos was so incredibly detailed, the memory matches the stacked and tweaked pictures. I could see more than just the big laser-don’t flare on the bottom, I saw at least 3. Just unreal, no sight in my life before could explain it. A cartoonishly large corona with a black hole in a black background. Maybe I just couldn’t comprehend.

The light effects near totality were certainly something to experience. Decades of experience being in sunlight just didn’t jive with what the sun was doing then. It was more akin to a distant white streetlight rather than a sun. It dimmed and crisped shadows unlike a sunset by not turning orange and blurring of the edges.

I’m glad you had the emotional experience I was expecting to have.

Kichae,

Yeah, my photography issues were similar, re: unfamiliar context. I’m still puzzled as to why the quicksetting menu works totally differently when using it in mirrorless mode. But oh well. There’s always… 2044??? Oh, crap.

I admit, other than a better lens with a tighter view, the bits of equipment I really wished I’d invested in were a tracking motor and a shutter remote. I paid zero attention to my camera during totality, but I still had this nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that I should check my centering, and I didn’t need that.

XeroxCool,

To potentially save you the confusion I had, the next popular one in North America will really be 2045. They’re both in August, but the 2044 TSE is a relatively short, northerly event with totality ending in Montana at sunset. Meanwhile, 2045 is more akin to the 2017 path, passing from California to Florida.

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Zoomboingding,
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Yeah, not much of an emotional reaction from me, beyond a slightly incredulous laugh and an extended wow punctuated by gawking in awe. Definitely should have brought my 'nocs!

Guest, w Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'

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toast, w Don’t Miss Titan’s Shadow on Saturn: Rare Astronomical Event Peaks August 19

Thanks! Now I know what night this week will be cloudy

thebardingreen, w Webb finds new hints for planet around closest solar twin
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tl:dr; They found Pandora. No comment so far from James Cameron.

bjoern_tantau, w The Sky This Week from August 1 to 8: A conjunction of Saturn and Neptune
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Plus Perseides are starting.

zesismark, w Friday Night Stargazing 2025-07-18

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Guest, w Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'

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Guest, w Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'

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three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat, w Friday Night Stargazing 2025-07-18
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okay, report:

  • good lord, Antares and Vega are offensively bright once you adjust to the dark.

  • M4!! HOLY GUACAMOLE WOW! M4 by itself made being out tonight worth it!

  • M80: cool, felt cool to find it, but it looks like any of the other tighter globs and I didn't want to mess with switching to one of my narrow AFOV higher power eyepieces on my manual dob. May revisit once I invest in a higher power eyepiece with a decent AFOV.

  • Epsilon Lyrae: hmm, am I maybe just not using enough mag? looks like a regular double star to me.

  • Took the telescope for a slew through Sagittarius, for a laugh, was not disappointed. Breathtaking amount of stars there.

  • Was all aboard the strugglebus making sense of Hercules's constellation. Didn't help that he was at the zenith, which made using the dob weird when looking for M13 and made looking at the constellation annoying after staring straight up like a turkey for minutes.

  • Took some time to re-acquaint myself with Draco, Cygnus, and Aquila.

  • Didn't pick out any more DSOs, in part because I got annoyed with blowing out my night vision, even with the red light, on my charts.

  • I've been fairly serious about the hobby for about 9 months now, and it seems like I saw way more satellites out tonight than I did when I stopped back in May. Bruh, the little bastards were everywhere.

crazyminner, w This Earth-sized Exoplanet is On a Death Spiral

How fast is that in kilometers per hour?

kichae, (edited )
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The paper doesn’t calculate the radius of the star’s Roche limit, instead opting to calculate the orbital period of the Roche limit. I’ve never done a Roche limit calculation for stars, but I have for planets/moons, and I’m not seeing anything that suggests it’s different than for planets. So, I think I did this correctly (excepting typos):

The star’s Roche limit is about 1.5 million km from its centre (~1 million km above its surface), and the planet’s orbit is about 2 million km from the star’s centre. Assuming a circular orbit, which should be the case at these distances, the orbit has a circumference of about 12.7 million km, and the planet is whipping around at a speed of about 2.3 million km/h, or 0.2% the speed of light.

HurlingDurling,
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So much math here that my head is already overheating. I need to find the time to learn all this math. Kudos to you internet stranger on your examplary calculations.

kichae,
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The numbers are big, so it can be intimidating, but the math isn’t too bad. It’s a little bit of multiplication and division. The most daunting bit is a cube-root, which you can find on most scientific calculators these days.

It’s hunting down the numbers you need to use that’s the trick, and making sure they’re all in the right units.

The equation for the Roche limit is the most complex math, but that’s just something you look up:

Roche Limit = 2.44 x {the radius of the star} x cube-root(( {the mass of the planet} / {the radius of the planet}^3 ) / ( {the mass of the star} / {the radius of the star}^3 ))

All of the things in the braces are also just values you look up.

Typotyper,

The article mentions the star being a dwarf. Are dwarf stars older and in a degrading state. Would the star have had less gravitational force when younger.

How would a plant form that close if the gravitational pull from the star was this strong.

kichae,
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Dwarf stars are technically any star that is in its core phase of life. They are dwarves in comparison to giant stars. The sun is a G-type dwarf star, for instance.

The star is a K-type dwarf, which means it is cooler and smaller than the sun (stars are labelled froom hottest/most massive coolest least hot/least massive: O, B, A, F, G, K, and M for historical reasons).

Planet formation is a complicated and still somewhat young field of study. Planets being close to their stars was a real shock 20 years ago when we stared finding them. The best models we have for this is planetary migration, where the planets form farther aewy from the star, but friction/drag forces from the nebula from which they formed causes them to slow down and fall into smaller orbits.

This planet continues to see its orbit degrade for even more complex reasons, related to both drag – it is interacting with the star’s atmosphere, which is causing it to slow – and tidal effects. When you’re close enough to a massive, rotating body that the differences in gravitational pull strength due to things like variations in density become significant, the rotating body will force you into an orbit that matches its rotation length. If you’re already orbiting faster than it is spinning, that means it will slow you down. But slowing down will cause your orbit to shrink, which shortens the time it takes you to complete an orbit, which will make the central body slow you down more, which will shrink your orbit, which…

Typotyper,

So you’re saying as our own system ages the planets will get pulled in and eaten up.

Would Jupiter being a gas giant get slowed down equally to the outer planets or would it eat some planets on its own.

Maybe eat is too much imagery. Would it accelerate those planets decline.

kichae,
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typotyper@sh.itjust.works said in How fast is that in kilometers per hour?: So you’re saying as our own system ages the planets will get pulled in and eaten up.

Not in the same way, no. None of our planets are touching the Sun’s atmosphere in the same way this planet is, and none of them are orbiting at rates that are faster than the Sun’s rotation. If anything, tidal interactions would want to speed up the planet’s orbits, and push them into higher orbits.

But eventually the Sun will become a red giant star, which will change some of these relationships. We will see competing effects then: The Sun will begin shedding its outer layers, which will create a higher drag environment for the planets (that were not swallowed during the Sun’s expansion) which would tend towards inward migration, but this will also lower the Sun’s mass, which will lend itself toward an outward migration.

typotyper@sh.itjust.works said in How fast is that in kilometers per hour?: Would Jupiter being a gas giant get slowed down equally to the outer planets or would it eat some planets on its own.

All of the outer planets are gas giants.

Jupiter is not currently migrating inward, nor are any of the other planets. If inward migration happens after the Sun becomes a red giant, those other outer planets will not get anywhere close to it. As a red giant, the Sun will approximately fill Earth’s orbit. Jupiter’s orbit is 5x larger than this; Saturn’s is 10x larger, and by the time the Sun actually grows this large, all of the planets’ orbits will be even larger than they are today, thanks to gradual mass loss.

None of the outer planets are expected to fall into the Sun at any point in time.

Typotyper,

Thanks for the answers (and time). It’s cool to learn these things.

I could ask another 100 questions and still not understand half of it.

Bluetreefrog, w For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system
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There’s so much cool stuff happening in Astronomy at the moment.

buggy-pull-buggy, w Citizen Astronomers Help Confirm New Temperate Jupiter

That is pretty f'n sweet

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