astronomy

Lyrl, 13 godzin temu w Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole

Neat to see a 6-7 solar mass black hole spotted. First one without a companion star to give it away! As we get better at finding black holes of this size, will be interesting to see if they end up explaining part of the “dark matter” problem.

threelonmusketeers, 8 godzin temu w [Meta] Comm Clarification

I think that !space is the most general community, and communities like “!astronomy” and “!spaceflight” are subsets.

• Interesting data from a telescope? Astronomy and space, but not spaceflight.
• A new GPS satellite is launched? Spaceflight and space, but not astronomy.
• The Perseverance rover drills into a neat rock on Mars? Space, but not really astronomy or spaceflight.
• A new space telescope is launched? Definitely all three.

These are just my thoughts though, and I’d love to hear what others think.

@Bee, @otter, @Bitswap Thoughts on changing the display name of !space from “Space & Astronomy” to just “Space”? Not that astronomy posts wouldn’t be welcome, but it could help reduce confusion with this community.

Bitswap, 7 godzin temu

Yeah. Actually confused me for a minute and I had to go dig into all the different communities on mander.

I think it makes sense to change the display name.

sga, 7 godzin temu w [Meta] Comm Clarification

don’t think much about it, just post where ever you want

Agent641, 5 godzin temu w [Eric Berger] Tuesday Telescope: A rare glimpse of one of the smallest known moons

I actually think about Deimos a lot

keepthepace, 3 godziny temu w [Eric Berger] Tuesday Telescope: A rare glimpse of one of the smallest known moons

What I like about this image is that this is probably the biggest object that I can compare to something I know, that I can “comprehend”. With 6 km wide, it is about the same size as Grenoble, a city I have seen from above while hiking. I can understand how far the picture looks from it, how small a human would be on it