astronomy

Pronell, 11 godzin temu w Exoplanets that cling too tightly to their stars trigger their own doom: 'This is a completely new phenomenon'

This is phrased like the planets have some choice. It’s weird.

Olap, 2 godziny temu w New interstellar object candidate heading toward the sun

fosstodon.org/ - this scientist reckons 0.2AU to Mars. Still 30m km. And thus about 100x further than the moon. But it only took Armstrong three days to do that distance!

Could we slingshot between the earth and the moon a probe to reach it’s relative solar velocity and chase it down? Does anyone know the bounds of that?