astronomy

Ghyste, rok temu w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

No.

JackGreenEarth, rok temu

Batterige, or whoever it is’s, law of headlines ig

deezbutts, rok temu

Godwin

Ghyste, rok temu

Betterige is correct.

prole, rok temu w Most Astronauts Get ‘Space Headaches.’ Scientists Want to Know Why

First symptom of space madness

conditional_soup, rok temu w The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy

Nope. No. Nuh-uh. Stop fucking up this planet, then we can talk. I’m drawing a line in the sand, I’m going to become an eco-terrorist if I see a fucking Coca-Cola ad when I look into the night sky.

Audacious, rok temu

All I think of is the movie, The Time Machine. Spoiler, the main character goes forward in time and sees the moon breaking apart, causing a collapse of civilisation.

ClopClopMcFuckwad, rok temu w Salads Grown in Space May Pose a Deadly Problem

We know that the International Space Station (ISS) is home to a lot of aggressive bacteria and fungi

Damn, TILd

mozz, rok temu w The Cosmic Bat Nebula

It legit looks like an AI image generator was told to generate a nebula that's also a bat

Anticorp, rok temu

I feel like this has definitely been touched up.

Mr_Blott, rok temu

Pervert

mozz, rok temu

I highly doubt NASA is in the business of doing that (and FWIW Snopes agrees with me).

Anticorp, rok temu

Read the comment right above yours:

lemm.ee/comment/8535233

mozz, rok temu

There's a big difference between "touched up" as in, fix the contrast and adjust the color balance, versus "touched up" as in let's make a nebula look like a bat. The first, me and Ricky are in agreement that they're doing. The second, me and Snopes feel strongly that they're not doing.

rickyrigatoni, rok temu

NASA always touches up their photographs to add color and contrast or else space would look very boring.

itsgroundhogdayagain, miesiąc temu w NASA's been pulling out of major astronomy meetings — and scientists are feeling the effects

Go on without us. We’re headed back to the Dark Ages.

myster0n, 4 miesiące temu w Most Planets in the Cosmos Probably Don’t Orbit Stars

There are NO planets that don’t orbit stars : once they don’t orbit a star they don’t follow the modern definition of a planet anymore

very_well_lost, 4 miesiące temu

The modern definition of “planet” only includes things that orbit the sun.

Honestly, the IAU’s definition of a planet is pretty useless.

Olhonestjim, 4 miesiące temu

Rocky planets, gas giant planets, ice giant planets, dwarf planets, super Earth planets, hycean planets, lava planets, rogue planets…

some_guy, 4 miesiące temu

We’ll not have science in this discussion about science!

dmtalon, 5 miesięcy temu w NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going

everything about these two spacecraft is just amazing. It’s going to be quite a sad day when they transmit their last byte of data to our little planet. Reading about all the things we’ve done to keep talking to them. The redundancies that they’re running on etc… Fascinating stuff

vga, 6 miesięcy temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Can we launch a satellite at it, perhaps detonate a huge nuke on it to make that chance higher?

Wait, we could just detonate all those huge nukes here right now. Show that stupid asteroid.

rickyrigatoni, 6 miesięcy temu

Nuke the far side of the moon and plunge it into earth. Give the asteroid inadequacy issues.

threelonmusketeers, 6 miesięcy temu

Wouldn’t detonating on the forward side rather than the zenith side be most effective at lowering the perigee of the moon?

rickyrigatoni, 6 miesięcy temu

all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts

Krik, 6 miesięcy temu

all i remember from my ksp days is add more struts boosters

Fixed it for you.

rickyrigatoni, 6 miesięcy temu

Alas, without the struts, the boosters shall return unto The Lord, leaving thine kerbalnauts Kerbinbound.

Comment105, 6 miesięcy temu

You think humanity would be in this spot if the average person had a fucking clue whatsoever?

Rivalarrival, 6 miesięcy temu

Tell me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program without telling me you’ve never played Kerbal Space Program.

SARGE, 6 miesięcy temu

Project Sundial can still make a comeback.

neutronbumblebee, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu) w DESI confirms Einstein's model of space-time, limits alternative explanations

Its a nice bit of tech. 73M in construction costs. The focal plane instrumentation alone weighs 10 tonnes. It includes 5,000 small computer controlled fiber positioners. The entire focal plane can be reconfigured for the next exposure in less than two minutes while the telescope slews to the next field. The DESI instrument is capable of taking 5,000 simultaneous spectra of different Galaxies

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/ba39daf5-4f07-442c-8039-17b2a1e1e813.png

johsny, rok temu w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

Small little fucker, no wonder it’s not a planet anymore.

darkdemize, rok temu

Straya’s never been a planet, mate.

Zier, rok temu

Yeah, but it is a pretty big island.

johsny, rok temu

Might as well have been. 😉

Haagel, rok temu w How Many Holes Does the Universe Have?

Kinky

Diplomjodler3, rok temu

Can’t wait for the role 34 content.

oxjox, 4 miesiące temu w Hubble peers deep into Uranus, finds extra time

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3f672156-5023-4bce-b604-c31201e54115.jpeg

AbsoluteChicagoDog, 6 miesięcy temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

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Xavienth, 6 miesięcy temu

Sarcasm?

Idk about you but if it levels 1287 km² of forest, I don’t think that would exactly be good news for a populated area. On the upper range, it could be equivalent to a 40 megatonne bomb.

threelonmusketeers, 6 miesięcy temu

Provided it enters in a similarly uninhabited location.

adarza, 6 miesięcy temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

is there any way to hurry it along?