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Jeredin, 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,
themeatbridge, w Astrobotic's Peregrine lander suffers propulsion issue, making moon landing unlikely

You mean farming out scientific discovery to the lowest bidder doesn’t yield the best results?

wahming,

Were they the lowest bidder? The article doesn’t mention anything about that.

Also, going with the lowest bidder gave us spacex, which turned out pretty well. Fuck Boeing

verity_kindle,

Indeed, this is the way. Fuccckk thaaatt Boeiiiinggg ::::meditation mantra::::::

nooneescapesthelaw,

Farming out to the lowest bidder works well when the guidelines are strict and the client (gvmnt) does good QA.

Lots of stuff was farmed out in the apollo mission and it was still ok. Strict QA was noted as a very important factor in why that mission was a success.

You can read the case study by NASA about this, and you’ll see that they have 1 article just about QA and how they did testing, and another one about testing and deadlines

vzq, w Roman Space Telescope reaches assembly milestone

When your space program delays are so massive that your empire hasn’t existed for 1500 years, but your payload is still in the assembly stage.

threelonmusketeers,

Nancy Grace Roman

She may be elderly, but she’s not quite that ancient :)

HurlingDurling, w Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade
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Cool, one more thing to keep me up at night

aaaaace,
Evil_Shrubbery, w Astronomers detect black hole 'starving' its host galaxy to death

To shreds spaghetti you say?

captain_aggravated, w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
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Meanwhile, Australia is down there like “WTF mate?”

milicent_bystandr,

Nah, no one likes lives in that part of Australia. Pluto sitting there just means drivers from Perth to Sydney have to take a little detour.

captain_aggravated,
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I mean, I’m pretty sure you’d be able to see it from everywhere in Australia, so I bet many of them would be like “WTF?” But they’ll be dead soon. Fuckin’ kangaroos.

TonyOstrich,

Fucking kangaroos

Annoyed_Crabby, w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

Still can’t unsee Pluto on Pluto

The_Che_Banana, w Hubble finds strong evidence for intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are a long-sought ‘missing link’ in black hole evolution. Only a few other IMBH candidates have been found to date. Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large galaxies, or relatively lightweight, with a mass less than 100 times that of the Sun. Black holes are one of the most extreme environments humans are aware of, and so they are a testing ground for the laws of physics and our understanding of how the Universe works. If IMBHs exist, how common are they? Does a supermassive black hole grow from an IMBH? How do IMBHs themselves form? Are dense star clusters their favoured home?

btaf45, 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.

And009, w OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)

Irrespective of the crater size, depth looks consistent. Does anyone know why that is?

Thorry84,

Multiple reasons:

Higher speed impacts penetrate deep, but also cause the rock to melt. This fills in deeper craters, limiting the max depth a crater can be. There are still very deep huge craters, but these look more like big depressions than craters, because of how big they are. They are also themselves covered with craters usually, making their size and shape harder to see.

Because the diameter of the moon is 3474km, a difference of several kilometers would only amount to a fraction of a percent. So even though one crater is for example 10km deeper than another, relative to the size of the moon this is practically nothing. When viewing pics like these where the whole moon is visible, this matters.

The moon is a very uniform gray color and lacks the indicators our brain use to gauge depth. This makes it very hard to guess how deep the different craters are. You can see some craters have more shadows where others don’t, but they are also different shapes and sizes and the lighting is different so it’s hard to see.

There is also probably some part of the speeds of incoming stuff being within a certain range and the moonrocks being relatively uniform in materials, so the range of craters than can exists is probably limited. But I’m not certain how big of an factor this is and what the range is.

And009,

I’m hoping there are missions to go in close, get a better look.

Thorry84,

There are plenty of missions right now. China has landed a rover on the moon this month. And multiple countries have satellites in orbit around the moon. Nasa has their Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which takes very high resolution images of the moon all the time and these are publiced on their website.

StaySquared,

The conspiracy about the moon is that under a thin layer of dust… it’s really all metal. /shrug

3volver, w OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)

This image does a good job at making me realize we have explored basically nothing on the moon. SO much more to explore, yet we act like there’s no point trying to send more astronauts to the moon for decades. Please, increase NASA budget more.

Potatisen, w Daily Telescope: The initial results from Europe’s Euclid telescope are dazzling

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e859ec46-d3f9-4aa8-8655-83794eaa8ed7.jpeg

According to the European scientists, “Euclid peered deep into this nursery using its infrared camera, exposing hidden regions of star formation for the first time, mapping its complex filaments of gas and dust in unprecedented detail, and uncovering newly formed stars and planets. Euclid’s instruments can detect objects just a few times the mass of Jupiter, and its infrared ‘eyes’ reveal over 300,000 new objects in this field of view alone.”

smithfv, w Mars has a volcano larger than Hawaii

What is this website that keeps getting posted here? There is nothing on its site saying who runs it. And this article is almost directly plagiarized from a ScienceNews article: sciencenews.org/…/mars-internet-communication-rov…

westernsquad,

I think just another side opinion

swab148, w The James Webb Space Telescope Releases a Beautiful New Picture Of Uranus
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GreyEyedGhost, w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.
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