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AllNewTypeFace, w Heliophysicists call for fresh missions to study the Sun—and a new name for the field
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

Can we send Elon Musk to take a good close look at it?

kemsat, w Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers

Oh damn, I thought it’d be tennis players that were gonna be into the space telescope.

FooBarrington,

That doesn’t even make sense. If anything it would obviously be Baseball players.

dudinax, w NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

Wow it’s tiny

tate,
@tate@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Telescope is almost a misnomer here. It will be “looking” at other satellites, not astronomically distant objects.

The influence of gravitational waves will be seen in changes in the relative distance to each of the six satellites.

threelonmusketeers,

Yes, but also no.

Each side of the triangular array will measure nearly 1.6 million miles, or 2.5 million kilometers.

The satellites themselves may be small, but the interferometer antenna they’ll collectively form will be huge.

Imhotep, w Brought my Celestron NexStar 6SE out on a camping trip last weekend and pointed it at the moon

that celestron sure is a powerful flashlight!

acockworkorange,

Daaaaaad

Imhotep,

oh shit, it already started

threelonmusketeers, w Brought my Celestron NexStar 6SE out on a camping trip last weekend and pointed it at the moon

Nice photo!

nailbar, w 'Party atmosphere': Skygazers treated to another aurora show

All three days that we were having auroras here just now, it was raining. Now that’s it’s over, the clouds are gone again. Aargh!

threelonmusketeers, w Hurricane Milton from Dragon Endeavor photo taken by Astronaut Matthew Dominick

Super cool photo, but does this technically count as astronomy? Isn’t astronomy “a camera on (usually) on earth, pointed up into space”, not the other way around?

acockworkorange,
astronomy
/ə-strŏn′ə-mē/
noun
  1. (obsolete) Astrology.
  2. The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.
  3. A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.

From the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

threelonmusketeers,

Are you saying that observing the Earth should count as astronomy?

acockworkorange,

Technically correct. The best kind of correct.

ekZepp, w ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way
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daisyKutter, w Betelgeuse has a tiny companion star hidden in plain sight
@daisyKutter@lemmy.ml avatar

Named Lydia?

Bluetreefrog, w Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade
@Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world avatar

The book, Seven Eves is about one of these hitting the moon.

Davel23,

The cause of the incident is never specified in the book.

thebardingreen,
@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz avatar

The book Earth by David Brin is about one of these hitting the Earth

onlinepersona, w Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade

Would a regular asteroid be able to wobble the earth as described in this article? Or is it just black holes that should do so?

I seem to remember reading that primordial black holes weren’t yet a proven phenomenon and I have trouble imagining them myself. Wouldn’t they have hawking radiation too which we would be able to detect?

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JizzmasterD, w Earth to have new mini-moon for two months

Ah, PT Cruiser in orbit!

BKXcY86CHs2k8Coz, w Tiny glass beads suggest the moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth

Moon Volcano is my new bandname

onlinepersona, w Researchers identify effective materials for protecting astronauts from harmful cosmic radiation on Mars

Not sure if this belongs here, a physics, or a tech community 😅

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teft,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

This works here but maybe also in shitjustworks/c/spaceflight too. Or lemmy.world/c/space. Those are both pretty active space communities.

threelonmusketeers,

Instance agnostic links: !space and !spaceflight.

Pyr_Pressure, w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca avatar

I can see why they no longer call it a planet, what’s the cutoff for asteroid size?

johannesvanderwhales,

It is still a dwarf planet. Basically when it hits hydrostatic equilibrium, i.e. when it’s round, it is considered a dwarf planet. More here

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