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AbouBenAdhem, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu) do astronomy w Rainbow-like pattern found on planet outside solar system

I assume we can’t actually resolve spatial detail on the planet, so the effect must have been temporal. Would it have been something like a spike moving through the visible spectrum as the planet transits its star?

AbouBenAdhem, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu) do astronomy w A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering

The team’s measurements even suggest that the supernovae that virtually cleared the bubble of space in which the Milky Way resides was born in a cluster of stars within the Radcliffe Wave.

Wait, the Milky Way is inside of a bubble generated by novae which were inside a cluster which is inside the Radcliffe Wave which is… itself… inside the Milky Way?

AbouBenAdhem, 4 miesiące temu do scifi w Judge John Hodgman’s Case for Categorizing ‘Star Wars’ as Fantasy

in sci fi stories they always have a scientific explanation for things

I think there are two issues with this: it’s not a requirement that sci-fi explain things; and it’s not clear what would qualify an explanation as “scientific”.

I would say, rather, that the implicit set of laws governing a sci-fi world are a superset of those currently understood to govern ours, while in a fantasy world the governing laws contradict those governing ours.