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Es ist Zeit für eine Feedback-Folge: Franzi und @pikarl sprechen über grabende Reptilien, über schrecklich kranke Dinos und über die schreckliche verwirrende Raumzeit nahe am Ereignishorizont. 🦕 🦖 ✨
➡️ https://astrogeo.de/astrogeoplaenkel-mit-eidechsen-einstein-und-ereignishorizont/ 🎧
🖼️ : ESA, NASA and Felix Mirabel / CC-BY 4.0 Motani R, Jiang D-y, Tintori A, Rieppel O, Chen G-b (2014)
🚀✨ When being second means standing above the rest. Second to None — where cosmic beauty meets bold design.
https://rafaelsalazar.com/featured/second-to-none-rafael-salazar.html
#cosmic #numeral #galactic #buyintoart #artmatters #fediart #fediverse #mastoart #mastoartist #mastodon #fedigiftshop #abstract #nebula #glass #futuristic #luminous #flipboard #flipboard_user_group #space #modern
I suppose an introduction is in order. Better make one before I forget...
I'm Ferrus, your local queer goat! 🐐
I'm a #pansexual, #agender, and #aromantic of the #autistic #furry variety! My presentation is primarily feminine, though I incorporate some masculine or neutral pieces when the mood strikes me.
I was born and raised in #newzealand, though you wouldn't know that from my accent, a weird american-british-kiwi hybrid.
My Hobbies/Special Interests include but are not limited to: #linux, #anime, #vidogames, #tabletop, #books, #movies, #tv, #space, #fantasy, #sciencefiction, #oldtechnology, #lego, and #sustainablefashion
My favourite pieces of media are: #Warhammer40K, #TheExpanse, #StarTrek, #StarBlazers, #Tensura, #DungeonsAndDragons, #Pathfinder, #WorldofDarkness, #Stargate, and the #nasuverse
I may occasionally toot about these
Currently looking for education in some kind of Systems Administration Role, and run #NixOS on a daily basis. I also build my own machines.
My toots and boosts may occasionally be #NSFW. DNI with these unless you are of legal age.
Feel free to DM me, unless you're a #troll, #bigot, or anything else of the sort.
Offenders will find themselves fed to an Elder Wyrm (the mute/block button)
"The first photo of the Odysseus lunar lander on the moon, the first U.S. spacecraft to make a soft landing on the lunar surface in more than 50 years, was released Monday."
ABC News reports: https://flip.it/vLonPH
For more stories like this, follow "Space News": @space-news-science
Halley's Comet won't reappear until 2061, but Pons-Brooks is a similar big, long-period comet putting -- and it's putting on a show *right now*.
You'll need good binoculars, but oh is it pretty. Photo taken on Monday by Michael Jäger.
https://theskylive.com/12p-info
#astronomy #space #science #comet #photography
The first published photo of Earth from space was released 77 years ago today (7 March 1947).
It was taken from a captured German V-2 rocket, used by the US Army as part of Operation Paperclip, at an altitude of 101 miles (162km).
https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4722 #space #history #science #tech
Thirty years after the first exoplanets were discovered, hundreds of additional exoplanets have been identified within the “habitable zone,” a place where liquid water and maybe even life may exist. The MIT Press Reader asks, could a self-sustaining starship carry humans to distant worlds? https://flip.it/0q093h
#Science #Space #SolarSystem #Planets #Humans #SpaceExploration
The Event Horizon Telescope has unveiled how Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, looks like in polarised light, which tells us a lot about the magnetic field around this monster.
The lines overlaid on the image below mark the orientation of the polarisation, from which astronomers can work out the structure of the magnetic field around the black hole.
More details: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2406/
📷 EHT Collaboration
People are selling chunks of SpaceX's exploded Starship on eBay.
Futurism reports that recovered ceramic heat shield tiles are being offered for thousands of dollars.
Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the *Earth*. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.
Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.
https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse
Huzzah! 🥳
We've reached 10,000 followers. Thanks to all the scientists, students, teachers and science nerds who contribute to this community. We just love sharing interesting science news with you.
What would you like to see more of?
#Science #Space #ClimateChange
Options: (choose one)
The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit.
They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine, seen from 420 km (261 miles) above: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/with/53645140833 #space #eclipse #space #astronomy
There is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe. Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have triple-checked and confirmed that depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at bafflingly different rates. Live Science explains more, including how scientists are ruling out a measurement error as the cause of the “Hubble Tension.” https://flip.it/VDvM6g
#Science #Space #Hubble #HubbleTension #Universe #JWST
A mind-blower for a Friday evening:
This deceptively simple-looking graph is a spectrum of *gravitational waves* ringing through the Milky Way.
The waves may be caused by a chorus of supermassive black holes colliding all across the universe. Whoa!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16227 #science #space #physics #astronomy
These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:
- NASA: @nasa 71K followers
- ESA: @esa 1.4K followers
There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.
Aurora colors come from atoms that are trying to shed some of their energy.
In very thin air, oxygen survives in a delicate, high-energy state that emits green light. In denser air, atomic collisions knock oxygen to a lower-energy state that emits red. Nitrogen is a robust emitter that glows bright in even lower, denser layers of the atmosphere.
Beautiful science.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/aurora-tutorial #aurora #science #space #nature
#Aurora photos from my husband a couple of hours ago, outside our home in #Dundee, #Scotland. #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #Tayside #Angus #Scotland #Astronomy #Space
this is not #AI
this is not a scene from a movie
this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19
fucking amazing! positively biblical
experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide
👨🚀🚀 3... 2... 1... Liftoff!
Last night, Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, #Ariane6, successfully made its inaugural flight.
Ariane 6 can launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits for applications such as Earth observation, telecommunication, meteorology, science and navigation.
It is a key step towards secure and autonomous 🇪🇺 access to #space.
Congratulations to the teams at European Space Agency, National Centre for Space Studies, Arianespace on this success!
📷© ESA
Ship 30's static fire over the new Massey's Test site flame trench. As viewed from its windward side.
Getting ready for IFT-5.
Close up image and animation of Comet67P
Full size image 3000x3000: https://flic.kr/p/2q5WmRH
Video: https://flic.kr/p/2q648Ym
ESA Rosetta Orbiter
Instrument: OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera
Target: 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
Altitude: 28 km
Time: 2016-04-23
Filters Near IR + Orange + Blue
Product IDs & more info on Flickr.
Raw image 1/3: https://rosetta-osiris.eu/image/NAC_2016-04-23T06.06.10.011
Credit:
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Raw data: ESA/Rosetta/MPS/OSIRIS/IAA/INTA
