space
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)
This Friday, travel back to the dawn of the universe. 🌌
📽️ Free screening of Cosmic Dawn + live chat with SETI Institute astronomer Dr. Mark Showalter
🗓 Aug 22 | 6PM PT | Virtual
🎟️ Reserve your spot today: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9717545241481/WN_cZs-n2X2Sk6jlWicDVaM5A#/registration
Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12 billion years. 'This is the most distant event where we can directly see light escaping from around stars'. Via @spacedotcom #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Astronomers trace massive cosm...
Why do such characters never age? In popular culture and film art, you see male cybery characters aging, but never women. I'm so annoyed. As I age, I want to keep on having cool futuristic space role models. I want the wise, experienced, middle-aged cybergirl. Cyberwoman. Cybergrandma. Please, pop culture, give me cool aging women. Thank you.
An update on the world’s first cultural crop payload!
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 docked with the International Space Station on August 2, and the seeds had a brief stay in space, during which ISS astronauts photographed them.
Then on August 9, the seeds returned safely to Earth along with Crew-10. Jaguar Space CEO Luis Zea packaged them up for study after retrieving them from NASA.
Researchers, including Dr. Mark Showalter and Dr. Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute, discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using the JWST. Astronomers detected the faint object on February 2, 2025, in a series of 10 long-exposure images. This discovery adds a new member to Uranus’s family of satellites, bringing the count to 29. The team was led by Dr. Maryame El Moutamid of the Southwest Research Institute.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/news/new-moon-discovered-orbiting-uranus/
"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
UPCOMING DEADLINE: The SETI Institute invites outstanding undergraduate interns to apply for the 2025 SETI Forward Award, open from August 4 through September 7, 2025.
Undergraduate student interns who participated in SETI or astrobiology-related research between September 1, 2024, and August 31, 2025, are eligible to apply.
Recipients receive a $1,500 award.
Learn more and apply:
https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-opens-applications-for-the-2025-seti-forward-award/
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
Planetary science fans on the Fedi, big news! 🥳
The Planetary Research Cooperative, a non-profit promoting planetary science, has created a PeerTube server and uploaded hundreds of science videos:
➡️ https://solarsystem.video/videos/browse
You can also follow the server's accounts:
@europlanet_media
@issi_media
@lightcurvefilms_socialmedia
@openplanetary_media
@planetary_research_media
(Accounts may look blank as they're new, follow them to help them federate!)
cc @space
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
