Daniel Fischer @[email protected]
@cosmos4uAll things astronomy and space - in tiny bits and pieces but mostly with links to more ... :-) Also on https://t.co/lye0UYWnL4 and https://t.co/PboT4txmBw
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A sample of the #Moon’s far side retrieved by Chang’e-6 contains 2.83-billion-year-old basalt: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… -> A sample from the far side of the Moon: science.org/content/articl…
An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change: link.springer.com/article/10.100… -> NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global #Freshwater Levels: science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-sat…
Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication: elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr… -> Origin of life - a new scenario for replication: lmu.de/en/newsroom/ne… - LMU researchers find a plausible geological setting that may have sparked #life on Earth.
The first batch of 18 Qianfan (Chinese Starlink) sats were launched in August. 17 have begun orbit raising; sat 7 (cat. 60385, green) has not maneuvered and may have failed. The second batch(red) has a deployment orbit similar to the first but with a different orbital plane
In any normal world, and/or with any other country, this would be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow morning and leading every news bulletin tonight. But it won't.
Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians there: Report by the UN Special Committee ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
Whoa, zebra denial!
If you hear hoofbeats think horse, not zebra. If you see a UFO think balloon, aircraft, satellite, bird, blimp, Venus, reflected light, flares, sky lanterns, etc., not aliens.
Someone remind me, please: why exactly should I watch even one second of two obviously not very bright and only allegedly grown up men beating each other up?
#OTD 55 years ago ✨ Apollo 12 launched on November 14, 1969, with ASE member Charles Conrad, Jr., aboard! To learn more, check out the mission page from @NASA: nasa.gov/mission/apollo…
UN special committee likens Israeli policy in Gaza to genocide. Report also refers to Israel 'using starvation as a weapon of war' and running 'apartheid system' in West Bank. Don’t ever say you didn’t know. theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…
Signed, Sealed, Delivered! 📦 ✅ @NASARoman’s Optical Telescope Assembly was officially delivered to @NASAGoddard! With this milestone completed, Roman remains on track for launch by May 2027! 🚀 Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4hNUxZe
#Google uses millions of phones to map Earth’s #ionosphere and improve #GPS: nature.com/articles/d4158… - nanosecond-precision measurements from mobile devices could fill in gaps in satellite-navigation systems.
The Truncated Circumgalactic Medium of the Large Magellanic Cloud: arxiv.org/abs/2410.11960 -> NASA’s Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy’s Scrape with Milky Way: science.nasa.gov/missions/hubbl…
Revealing hidden structures in the Zone of Avoidance -- a blind MeerKAT HI Survey of the Vela Supercluster: arxiv.org/abs/2411.07084 -> Astronomers Defy the Zone of Avoidance to Find Hundreds of New Galaxies: universetoday.com/169287/astrono…
J1721+8842 - the first Einstein zig-zag lens: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04177 -> First known double #GravitationalLens could shed light on universe’s expansion: science.org/content/articl… - zigzagging light bent by perfectly aligned galaxies could improve estimates of H0.
The New York Times admits in a belated footnote no one will read that it misled readers into thinking a video showed an antisemitic attack on Israeli football fans rather than the truth: it showed Israeli hooligans beating up Dutch locals. Once again, the NYT – like the rest of…
A Spectral Method to Compute the #Tides of Laterally Heterogeneous Bodies: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384… -> NASA-Funded Study Examines Tidal Effects on Planet and Moon Interiors: science.nasa.gov/science-resear…
Aah, one of those wild depictions of an old-style planetarium projector looking like a giant invading alien insect spitting venom ... ;-)
Check out artprints, posters, and postcards of Russell W. Porter's 1931-1933 concepts he drew to guide the creation of Griffith Observatory, available only at etsy.com/shop/OrreryPre…
Clickbaity hed and Xeet but the article actually reveals it was just, jawn, a Starlink satellite reentry.
Alien attack or meteor shower? Residents across the US Midwest left in awe as mysterious glowing objects lit up the night sky wionews.com/science/alien-…
AT 2021hdr - a candidate tidal disruption of a gas cloud by a binary super massive black hole system: aanda.org/articles/aa/pd… -> NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster #BlackHoles: science.nasa.gov/missions/swift…
Cmte chair Cabana said US and Russia do not have common understanding of cause or risks of leaks in the Russian segment. Russia says it's safe but can't prove it, NASA says it's not safe but can't prove it. Want independent joint technical team to figure it out. 1/
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