The Astronomy and Physics thread. And things of the like.

[seasprite]

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Have always been very interested in space and science. Kinduv hard not to when you grow up seeing this everyday. My mother also worked with Von Braun back in the day, so she always had interesting stories about her time working with him.


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[Jr.]

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This is a bit overwhelming

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1969391-ngc-4889-galaxy-hiding-black-hole-21-billion-times-the-size-of-the-sun-captured-by-space-telescope/

“This is about 15 times the diameter of Neptune’s orbit from the Sun. By comparison, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is believed to have a mass about four million times that of the Sun and an event horizon just one fifth the orbit of Mercury,” it noted in a statement.

[PVarck31]

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The Milky Way from Chile.

[PVarck31]

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This is what our sun will look like as it dies.

[Jr.]

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If anyone is interested in helping detect gravitational waves

http://www.gizmodo.com/heres-how-you-can-help-hunt-for-gravitational-waves-1764011250

http://www.einsteinathome.org/

[PVarck31]

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If anyone is interested in helping detect gravitational waves

http://www.gizmodo.com/heres-how-you-can-help-hunt-for-gravitational-waves-1764011250

http://www.einsteinathome.org/

That's pretty cool. I'm doing SETI@HOME right now.

[PVarck31]

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Some info on Pluto from New Horizons'

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/science-papers-reveal-new-aspects-of-pluto-and-its-moons

[PVarck31]

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This might be one of the coolest things ever.

http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/jupiter-impact-astronomer-videos/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#0TuS6hcxPSq1

[BurghFan]

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Newly released time lapse of the Earth from the ISS

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[Jr.]

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This might be one of the coolest things ever.

http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/jupit...k#0TuS6hcxPSq1

Took me a minute to see the impact. Pretty nuts.

[PVarck31]

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http://www.iflscience.com/space/we-are-probably-not-alone-universe

It's only a matter of time in my opinion.

[BurghFan]

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Three Earth-like planets discovered orbiting dwarf star

(CNN) —For the first time, researchers have discovered three potentially habitable, Earth-like worlds orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away in another star system, according to a study published in the journal Nature.

The ultracool dwarf star, known as TRAPPIST-1, isn't the kind of star scientists expected to be a hub for planets. It's at the end of the range for what classifies as a star: half the temperature and a tenth the mass of the sun. TRAPPIST-1 is red, barely larger than Jupiter and too dim to be seen with the naked eye or even amateur telescopes from Earth.

But these tiny stars, along with brown dwarfs, are long-lived, common in the Milky Way and represent 25-50% of stellar objects in the galaxy, said study researcher Julien de Wit, a postdoctoral associate with MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

[PVarck31]

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Just read this and was about to post it ha.

Pretty cool discovery. Can't wait to hear more about these planets.

[The JareBear]

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About to sound really dumb, but whatever, hasn't stopped me in the past...

I walked out to my car about an hour ago and the sky was crazy clear/vibrant. I felt like I was out in the middle of nowhere. One of the stars was reddish and almost kind of twinkled a little (best word I can think of). Is that Mars? Mar is one of the ones we can see from our sky, right?

[PVarck31]

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About to sound really dumb, but whatever, hasn't stopped me in the past...

I walked out to my car about an hour ago and the sky was crazy clear/vibrant. I felt like I was out in the middle of nowhere. One of the stars was reddish and almost kind of twinkled a little (best word I can think of). Is that Mars? Mar is one of the ones we can see from our sky, right?

If it was in the southern-ish sky then yes, it was probably Mars. It's one of the brightest objects in the sky when visible. It looks pretty awesome. If you saw another bright "star" below it and to the left that was probably Saturn.