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Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:46 am
by FluffyFreak
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11 ... e-company/
Barnards Star appears to have more planets! A Super Earth orbiting in 233 days at the edge of the "Snow line", and possibly a Neptune sized object within the equivalent orbit of Jupiter. More signals also found but very faint which might indicate more planets.
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:28 pm
by impaktor
https://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iii ... efault.jpg
- A hand drawn diagram from Carl Sagan representing all of space and time. The X axis represents time, going into the future and into the past and the Y axis represents scale, from the size of the electron to the distances between galaxies. It marks the relatively small "realm of direct human experience" and the much larger "realm of quantum physics" and "realm of special relativity."
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Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:15 pm
by FluffyFreak
"The Earth has been experiencing more frequent asteroid strikes"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01 ... comments=1
Bonus short story called "Sad Kapteyn":
https://ph.qmul.ac.uk/sad-kapteyn
Speaking of
Kapteyn's Star, it passed us by within 7lyrs about ~10,800 years ago, and I'm certain that we don't account for stars proper motion over time when they were imported.
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:52 pm
by impaktor
Good short story.
I can live with present day star positions. Feels like an added headache to take +1200 year movements into account.
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 8:17 pm
by FluffyFreak
This Twitter thread is really interesting about what data we have for the milkyway ->
https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1 ... 1527438336
But it also lead me to this KickStarter -> "The first accurate and detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy -
Using data produced by the Gaia astrometric satellite combined with exoplanets, dust, nebula, and hydrogen data from other sources."
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ga ... oject_link
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 5:13 pm
by nozmajner
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 12:59 pm
by FluffyFreak
Water worlds, seems like there could be a lot of them.
Might need some floating cities/spaceports
https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-ga ... er-worlds/
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Wed May 01, 2019 2:47 pm
by nozmajner
Floating starports would be cool then :)
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 1:13 pm
by FluffyFreak
Re: Various astronomy news
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:48 pm
by FluffyFreak
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11 ... -of-titan/
Maps of Titans surface show variations in the surface topography that looks really interesting
