Spaaaaace

Traditiona versus modernity.

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OK, as I write this I know, I know

Area 51 Aliens GIF by Sky HISTORY UK

is a joke, but the sci-fi nerd in me is already trying to put this into an interstellar war scenario. One we want to stay very far away from.

Similarly:

Like its 1991 predecessor, astronomers are baffled as to where the particle came from. Tracing its trajectory led them to an empty area of space known as the “Local Void” bordering our Milky Way galaxy. “The particles are so high energy, they shouldn’t be affected by galactic and extra-galactic magnetic fields. You should be able to point to where they come from in the sky,” said co-author John Matthews, Telescope Array co-spokesperson at the University of Utah. “But in the case of the Oh-My-God particle and this new particle, you trace its trajectory to its source and there’s nothing high energy enough to have produced it. That’s the mystery of this—what the heck is going on?”

Basically, we don’t have a clue.

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it was big enough for earths inhabitants so far…

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I want my money back.

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https://nightskyonline.info/observing/2023-events-and-planet-finder-charts/december-2023-events-and-planet-finder-charts/

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(Perfect cheer.)

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Looks like someone didn’t clear up properly after class and forgot to put the model back into storage.

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Additional information, links:

Six pack of sub-Neptune exoplanets hang tight around nearby star

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That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

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Hubble science instruments still out after going down 3 times in a week

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A CANNIBAL CME IS COMING: NOAA models confirm that a Cannibal CME will strike our planet on Dec. 1st. Cannibal CMEs form when a fast CME sweeps up a slower CME ahead of it. The combination contains intense, tangled magnetic fields that can do a good job sparking auroras when they reach Earth. If a Cannibal CME strikes Earth on Dec. 1st, as predicted, geomagnetic storm levels could reach category G3 (Strong). Aurora alerts: SMS Text

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https://www.spaceweather.com/

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It was too cloudy and or too much light pollution in NoVa last night to see the Cannibal CME event but here is a gallery showing some amazing views elsewhere:

https://spaceweathergallery2.com/index.php?title=aurora

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America’s ambitious Artemis III likely to miss 2025 Moon landing date, auditors sigh

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According to the watchdog, problems with both SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System – the vehicle chosen to deliver US astronauts to the Moon’s southern pole – and the Axiom spacesuit selected for those lunar operations, mean there are significant deadlines to be reached in the next two years. These goals are unlikely to be fulfilled in time.

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jah, no shit, sherlocks… :woozy_face:

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Do we live in a giant void? That could solve the puzzle of the universe’s expansion, research suggests

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-giant-void-puzzle-universe-expansion.amp

The theory certainly resonates emotionally.

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To do this, our model didn’t incorporate ΛCDM but an alternative theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND).

ohno, not again…(also, its still a thesis, not a theory, right?) (sooorry, @KathyPartdeux)

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