Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED) - Part 1

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Scientists find black hole spaghettifying star remarkably close to Earth

"This discovery suggests that black holes ripping stars apart nearby could be more common than previously thought — we just haven't witnessed it happening frequently."

www.space.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Giant Mars volcano discovered 'hiding' in plain sight

The giant volcano had been hiding in plain sight for decades in one of Mars' most iconic regions.

www.space.com

 

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Portrait of NGC 1055
Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Doctor

 

[blueharvest]

Voyager 1 Sputters Back to Life

An engineer with the Deep Space Network figured out a way to decode a mysterious "new signal" coming from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.

futurism.com

 

[Brutikus]

ELT and the Milky Way
Image Credit & License: European Southern Observatory - Courtesy: Jens Scheidtmann

 

[blueharvest]

Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed From 10 Million Miles Away in NASA Test

Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA recently demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers (10 million miles).

www.sciencealert.com

 

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Fleming's Triangular Wisp
Image Credit & Copyright: Cristiano Gualco

 

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Speck of light glimpsed by Hubble is truly an enormous old galaxy, James Webb Space Telescope reveals

"Just a couple of years ago, Gz9p3 appeared as a single point of light through the Hubble Space Telescope."

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

NGC 7714: Starburst after Galaxy Collision
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive;
Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl

 

[blueharvest]

Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field

"We're surrounding the planet with trash."

www.space.com

 

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Comet Nishimura Grows
Credit & Copyright: Peter Kennett

 

[blueharvest]

Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old

The fabric of the cosmos, as we understand it, comprises three primary components: 'normal matter,' 'dark energy,' and 'dark matter.'

www.earth.com

 

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Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma
Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Erik Vallestad

 

[blueharvest]

The James Webb Space Telescope is digging deep into the mysteries of gas planets

"Some of the senior researchers thought that it would never be possible to do this, but with some more rigorous tests for a few months, we confirmed that we have done it."

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

The Eyes in Markarian's Galaxy Chain
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

 

[blueharvest]

Dark Matter Debunked in Revolutionary Cosmic Study

The current theoretical model for the composition of the universe is that it’s made of ‘normal matter,’ ‘dark energy’ and ‘dark matter.’ A new study challenges this. A University of Ottawa study published in The Astrophysical Journal challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, i

scitechdaily.com

 

[Brutikus]

The Ghosts of Gamma Cas
Image Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Gruntz, Jean-François Bax

 

[blueharvest]

Scientists find galaxy supercluster as massive as 26 quadrillion suns

The Einasto Supercluster is so vast that it would take a light signal 360 million years to get from one end to the other.

www.space.com

 

[Brutikus]

The Leo Trio
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Cannistra

 

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DoD innovation unit to assess Firefly vehicle for missions beyond Earth orbit

DoD innovation unit to assess Firefly vehicle for missions beyond Earth orbit

spacenews.com

 

[Morg]

Cosmic explosion will be visible to the naked eye in once-in-a-lifetime stargazing event

 

[blueharvest]

Hubble finds that aging brown dwarfs grow lonely

It takes two to tango, but in the case of brown dwarfs that were once paired as binary systems, that relationship doesn't last for very long, according to a recent survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

phys.org

 

[Brutikus]

Phobos: Moon over Mars
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Zolt Levay (STScI) - Acknowledgment: J.Bell (ASU) and M.Wolff (SSI)

 

[blueharvest]

Undiscovered extra moons may orbit Earth. Could they help us become an interplanetary species?

Due to their proximity to Earth, minimoons are prime candidates for exploration. Now, some scientists want to use these tiny satellites to push humanity further into the cosmos.

www.livescience.com