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Event Horizon Telescope captures stunning new image of Milky Way’s black hole
https://arstechnica.com/science/…
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Mindbending Mondays
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Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after ‘poke’ from Earth
Engineers have sent a “poke” to the Voyager 1 probe and received a potentially encouraging response as they hope to fix a communication issue with the aging spacecraft that has persisted for five months.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are venturing through uncharted cosmic territory along the outer reaches of the solar system.
While Voyager 1 has continued to relay a steady radio signal to its mission control team on Earth, that signal has not carried any usable data since November, which has pointed to an issue with one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers.
A new signal recently received from the spacecraft suggests that the NASA mission team may be making progress in its quest to understand what Voyager 1 is experiencing. Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth at about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away.
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- SPACEX CONFIRMS LOSS OF STARSHIP AT END OF THIRD TEST FLIGHT (Reuters)grafician
- What a ride...grafician
- Yet another of Elon's 100 million dollar rockets down the toilet. But a huge success!!!utopian
- ...and yet still half the development cost of the SLS, for a more complex platform, that's actually hit three milestones.
But sure, mElOn bAd. *rolls eyesNairn - You're like all those kids on Reddit who spend their lives bleating on about JK Rowling wondering why she's so obsessive.. whilst they obsess over her.Nairn
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Earliest-known 'dead' galaxy spotted by Webb telescope
Scientists said on Wednesday that Webb has spotted a galaxy where star formation had already ceased by roughly 13.1 billion years ago, 700 million years after the Big Bang event that gave rise to the universe. Many dead galaxies have been detected over the years, but this is the earliest by about 500 million years.
- wow holy shit TIL that the Milky Way is still producing stars, roughly 7 per year. https://www.skyatnig…_niko
- which makes sense because of the nebulas within it but in my head star formations happened billions of years ago_niko
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I had a thought about the universe:
The universe is obviously larger than the observable universe because we are at the centre of the observable universe and everything seems to be radiating out evenly around us which is statistically impossible.
I asked Chat Got its thoughts and came back with:
The observation that the universe looks roughly the same in every direction (isotropy) and that, on large scales, matter is evenly distributed (homogeneity) is a cornerstone of modern cosmology, encapsulated in the Cosmological Principle. While it might seem statistically improbable for us to be at the center of a perfectly radiating universe, the explanation is that the universe is not radiating out from us; instead, it appears isotropic and homogeneous no matter where an observer is located within it. This is not due to our unique position but is a property of the universe itself, suggesting that the universe does not have a center or edge in the conventional sense.
The initial conditions of the universe and the laws of physics that govern its expansion and the distribution of matter make it such that, from any given point, the universe would appear much the same in all directions. This does not imply a central position for the observer but rather the uniformity of the universe on the largest scales.
- which I guess means that if you are in one of the first galaxies to emerge out of the Big Bang, you wouldn't be observing all other galaxies "behind" you and_niko
- nothingness in "front" of you, you would instead be much like us on earth, observing a homogenous universe all around you equally in all directions._niko
- which boggles the mind._niko
- I swear as I read this I could hear the sound of a bubbling bong in the backgroundnb
- haha_niko
- not sure what you mean by "statistically impossible" considering there's only one universe we can observe, and it's by all means possible heremonospaced
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