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Astronomers have just discovered the first known "Einstein zigzag."

Due to a rare, lucky cosmic alignment, the combined gravity of two galaxies bent light like spaghetti & split a distant quasar into six different images.

This six-part image could allow a very accurate measure of the expansion of the universe.

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-known-double-gravitational-lens-could-shed-light-universe-s-expansion #science #space #astronomy #physics
Visualization of the optical paths of the lensed images. The two zig-zag paths, D and F, are marked in pink and blue respectively. The deflectors cause two sets of sharp turns, while the smooth curvature seen in all paths is due to the expansion of space.


Timeline cleanse

Westerlund 2 is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina. These stars sculpt the surrounding nebula, carving out a cavity lined with a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys. The pillars, composed of dense gas and dust, are incubators for new stars. They are a few light-years tall and point to the central star cluster.

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📷 https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/12/3519-Image.html?news=true

#space #astronomy #Hubble #TimelineCleanse
A star cluster surrounded by a colorful nebula. In the center is a roughly circular cluster of thousands of stars seen as white and red points of light, some with Hubble's characteristic 4-pointed diffraction spikes. Surrounding the cluster is a nebula in shades of white, purple, red, blue and brown. The nebula is densest on the left half of the frame. The stars have carved a spherical cavity into the gas and dust of the nebula, causing the inner shell of the nebula to glow. Protruding from the inner edge of the cavity are several irregular, column-like pillars of dense gas and dust, which point to the central star cluster.


Does anyone have any recommendations for PeerTube channels focused on #Dinosaurs / #Paleontology, #Insects / #Animals / #TheNaturalWorld, #Space / #Astronomy, other interesting topics #History / #Disaster / #Inventions?

If you are thinking of or have made such a channel I'm happy to share it here.

I watch a few on #YouTube but would like to use #PeerTube more. Channels like: #YDAW, #FascinatingHorror, #KurgesagtInANutshell.


Andromeda–Milky Way collision or Milkomeda or Milkdromeda or our suggestion, Andromeda Way (a street we would like to live on...)

📷 :https://images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738

#Astronomy #Space #Science #Astrophotography #AstroDon #MilkyWay #Andromeda #Galaxy #NASA
From source listed in toot: 

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way (right) with tidal pull.

Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger


First post over here after leaving the bin fire that was twitter. Now need to try and find all the Astrophotographers over here to connect with, all recommendations greatfully received. #Astrophotography #Space #Nebula #Astronomy


Aww I love this #MythologyMonday theme (esp. since I was just with *both* my #Sisters IRL last weekend!)

Shout out to the 7 Sisters known as the #Pleaides who live now as stars in the night sky b/c #Orion is the WORRRSST!

We did an episode about the #astronomy & #myth of this #asterism earlier this season :_stars:

#Myth #Mythology #GreekMythology #Space #podcast #NationalSisterDay #Sister

🎨 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)#/media/File:The_Pleiades_(Elihu_Vedder).jpg
Painting of tilted "The Pleiades" by Elihu Vedder showing 7 women dancing in a circle in togas.


A two frame composite of the Milky Way and my kitty "Ding" waiting for me to join him in the freezing cold tent. Ding loved to go camping with me. I sure do miss Schrödinger, the Kampin' Kitty 💔. (Photo: Massacre Rim, International Dark Sky Sanctuary, Nevada (5/23/2020).)

#AstroPhotography #MilkyWay #Astronomy #Camping #CatsOfMastodon #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable #GIMP
A photo of a brightly lit tent, a cat sitting inside looking out wondering why his human is messing around outside when it is so cold, and the Milky Way in the background.


Yesterday was Night of the Museums in Hungary. All museums open all night with many different events and programs. It's one of my favorite things.

I was at the ELTE Museum of Natural Sciences first, in the Mineral Collection. I told folktales and legends related to Corundum (mineral of the year 2024). First to kids, then adults.

Then I was at the Polaris Observatory telling legends about the Northern Lights.

Full house each time, and great fun 😊 ❤️
#storytelling #folktales #museums #astronomy


The idea that planets were born from giant clouds in space is called the "nebular hypothesis."

It originated with Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, way back in 1734. But only now can astronomers directly observe that, yes, planets really do form in clouds around newborn stars. Science takes time.

https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/e-luminet/2016/09/28/cosmogenesis-8-the-nebular-hypothesis/ #science #space #astronomy #nature
The Formation of the Solar System According to Swedenborg.
Swedenborg’s On the Principles of Natural Things consists of three volumes: the first is entitled Natural Principles, the second On Iron and the third On Copper and Orichalcum. In all of them the text is accompanied by elaborate diagrams.
Plate 26, which appears in the third part of Volume 1, is headed “De Chao Universali Solis et Planetarum” and explains the formation of the solar system. In Fig. 1 the crust formed by the original nebula as it solidified is about to burst. Fig. 2 shows the state of confusion and collapse as pieces of the sun are scattered through space. In Fig. 3 the crust has reformed as a disc surrounding the proto-sun. In Fig. 4 the pieces have separated into individual spheres: the planets.


We can now DIRECTLY OBSERVE planets being born!

Each of the arrow-marked blobs is a likely planet-in-the-making around the infant star FU Orionis (great name), located 1,350 light years away in the constellation Orion.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05797 #space #science #astronomy #astrodon
First evidence of gravitational instability clumps with planetary masses. On the left, the ALMA band 6 continuum image of the protoplanetary disk around the FUor star V960 Mon, and on the right the SPHERE/IRDIS polarized light image. Contours of the ALMA continuum are overlaid on both images, corresponding to levels of 3, 4, and 5 times σ. The ALMA signal showing the clumps share the same location of the spiral arms around the star. Image from Weber et al. (2023).


#TIL that the Pleiades were sometimes known as The Seven Lesbians in ancient Greek times.

As in, girls from Lesbos, but still 😄 I feel like this should be repurposed

#astronomy #history #lgbtq


I am musing about my theme for this year's A to Z Blogging Challenge.

I have been consistently failing a Constellation Myths plan year after year... might be time to actually do it this time. I want to do constellation myths outside of the ones everyone knows... ✨

#blogging #astronomy #constellation #stars #folklore #mythology


In 2017, I crocheted myself a solar system costume. The headpiece is mounted on a bike helmet for stability (I got that tip from some folks who build showgirl costumes). The tunic is made from fine black linen yarn, very matte, very tedious, much like I imagine space is most of the time. The planets are made using an online sphere pattern generator, so that I could vary the sizes in a predictable way; they are strung on a fishing line with beads, and suspended from an elastic collar, also crocheted. They are also kept in place with a beaded "asteroid belt", located between Mars and Jupiter, of course. Photographed at Manhattan Beach Pier. All second-hand yarns, though I had to ask around for enough yellow to make the sun so large. #solarsystem #crochet #costume #planets #sun #astronomy #planetary #yesplutotoo
A woman (me) standing on a pier at the beach, wearing a crocheted solar system costume, including a large yellow sun-shaped headpiece and a black tunic, and a line of crocheted balls representing the planets, secured at the waist with a glittery beaded belt.


Jupiter, high on caffeine, sleep deprived, and doing its best to take care of 95 moons. 😵‍💫

#Jupiter #Astronomy #Moon #Moons #Caffeine #Sleep #Insomnia #NASA #Picture #Photo

(Originally by https://twitter.com/SpaceRachey)
“The face of Jupiter”: A picture of Jupiter which looks like a face.


Star gazing Mastodonians. What are these two tiny dots? It's only 5pm.

#astronomy
Two shining dots in the sky


Topic 8: The solar system

Book:
How ​I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, by Mike Brown

If you are in my generation, Pluto losing its spot as a planet is likely a sore topic for you. I was therefore delighted to find this book, and learn more about just what the heck happened and why. By the end of the book I was not only stunned by the amount of work that went into the process, but I also learned to understand why Pluto is not a planet anymore.

#astronomy #planets #science #space #Pluto


Asteroid city - Asteroids named after Queensland astronomers in recognition of contribution to space research https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-25/asteroids-named-after-usq-queensland-astronomers/102642964 via @ABCaustralia #queenslanders #astronomy