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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
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
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.
📷 :https://images.nasa.gov/details/GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001738
#Astronomy #Space #Science #Astrophotography #AstroDon #MilkyWay #Andromeda #Galaxy #NASA
NASA Image and Video Library
NASA Image and Video Library, serving up consolidated imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.NASA Image and Video Library
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
#Myth #Mythology #GreekMythology #Space #podcast #NationalSisterDay #Sister
🎨 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)#/media/File:The_Pleiades_(Elihu_Vedder).jpg
#AstroPhotography #MilkyWay #Astronomy #Camping #CatsOfMastodon #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable #GIMP
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
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
Cosmogenesis (8) : The Nebular Hypothesis, by Jean-Pierre Luminet
Sequel of the preceding post Cosmogenesis (7) : The Date of the Creation The Nebular Hypothesis The ancient Babylonians had a different idea of how the world began. They believed that it had evolved rather than being created instantaneously.Jean-Pierre LUMINET (e-LUMINESCIENCES: the blog of Jean-Pierre Luminet)
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
Direct imaging of exoplanets
Over the past 4 decades, the exploration of planets beyond our solar system has yielded the discovery of over 5600 exoplanets orbiting different stars.arXiv.org
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
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
Asteroids named after Queensland astronomers in recognition of contribution to space research
Two Queensland astronomers will be immortalised in space after the International Astronomical Union announced asteroids would be named after them.Laura Cocks (ABC News)