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Computer models designed to simulate slime molds (left) turn out to be exceptionally good at simulating the large-scale structure of the universe (right).
Similar network patterns appear across scales differing by 30 orders of magnitude!
https://newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-astronomy-research-uses-slime-mold-to-model-galaxies/s/136ea12b-091a-4240-9de2-389026ef37f3#space #science #nature #astronomy
NMSU astronomy research uses slime mold to model galaxies
When researchers in Japan conducted an experiment with slime mold that mirrored the Tokyo railway system back in 2010, it sparked the emergence of a theory known as biologically inspired adaptive...NMSU
The hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
"The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians"
#astronomy #mathematics #history
‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west
The flow of knowledge from India to Europe on everything from maths to astronomy has gone unacknowledged by historiansWilliam Dalrymple (The Guardian)
(credits to the creator below 👇)
#physics #astrodon #astronomy #turbulence
Sometimes a cigar galaxy is just a cigar galaxy.
#Astronomy #CigarGalaxy #M82 #HubbleSpaceTelescope #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
"Map of the solar neighbourhood 800 parsecs (2020)."
Kevin Jardine at galaxymap.org. Data from the GAIA mission by ESA and DPAC (Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium). Milky Way map used with creative commons permission by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Gamma-ray Bursts: Harvesting Knowledge From the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions - NASA Science
The most powerful events in the known universe – gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with a quintillion (a 10 followed by 18 zeros) times the luminosity of our Sun.science.nasa.gov
Wow! I've been a long time subscriber to Astronomy Picture of the Day and they are all amazing.
I must have become a little jaded though, because today's really made me stop, drop everything and take some time to appreciate it.
Follow the link to the NASA description - it tells a short but fascinating story of how and where the shot was taken.
I immediately had to get on Google Earth to find the locations so that I could see it all for myself!
Thanks to Valerio Monato for the dedication required to get the shot.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231225.html
#APOD #NASA #Astronomy #Moon #Photography
APOD: 2023 December 25 – Cathedral, Mountain, Moon
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
There's this beautiful line in #Tomte's Die Schönheit der Chance ("the beauty of chance" — mind you, there's no German word for serendipity).
It's not the sun going down,
It's the earth turning...
Das ist nicht die Sonne, die untergeht,
Sondern die Erde, die sich dreht…
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=VeEH28UIgHM
#astronomy #poetry #lyrics #music
Tomte - Die Schönheit der Chance
Tomte im Radiokulturhaus Wien Die Schönheit der Chancedalmodm | Invidious
This dead star is bursting back to life
It would appear that a distant star has sprung back to life after its explosive death, blasting out repeated energetic flares over a period of several months that are like nothing astronomers have seen before.
Not Dead Yet.... Twas But A Flesh Wound?
#Space #Astronomy #CosmicPuzzle
This dead star is bursting back to life
"No one really knew what to say. We had never seen anything like that before — something so fast, and the brightness as strong as the original explosion months later."Robert Lea (Space)
My 1st cover story! For New Scientist about experiments that are close to telling us if spacetime is quantized. And a Q&A with a physicist who is simulating space-time from scratch!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399292-the-physicist-trying-to-create-space-time-from-scratch
The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch
Monika Schleier-Smith is testing the idea that space-time emerges, like a hologram, from quantum interactions by attempting to make it in the labLyndie Chiou (New Scientist)
Happy Halloween 🎃
Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumpkin.
#pumpkin #JackOLantern #halloween #Astrodon #astronomy
“Never heard of Cecilia Payne?
Now you have”
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's 1925 thesis that the sun was composed mostly of hydrogen and helium was rejected by a professor who called it "impossible". Years later, the man who rejected it realized she was in fact right, but he was credited with the discovery for decades. A prominent astronomer called her discovery "the most brilliant PhD thesis
ever written in #astronomy".
#WomenInScience
Sometimes you just have to know it's there and that's enough... Right? RIGHT?!
Unsuccessful attempt at hunting C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) comet. Blue is Venus and red is where Nishimura roughly should be.
Keeping the fediverse real and not curating just the wins!
#astronomy #astrophotography #nishimura #KeepingItReal
Thanks for this.
It's impossible to keep up with the rate of progress in the Sciences (as with the rest of society) nowadays. Judging by video this is a southern hemisphere location and so it turns out - Namibia. But if I'd heard of this project in 2004 - I'd long forgotten it. Fascinating.
#Astronomy #Science #Universe #Cosmos
#GammaRays #HESS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Stereoscopic_System
"Colours of the Cosmos."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub_OAg8ivDM
Colours of the Cosmos
A compilation of some of my latest real colour astrophotos from 2022-2023Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/soundroll/flawlessLice...YouTube
PLEASE BOOST for visibility!
The University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is hiring software engineers for science data processing on the Data Systems team. We build satellite borne instruments for studying astrophysics, planetary science, earth science, atmospheric science, and many more disciplines. Data Systems typically does the ground processing of the instrument data from binary packets through to research quality science data products (think netCDF, HDF5, CDF, FITS files). Mostly we use Python but we have some Java systems and C experience is always a plus for making Python faster.
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Data-Systems-Software-Engineers-II-IV/50810
Lab website:
https://lasp.colorado.edu/
#fedihire #jobsearch #jobs #hiring #planetaryscience #astrophysics #astronomy #physics #python #datascience
Home - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
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Find out how to get computational resources on the DiRAC facility here:
https://dirac.ac.uk/callforproposals/
#HPC #ECR #Astronomy #Physics
Call for Proposals - DiRAC
Access to DiRAC is co-ordinated by The STFC's DiRAC Resource Allocation Committee, which puts out an annual Call for Proposals to request time, a Director'sDiRAC Admin (DiRAC)
This is the kind of new #streaming #video service I like to see... 🚀
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/28/23811235/nasa-plus-streaming-service-announce
NASA is launching a new ‘Plus’ streaming service
NASA Plus is a new subscription-free streaming service that will have original shows, mission archives, livestreams for Artemis II, and more. It will launch later this year on iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on NASA’s new beta website.Umar Shakir (The Verge)
Our universe is rippling with waves caused by massive events, such as merging black holes. Up until yesterday, we didn’t have any evidence of long-wavelength, ‘background’ #GravitationalWaves. But now @nanograv has announced a detection! A network of pulsars measured very carefully has revealed a faint hum in spacetime itself. Though luckily you don’t need pulsars to detect these cookies, a mouth works just fine 😉
#astronomy #astroart #scicomm #science
Hoag's Object
Look closely around the 1 o'clock position to see another distant ring galaxy in the background.
Kudos to the Royal Astronomical Society (@royalastrosoc) for converting all its #journals to #OpenAccess, starting in 2024 — and for having a #Mastodon account.
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/royal-astronomical-society-announces-all-journals-publish-open-access-2024
#astronomy #conversions #flipping #societies
Royal Astronomical Society announces all journals to publish as open access from 2024
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has today announced that all journals published by the Society will be Open Access (OA) from January 2024. This move will enable...The Royal Astronomical Society
This one was really fascinating, fun, and honestly moving. Are you an astrophysicist? What did I get wrong? Yell at me in the comments or DMs!
In the meantime, enjoy the beauty of the universe!
#Infographic #astronomy #astrophysics #blackhole #informationvisualization
#space #astronomy #planets
The free "Our Galaxy" app can be found at https://www.otherwise.com.
https://youtu.be/hGBZmmDJa_c
#astronomy, #galaxy, #astrodon, #APOD
Where is NGC 6355?
Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and i...YouTube
And we did all that with the primitive computing capabilities available back then … 🤦♂️
#science #Tech #astronomy #moon #nasa
In the 70s I lived on a large commune in the hills near NASA Ames. One of us worked there under Dr Sagan making a stereo map of Mars from Mariner 9 photos
Never one to turn down an audience he brought his slideshow (the bones of Cosmos) up the mountain and gave 150 hippies a tour of the Universe projected on a pair of white sheets!
It was truly awesome ✨ 🚀🪐
#Science #Astronomy #Mars
Fav quote: “There are galaxies that we haven’t discovered that are very big, very close by, and have unusual properties, and they are not in our current catalogs even after all these decades of studying the sky.”
#science #journalist #astronomy
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-enduring-mystery-of-the-dragonfly-44-galaxy-20221107/
The Enduring Mystery of the Dragonfly 44 Galaxy | Quanta Magazine
A growing catalog of huge but dim galaxies such as Dragonfly 44 is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution.Quanta Magazine
In my previous life I used to study how galaxies form and evolve. I also helped my peers get their data as a support astronomer at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. I now work full time as Media Officer at ESO's HQ in Germany.
I'm also an avid astrophotographer! Below is a pic of my previous "office" in Chile. 🤩
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography
Originally designed for my daughter, they are a large "Portrait of the Solar System" in a "world-focused" presentation.
The set of 5 19x27in (46x69cm) posters compose a 8ft (2m) wide mosaic, or can be framed separately.
$60/set or $15/single from:
books.anansi.space
#SolarSystem #Astronomy #PlanetaryScience #Educational #MastoArt #Space
Boosts appreciated. It'd be nice to sell these.
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"Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four powerful onboard science instruments."
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/28/nasas-webb-in-full-focus-ready-for-instrument-commissioning/
#Telescopes #Astronomy #Space #JWST
https://youtu.be/hsiFvCYSjHI
#Hoyle #astronomy #biology
Fred Hoyle's IFS Lecture December 1982
Lecture by Sir Fred Hoyle to the Sri Lanka Institute of Fundamental Studies, December 1982, "From Virus to Cosmology", on the theory of cometary panspermiaYouTube