Stargazing Pup

24 ★ Lesbian ☆ She/It/They ★ Novice Astronomer

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it’s what they would have wanted

[iobotomypop]

happy moonwalk day

[without-ado]

Sirius and Betelgeus l Rami Ammoun

[i-fucked-ted]

“gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them and then we built robots? and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like? the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important. and they told us to tell you hello.”

— swanjolras

[dog-in-space]

I want my astronomy hyperfixation back. Please the sky is so pretty and I want to learn the constellations in the sky for summer and spring. I want to figure out my telescope I bought at the height of my hyperfixation almost a year ago. Give her back to me

[humanoidhistory]

August 19, 1960 – Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka became the first canines to fly in space and return safely to Earth. (via)

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[msspookypickles]

"Indeed, when he applied to become an astronaut, he failed on the first attempt. Part of the test featured the famous Rorschach ink-blots psychiatric exam. “I leafed through a whole series of them, and then the last one was a blank sheet of paper, pure white, eight by 10,” he once recalled. “I was asked what I could see. And I said, ‘Well, of course, that’s 11 polar bears fornicating in a snow bank.’ And I could see the examiner’s eyes kind of tighten. He didn’t think that was funny.”"

[without-ado]

Crescent Moon & Venus l Feb. 7-8 (x)(x)(x)(x)(x)

[neon-wonderlands]

[genderfluid-druid]

[ID: a short looping GIF of a yellow labrador retriever digging a hole on the surface of the Moon. End ID]

[thedepressexpress]

look, people need to shut up and look into the universe more so here are some fun space things that I like that maybe you'll like

you don't look up to see the stars, you look out because the only reason you feel upright is that the planet is thicc and keeping you in place. most likely you are angled as fuck rn.

most of the first stars ever made haven't died yet so they've just been watching you. you specifically. while you pick your nose.

black holes sometimes start screaming in the radio frequency. and then they suddenly stop but they scream so loud that they leave an echo (radio lobes) behind and if they decide to start screaming again their new scream lies on top of their old scream. we don't know why they're screaming, why they stop or how. (screaming = emitting light in this case)

Jupiter. I just think we need to appreciate Jupiter a lot more and think more about how if we could see the jovian magnetosphere from earth it would look like a giant sperm in the sky

there's something we can find called Lagrange points which are very very special and there are 5 of them. L4 and L5 are special because they are points in space 60 degrees ahead of us in our orbit and 60 degrees behind us where nothing happens. nothing. stuff just stays there.

places where stars are actively forming can be called stellar nurseries like they're plant nurseries but for stars.

everything distorts time a little bit and most of it is completely negligible but having a DUMP TRUCK ass can technically slow down time

at the event horizon (the 'edge' of the region of influence of a black hole) there is no time. everything is no ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ. and that's it. no time. idk what to do with that information but now you know it and you also don't know what to do that information.

neutrinos. they shoot through your body all the time and a lot of them are from the sun and to detect them we put a bunch of hard water in a tank underground and detected almost nothing and it was really important.

you can use sunlight the same way you can use wind to sail in space

one of the reasons stars are hot and space is not is because there isn't enough stuff in space to conduct heat to you

we are absolutely idiots when it comes to life on other planets because we only know how to imagine carbon based life so yes we have habitability parameters based on stuff like carbon dioxide, water, atmosphere, temperature, etc. but there could just be life that isn't carbon based and we have no idea how to account for that and that's annoying

people have only managed to go about 400,000 km (~250,000 miles) into space. for reference one of the smallest units we use to measure distances in space is AU, which stands for astronomical units and it's the average distance between the earth and the sun. rounding up we have only gone 0.0027 AU or 0.00000004 light years.

the moon is a part of the earth so it's like if your amputated forearm was following you around

some animals can navigate using the night sky

[dankmemeuniversity]

[mayfriend]

king i think it is not fucking sufficient at all. wolftopia or bust

[anxiouscryptid]

Also Wolftopia is gorgeous by the way

[lierdumoa]

Wolftopia is nearly the size of Saturn and orbits two stars that closely orbit each other!

[gayvampyr]

trans planet trans planet 🏳️‍⚧️

[um-jammer-tranny]

wolftopia home of trans people

[digital-magus]

ancestral homeland

[enki2]

[tracfone]

LOVE WINS???!?!??!?!

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

New SpaceTime out Wednesday....

SpaceTime 20231004 Series 26 Episode 119

Carbon discovered on Europa

Astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide – one of the ingredients essential for life as we know it on the surface of the Jovian ice moon Europa.

NASA’s Independent Review board report on the Mars Sample Return mission

The space agency established the Board in May to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans of the mission prior to any final design.

A new twist to the Story of Great Eruption of Eta Carinae

Astronomers have combined 20 years worth of data on one of the brightest binary star systems in the sky – Eta Carinae -- to uncover important new details about a massive eruption which was witnessed on Earth in the mid-19th century.

The Science Report

2023 was Earth’s hottest summer since global records began.

Jellyfish can be trained to spot and dodge obstacles despite their lack of a central brain.

Australia to purchase a fourth MQ-4C Triton high altitude surveillance drone

Alex on Tech:

SpaceTime covers the latest news in astronomy & space sciences.

The show is available every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Apple Podcasts (itunes), Stitcher, Google Podcast, Pocketcasts, SoundCloud, Bitez.com, YouTube, your favourite podcast download provider, and from www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com

SpaceTime is also broadcast through the National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio and on both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

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SpaceTime -- A brief history

SpaceTime is Australia’s most popular and respected astronomy and space science news program – averaging over two million downloads every year. We’re also number five in the United States.  The show reports on the latest stories and discoveries making news in astronomy, space flight, and science.  SpaceTime features weekly interviews with leading Australian scientists about their research.  The show began life in 1995 as ‘StarStuff’ on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) NewsRadio network.  Award winning investigative reporter Stuart Gary created the program during more than fifteen years as NewsRadio’s evening anchor and Science Editor.  Gary’s always loved science. He studied astronomy at university and was invited to undertake a PHD in astrophysics, but instead focused on his career in journalism and radio broadcasting. He worked as an announcer and music DJ in commercial radio, before becoming a journalist and eventually joining ABC News and Current Affairs. Later, Gary became part of the team that set up ABC NewsRadio and was one of its first presenters. When asked to put his science background to use, Gary developed StarStuff which he wrote, produced and hosted, consistently achieving 9 per cent of the national Australian radio audience based on the ABC’s Nielsen ratings survey figures for the five major Australian metro markets: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth.  The StarStuff podcast was published on line by ABC Science -- achieving over 1.3 million downloads annually.  However, after some 20 years, the show finally wrapped up in December 2015 following ABC funding cuts, and a redirection of available finances to increase sports and horse racing coverage.  Rather than continue with the ABC, Gary resigned so that he could keep the show going independently.  StarStuff was rebranded as “SpaceTime”, with the first episode being broadcast in February 2016.  Over the years, SpaceTime has grown, more than doubling its former ABC audience numbers and expanding to include new segments such as the Science Report -- which provides a wrap of general science news, weekly skeptical science features, special reports looking at the latest computer and technology news, and Skywatch – which provides a monthly guide to the night skies. The show is published three times weekly (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and available from the United States National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio, and through both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Comet Nishimura Credit: Peter Kennett

[netmassimo]

An article accepted for publication in the journal 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' reports the results of a study of the exoplanet K2-18

An article accepted for publication in the journal "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports the results of a study of the exoplanet K2-18 b, including the discovery of carbon compounds such as methane in its atmosphere. A team of researchers led by Nikku Madhusudhan of the British University of Cambridge used observations conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRISS and NIRSpec instruments to probe the atmosphere of K2-18 b. It's an exoplanet already considered interesting due to its characteristics and its position in its planetary system's habitable zone. Spectral analyzes also suggest the possible presence of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), a compound considered a biomarker. These are discoveries that add to the previous ones regarding an exoplanet that led to the proposal of the Hycean class.

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everyone who hasn't heard must get the news via this meme

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