Astronomy

From the other place: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1dmibwd/this_is_my_most_advance_moon_photograph_ever_it/

Pics too good to miss. :)

Another interesting video from Scott Manley.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18298626

"I recently explored the optimal fuel burn schedule to land as gently as possible and with maximum remaining fuel. Surprisingly, the theoretical best strategy didn’t work. The game falsely thinks the lander doesn’t touch down on the surface when in fact it does. Digging in, I was amazed by the sophisticated physics and numerical computing in the game. Eventually I found a bug: a missing “divide by two” that had seemingly gone unnoticed for nearly 55 years."

I still can't believe how this one comes back again and again. One of the greatest feat of humanity.

The sun fired off a volley of radiation-riddled outbursts in May. When they slammed into Earth's magnetic bubble, the world was treated to iridescent displays of the northern and southern lights. But our planet wasn't the only one in the solar firing line. From a report:

A few days after Earth's light show, another series of eruptions screamed out of the sun. This time, on May 20, Mars was blitzed by a beast of a storm. Observed from Mars, "this was the strongest solar energetic particle event we've seen to date," said Shannon Curry, the principal investigator of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter, or MAVEN, at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

When the barrage arrived, it set off an aurora that enveloped Mars from pole to pole in a shimmering glow. If they were standing on the Martian surface, "astronauts could see these auroras," Dr. Curry said. Based on scientific knowledge of atmospheric chemistry, she and other scientists say, observers on Mars would have seen a jade-green light show, although no color cameras picked it up on the surface. But it's very fortunate that no astronauts were there. Mars's thin atmosphere and the absence of a global magnetic shield meant that its surface, as registered by NASA's Curiosity rover, was showered by a radiation dose equivalent to 30 chest X-rays -- not a lethal dose, but certainly not pleasant to the human constitution.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/when-cosmic-inflation-occurred/ <-- before the big bang

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/beginning-big-bang/ <-- the big bang happens here

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-at-its-hottest/ <-- energy is converted into particles here

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/matter-defeated-antimatter/ <-- war between matter and antimatter particles

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/higgs-gave-particles-mass/ <-- actual matter with mass is created here.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/protons-and-neutrons-formed/ <-- subatomic particles created

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/last-antimatter-disappeared/

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/first-elements-formed/ <-- our atoms are created here

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-like-when-no-stars-existed/

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/first-stars-began-shine/ <-- first stars are created here

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/very-first-stars-died/

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/polluted-stars-formed/

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/first-galaxies-began-to-form/ <-- first galaxies are created here

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/cosmic-dark-ages-ended/

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/life-first-became-possible/

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-formed-most-stars/

I'd certainly seen this exoplanet somewhere in my mainstream news world somewhere ... so nice to see a breakdown here from "Dr Becky" about how the science isn't so clear cut.

Anyone else able to provide insight on what the possible outcomes of the newly acquired data will be?

...using data from the radial velocity (RV) detection method. This study holds the potential to help astronomers develop more efficient methods in detecting Earth-like exoplanets, which are traditionally difficult to identify within RV data due to intense stellar activity from the host star.