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[Mr. Tea]

Fact is, those photos are already well out of date

Oh, very droll.

 

[woops]

Fact is, those photos are already well out of date

outer time

 

[Rude Velvet]

Wake me up when there is 4K video of alien cities lighting up as dusk falls. No one could care less about star farts and artlessly arranged galaxies.

 

[Rude Velvet]

Watching self-proclaimed "astronomy PhDs" and "cosmologists" with pronouns performatively mugging astonishment at these tedious snaps has further eroded my respect for science.

 

[Mr. Tea]

outer time

Dead Space / Deep Time

 

[pattycakes_]

Point your white balls to the skies folks, it's Perseid meteor shower season. Caught 2 ripping the sky a new one tonight. They always come around this time of year. If you can get yourself somewhere out of the urban sprawl and remote (wyh has extensive knowledge of such 'spots') you may just be treated to a galactic feast 🌠

 

[Mr. Tea]

Dis some spooky shit, yo.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Oh wow - someone's enhanced the resolution of the algorithm, and it's somehow even more horrific-sounding than before:

 

[Corpsey]

William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ (EXCLUSIVE)

In this exclusive excerpt from William Shatner’s new book, “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder,” the “Star Trek” actor reflects on his voyage into spac…

variety.com

I love the mystery of the universe. I love all the questions that have come to us over thousands of years of exploration and hypotheses. Stars exploding years ago, their light traveling to us years later; black holes absorbing energy; satellites showing us entire galaxies in areas thought to be devoid of matter entirely… all of that has thrilled me for years… but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.

I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her.

Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong.

I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things—that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film “Contact,” when Jodie Foster’s character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, “They should’ve sent a poet.” I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn’t out there, it’s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.

It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

This makes this video even funnier and blood curdling

 

[Leo]

The Cosmos Is Thrumming With Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find

Radio telescopes around the world picked up a telltale hum reverberating across the cosmos, most likely from supermassive black holes merging in the early universe.

www.nytimes.com

On Wednesday evening, an international consortium of research collaborations revealed compelling evidence for the existence of a low-pitch hum of gravitational waves reverberating across the universe. The scientists strongly suspect that these gravitational waves are the collective echo of pairs of supermassive black holes — thousands of them, some as massive as a billion suns, sitting at the hearts of ancient galaxies up to 10 billion light-years away — as they slowly merge and generate ripples in space-time.

“I like to think of it as a choir, or an orchestra,” said Xavier Siemens, a physicist at Oregon State University who is part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, or NANOGrav, collaboration, which led the effort. Each pair of supermassive black holes is generating a different note, Dr. Siemens said, “and what we’re receiving is the sum of all those signals at once.”

Hopefully coming to Bandcamp soon.

 

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"Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of a scorching world with temperatures of up to 2,000 degrees Celsius (over 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit), where glass-like silicate and metals boil into clouds."