Studies of white dwarf stellar remnants provide insight into the systemic chaos that occurs when a star dies.
Astronomy
Astronomers mining an increasingly rich trove of TESS exoplanet data
As reported in Astronomy Now, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has now identified more than 5,000 possible exoplanet candidates – TESS Objects of Interest, or TOIs.
Here’s the European Space Agency’s 3-D map of over a billion stars
ZME Science: The catalog features multiple types of data, which means it can be used by astronomers working in different fields to understand the evolution of stars in our galaxy (and stars in general).
How Can Black Holes Point to the Creator?
Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink reminds us that the theoretical prediction of black holes and their subsequent discovery highlights the comprehensibility of the universe by human minds–even relating to phenomena far beyond anything in our experience.
From SciTech Daily: Don’t Miss Prime Viewing of Mars-Jupiter Conjunction
The next couple of nights will offer early-morning sky-watchers the opportunity to view our nearest planetary neighbors (going outward from the sun) appearing to be separated by only about the width of a full moon.
At Astronomy Now: MeerKAT paints a mesmerising portrait of the Milky Way
The stunning imagery shows previously known and newly-discovered features, including supernova remnants, huge magnetised radio filaments and the blazing inferno surrounding the 4-million-solar-mass black hole at the core of the galaxy.
Eric Hedin and our cultural moment
UD welcomes our new News anchor. As a starter for reflection, let’s clip from his current book: Naturalism holds that nature is all there is,and that the order of the universe, including the order of the living world,is merely the result of the laws of nature, or, as some put it, of “chance andnecessity.” [Jerry] Read More…
First images of the black hole thought to be at the center of our galaxy released
Researchers: The image gives greater insight into the mysteries of black holes and further confirms Einstein’s long-standing theory of relativity.
FOR REFERENCE: Globular Cluster M55 as illustrating apparent aging of our galaxy (& cosmos)
It seems helpful to illustrate cosmological scale apparent aging as stars depart main sequence: An idealised, Hertzsprung-Russell chart for Hydrogen-rich balls prone to become fusion furnaces is: Here is a comparative plot (for open clusters), constructing a “clock” by projected pattern as a cluster ages, in effect seeing what is left as a candle burns Read More…
The James Webb Telescope launched today, to study primordial galaxies
It is bound to shed light on many current mysteries and controversies — and to create new ones instead.
Is Sarah Salviander going to make a difference in science?
Of herself she says: Astrophysicist. I have a PhD in Astrophysics and worked for many years in academia as a scientific researcher. Though I am currently focused on ministry work, I am still active in astrophysical research. Visit my research page here.
Wokeness isn’t new: Apparently there was such a thing as Marxist astronomy
Pannekoek would have been a stalwart, had he lived, in the war on math.
What’s the story with the strange signals from the galaxy’s center?
Astronomers: “The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We’ve never seen anything like it.” (We will soon be in a better position to find out what it is because the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope will be commissioned within the decade.)
Pluto is still planet in the eyes of many
Grossman: “… since 2006, we’ve learned that Pluto has an atmosphere and maybe even clouds. It has mountains made of water ice, fields of frozen nitrogen, methane snow–capped peaks, and dunes and volcanoes. “It’s a dynamic, complex world unlike any other orbiting the sun,” journalist Christopher Crockett wrote in Science News in 2015 when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto.”
Does the next 30 years of astronomy depend on a single report?
Does the next 30 years of astronomy in the U.S. depend on a single report? So they say. And all isn’t well.