Okay re the importance of reproducibility but it was never clear why Oumuamua was supposed to be ET anyway. More Oumuamuas would not make it more likely.
Astronomy
Astronomers: Maybe there really isn’t a Planet Nine
At Nature: The researchers found that the objects’ orbits could be explained without the presence of a nearby planet.
A recent black hole collision has spurred thinking about the tiniest scales
Classically, it shouldn’t have happened.
Here’s something we don’t see every day: A blazar in the early universe
Researchers: At this distance, PSO J0309+27 is seen as it was when the universe was less than a billion years old, or just over 7 percent of its current age.
Out there near Pluto, mysterious Arrakoth may be a time capsule into our early solar system
From Max Planck Society: “There is as yet no explanation as to how a body as flat as Arrokoth could emerge from this process,” says Rezac. ” Note: No one has so far claimed that it an “extraterrestrial lightsail.” Or a space alien’s experiment. What’s going wrong here? 😉
First alignment of Jupiter and Saturn in centuries
Among other sources, the Daily Mail hails it as the Star of Bethlehem.
It turns out! Not only was space junk Oumuamua an “extraterrestrial lightsail” but our whole universe might be an alien’s experiment!
The stuff that comes out of Harvard these days and gets published in Scientific American used to be tabloid news. What has changed?
Will the universe stop making stars any time soon?
We live in a universe that, like it or not, has a beginning and an end. That is better suited to some philosophies than others.
Harvard astronomer still thinks space cigarillo Oumuamua might be “alien tech”
Skepticism makes no headway here so it must in fact be a sort of naturalist religious cult.
Claim: Solar system might once have had two companion stars
But wait! Who’s claiming this? The second author of this paper is Abraham (Avi) Loeb. That rings a bell. Wasn’t he the one who suggested that the obvious space junk Oumuamua was an extraterrestrial light sail? Look, why does the name “Harvard” put all doubts about credibility to rest? Especially in these times?
A massive star has suddenly gone missing?
Gizmodo: An object inside the Kinman dwarf galaxy has disappeared from view, according to new research published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Dragon Docks with the International Space Station
Vid: Ponder the exacting systems engineering, reliability testing, required qualifications and multiple i/o instrumentation and control involved. Observe the precise, corrective jets to keep the process under control. This, is how a good future is going to be built: near earth colonisation and Lunar colonisation are the first stages to Solar system colonisation. (Note, they Read More…
Dragon launches
vid: A new beginning. END
The Solar System, to scale, on a dry lakebed
Typical images of the solar system are NOT to scale, showing the planets at grossly exaggerated sizes. Here is a typical case, HT Wikimedia, WP and Planet User: So, some video makers did a little project to show it to scale, out to Neptune . . . beyond, lies vastly more of course, but Pluto Read More…
Smithsonian Magazine: Nearest black hole’s position can be seen without a telescope
If you are in the southern hemisphere, as were the ESO (European Southern Observatory) astronomers: The pair of stars in a system called HR 6819 is so close to us that on a clear night in the Southern Hemisphere, a person might be able to spot them without a telescope. What that stargazer wouldn’t see, Read More…