@gwire@mastodon.social2026-05-05 18:32:06
Why doesn't Project NOVA - a multi-country network of telescopes monitoring for space threats - have a bleedin' website?
https://space.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/05/the-king-visits-site-of-new…
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-05-05 18:32:06
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-05-01 05:27:11
AMOC collapse on the front page. If it happens, the effects for the Netherlands can be bad: cold winters, heavy storms, drought, extra sea level rise. Some scientific research now estimates a probability of 50%.
Still, it's hard to get millions of funding for ocean measurements, while billions are being spent on telescopes, scientists complain.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-04-30 21:40:45
Happy outcome of the #SolarEclipse 2026 dress rehearsal at the #planetarium in #Bochum, Germany, today: the whole event from beginning 14° high through maximum eclipse in 6° elevation down to 3° can be folllowed without obstruction from a specific - and covenient - zone on the premises. This picture was taken at the very 'moment' of maximum eclipse with the Sun in my back: whereever it's shining here, it could be seen. Not ideal for telescopes or big tripods, but many people with eclipse glasses and handheld cameras could be served. Only the weather on 12 August has to be as gorgeous as today ...
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-13 01:05:42
Content warning: CW: auspol, science funding, fossil fuels.
Let’s face it: $500 million’s a lot of money. It has to come from somewhere.
If we give astronomers half a billion for their networked telescopes, for instance, the fossil fuel industry might need to pay market rate for their diesel—for a whole *week and a half.*
#auspol #science
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2026-04-11 02:03:42
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/116381834489117133
@… do we have giant telescopes?
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-02-12 17:56:09
Black Holes as Telescopes - Discovering Supermassive Binaries through Quasiperiodic Lensed Starlight: #BlackHole binaries: https://www.aei.mpg.de/1407139/new-method-could-reveal-hidden-supermassive-black-hole-binaries - bright flashes of lensed starlight guide the way.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-04-10 00:27:56
The most interesting #comet right now, C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS), imaged by Michael Jäger and Gerald Rhemann on the morning of 9 April in Martinsberg, Lower Austria with a 12"/4 Lacerta-Newton QHY 600 - the brightness at that time was around 5.5 mag. so the hoped-for forward scattering surge is much subdued ... too little dust in the coma? If it stays that way the coma brightness would only rise by another magnitude or so before the comet is lost in the twilight mid-month - but enjoy its great plasma tail (even accessible to low-end smart telescopes, by the way) while you can.
