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Max eclipse here in South Florida.
#Eclipse #astronomy #eclipse2024

Didn't take many photos during the eclipse in the Eastern Topwnships in Quebec, but I did snap this nice one. With Venus (I think) very clearly visible.
#eclipse #quebec #venus

I'm glad to be Mercury
#comicstrips #astronomy

🌕 You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking
#astronomy

Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking
Space Engine ...

I'm glad to be Mercury
#comicstrips #astronomy

I just read in a serious article that multiple teams of astronomers have detected a stochastic nanohertz (i.e. wavelengths on the order of tens of lightyears) gravitational wave background in the measured variations of millisecond #pulsars over a 15 year period.
I think I need to give my brain a rest period to absorb that.

calendar event reminders:
-2.8 million years: HD 7977 flyby. disturbed ort cloud. (.48 light years / 1k AU, conflicting data)
-161,000 years: GJ 3379 (Giclas 99-49) flyby (4.08 light years)
40,000 years: voyager 2 passes within 1.7 light years of Ross 248, voyager 1 passes within 1.6 light years of Gliese 445
80,000 years: Ross 128 becomes closest star for 9,000 years. awkward that we sent nudes. (different graphic, I must be reading conflicting data... damn, ah whoops that's 248)
1.29 million years: Gliese 710 flyby (1/25 distance of proxima centuri, bright as a planet, .16 light years)
due to simultaneous messages, both star systems think we're cheating, but we're just polyamorous.
#astronomy

calendar event reminders:
-2.8 million years: HD 7977 flyby. disturbed ort cloud. (.48 light years / 1k AU, conflicting data)
-161,000 years: GJ 3379 (Giclas 99-49) flyby (4.08 light years)
40,000 years: voyager 2 passes within 1.7 light years of Ross 248, voyager 1 passes within 1.6 light years of Gliese 445
80,000 years: Ross 128 becomes closest star for 9,000 years. awkward that we sent nudes. (different graphic, I must be reading conflicting data... damn, ah whoops that's 248)
1.29 million years: Gliese 710 flyby (1/25 distance of proxima centuri, bright as a planet, .16 light years)
due to simultaneous messages, both star systems think we're cheating, but we're just polyamorous.
#astronomy

🪨 New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-analysis-reveals-brutal-history-winchcombe.html

New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space
Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has revealed how it was affected by water and repeatedly smashed apart and reassembled on the journey it took through space before landing in an English sheep field in 2021.

The oldest photograph of the moon, from 1840, and a photograph of the moon from 2022 🤯🌙
#space #astronomy #history #photography

👽 Researchers envision sci-fi worlds involving changes to atmospheric water cycle
#astronomy

Researchers envision sci-fi worlds involving changes to atmospheric water cycle
Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture.