Astronomers want a more powerful telescope
This sounds like a really good development, and shows how exciting things are going to get. I have replied and mentioned the Nancy Grace Telescope (due later this decade) and asked about the difference between a space telescope and one placed on the dark side of the moon.
This is another reason to STUDY STEM, and include maths, computing within that so we have people to help analyse all the data being sent back, and we also need people to design, build everything around this.
Mikko Tuomi @[email protected]
Because of the fantastic success of #JWST, now astronomers want even more powerful gear up in space.
They are planning the Habitable Worlds Observatory that would be even bigger and make detecting life on other #Earth-like #planets reality.
The telescope will also be perched at L2. Unlike JWST, it will be designed for robotic servicing and upgrades, which could enable it to operate for decades.
#astronomy #exoplanets #astrobiology
The contribution of the modern amateur astronomer to the science of astronomy
A link to this paper was posted to the Fediverse, so i am sharing here, I am currently reading this and it is interesting.
Science really does open up possibilities and anyone can contribute
#Science,#Astronomy,#Amateur,#Contribution,#Paper,#ArXiv
This Massive Wall of Galaxies Is Lurking Beyond the Milky Way
Another interesting science post on the Fediverse.
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Cosmographers’ goal is to map out the observable universe, and from their findings we can not only learn more about the structures that make up everything we can see, we also gain insight into the things we cannot see!
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#Science,#Cosmology,#Astronomy,#Galaxies,SouthernHemisphere
A new supercomputer simulation animates the evolution of the universe
The infant universe transforms from a featureless landscape to an intricate web in a new supercomputer simulation of the cosmos’s formative years.
An animation from the simulation shows our universe changing from a smooth, cold gas cloud to the lumpy scattering of galaxies and stars that we see today. It’s the most complete, detailed and accurate reproduction of the universe’s evolution yet produced, researchers report in the November Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Another step forward in our understanding of the Universe.
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#Space,#Computing.#Astronomy.#History,#Universe,Simulation,
#Supercomputer,#CosmicDawnProject
Possible Wormhole detection method
Another article posted to Mastodon, this time on the detection of wormholes. I think the idea they could be masquerading as black holes actually makes some sense. I seem to remember one theory that a worm hole was two black holes connected together.
Scientists in Bulgaria may have figured out how to detect wormholes
Turns out they might be masquerading as black holes
A team of researchers at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria may have figured out a novel method for detecting wormholes — assuming, of course, they exist at all.
I have also included a link to science forums to start a conversation on there too.
There isn't any maths in the article, which is just as well as some of the maths for this stuff looks mindbogglingly complicated.
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#Space,#Physics,#Wormhole,#Blackhole,#Astronomy
Skymaps November 2022
An astronomy skymap is available for November 2022 and can be downloaded from here
These are excellent monthly references, the website also has some other really useful resources.
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#Astronomy,#Skymaps
Zooniverse latest 21/10/2022
Interested in helping astronomers classify pictures of distant galaxies from earlier in the Universe’s history? Check out the dawn of Galaxy Zoo’s newest iteration: Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn!
Galaxy Zoo is the most popular project on the Zooniverse, asking volunteers to classify images of galaxies based on their visual appearance. Galaxies have a variety of shapes, from ball-like ellipticals to those with grand spiral arms, so studying how they form and evolve over cosmic time requires classifying large numbers of them: that’s where you come in!
This week, Galaxy Zoo begins its latest incarnation, Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn, with tens of thousands of new galaxy images now available for you to help classify! These were taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on board the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, as part of the Hawaii Two-0 (H20) survey.
Compared to previous incarnations of Galaxy Zoo, H20 enables us to see fainter and more distant galaxies from earlier in the Universe's history. This deeper imaging also means we can observe many more distant galaxies in the same patch of sky, so the images you will see may often appear redder and blurrier than you might expect. H20 is a key component to the more ambitious Cosmic Dawn survey, aiming to push the boundaries of extragalactic astronomy by studying galaxy evolution out to a few hundred million years after the Big Bang!
There are also some rare types of galaxies that we don't want to miss, so make sure to check out the Tutorial!
James Pearson, Galaxy Zoo & H2O teams
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#CitizenScience,#Science,#Zooniverse,#Galaxies,#Early,#CosmicDawn,
#Astronomy
Skymaps October 2022
An astronomy skymap is available for October 2022 and can be downloaded from here
These are excellent monthly references, the website also has some other really useful resources.
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#Astronomy,#Skymaps
Astronify – application
Last year I watched a lecture on some software called astronify, This is used to scan an image from a telescope and turn different parts of the image in to sound.
So for example, a blue star may be presented at a high frequency, where as a red star may be presented at a lower frequency when played as sound.
The original lecture was about making astronomy accessible to people with sight loss. I wrote more about this in a blog post
Fast forward to 2022 and this technology has been used for further research which is presented in the following paper:-
Evaluating the efficacy of sonification for signal detection in univariate, evenly sampled light curves using astronify
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#Astronify,#Astronomy,#Research,#ArXiv,#Papers
James Webb Update 6/9/2022
Latest image from the James Webb Telescope, Tarantula Nebula
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#NASA #JWST #Telescope #Astronomy,#JamesWebb,#Image,#DistantWorld