I want this thread to be a place to consolidate any news, photos, videos, etc. regarding deep space related topics. Let’s not include info about low Earth orbit or Moon/Mars exploration. Here’s my first example, the first direct observation of large “super-Jupiter” size planets orbiting a distant star (133 LY away):
What about this?
A neutron star inside another star. This is called a Thorne-Żytkow object
Ultra-luminous X-ray sources: a challenge to our understanding of the universe’s fundamental principles:
I’m going to cheat a bit after I discovered this summary of some of the most interesting Webb discoveries to date:
There has been a lot of activity in cosmology and theoretical physics of late (gravitational waves, etc.) and I don’t pretend to understand this “stuff” but comments in this article really scratched my brain cells:
Another feather in Einstein’s cap “proving” time dilation - but that’s not what was intriguing. Scientists learned this from quasars 12 BILLION light years away. Now think about that - the light we are observing was emitted 12 BILLION years ago - does that not make you wonder:
- Do they still exist?
- If it is an expanding universe, where are they now they are 24 BILLION light years away?
- Or are we still just 12 BILLION light years apart and not really expanding?
I know, I know, “How many grains of sand are on the beach?” but still
More powerful than a supernova: the black hole star destroyer…
As a scientist who specializes in low earth orbit remote sensing, I am very triggered by this exclusion.
You could start a Starlink thread (oops).