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historysurvivalguide · 1 month

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Nova Explosion this Year!

A star system, located 3,000 light-years away from Earth, is predicted to become visible to the unaided eye soon. This could be a once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity as the nova outburst only occurs about every 80 years. T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, last exploded in 1946 and astronomers believe it will do so again between February and September 2024.

#astronomy #research highlight #nasa #star viewing #telescope #learn astronomy

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hamletthedane · 6 months

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Okay be honest, because I feel really dumb right now:

(Like, am I the only one who thought it was like -80F/-60C daytime range???)

#physics #astronomy #moon landing #Apollo #i will never recover from learning this fact #this has fucked me up for life #THE MOON IS HOT?!?!??#(at least during the day)

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mintiestcrystal · 9 months

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i find it so unfair that i cant do all the science. like what do you MEAN I can't study bio and chem and biochem and atrophysics and physics and geology and climate science. what do you MEAN i have a limited lifespan and need to get out of school at some point to get a job. i want to collect the science fields like pokemon, this isn't fair

#minty's crystals #science #biology #chemistry #physics #astrophysics #astronomy #stem #I'm literally such a nerd but i want to learn EVERYTHING i want to be the MASTER OF SCIENCE #also i wanna be famous for it #something something nobel prize something something cover of time magazine #academia #chaotic academia

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wearepeace · 25 days

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“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.” ― Neil Armstrong

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koshercosplay · 3 months

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fun science facts for you to pepper into your daily conversations (I'm making this post purely so I can share cool fun facts I learn at work)

- astronaut helmets are plated with gold due to golds' highly reflective properties being able to reflect harmful radiation away from the person's face

- there are some shark species that are internally heated, meaning they're warm-blooded like humans

- on some other planets moons there are volcanoes that erupt with water that falls back to the planet as ice

- honey locust trees are an extremely common US street tree that have curly edible seed pods

- rocks along the sea floor are arranged in vertical layers that record the reversal of magnetic north which happens every few hundred thousand years or so

and a fun bonus history fact for you:

cinnamon only became a dessert spice in europe because of the black plague

#maybe ill add more to this at some point #i learn a lot of fun science facts at work #science #fun facts #not jewish content #history #geology #astronomy #biology

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souredwaters · 7 months

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worldbuilding will be fun, they said. you get to make a whole new space to play in, they said.

well now im fucking researching k-stars and luminosity and astronomical units because i am building an entire solar system from scratch.

what the fuck

#worldbuilding #writing #i did an astronomy extracurricular in 8th grade i didnt pay attention too #would really like to have that info off the top of my head now #im looking at you 8th grade me who didnt care about learning what a habitable zone is

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united-in-cyberspace · 2 months

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The Enchanted Learning Astronomy Dictionary

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Some of the spectacular images from the Enchanted Learning astronomy dictionary.

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barachiki · 21 days

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J: You are absolutely certain the eclipse should be happening right now?

S: Completely. It was in all my astronomy charts.

J: Then we are missing something

#Sherlock #BBC Sherlock #Sherlock Holmes #John Watson #(they were facing the wrong way)#(they figured it out eventually)#(sherlock's been learning astronomy but he is just a beginner)#eclipse #eclipse 2024 #maybe it is only visible in the east? not even sure it is visible in the UK #so they might have had to travel to Ontario to see it.#barachiki brand new

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spacepandora · 2 months

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TYPES OF GALAXIES, PART 3:

Elliptical Galaxies

The image shown is NGC 2865 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, and is an elliptical galaxy located 100 million light-years away.

Elliptical galaxies have shapes that range from completely round to oval. They are less common than spiral galaxies.

Unlike spirals, elliptical galaxies usually contain little gas and dust and show very little organization or structure. The stars orbit around the core in random directions and are generally older than those in spiral galaxies since little of the gas needed to form new stars remains. Scientists think elliptical galaxies originate from collisions and mergers with spirals

#science #scifi geek #astronomy #space lovers #space exploration #space facts #outer space #space #space is cool #astronomy facts #science is cool #science facts #science is fun #learning #science is magic #scienceforall #scienceforkids

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jameswebb-discoveries · 2 months

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NASA's Webb Telescope just dropped this INSANE image of a star-forming region called NGC 604

March 9, 2024, NASA's Webb Telescope just dropped this INSANE image of a star-forming region called NGC 604, located a whopping 2.73 million light-years away in our neighboring Triangulum Galaxy (aka M33)!

Want to dive deeper? Check out the full article ➡️ https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/discoveries/james-webb-telescope-sheds-light-on-the-chaotic-cradle-of-stars-in-ngc-604

#JWST #NASA #Space #Stars #NGC604 #TriangulumGalaxy #StarFormation #Cosmology #Astrophysics #Science #Astronomy #Universe #Exploration #Learning #Knowledge

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lunasapphire · 7 months

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Can someone tell me why I never learned about the five classified dwarf planets in our galaxy? Well of course minus Pluto (but when I was in school that was an actual planet)

But like why don’t we learn about Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris?

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historysurvivalguide · 3 months

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So, How to Build an Astrolabe: Overview

Let’s gooooooooo! 🎉 🔭

Part One is live! Long time coming, but it is finally out. Biggest project I’ve undertaken for the History Survival Guide so far but learned a lot and I am excited to finally get a chance to share this

This is a step-by-step guide to the complete construction of an astrolabe that I think might exist. At least, in any accessible form

This work is a synthesis of dozens of papers/books, one or two out-of-print books, a book entirely in French that I had to translate each section as I read, a few emails to authors, and one long Twitter conversation with a museum curator

My goal is for this to be as accessible as possible for any kind of reader, so if there are any questions, feel free to reach out

🚀 Enjoy! Stay safe and keep learning, fellow chrononauts 🚀

#astrolabe #astrolabium #astronomy #learn astronomy #stellar navigation #celestial navigation #history survival guide #historysurvivalguide #how to #diy #spherical trigonometry #spherical projection #history of science #astronomy tools #how to build an astrolabe #guidebook page #science history

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messier51 · 20 days

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"no other planet in our solar system gets total solar eclipses" ok so i guess jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune are not planets anymore

y'all thought the iau was mean to pluto and yet here we are demoting all the gas giants too

#that post has so many notes #and it's so incorrect #and i keep seeing it #and i am sure other people have pointed this out in the notes on it already and i am tired it's time for me to go home and go to bed #but nooooooooo #tbf no other planet has solar eclipses you can just go out in your back yard and watch but like....yeah????#that wouldn't be true of any other planet anyway #i am glad y'all are excited about this bc eclipses are fucken cool but also #let's learn a thing about astronomy and angular size before reblogging nonsense posts ok? ok #aj has opinions #actually aj has facts #and a phd in astronomy #and 5 seconds to look up basic shit on wikipedia

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afterartist · 2 months

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Yeah, I like Astronomy 😊🤭🤭✨

Hits you with a meteorite

#someone said I looked like an astrology person and I’ve never been insulted worse #astronomy >>> astrology #I wanna learn about STARS!!#Not how compatible I am in a relationship with someone born in August #if I see one ‘’must be a Gemini’’ comment I will riot

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notruevampire · 8 months

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Turn your heart to the stars

Fun fact: Those of us taught the "nine planets" thing between 1979-1999 were lied to (in a way). Not just because of Pluto's weird status, but because it was the eighth planet from the sun during those two decades. Its orbit is so off kilter to the rest of the planets that it switches positions (relative to the sun, not orbits) with Neptune.

And remember kids, Pluto isn't a planet unless Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris are, too! Ceres was discovered 129 years before Pluto (1801 vs 1930), Eris is slightly bigger (and was going to become the 10th planet, which sparked the need for further classification in what constitutes a planet), Makemake and Haumea are bigger than Ceres.

Ceres and Makemake* doesn't have [known] moons, so maybe you can ignore them for being little and moonless (rude--Ceres was originally classified as a planet, just like Pluto!), but Eris definitely deserves its name remembered. *(Makemake does have a known moon!)

We may actually have up to fifty dwarf planets (which are still planets, just little) in our solar system, and either a massive exoplanet that we can't see yet or a teeny black hole (5cm) out past Neptune, based on the same kind of data that originally found Pluto! (It wasn't actually seen for quite a while after its existence was hypothesized by its effects on the orbits of Neptune and Uranus).

Anyway, hope you enjoyed learning with me!

#planets #stars #astronomy #celestial bodies #dwarf planets #pluto #eris #ceres #haumea #makemake #and more!#always unlearning #to learn anew #science

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dragons-in-spaceee · 6 months

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Cannot describe how much I love space and physics… it’s like a literal part of me there’s no me without it

#any new bit of info I learn about space feels like building more of me #space #physics #astrophysics #astronomy #personal

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