Category Archives: Astronomy

How astronomers got comfortable with ideas the human brain simply cannot picture | Michelle Thaller

[…] What if the universe was never designed to be understood? Astronomer Michelle Thaller makes a case that the human brain, despite its complexity, may be as poorly equipped to grasp ultimate reality as a grasshopper is to grasp calculus. … Continue reading

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Everything in the universe might be the same particle from the Big Bang | Michelle Thaller

[…] Astronomer Michelle Thaller walks through what a century of physics has actually dismantled: Our intuitions about space, time, and what it means to know something is true. Most people assume the big questions, the multiverses, the Big Bang, the … Continue reading

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Understanding the size of milky way

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Why is equilux not on equinox? #shorts

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After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft got this shot. Behold! The icy mountains of Pluto

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Photographer Guzman Ramos captures a once in a lifetime photo of the moon

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Voyager 1’s Most Unbelievable Images Before the Camera Shut Off

Ultimately, the final photos serve as a boundary marker for human history. They represent the last time we saw our home from the perspective of a traveler still within our own neighborhood. Voyager 1 is now a silent cartographer, no … Continue reading

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New timelapse video of the planet Uranus from JWST #SPACE #SCIENCE #NASA #astronomy

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The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built

[…] This machine found something scientists thought was impossible… If you want to talk to Mico, go to this link: bit.ly/CleoAbram-Copilot In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a … Continue reading

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Jörg Altheimer (@jaltheimer.bsky.social) | Its not everyday that #Astrophotography has to take a backseat for northern lights this intense in southern Germany. First time for me to see them bright enough to cast shadows.

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