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NASA tô have huge reveal tomorrow

Insane Metal

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Anyone seen it? They said it's something related to Hubble and "one for the history books".

Sorry I don't have a link I'm on mobile, just wanted to share the excitement.

Edit: ugh sorry about the title
 
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nush said:
Fuck off NASA, they do these announcements of announcements more than a videogame publisher. It's always something like "We have discovered more Earth like planets light years away" nothing burgers. Expect nothing we don't already know.
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Do you need a foot rub bud? haxan7 haxan7 your services are required over here
 
eddie4

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We have found an earth-like planet that is 34,000 light-years away. Cool. Can't get there, and how do we know it's still there, we're looking at light particles from 34,000 years ago, so whatever. Let me know when we can travel faster than light.
 
Artoris

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🎼Champagne supernova in the skyeee :messenger_musical:

Since Hubble twitter accounts have been publishing classic supernova photos.
 
pesaddict

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Nasa what a fucking jokes you yanks panders over dumbests things BILLIONS spent searhing for fuck knows what or who.
 
DanteFox

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nush said:
Fuck off NASA, they do these announcements of announcements more than a videogame publisher. It's always something like "We have discovered more Earth like planets light years away" nothing burgers. Expect nothing we don't already know.
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Yup. It'll be something like, "we found trace amounts of an element on a random planet that is necessary for life, but also occurs when life is not present."
 
Catphish

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From: https://www.iflscience.com/space/na...us-recordbreaking-hubble-discovery-this-week/

“For nearly 32 years, Hubble’s groundbreaking discoveries have rewritten textbooks and reshaped our understanding of the universe. This latest Hubble result not only extends our understanding of the universe but creates an exciting area of research for Hubble’s future work with NASA’s newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope,” the post says."
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Doesn't sound like anything massive, to be honest.
 
MastaKiiLA

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Maybe Hubble and JWST will reproduce the Ultra Deep Field, but with Hubble emphasizing UV and visible, with JWST doing the full IR range. But we're still weeks away from MIRI coming online, so I doubt it.
 
Saber

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Usually doesn't sound like abid deal.
Hope its existence of life forms in more planets. I aways find that cool.
 
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Sunrise Arc. Earendel
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Aurvandill - Wikipedia

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Ēarendel is traditionally taken to personify in Crist I either John the Baptist or Christ himself, figuring him as the rising sun, morning star, or dawn.[40] He is portrayed in the poem as the "true(st) light of the sun" (soðfæsta sunnan leoma) and the "brightest of angels [≈ messengers]" (engla beorhtast), implying the idea of a heavenly or divine radiance physically and metaphorically sent over the earth for the benefit of mankind. The lines 107b–8 (þu tida gehwaneof sylfum þe symle inlihtes), translated as "all spans of time you, of yourself, enlighten always", or as "you constantly enlighten all seasons by your presence", may also suggest that Ēarendel exists in the poem as an eternal figure situated outside of time, and as the very force that makes time and its perception possible
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Well named.
 
greyshark

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Raistandantulus said:


Sunrise Arc. Earendel

Well named.
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The research team estimates that Earendel is at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright, rivaling the most massive stars known. But even such a brilliant, very high-mass star would be impossible to see at such a great distance without the aid of natural magnification by a huge galaxy cluster, WHL0137-08, sitting between us and Earendel. The mass of the galaxy cluster warps the fabric of space, creating a powerful natural magnifying glass that distorts and greatly amplifies the light from distant objects behind it.

Thanks to the rare alignment with the magnifying galaxy cluster, the star Earendel appears directly on, or extremely close to, a ripple in the fabric of space. This ripple, which is defined in optics as a “caustic,” provides maximum magnification and brightening. The effect is analogous to the rippled surface of a swimming pool creating patterns of bright light on the bottom of the pool on a sunny day. The ripples on the surface act as lenses and focus sunlight to maximum brightness on the pool floor.
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Pretty neat method to find a star so faint. Excited to see what Webb discovers when it looks that way.
 
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greyshark said:
Pretty neat method to find a star so faint. Excited to see what Webb discovers when it looks that way.
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It's wild. Natgeo gave some cosmic context and thoughts on Webb.

Earendel lived in a universe that was very different from today—a cosmos still shaking off the turmoil of its radiant birth. In its infancy, the universe was mostly dark. There were no stars or galaxies, just an expanding sea of slowly cooling hydrogen gas. After half a billion years or so, the lights turned on. The first stars emerged from that gas and clumped together to make galaxies, while black holes formed amid the activity. The cosmic dark ages were over.
But starlight couldn’t travel easily through the sea of neutral fog at first, and instead it was mostly bounced around and scattered. Eventually that veil lifted—a period known as the epoch of reionization, when ultraviolet radiation erupting from short-lived, violently dying stars baked away the obscuring fog, Rigby says, allowing starlight to travel freely through the cosmos.
Scientists suspect that an earlier generation of massive stars—perhaps similar to Earendel—are responsible for that transformation.
Follow-up observations with NASA’s newest space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, will help the team better measure Earendel’s temperature and brightness. Astronomers will also be able to take a census of the chemical elements present in the star and galaxy. If Earendel is something other than a star—perhaps a small black hole surrounded by a swirling disk of bright gas and dust—JWST should help sort that out.

www.nationalgeographic.com

Most distant star ever seen found in Hubble Space Telescope image

Spotted in a galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the big bang, the primordial star Earendel could offer a rare window into the early universe if confirmed by follow-up studies.
www.nationalgeographic.com www.nationalgeographic.com
 
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