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@kbin.socialhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/02/20/scientists-find-universes-brightest-object-a-quasar-500-trillion-times-brighter-than-our-sun/?sh=214ed7dd75b3
Astronomers have discovered the most luminous object ever detected, a quasar 12 billion light-years away that's 500 trillion times more luminous than the sun.
https://www.space.com/orbital-resonance-gravity-dance
Astronomers studying six planets orbiting a star 100 light years away have just found that they orbit their star with an almost rhythmic beat, in perfect synchrony.
https://psyche.asu.edu/2024/02/08/nasas-new-experimental-antenna-tracks-deep-space-laser/
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard NASA’s Psyche mission.
https://youtu.be/uWRkV9ouhjs
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https://phys.org/news/2023-07-nasa-voyager-spacecraft-wrong-contact.html
NASA is listening for any peep from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away.
https://www.space.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-stars-dark-matter
It's hard to say what these possible 'dark stars' really are.
Hello! What are some good resources to learn about the history of our solar system and the celestial bodies within it? Also interested in the various cultural significances of these bodies. I recently watched The Jupiter Engima which was very interesting, but I hated their use of CGI effects. Academic texts are welcome.
https://youtu.be/Y-lY_Szi1-A
On June 23, 2023, a scientific collaboration spanning three continents announced the culmination of a 25-year search for gravitational waves within our galax...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/994149
Quasars are the supermassive black holes at the centres of early galaxies. Scientists have unlocked their secrets to use them as ‘clocks’ to measure time near the beginning of the universe.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/small-universe-big-bang/
We know it couldn't have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?