coreyspowell

coreyspowell, hace 3 meses a random en

This is how technology changes our view of reality.

The enormous LSST camera (the eye of the Rubin Observatory) will will soon start scanning the entire visible universe every 3-4 days. It will create the grandest movies ever made, watching for anything moving, flickering , appearing, or vanishing in deep space.

https://rubinobservatory.org/about #science #space #tech #astronomy

coreyspowell, hace 6 meses a random en

Meanwhile over on the ex-bird site, giant doomsday accounts are peddling nonsense like this.

Part of what is funny/sad is how lazy these accounts are. The promoted video has a time stamp right at the bottom showing that it was taken a week ago!

The Sun develops magnetic holes like this all the time. It has moved on, and so have we. (Real Sun news at the link.) #science #conspiracy #fakenews
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

coreyspowell, hace 11 meses a random en

What a story!
That one time...at Fermilab...when physicists sent a ferret into a particle accelerator...
[It really happened in 1971]
https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-true-story-physicists-once-put-a-ferret-in-a-particle-accelerator #science #animals #physics

coreyspowell, hace 11 meses a random en

If we're going to talk about an X, I'd rather talk about this one: the wonderfully weird Red Rectangle nebula, located 2300 light years away in the constellation Monoceros.
#science #geometry #astrodon

coreyspowell, hace 1 año a random en

For the first time, here is our galaxy seen in the "light" of neutrinos. A remarkable achievement by the team at the IceCube Observatory. https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/press-releases/2023/06/our-galaxy-seen-through-a-new-lens-neutrinos-detected-by-icecube/ #science #physics #astrodon