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Like NPR "All Things Considered" with a focus on astronomy and space topics to include... literally any object or phenomenon above Earth's atmosphere. (PLEASE abstain from posting anything about astrology)

Like NPR "All Things Considered" with a focus on astronomy and space topics to include... literally any object or phenomenon above Earth's atmosphere. (PLEASE abstain from posting anything about astrology)

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All Things Astronomy
Aug 31, 2021Aug 2021

Posted by BirdMan1
Planet Eaters?
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All Things Astronomy
Sep 2, 2021Sep 2021

Posted by starwatcher-al
One of these days I think that I'll figure out this Nikon. So I'm attaching the camera to my small scope and looking over my shoulder I see a great sunset. So, hurry and get the camera adjusted and see what I can do in the short time before sunset.
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Shared from General & Hellos
Sep 13, 2021Sep 2021

Posted by BirdMan1
James Webb Scope Has a New Launch Date!! Sooner Than Later!
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All Things Astronomy
Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by HumanistJohn
Images taken October 2nd 2021 with Stellina 1. Ring Nebula in Lyra 2. Hercules Cluster 3. Double Cluster in Perseus All were taken in a light polluted sky (in fact, just under a streetlight) using the Stellina telescope, These images are ...
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 7, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by FearlessFly
Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers
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All Things Astronomy
Aug 14, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by ToolGuy
Invisible speeding galaxies that are too old/too fast to see.
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All Things Astronomy
Aug 15, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by yvilletom
“If the red shifts are a Doppler shift . . . The observations as they stand lead to the anomaly of a closed universe, curiously small and dense, and, it may be added, suspiciously young. “On the other hand, if red shifts are not Doppler ...
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All Things Astronomy
Aug 15, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by ToolGuy
Collisions on Jupiter.
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Shared from Academic (e.g., Science)
Sep 4, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Here’s Neil deGrasse Tyson, in Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, 2017, on page 17: “In the beginning, nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less ...
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Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Common Misconception 9: Einstein’s relativity theory has been proven. Answer: Einstein’s Relativity theory is the Special Relativity (SR) theory of 1905 and the General Relativity (GR) theory of 1915. Both examine the motion of physical bodies ...
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All Things Astronomy
Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Hathacat
I just had to.....
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All Things Astronomy
Sep 11, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by ballou
LINKScientists have discovered water vapor on a potentially habitable super-Earth for the first time. That planet is now our best bet for finding alien life.
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All Things Astronomy
Sep 18, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Thinking inside the box, lol.
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All Things Astronomy
Sep 20, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Common Misconception 3, Part 2: If you’re not doing math, you’re not doing science. Answer: Science does not begin with mathematics, but with direct observation, experiment, and insights into cause-and-effect relationships. . . . Today’s ...
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All Things Astronomy
Sep 27, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Dai Jianfeng, Gyirong valley Tibet
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All Things Astronomy
Oct 1, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Moon, Jupiter and four of it's Moons
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All Things Astronomy
Oct 8, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by BrianFinn
Nobel prize in physics for discovering exoplanets (currently teaching this in class) and radiation from the big band - cosmic background. For Peebles, this is long overdue. For Mayor and Queloz, they opened the way for some really remarkable ...
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All Things Astronomy
Oct 30, 2019Oct 2019

Posted by ToolGuy
The mole on the Mars Lander popped out and that is not good. But not a disaster.
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 2, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Auroras on Jupiter
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 2, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Pictures of Jupiter taken by Juno
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 2, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by JustAskMe
MIND BLOWN!! Today I learned something new and totally amazing about black holes from Nova's The Fabric of the Cosmos - (Season 1, Ep 1) - What is Space? Objects (or matter) is not lost in a black hole. In fact, black holes are not holes at all! ...
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 13, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Meteor over St Louis 11-12-19
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by ToolGuy
Rogue star moving at high speed. Ejected from a Black Hole.
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by Hathacat
cats eye nebula
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All Things Astronomy
Dec 5, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Bhabha, on the far side of the moon, is about 50 miles
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Posted by starwatcher-alThe occultation of Mars on the 7th.

Posted by starwatcher-alThe occultation of Mars on the 7th.

Posted by starwatcher-alSolar minimum was in 2019 so the sun is ramping up in flares, spots and prominences.

Posted by starwatcher-alI missed the early phases of the eclipse but the clouds mostly left during totality. All in all a great eclipse. Next one is Nov. 8-22

Posted by starwatcher-alI missed the early phases of the eclipse but the clouds mostly left during totality. All in all a great eclipse. Next one is Nov. 8-22

Posted by RobecologyFor those following the JWST.

Posted by AnonySchmoose The post-launch set-up of the new James Webb telescope has gone very well.

Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus

Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus

Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus

Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus

Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken October 2nd 2021 with Stellina 1.

Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken October 2nd 2021 with Stellina 1.

Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken October 2nd 2021 with Stellina 1.

Posted by starwatcher-al Did you know that you can see Venus in the daytime?

Posted by starwatcher-alOne of these days I think that I'll figure out this Nikon.

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