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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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Oct 17, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by euG5555
Einstein explained gravity over one hundred years ago: He said it was warped space-time and told where to look for it, the bending of light in a gravitational field. He explained the bending of light was caused by space rising from the surface of the...
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Oct 26, 2021Oct 2021

Posted by Charlene
A meer infant, this is an amazing first photo..
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Nov 5, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by Robecology
For the Astronomers and star gazers out there; There's a Weird Shape in The Middle of Andromeda, And Astronomers Finally Know Why!
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Nov 7, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by FearlessFly
Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers
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Nov 9, 2021Nov 2021

Posted by Charlene
This is awesome..
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Dec 6, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by yvilletom
The Strangest Comet in the Solar System - Thunderbolts Ten min. Comet 29P is part of a group of comets called the Centaurs which orbit between Saturn and Jupiter. Besides being one of the largest known comets at 37 miles across, it’s ...
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Dec 20, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by euG5555
IEugene Bunt Studied Laser Technology at Schoolcraft CollegeUpdated Nov 22 What is the substance of spacetime? Einstein explained gravity over one hundred years ago: He said it was warped space-time and told where to look for it, the bending of light...
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Dec 30, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by HumanistJohn
Images taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus
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Jan 3, 2022Jan 2022

Posted by Charlene
The Webb is 60% of the way to L2!!! ?
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Aug 14, 2019Aug 2019

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

Posted by ToolGuy
Collisions on Jupiter.
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Aug 16, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Andromeda galaxy, closest large spiral
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Aug 17, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by ToolGuy
Oldest stars in our galaxy. Article about collision and how we know.
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Aug 22, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by Hathacat
The Trifid Nebula is a binocular object, visible in the direction toward the Teapot.
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Aug 27, 2019Aug 2019

Posted by Hathacat
Dying Star Sheds Its Outer Layer
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Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) Widely Claimed as Evidence for the Big Bang If there is background radiation coming our way, how would we recognize it? It would have to originate from far behind the galaxies and nebulae that surround ...
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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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Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Common Misconception 1: Science is self-correcting. Answer: This misconception can be validly answered by both yes and no. No matter how glowingly scientists describe the virtues of the scientific method, it is and always will be a human system ...
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Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Hathacat
I just had to.....
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Sep 8, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Common Misconception 2: Some people say Electric Universe proponents reject the laws of physics. Answer: Science is the study of patterns in nature to find dependable relationships between causes and effects. As scientists confirm these ...
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Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Common Misconceptions 3: A Preview, Three Voices Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. Nikola Tesla...
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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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Sep 12, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by Druvius
We have a visitor! Woohoo!
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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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