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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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Mar 17, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Druvius
Polaris is still a scientific mystery:
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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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Sep 15, 2019Sep 2019

Posted by yvilletom
Common Misconception 3, Part 1: 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. Many of today’s ...
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All Things Astronomy
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 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 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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All Things Astronomy
May 4, 2019May 2019

Posted by Lukian
Are these events that common? I understand that colliding massive objects may appear as common when considering light=gravity speed, distance, the time of the event and the size of the universe but still, one event a week? ...
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All Things Astronomy
Jan 16, 2019Jan 2019

Posted by Lukian
Astronomers discover first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by astronomers at the University of Warwick, and ...
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All Things Astronomy
Nov 12, 2018Nov 2018

Posted by Lukian
Science debate in action. I started to express a sense of skeptical curiosity when it appeared that LIGO was detecting several signals in a year or two. That would mean there are several black holes merging, maybe too many? ...
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All Things Astronomy
Sep 6, 2018Sep 2018

Posted by Lukian
A well deserved correction in science history. Jocelyn Bell Burnell is about to get some much-deserved recognition, and a pretty big chunk of change to boot. The British astrophysicist will receive a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental...
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All Things Astronomy
Jul 31, 2018Jul 2018

Posted by vcg1234
Planetary fingerprints They had me at "spectra and geometric albedo". Cataloging techniques to help prioritize future scientific research. Cool. I imagine as technology improves, we will be adding exoplanets too.
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All Things Astronomy
May 28, 2018May 2018

Posted by AntaresRose
Should Pluto Be a Planet After All? Experts Weigh In Artist's impression of Pluto and Charon as seen from one of Pluto's other moons. Credit: David Aguilar/Center for Astrophysics Now that Pluto may have regained its status as the largest object in ...
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All Things Astronomy
May 20, 2018May 2018

Posted by AntaresRose
In early 2016, two planetary scientists declared that a ghost planet is hiding in the depths of the solar system, well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Their claim, which they made based on the curious orbits of distant icy worlds, quickly sparked a race ...
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All Things Astronomy
May 15, 2018May 2018

Posted by AntaresRose
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and due to its proximity it is not easily seen except during twilight. For every two orbits of the Sun, Mercury completes three rotations about its axis and up until 1965 it was thought that the same side of ...
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All Things Astronomy
Apr 22, 2018Apr 2018

Posted by Lukian
Anybody else bothered by this claim: Every few minutes, a pair of black holes collides somewhere in the Universe, sending shivers called gravitational waves through the fabric of spacetime? Shivers all right! ...
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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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