I 💙 AAS meetings! Breaking astronomy news every day, like JWST finding a “hot mess” exoplanet! 🔥
This mega “hot Jupiter” has an orbit that brings it WAY too close to its Sun-like star, turning temp up 1,100°, mucking up its chemistry & clouds. Data galore!
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science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Chilling. The story behing the decimation and the unrepairable damage left in its wake. Quotes:
“...research has been shut off...because some people find the words ‘structural racism’ offensive.”
“We were never canceled. We were just starved to death.”🧪🔭
www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...
Mosquitos love me! 🦟 A lot, and the welts last for days.
One frontline defense, DEET, may lose efficacy if mosquitos learn to associate the smell with a tasty meal. #science
They can learn?! We’re doomed.
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www.newswise.com/articles/thi...
Europa, the icy moon that could... be hospitable to life.
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Europa Clipper will arrive in 2030. Before then, astronomers are using radar to delve below its frozen exterior. The technique, bistatic radar, helps study objects in the solar system. 100m GBT Rocks!
public.nrao.edu/news/gbt-eur...
Freakin' Amazing Radio Camera!! 📡
Caltech's DSA. 1,650 dishes.
Data rate = entire US internt traffic!
Camera aspect will use GPUs to turn data tsunami into pictures in real time!
World's most sensitive radio telescope: The "PhotoMart" of the radio universe!🧪🔭
www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...
Spewing supermassive black hole (SBH) in the Milky Way!
As cold gas spirals inward, some of it get superhot and 'spews' out in jets.💦 Till now, the SBH in our galaxy showed no signs of spewing. (Ewww). HT to ALMA & Chandra for finding 1st signs of gentle jets. 🔭🧪
www.newswise.com/articles/mil...
A Black Hole Star? Supporting evidence is growing!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
1.8 billions years post big bang (a toddler on the cosmic scale), a black hole is gobbling up fuel and growing fast! Light from near the BH gets tweeked by a cocoon of gas, the hallmark of the monster within.🧪🔭
Where there’s clay, there was water. And life is rather fond of water. 💧
@esa.int ExoMars (launching 2028) will have a ginormous swathe of the Red Planet’s surface (300x600 km) to ‘play in the clay’ & search for signs of past (?) life! #astrobiology 🧪🔭
doi.org/10.1016/j.ic...
The universe was just 5% its current age - a toddler in cosmic terms.🧪🔭
It was there/then astronomers using ALMA+VLA spotted REBELS-25, a priomordial galaxy chock-a-block with CO gas, the 1st detection of an infant galaxy brimming with the fuel for star formation.
public.nrao.edu/news/vla-fue...
How do blobs of cosmic dust and gas flatten into planet-forming disks?
The ALMA telescope and ‘maths’ reveal that a tenuous transition zone gradually shepherds matter into the familiar disk-like (Keplerian) motion of our & other solar systems. 🔭🧪 #science #space
alma-telescope.jp/en/news/pdfo...
