The Astronomy Thread

"We've decoded the message"

An amateur astronomer in Texas captured a rare sight earlier this week when an apparent meteor slammed into Jupiter’s thick upper atmosphere.
On Wednesday, amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel was on the lookout for Perseid meteors, reports ScienceAlert. But his telescope was trained on Jupiter with the camera running. Later, after feeding the data into a software program designed to detect impact flashes, Chappel was alerted to the event.

its a monolith!!!

MusicForFish said:

Mysterious, ancient radio signals keep pelting Earth

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Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into radio telescopes on Earth, spattering those instruments' detectors with confusing data. And now, astronomers are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint the source of the shrieks, in the hope of explaining what's sending them to Earth from — researchers suspect — billions of light-years across space.

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We will never be allowed to know what the message is because it is: There are only two genders.

MusicForFish said:

Mysterious, ancient radio signals keep pelting Earth

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Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into radio telescopes on Earth, spattering those instruments' detectors with confusing data. And now, astronomers are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint the source of the shrieks, in the hope of explaining what's sending them to Earth from — researchers suspect — billions of light-years across space.

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the energy involved means it has to be a natural phenomena.

They might be witnessing pulsar formation. Pulsars are called that because they radiate em out of their poles while spinning on an axis. It makes them look like strobe lights if you're looking with the right telescope. Pulsars form in a way similar to black holes, they say, in the end stage of a state lifespan. The stars that spawn them were not massive enough to black hole though, so you start getting exotic matter. Makes sense that the first few generations of star would not be the most massive.

It'll be something like that.

MusicForFish said:

Someone call Steve Buscemi

Asteroid horror: NASA panic as freak DOUBLE asteroid Didymos hurtles towards Earth

DIDYMOS, the twin asteroid, classified as potentially hazardous and posing an impact risk to earth, the city killer is now being targeted by the European Space Agency in a bid to deflect it from a possible earth bound collision course.

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Click bait bullshit. From the article:

"Luckily, Didymos is not an Earth-crossing asteroid, and there is no possibility that the deflection experiment could create an impact hazard."

Edit: They're talking about a mission to practice deflecting an asteroid though which is cool. Only took 100's of sci-fi movie plots to make us realize its a good idea.

Just don't look!