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meStevo said:
Some Asteroid Bennu papers are live.

"The OSIRIS REx team discovered that Bennu contains many precursor building blocks of life, along with the evidence that it comes from an ancient wet world and contains materials that point to Bennu having traveled from the coldest regions of the solar system that are likely beyond Saturn's orbit."​

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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means

"For me, the question is: Why didn't life form on Bennu?"
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When did Foler's news girl start doing astronomy stuff?
 
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Maybe if you need something specific. Not sure I would invest much in a telescope from a defunct company. 3rd party warranty on Meade and Coranado scopes.

High Point Scientific bought all the Meade and Orion stuff when they went out of business. Sale starts today and goes on for a while.

Meade Telescopes & Coronado Solar Telescopes come wrapped in a robust warranty from our partner Extend.

Meade, Coronado, and Orion Sales Event! | High Point Scientific

We acquired the remaining inventory of Meade, Coronado & Orion! Some sales will have extensive inventory, while others will not. Once a product sells out it’s gone,
www.highpointscientific.com www.highpointscientific.com
 
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Borzak said:
Maybe if you need something specific. Not sure I would invest much in a telescope from a defunct company. 3rd party warranty on Meade and Coranado scopes.

High Point Scientific bought all the Meade and Orion stuff when they went out of business. Sale starts today and goes on for a while.

Meade Telescopes & Coronado Solar Telescopes come wrapped in a robust warranty from our partner Extend.

Meade, Coronado, and Orion Sales Event! | High Point Scientific

We acquired the remaining inventory of Meade, Coronado & Orion! Some sales will have extensive inventory, while others will not. Once a product sells out it’s gone,
www.highpointscientific.com www.highpointscientific.com
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Damn shame too. It's a superfun hobby. I wish it would warm up and clear up though. As much fun as I have with my lil Seestar, I am not standing out in the cold to do it!
 
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From reading on cloudnights.com looks like a large portion of the expensive meade scopes were gone quickly. The 10" and such LX200 or whatever they are. Lot of questions about the IP and name. I can see Meade, but Orion was just a rebrander and importer so guessing they are just gone except for odds and ends left over to be sold.

Yeah it's been warmish here at nights now, of course it also means a good chance the humidity is 90% or more at night which sucks for astronomy.
 
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Some of the Meade stuff from high point scientific is already making it onto astromart, ebay and such. Someone mentioned that other retailers suddenly had meade stuff for sale. Guess you are not getting any warranty at all on that. I was tempted Friday on the meade ED binocular sale. They went pretty fast.
 
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Interesting alternative to dark energy that I hadn't heard of. Tldl; If you take into account the fact that relativity says time passes more slowly in denser regions of the universe, it may be that empty regions of space have experienced an extra ~7 billion years and this could explain redshift and and the apparent acceleration of space. Maybe. Their tests show thus far it's at least roughly an equivalently good fit to data as the standard model.

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astronomy isn't exactly my jam but "different parts of the universe experiencing time differently and being different ages" would probably explain how we keep finding stars that are older than the fucking universe.
 
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Starship flight test 8 announced for Friday the 28th, 530pm CT

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Sylas said:
astronomy isn't exactly my jam but "different parts of the universe experiencing time differently and being different ages" would probably explain how we keep finding stars that are older than the fucking universe.
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I guess the age of the universe makes no sense if times is different everywhere and keeps shifting. I think we're missing an essential piece of the puzzle that only an Einstein 2.0 could find.
 
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Tholan said:
I guess the age of the universe makes no sense if times is different everywhere and keeps shifting. I think we're missing an essential piece of the puzzle that only an Einstein 2.0 could find.
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How would a plagarist fraud figure out these problems? He'd need someone else to come forth and do it first so he could steal the credit.
 
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How would a plagarist fraud figure out these problems? He'd need someone else to come forth and do it first so he could steal the credit.
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Whatever the means. I never read about claims of Einstein being a fraud because they do not interest me. He did enormous work to put his theory into real mathematics, and that was universally recognized. Even if his theory was not entirely his own, he was the one who proved it, so he deserves some credit.
 
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Tholan said:
Whatever the means. I never read about claims of Einstein being a fraud because they do not interest me. He did enormous work to put his theory into real mathematics, and that was universally recognized. Even if his theory was not entirely his own, he was the one who proved it, so he deserves some credit.
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The mathematics was done by lorentz.
 
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