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@Thomas_Blackheart@mastodon.social · 9 hours ago

"A great eye will open and many things will be seen." #stargate #music #writing #video #music #instrumental #space #flight #story #eye #3dsmax #thomasblackheart https://youtu.be/l28Ke37ShLs

Thomas Blackheart (TC)

@Thomas_Blackheart@mastodon.social · 9 hours ago

"A great eye will open and many things will be seen." #stargate #music #writing #video #music #instrumental #space #flight #story #eye #3dsmax #thomasblackheart https://youtu.be/l28Ke37ShLs

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tob

@tob@mastodon.sdf.org · yesterday

🌌 🎶 "Time And Space", the new album from LAD was released yesterday and I am chilling out to it now.

You can get your copy of this deep space ambient masterpiece here:

https://laddadoane.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-space

You'll be glad you did. And yeah, there's a lot more where that came from.

#music #ambient #space

tob

@tob@mastodon.sdf.org · yesterday

🌌 🎶 "Time And Space", the new album from LAD was released yesterday and I am chilling out to it now.

You can get your copy of this deep space ambient masterpiece here:

https://laddadoane.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-space

You'll be glad you did. And yeah, there's a lot more where that came from.

#music #ambient #space

Chad :mstdn:

@chad@mstdn.ca · yesterday

430,000 miles per hour is ~192 km/sec. That’s Edmonton to Calgary in ~1.7 seconds.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 27th Swing Around the Sun | NASA JPL

#space #sun #ParkerSolarProbe

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/parker-solar-probe/2026/03/16/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-27th-swing-around-the-sun/

NASA Science

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 27th Swing Around the Sun

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface.

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ESO

@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

Reflect Orbital and SpaceX have filed proposals with the US Federal Communications Commission that threaten ground-based astronomy. We submitted replies and collaborated with the UK Royal Astronomical Society & the International Astronomical Union for their responses. 1/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

A blurried view of a starry night sky above a desert landscape with the Milky Way visible. On the right, a globe of Earth is surrounded by thousands of colored dots representing satellites in orbit. Overlaid text reads: “ESO files response to new threats to dark skies.”

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Nevar23

@nevar23@mastodon.social · 3 years ago

ESO

@esoastronomy@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

Prof. Sam Lawler

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.

Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.

SpaceX is truly awful.

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange replied · 2 days ago

@sundogplanets Recommend adding #journalism #media #space #science for reach on groups

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Corey S Powell

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social · 3 days ago

The wild "Starshot" project was conceived to design a probe that could reach Proxima Centauri in about 20 years.

Although project has gone dormant, it has yielded a lot of new ideas (many not widely shared, alas) about how to build a viable interstellar probe.

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/03/10/starshot-is-a-success-part-ii/ #space #science #technology

https://www.centauri-dreams.org

Starshot Is a Success (Part II)

A graphical summary of the Starshot concept to send a laser-sail probe to the star Proxima Centauri.

Corey S Powell

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social · 3 days ago

This summary of the Starshot project by one of its team leaders is a bit defensive. But it's a fascinating peek into the minds of the engineers who deeply, passionately wanted to be able to send a spacecraft to another star within their lifetime.

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/03/03/starshot-is-a-success-part-i/ #science #astronomy #space #tech

https://www.centauri-dreams.org

Starshot Is a Success: Part I

The figure shows a concept for the sail, about 5 m in diameter. Some studies show that at the velocity under consideration the gas and dust will pass through the thin sail with virtually no damage if it travels face-on. Only the payload would need protection. The sail can also be oriented edge-on in order to avoid such collisions, giving meters of material protection to the center. The payload is around the center, protected from damage due to incoming gas and dust.

Corey S Powell

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social · 3 days ago

The wild "Starshot" project was conceived to design a probe that could reach Proxima Centauri in about 20 years.

Although project has gone dormant, it has yielded a lot of new ideas (many not widely shared, alas) about how to build a viable interstellar probe.

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/03/10/starshot-is-a-success-part-ii/ #space #science #technology

https://www.centauri-dreams.org

Starshot Is a Success (Part II)

Chad :mstdn:

@chad@mstdn.ca · 6 days ago

Now let's hope we never need to use it for real!

NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun | NASA JSC

#space #NASA

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/dart/nasas-dart-mission-changed-orbit-of-asteroid-didymos-around-sun/

NASA

NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun

New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September

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Corey S Powell

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

One of the largest structures in the known cosmos is hidden behind gas & dust in our galaxy.

A new study pierces the gloom & reveals the true extent of the Vela Supercluster: over 300 million light years wide, more than 100,000x as massive as the Milky Way.

https://www.sarao.ac.za/news/vela-the-true-scale-of-a-hidden-giant-structure-revealed/ #space #science #nature #technology

A map of the Local Universe highlighting the main superclusters. Vela, a massive hidden structure, is on the left. The image shows how galaxies flow through space and the large-scale “basins” that channel them.

Corey S Powell

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

A major advance is using the MeerKAT radio telescope to map emission from hydrogen clouds in otherwise-invisible galaxies.

By combining different types of vision, astronomers are now bringing hidden parts of the universe into view.

Full paper at link.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09339 #astronomy #space #nature #tech

arXiv.org

Hidden Vela Supercluster Revealed by First Hybrid Redshift & Peculiar Velocity Reconstruction

A large fraction of the extragalactic sky is obscured by foreground dust and stars along the plane of the Milky Way, leaving a major gap (~ 20%) in whole-sky maps of large-scale structures -- an incompleteness that is even more severe for peculiar velocity samples. This has long limited an unambiguous interpretation of observed cosmic flows and their connection to the underlying mass-density field. We present a new hybrid reconstruction methodology which combines 65,518 galaxy peculiar velocity distances from the CF4++ catalogue (Courtois2025) with 8283 new galaxy redshifts observed near the southern Galactic plane (|b| <= 10 degrees) Zone of Avoidance. A major advance is the inclusion of 2176 high-sensitivity, interferometric HI redshifts obtained with the SARAO MeerKAT telescope which for the first time provide coverage of the innermost 3degrees-wide strip of the southern ZOA and to unprecedented depth. This hybrid redshifts & peculiar velocities approach yields a substantially revised view of the inferred overdensities in and around the ZOA. In particular, the Vela supercluster emerges as a dominant mass concentration, rivaling the Shapley concentration and exceeding the mass associated with Laniakea and the Great Attractor region. With a total mass of 33.8 10^16 Msol, a characteristic radius of 70 hmpc, and a double core morphology at a distance of 189 hmpc, Vela dominates the mass budget and gravitational influence of the southern Zone of Avoidance. These results provide the most complete and dynamically consistent picture to date of the southern Zone of Avoidance and demonstrate the transformative potential of hybrid reconstruction techniques tailored for the next generation of large-scale surveys.

The MeerKAT telescope in the Karoo. Since its inauguration in 2018, the 64 dish array has been used to investigate a variety of questions in modern astrophysics such as how galaxies form and evolve across cosmic history.

Corey S Powell

@coreyspowell@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

One of the largest structures in the known cosmos is hidden behind gas & dust in our galaxy.

A new study pierces the gloom & reveals the true extent of the Vela Supercluster: over 300 million light years wide, more than 100,000x as massive as the Milky Way.

https://www.sarao.ac.za/news/vela-the-true-scale-of-a-hidden-giant-structure-revealed/ #space #science #nature #technology