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#astronomy

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SPQR

The Barbarian hordes feasting on the carcass of liberal democracy.

"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan."
#science #NASA #USpolitics #research #astronomy #Space #aliens
washingtonpost.com/science/202

The Washington Post · Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget planBy Joel Achenbach
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ESO

Did you find the #StarWars world, Tatooine, and its companion stars impressive? Then check this! 😉

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has discovered the first planet that not only orbits a pair of stars but does so at an angle of 90 degrees.

Both stars are brown dwarfs, objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. When tracking their orbits, astronomers found that the orbits themselves change over time. After carefully ruling out other explanations, they concluded that the gravitational tug of a planet in a polar orbit was the only way to explain the motion of the brown dwarfs.

Read more: eso.org/public/news/eso2508/

📷 ESO/L. Calçada

A computer illustration showing two bright orange stars orbiting each other. The orbits of the stars are shown as blue ellipses. A third object –– a planet shown as a smaller, fainter source –– orbits perpendicularly to the plane that contains the orbits of the two stars.
#astrodon#astronomy#astrophysics
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Sillycat Glassblower

Boucles d'oreilles Saturne 🪐✨

Une touche d'élégance Galactique ✨pour un côté mystique et authentique.

Réalisé avec délicatesse par mes soins cette paires de boucles planète saturne est une création qui pourra plaire à ceux qui aiment contempler l'Univers ✨🪐.

Le plus difficile dans cette créations c'est l'anneau de Saturne qui demande beaucoup de précision et de savoir faire.

J'espère que ça vous plaît.

Je vous souhaite une douce soirée ✨

Cette image représente une paire de boucles d'oreilles. La boucle d'oreille est une petite planète saturne de couleur caramel avec des nuances de couleurs pour donner un côté réaliste à la planète saturne. La petite planète saturne est associé à un crochet créole en or. This image depicts a pair of earrings. The earring features a small, caramel-colored Saturn planet with shades of color to give it a realistic look. The small Saturn planet is paired with a gold hoop earring.
Cette image représente une boucles d'oreilles portée par une femme. La boucle d'oreille est une petite planète saturne de couleur caramel avec des nuances de couleurs pour donner un côté réaliste à la planète saturne. La petite planète saturne est associé à un crochet en or. This image depicts a pair of earrings worn by a woman. The earring features a small, caramel-colored Saturn planet with shades of color to give it a realistic look. The small Saturn planet is paired with a gold hook.
Cette image représente une boucles d'oreilles portée par une femme. La boucle d'oreille est une petite planète saturne de couleur caramel avec des nuances de couleurs pour donner un côté réaliste à la planète saturne. La petite planète saturne est associé à un crochet en or. This image depicts a pair of earrings worn by a woman. The earring features a small, caramel-colored Saturn planet with shades of color to give it a realistic look. The small Saturn planet is paired with a gold hook.
Cette image représente une paire de boucles d'oreilles. La boucle d'oreille est une petite planète saturne de couleur caramel avec des nuances de couleurs pour donner un côté réaliste à la planète saturne. La petite planète saturne est associé à un crochet en or. This image depicts a pair of earrings. The earring features a small, caramel-colored Saturn planet with shades of color to give it a realistic look. The small Saturn planet is paired with a gold hook.
#saturne#astronomy#art
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ESO

Are you into fishing? The "fishing rods" in this image are a tad bigger than the ones you may be used to 😉 In this image of our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile, huge cranes appear to be fishing for construction materials around the telescope.

Inside the dome is the telescope's main structure, which will eventually hold the telescope's mirrors, including its huge 39-m primary mirror.

Learn more about the ELT here: eso.org/public/images/potw2515

📷 ESO

A night image of a partially-built telescope under the stars. The image uses a distorted projection, which creates a focal point in the centre which is closer to the viewer, and which everything bends around. The middle of the picture is taken up by the dome building of the ELT, with a crane on the right that extends from the bottom right of the image, curving up to the middle of the image at the top. Its tether line splits the image in half horizontally. The dome of the ELT is open, showing the beams that hold the main structure in place, around it, are the beams that will make the doors once panelling is attached to it. Above the ELT on the left is the Milky Way, extending from the horizon about a third of the way up the image, meeting the top of the crane in top middle of the image. The Milky Way looks like a blue and purple wispy cloud, with points of white, the brighter stars.
#astrodon#astronomy#astrophotography
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PJ Woods

Cliff swallow nests by the well-known Chaco 1054 Supernova rock art panel. Chinese records indicate July 4 1054 as when this "guest star" appeared, when the moon was nearly at first quarter. This supernova created the Crab Nebula. Halley's Comet appeared in 1066. At the middle bottom are concentric circles and faint red pigment flowing to the right, plausibly a record of that comet's appearance.
#rockart #archaeology #astronomy #hiking #chaco #newmexico #ancestralpuebloan #desert #pjwoods

Yellow sandstone cliff wall and overhang with several round mud nests. On the underside of the upper overhang in red pigment are a star, a crescent moon, and a handprint. Below on the cliff wall are concentric circles in white with faint red pigment.
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Prof Heino Falcke

Just got this news on the #NASA budget proposal by the president. #Astrophysics gets hit by a sledgehammer.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/

#Astrodon #Astronomy

*  ~50 percent cut in funding. After the agency received $7.5 billion
for science in fiscal-year 2025, the Trump administration has proposed a
science topline budget of just $3.9 billion for the coming fiscal year.

* A two-thirds cut to astrophysics, down to $487 million; (1/3)

Image of a space-based telescope covered with solar panels.
Ars Technica · Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASABy Eric Berger
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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

Huh, we may live in the Boondocks of the Universe.

I found it really interesting, but we may be in the middle of the largest known super void in the universe.

Recent discovery. It's called the KBC void, and is about a billion light-years across or so.

It's the best explanation #astronomy has come up with for the discrepancy in the #CosmologicalConstant and is probably a good thing. Cuz we are less likely to have extreme events happen to us.

#science#randomthoughts#cool
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