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Quantum entanglement is the magic of our time. That, or dark matter. Maybe there’s a abstract correlation?

Can tardigrades live in a Bose Einstein condensate? Only if they’re dark tardigrades.

A transit from another planet . 8-) Very cool! [ PS - you can use the "youtube" button to provide a much nicer link to a video, complete with an embedded player and thumbnail. ] Yes :thumb_up: I should become more creative with the tools available. It's not like I'm stuck in a box. :wink:

A transit from another planet.

There seems to be a turkey running afoul in today's image. Globble, globble!

I am curious what Maryam Mirzakhani would have deduced about the shape of the universe?

However it shapes up, mathemeticians get it straight.

If the universe was like a ball of twine and light could only travel within the filaments, it might only be this big.

Hmmm, maybe that opens the door for traveling across twine. My new version of string theory. Cosmic cats would love that!

Atlantis docking as ISS transits the sun. It seems a tough image to plan. Or was it good and lucky

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The brightest star in the foreground of Barnard 92 caught my eye.

Interestingly B 92 was nicknamed “The Black Hole” way before those other objects. HD 312872 really pinpoints the nebulosity.

Bystander had posted a link in one of today's links. The relationship of voids to overdense regions seems like a clue to relative motions.

Could it be the matter between life and death? Or maybe just the universe as a hole.

Since January 21 st , 2008, Art contributed 18,805 glimpses into his personality and wit. That is no small amount. Thanks to this thing called the internet, we all have the ability to randomly revisit the man anytime we choose or happen upon an old post. To me it’s like he’ll always be here despite ...

Conjunction also visible this morning with a "toenail" moon rising a bit later over Lucky Peak.

The ether has made way to the sea . On course, through the waves, particles storm around leaving us in the wake while the bosun's mate tries to stay aboard. “Then along came a tsunami, that sat down beside me, and we charted new ways to parley” You have to admire particle physicists’ ability to desc...

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Do these bubbles ever burst?

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"That knot looks like another dog!"

And from its expression, I'd say it's been naughty.

Very apropos that it is an hourglass shape! “ Yesterday was an equinox -- when night and day were equal “ Let me fix that… “Yesterday was an equinox -- when night and day were almost equal “ Much better. The refraction of the sun by the atmosphere adds a few minutes, give or take, depending on your...

Spring showers bring rainbows too. Flowers soon to follow!

Is our universe just an unfolding version of its earlier self? Are we existing in dimensions 7-8-9 but can’t physically access the others?

If so, I still contemplate size and time as being the same thing. By the way, where’s Art in the big picture

Happy Pi Day! The constellation of Perseus has always looked like the symbol for Pi to me.

Of course the Hyades area looks more like a slice of pie.

Quite the juxaposition; cold weather and a palm tree!

But it makes me smile.

Fermi bubbles may have a twin sister born in the Milky Way's no-fly zone.

What type of twin remains TBD.

The remnant is revealing other cosmic curiosities.

Venus only scores one point in the celestial game of coronal hole.

My computer doesn’t respond to the link for Vitali’s image credit but another of his astrophotographs aligns quite nicely.

Ironwood wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:15 pm I wonder how today's grid would handle a direct hit from a Carrington Event or stronger CME. How long would the power stay off?

I'm not sure but it would be good to have one of these to help our infrastructure.

It was determined only this century that zodiacal dust was mostly expelled by comets that have passed near Jupiter. What about the Mars origin theory supported by Juno data? Indeed, the evidence now heavily favors that explanation for the creation of the majority of the interplanetary dust responsi...