#Universe Today

[biglisbonnews]

One of the universe’s most iconic nebulas is changing — scientists don’t know why The Butterfly Nebula is changing, and astronomers are puzzled as to why these changes are occurring. Observations of this planetary nebula show dramatic changes in the butterfly’s ‘wings’ in just 11 years. https://www.inverse.com/science/butterfly-nebula

[squircatlies]

Get his ass, Gertrude.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[inkyvoids]

We live in an age of exoplanet discovery. One thing we’ve learned is not to be surprised by the kinds of exoplanets we keep discovering. We’ve discovered planets where it might rain glass or even iron, planets that are the rocky core remnants of gas giants stripped of their atmospheres, and drifting rogue planets untethered to any star. Now, astronomers have uncovered evidence of an exoplanet in a circumbinary disk around a binary star. The remarkable thing about this discovery is that the disk is in a polar configuration. That means the exoplanet moves around its binary star in a circumpolar orbit, and this is the first one scientists have found. AC Herculis (AC Her) is a binary star about 4200 light-years away. The primary star is well-studied, while its partner is invisible. It has a polar circumbinary disk, which is unusual but not unheard of. In a new paper, a team of researchers presents evidence for the polar circumbinary exoplanet.

[zonetrente-trois]

Does this not coincide with other unusual phenomena that happened in that year?

[ninyard]

fox tweets (pt 2.5) ((ft. jeremy))

[hyunpic]

240711 hynjinnnn instagram live

[meamiiikiii]

silly comic based on a time i struggled to read live on stream :thumbsup:

context clip compilation below ASDASDFASA

(cw for brief mention of hospitals/strokes)

[hajihiko]

Have you ever wanted to rehearse every possible answer to The Marriage Game with your closest people to prove your love in case you ever play it or are you normal

[chalkrub]

dinosaur in a lab coat - would you trust her with operating the centrifuge

[biglisbonnews]

New measurements support the idea that dark matter doesn’t exist Despite numerous searches, we have yet to detect dark matter particles. https://www.inverse.com/science/modified-gravity-dark-matter-galaxies

[screwpinecaprice]

When your boyrfren is a morning person.

(Idk if Connie's not a morning person, but it'd be funny if she isn't.)

Connie doodles (and a Steven!)

[nat111love]

THE PENGUIN 2024 ↳ Season 1 ↳ Episode 5

[inkyvoids]

Last September, NASA purposefully smashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a 160m-wide space rock orbiting a larger asteroid named Didymos. The goal of the mission, called DART (the Double Asteroid Redirection Test), was to demonstrate humanity’s ability to redirect hazardous asteroids away from Earth. That part of the mission was a success above and beyond all expectations. But now scientists are also learning more about the origins of the two asteroids. A study conducted in the wake of the DART impact found that Dimorphos is made from the same material as Didymos, and that the pair of asteroids likely originated from a single body.