#planet discovery

[headlinehorizon]

Red Dwarf Reveals Unexpected Planet: Headline Horizon!

In the latest news, astronomers have made a surprising discovery - a planet much larger than expected orbiting a red dwarf star. This revelation challenges previous theories on planetary formation around these common stars.

[stra-tek]

Star Trek be like, let's draw a slightly different flag every time and see if anyone notices

[ovenproofowl]

Why would they speak in whistles? They don't always. They have a phonetic language for day-to-day interactions, but the whistle-speak lets them communicate across great distances. It's not uncommon to find in cultures before communication technology evolves.

STAR TREK DISCOVERY: 5x06 'Whistlespeak'

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The clearest image ever taken of Mercury's surface.

JWST • Hubble • NASA Missions & Astronomical Discoveries

[spockvarietyhour]

USS Discovery:

Valley Forge:

Dark Star:

Nostromo:

USS Cygnus:

Liberty 1:

60s-70s designed ships, otherwise Event Horizon might have ended up in here.

[buthigor]

(Andrew Day)

[gooseontheloose41]

[pangeen]

" Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan "

//© universeviewz

[utopianscholastic]

Edutainment Smackdown: Round 2, Poll 3

Round 2 Masterpost

[affairsmastery]

Astronomers have discovered record-breaking wind speeds of up to 33,000 km/h on WASP-127b, a gas giant 520 light years away. These winds, moving six times faster than the planet's rotation, are the fastest ever observed on any planet.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐏-𝟏𝟐𝟕𝐛:

A hot Jupiter, 30% larger than Jupiter but with low density

Orbits its star in just 4 days, causing extreme temperature differences

Atmosphere contains hydrogen, helium, carbon monoxide, and water

With searing temperatures of 1,127°C, WASP-127b remains an exoplanet of extreme and fascinating conditions.

[gaesnek]

okay okay okay so i haven't been tism about this yet (publicly) but like i really need people to hear about this

for ages scientists have been trying to drill into the mantle with things like the kola super-deep bore hole and just a few days ago... they still haven't.

BUT THEY DID HARVEST ROCK FROM IT AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS COOL!

Geologists managed to extract a kilometer long core sample of mantle rock through the Atlantis Massif and a "tectonic window" which basically means mantle rock was pushed up into the crust by tectonic shifting and got close enough to the surface seafloor that they were able to use a bore drill to harvest samples

now the reason that this is a major breakthrough for geology (and i would use all caps but i don't want to scare some of my mutuals away from this) is that this KILOMETER long sample could potentially change a lot of the things we know about plate tectonics, magma convection currents, earthquakes (falls under plate tectonics but important enough to get it's own mention), and geology in general.

What they find from analyzing the sample might change what you learn in school and that is any scientists DREAM

I am actually shaking bc of how exciting this is and i need everyone around me to be doing the same

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"We are no longer on the eve of battle. Even so, I come to ask myself the same question that young soldier asked the general all those years ago: "How do I defeat fear?" The general's answer: "The only way to defeat fear is to tell it 'No'." No - we will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness. No - we will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts. No - we will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority.

I am guilty of all these things. Some say that in life, there are no second chances. Experience tells me that this is true. But we can only look forward. We have to be torchbearers, casting the light so we may see our path to lasting peace. We will continue exploring, discovering new worlds, new civilizations. Yes - that is the United Federation of Planets… Yes - that is Starfleet… Yes, that is who we are… And who we will always be."

[martyrbat]

batman: the abduction

hes sooo autistic 11 year old weird girl on the family computer coded....

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Here’s a stunning image of the sun taken by the James Webb Space Telescope!

The black dot you see is actually Mercury!

James Webb Space Telescope Discoveries

[cosmonautroger]

Jupiter Planet, Io Moon, Discovery Starship, 2001 A Space Odyssey

[pluralzalpha]

Obscure Star Trek aliens 109

The Ckaptir

A humanoid people from the planet Ckaptir II, the Ckaptir first appeared as background aliens on Discovery and now on Section 31. By the 31st and 32nd centuries, there were plenty serving in Starfleet, so they were probably Federation members at some point (all bets are off post-Burn, of course).

I like the catfish-like design, and the fuzzy hairs on their horns/tentacles/whatevers.