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This chat intends to discuss the latest exciting developments in space and beyond.

04.10.2019, saw the most exciting event in the recent history of space science https://youtu.be/omz77qrDjsU

🌎We just saw events unfold 55 million light years away...If this was the past...Can we also see Earth's past?

🌎We just saw events unfold 55 million light years away...If this was the past...Can we also see Earth's past?

🔭What if the telescopes were planted away from the Earth and looked at Earth from a distance...
Can we actually see the future?

👽 Why didn't they zoom in on suspect planets/galaxies...not a single alien in sight??
Are we alone after all?

Powehi: black hole gets a name meaning ‘the adorned fathomless dark creation’
https://nypost.com/2019/04/11/histori...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...
It comes from the Kumulipo, an 18th century Hawaiian creation chant. Po is a profound dark source of unending creation, while wehi, meaning honoured with embellishments, is one of the chant’s descriptions of po
A Hawaiian name was justified because the project included two telescopes in Hawaii, astronomers said.

Meet Katie Bouman, One Woman Who Helped Make the World's First Image of a Black Hole
http://time.com/5568063/katie-bouman-...

What NASA says about black holes:

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying.
Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are invisible
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstud...

’The Paradox of Time’’, composed by the British poet Austin Dobson:
“Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go;
Or else, were this not so,
What need to chain the hours,
For youth were always ours?

Ours is the eye’s deceit
Of men whose flying feet
Lead through some landscape low;
We pass, and think we see
The earth’s fixed surface flee,
Alas, time stays, we go!

Once in the days of old
Your locks were curling gold,
And mine had shamed the crow.
Now, in the self-same stage,
We’ve reached the silver age,
Time goes, you say? - ah no!
Alas, time stays, we go!”

A new planet discovered:
https://www.space.com/third-alien-pla...
Kepler-47 is a roughly 3.5-billion-year-old system located 3,340 light-years from Earth.
The newly announced Kepler-47d, which is about 7 times bigger than Earth.
Kepler-47b and Kepler-47c, both have two suns in their skies, just like Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine in the "Star Wars" universe.
The researchers made the discovery using the most prolific planet hunter of all time, NASA's Kepler space telescope.

Conspiracy theories? https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/...
http://www.annunaki.org/nibiru/

Space news:
The FIRST type of molecular ‘building block’ Helium hydride (HeH)formed in the universe after the Big Bang is found by a flying telescope in a 600-year-old planetary 'nursery' 3,000 light years away from Earth


A “Jellyfish” Galaxy Swims Into View of NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope

China to Launch Ambitious Asteroid-Comet Mission in 2022
By Mike Wall 8 hours ago Spaceflight

The spacecraft will explore a near-Earth asteroid and an odd rock in the asteroid belt.

http://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/J...
If you look at the galaxy ESO 137-001 in visible light, you can see why it's considered an example of a "jellyfish" galaxy. Blue ribbons of young stars dangle from the galaxy's disk like cosmic tentacles. 

College Students Hatch Nuclear-Powered Magnetic Plan to Protect Marsonauts from Cosmic Rays
A group of undergrad students is developing a magnetic shield to defend interplanetary astronauts from the intense cosmic radiation between Earth and Mars.

The students, from Drake University in Iowa, presented their project in the poster session Saturday (April 13) at the April meeting of the American Physical Society. Their MISSFIT (Magneto-Ionization Spacecraft Shield for Interplanetary Travel) design uses a powerful magnetic shield that, like Earth's magnetosphere, protects the planet from high-energy particles. The defense system also incorporates "passive" shielding to mimic the ionosphere — Earth's second layer of defense

This Jaw-Dropping Galaxy Photo Equates to 1,060 Hours of Non-Stop Stargazing:
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-jaw...

What would Earth look like if all the ice melted:
https://www.sciencealert.com/disturbi...

Asteroid Bennu Goes Technicolor in 3-D NASA View https://www.space.com/asteroid-bennu-...

Scientists Think Rotating Black Holes Might Be Portals To Other Galaxies
https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/scie...

🔭The universe is expanding considerably faster than it should be, Nasa has confirmed.

🔭The space agency's Hubble Space Telescope shows that it is growing about 9 per cent faster than we had expected, based on the trajectory it started with shortly after the big bang, according to astronomers.

🔭NASA asteroid tracker: LOOK UP as a 27,000MPH asteroid skims the Earth TOMORROW

🔭You Could Travel Through a Wormhole, But It's Slower Than Space, Say Scientists
https://www.sciencealert.com/you-coul...

A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously
https://physics-astronomyblog.blogspo...

🔭NASA’s biennial asteroid impact simulation has just ended with its latest disaster – New York in ruins. But although this planetary defence exercise only simulates the worst-case scenario, NASA knows the threat of an asteroid strike is only too real.

🔭The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic spiral galaxy in all its glory

Whirling 'Collapsar' Stars Gave Universe Its Gold.
Merging neutron stars generated the bulk of the rest.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/d...

DAZZLING: The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower lights up the sky against the backdrop of the Milky Way https://t.co/BrcT4ux5Yv

🔭Reveals Secrets of Ancient Galaxies That ‘Lit Up’ the Universe
https://www.geek.com/news/nasa-telesc...

🔭https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-d...
🔭Hubble Peers at an Ancient Galaxy Cluster

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/go...

🔭JAXA finds 10 more artificial craters made on Ryugu asteroid by Japan's Hayabusa2 probe

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/201...

Our Reality Could Be a "Hologram" Created by Quantum Physics
https://futurism.com/reality-hologram...

Moon Crash Site Found! NASA Probe Spots Grave of Israeli Lunar Lander
https://www.space.com/beresheet-moon-...

Goodnight, Chang'e-4! China's Probe on Moon's Far Side Naps for Lunar Night
://www.space.com/moon-far-side-fifth-nig...

Something Strange Punched a Hole in the Milky Way. But What Exactly Is It?
https://www.livescience.com/65483-dar...

A Gentle Kiss: How the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule Was Born
https://www.space.com/ultima-thule-bi...

Space Mining Could Ruin Our Solar System If We Don't Establish Protected Places Now, Researchers Warn

https://www.space.com/scientists-prop...

Next-Gen Megascope for Astronomy Taking Shape on Chilean Mountaintop
By Mike Wall 2 hours ago Science & Astronomy

Next-Gen Megascope for Astronomy Taking Shape on Chilean MountaintopThe Giant Magellan Telescope should be observing the heavens by 2026.

https://www.space.com/giant-magellan-...

Ariana Grande Loves Space, So NASA Took Her to Mission Control
https://www.space.com/ariana-grande-t...

How to Make Moon Water: Add Solar Wind, Tiny Meteorites, and Then Heat


https://www.space.com/making-moon-wat...

🔭This Weird Meteorite Crashed Through a Doghouse in Costa Rica. (The Dog's Fine)
https://www.space.com/clay-meteorite-...


🔭The Moon Has Two Faces. This Cosmic Crash May Be Why

https://www.space.com/giant-impact-ca...

This Is What SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Look Like in the Night Sky


https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink...

🔭Scientists discover massive deposit of frozen WATER on Mars https://t.co/BpN4uNxSBA

Day Meets Night in This Amazing Astronaut Photo of Earth from Space

https://www.space.com/day-night-bound...

Gorgeous Orion Nebula Glows in Stunning Red and Blue Light https://www.space.com/orion-nebula-vi...

🔭100 Years Ago Today, a Total Solar Eclipse Experiment Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity

https://www.space.com/einstein-relati...

🔭100 Years Ago Today, a Total Solar Eclipse Experiment Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity

https://www.space.com/einstein-relati...

2020 in Space! Astronauts Ring in New Year (and Decade) from Orbit
https://www.space.com/astronauts-cele...

International Space Station astronauts play with fire for research
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

Does anyone have any suggestions of books or websites I could read to get more space knowledge because I really am interested, but I don’t have a good source of information on the topic.

I rely on space.com for the latest updates.

International Space Station astronauts play with fire for research
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...

Astrophysicist Says He Knows How to Build a Time Machine
https://futurism.com/astrophysicist-b...

https://www.space.com/venus-may-have-...

There is such an overload of space information in the past few years! Much more than most people had experienced in a lifetime in the past!

Astronaut Got a Blood Clot in Space. Here's How Doctors on Earth fixed it
https://www.space.com/astronaut-suffe...

https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dra...

SpaceX's Crew Dragon Will Launch Astronauts Into Space!
Nice video

Will bright star Betelgeuse finally explode? A look at the dimming red giant in Orion’a shoulder. https://www.space.com/dimming-star-be...

The 2020 'Super Bowl of Astronomy' Kicks Off in Hawaii
https://www.space.com/2020-super-bowl...

There is so much happening! One doesn't know where to look!

Happy Perihelion Day 2020! Earth Is Closest to the Sun Today

Keep in mind that Earth's tilted axis creates the seasons, not its distance from the sun.

https://www.space.com/earth-perihelio...


Aliens exist and they are living among us, says first British astronaut into space
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020...