Recent content by RobLea

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    These 'failed stars' orbit so closely it took 29 years to tell they were a pair

    Used a NASA diagram for reference. Shame people got so hooked up on an image. Any errors are "human errors" showing I'm not a machine.
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    Rapidly spinning 'extreme' neutron star discovered by US Navy research intern

    Not all pulsars glitch. Also scientists take a statistical average accross many pulsars to eliminate this. Also every measurement technique ever devised has a margin of error
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    No, the moon phase can't help find your soulmate on TikTok

    I guess where we differ is I think it's perfectly acceptable to describe things in terms of perspective and from the perspective of people in different hemispheres different sides of the moon are illuminated at the quarter moons. By your logic to you object to the phase "close approach" when...
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    No, the moon phase can't help find your soulmate on TikTok

    Hey Jan, Check out my explanation to Unclear Engineer below. Should have specified different sides means Northern and Southern Hemisphere... Totally my bad. Best, Rob
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    No, the moon phase can't help find your soulmate on TikTok

    I should have been clearer Unclear Engineer! By the other side of Earth, I'm referring to the northern and southern hemispheres. Obviously, during the first and last quarter moon phases, observers in different hemispheres see different sides of the lunar face illuminated as the illumination...