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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread 2nd Kuiper Belt? Our solar system may be much larger than thought.If it exists then Planet Nine influences further out, at around 500 au. And it is too small at too wide orbit to clear its orbit, it has...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Exoplanets may be hiding behind the 'Neptunian ridge.The paper suggests the high-eccentricity tidal migration for the ridge based on earlier orbit data (a surplus of elliptical orbits) but...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Black hole 'bullets' fired at Mars could reveal more about dark matter.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02526-y
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread China's Yutu 2 rover still going strong after nearly 6 years on the far side of the moon (video).The huge prestige win was US landing the first man on the Moon in the 60s, and Soviet ceding the space race. If China is first in this...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Boeing’s Starliner astronauts speak publicly today for 1st time in 2 months: Watch it live.Another mission change example was the crew abort during Soyuz MS-10 to ISS 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-10
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.But why??? And notably Artemis, which si a costly and time consuming detour if your stated goal is to go to Mars, won't provide...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says.The "quite soon" is no earlier than late November due to licensing issues (such as that the booster return doubles the sonic boom zone)...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread The 1st Milky Way black hole image was groundbreaking — the next could be even better.The geometry of spacetime is what explains the light bending of Sun, as opposed to the old newtonian gravitation approximation you refer...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to Unclear Engineer's post in the thread The 1st Milky Way black hole image was groundbreaking — the next could be even better with
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The description of the effects on resolution from the distribution of the radio telescopes on Earth got me thinking about what might be... -
TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread The 1st Milky Way black hole image was groundbreaking — the next could be even better.More accurate estimates of the black holes' spin rates and angle to us are essential for a new Sgr A* merger model:
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread NASA astronauts can't wear Boeing Starliner spacesuits in SpaceX's Dragon. Here's why.I hope ISS will survive (this and possible future) Starliner. That was what they hoped the known thruster and helium problems would be...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Early galaxies weren't mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds.Possibly other groups can criticize that almost all the "red dot" galaxies are excluded due to problems with estimating their masses...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to rod's post in the thread Early galaxies weren't mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds with Like.
'The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology.' Okay, nothing to see hear folks, cosmology and...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread How AI is revealing the universe's original 'settings.They improve on the BOSS survey but else there are no surprises, they are consistent with earlier surveys. And as in most such cases...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Gravitational waves hint at a 'supercool' secret about the Big Bang.Before I return to the OP question of the order of the inflationary phase transition, I want to point out - as I have described -...
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