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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Spiderweb protocluster is filled with baby galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope reveals (image).The dust data implies a shared gas supply driving star formation towards galaxy growth, but that is partly in tension where observations...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal.The "rare Earth" filters are daft since they are untestable. just add more factors until you get the answer you want to have. Almost as...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal.A Miyaki event produces an order of magnitude more C14 than the technology interrupting Carrington event (~ 10 % vs 1 % annual...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Scientists find highest energy cosmic ray electrons ever seen.That is obvious for the casual reader who is here for the facts, not the fantasies. No, the context was star distances. The source(s)...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to m4n8tpr8b's post in the thread Scientists find highest energy cosmic ray electrons ever seen with
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to WaterRook's post in the thread Scientists find highest energy cosmic ray electrons ever seen with Like.
This radiation occurs when high-energy particles collide with the Earth's atmosphere, creating particle showers WHICH CREATE CERENKOV...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to stanwaterman's post in the thread Scientists find highest energy cosmic ray electrons ever seen with Like.
Rest-mass is constant, the mass at rest! The apparent mass increases with speed not acceleration although if you are accelerated you do...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Scientists find highest energy cosmic ray electrons ever seen.WR stars are relatively rare, which may or may not support the single/few source designation...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread 5 galaxies in perfect alignment challenge our best model of the universe.I call foul. The paper itself does not discuss dark matter models. And in fact their dwarf galaxy sample is an outlier in that all of...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications.https://www.sciencealert.com/voyager-1-just-activated-a-radio-thats-been-offline-since-1981 They do send science data and, as I noted...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to billslugg's post in the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications with Like.
Voyager 1 and 2 are measuring the magnetic field and charged particles in interstellar space. One is in the planet's orbital plane, one...
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to Nomadd's post in the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications with Like.
It's not the P238 decaying so much as the RTG thermocouples deteriorating.
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TTorbjorn Larsson reacted to SirStephenH's post in the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications with Like.
False. They were able to communicate on the S-band which they used to get the X-band transmitter working again. S-band is too slow and...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications.I'm happy the crafts are chatty. Unfortunately these end-of-life interruptions takes time off the last gasps of science collection...
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TTorbjorn Larsson replied to the thread Did alien life exist in hot water on Mars billions of years ago?.Nice support for our own early ocean formation on a young crust, where zircons have dated it to 4.4 / 4.3 billion years ago. There were...
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