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How Plausible Is ‘#ProjectHailMary’? #Astrophysicists Have Thoughts
Based on hard #sciencefiction, a genre that prioritizes scientific accuracy, the blockbuster gets a lot right but misses a few things, experts say.
Armchair #physicists and even some actual physicists have powered countless online threads with questions around interstellar travel, alien life and why Grace, who has a doctorate in microbiology, can’t seem to balance a centrifuge.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/movies/project-hail-mary-scientific-accuracy.html
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For #TransDayOfVisibilty (and all days), let's celebrate the accomplishments of #transgender #astronomers & #astrophysicists, learn more about some of the brilliant #trans folks working in #astronomy at the links below:
Dr. Megan Pickett: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/27/megan-pickett-interview/
Jessica Mink: https://aas.org/comms/sgma/sgma-interviews-jessica-mink
Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/06/eliot-vrijmoet-interview
Wichahpi King: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/20/wichahpi-king-interview/
Dr. JJ/Jan Eldridge: https://500queerscientists.com/jj-eldridge/
Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/opinion/transgender-today/stories/rebecca-oppenheimer
Please feel free to share profiles of #trans astronomers and astrophysicists in the comments!
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What are the #Biggest #JWST #Discoveries so far? : Medium
Want to Use #AI as a #Career #Coach? Use These #Prompts. : HBR
Is the #Universe really #Infinite? #Astrophysicists explain. : Pop Sci
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…❛❛ In 1971, dozens of #astronomers & #astrophysicists convened in a conference room at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in #Armenia for the 1st joint #American & #Soviet conference on communicating with #ExtraterrestrialIntelligence. American & Soviet scientists had met independently to discuss the topic in the early 1960s ❜❜…
🔗 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/extraterrestrial-languages_daniel-oberhaus/20885525/
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI#Community #TimeTravel #Research #extraterrestrial #SETI #CarlSagan #ColdWar #IronCurtain
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@nemo
Actually, #thankyou. At @KronoMoon we want folks to consider the possibilities of #TimeTravel without making false promises or relying on spurious #research. The #truth is, many reputable #astrophysicists #think about #interdimensional #exploration and #wormholes all the time. They often conclude that it's too expensive or will take too many years. The probability is #nonzero. -
"#Astrophysicists in the #NanoGrav collaboration have found evidence for HUGE #gravitationalwaves that could be due to merging supermassive #blackholes. This was all possible due to pulsar timing arrays which triangulate the positions of pulsars across our galaxy to work out of the distances between them change due to a passing light year long #gravitationalwave!"
- Dr. Becky Smethurst, #astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church).
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New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (#JWST) reveal for the first time #galaxies with #stellar bars — elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks — at a time when the #universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our #MilkyWay, this early in the universe will require #astrophysicists to refine their #theories of galaxy #evolution.
#astronomy #astronomyresearch #astronomyatmastodon