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  1. Ganymede Global Geologic Map and Global Image Mosaic

    To present the best information in a single view of Jupiter moon Ganymede, a global image mosaic was assembled, incorporating the best available imagery from NASA Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and NASA Galileo spacecraft.

    More: images.nasa.gov/details/PIA179
    Credit: USGS Astrogeology Science Center/Wheaton/NASA/JPL-Caltech

    #ganymede #voyager #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics

  2. Durchbruch auf dem Weg zur hochpräzisen Vorhersage von Gravitationswellen-Signalen

    Im kommenden Jahrzehnt werden neue Gravitationswellen-Observatorien auf der Erde und im All den Betrieb aufnehmen. Sie werden viel empfindlicher als die heutigen sein und die Signale deutlich detailreicher beobachten.

    Die Verfahren zur Berechnung der erwarteten Signale müssen rund 100-mal genauer als die heute verfügbaren werden, um das volle Potenzial der neuen Observatorien auszuschöpfen.

    Forschenden am @mpi_grav gelang nun gemeinsam mit internationalen Kolleg*innen der schwierigste Schritt auf dem Weg zu präziseren analytischen Modellen. Sie verbesserten Methoden der Teilchenphysik, mit denen Vorhersagen mit einer bisher unerreichten Genauigkeit unter den vier Naturkräften erzielt wurden.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499750/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  3. Durchbruch auf dem Weg zur hochpräzisen Vorhersage von Gravitationswellen-Signalen

    Im kommenden Jahrzehnt werden neue Gravitationswellen-Observatorien auf der Erde und im All den Betrieb aufnehmen. Sie werden viel empfindlicher als die heutigen sein und die Signale deutlich detailreicher beobachten.

    Die Verfahren zur Berechnung der erwarteten Signale müssen rund 100-mal genauer als die heute verfügbaren werden, um das volle Potenzial der neuen Observatorien auszuschöpfen.

    Forschenden am @mpi_grav gelang nun gemeinsam mit internationalen Kolleg*innen der schwierigste Schritt auf dem Weg zu präziseren analytischen Modellen. Sie verbesserten Methoden der Teilchenphysik, mit denen Vorhersagen mit einer bisher unerreichten Genauigkeit unter den vier Naturkräften erzielt wurden.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499750/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  4. Durchbruch auf dem Weg zur hochpräzisen Vorhersage von Gravitationswellen-Signalen

    Im kommenden Jahrzehnt werden neue Gravitationswellen-Observatorien auf der Erde und im All den Betrieb aufnehmen. Sie werden viel empfindlicher als die heutigen sein und die Signale deutlich detailreicher beobachten.

    Die Verfahren zur Berechnung der erwarteten Signale müssen rund 100-mal genauer als die heute verfügbaren werden, um das volle Potenzial der neuen Observatorien auszuschöpfen.

    Forschenden am @mpi_grav gelang nun gemeinsam mit internationalen Kolleg*innen der schwierigste Schritt auf dem Weg zu präziseren analytischen Modellen. Sie verbesserten Methoden der Teilchenphysik, mit denen Vorhersagen mit einer bisher unerreichten Genauigkeit unter den vier Naturkräften erzielt wurden.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499750/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  5. Durchbruch auf dem Weg zur hochpräzisen Vorhersage von Gravitationswellen-Signalen

    Im kommenden Jahrzehnt werden neue Gravitationswellen-Observatorien auf der Erde und im All den Betrieb aufnehmen. Sie werden viel empfindlicher als die heutigen sein und die Signale deutlich detailreicher beobachten.

    Die Verfahren zur Berechnung der erwarteten Signale müssen rund 100-mal genauer als die heute verfügbaren werden, um das volle Potenzial der neuen Observatorien auszuschöpfen.

    Forschenden am @mpi_grav gelang nun gemeinsam mit internationalen Kolleg*innen der schwierigste Schritt auf dem Weg zu präziseren analytischen Modellen. Sie verbesserten Methoden der Teilchenphysik, mit denen Vorhersagen mit einer bisher unerreichten Genauigkeit unter den vier Naturkräften erzielt wurden.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499750/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  6. Durchbruch auf dem Weg zur hochpräzisen Vorhersage von Gravitationswellen-Signalen

    Im kommenden Jahrzehnt werden neue Gravitationswellen-Observatorien auf der Erde und im All den Betrieb aufnehmen. Sie werden viel empfindlicher als die heutigen sein und die Signale deutlich detailreicher beobachten.

    Die Verfahren zur Berechnung der erwarteten Signale müssen rund 100-mal genauer als die heute verfügbaren werden, um das volle Potenzial der neuen Observatorien auszuschöpfen.

    Forschenden am @mpi_grav gelang nun gemeinsam mit internationalen Kolleg*innen der schwierigste Schritt auf dem Weg zu präziseren analytischen Modellen. Sie verbesserten Methoden der Teilchenphysik, mit denen Vorhersagen mit einer bisher unerreichten Genauigkeit unter den vier Naturkräften erzielt wurden.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499750/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  7. Breakthrough on the path to highly accurate prediction of gravitational-wave signals

    Over the next decade, new gravitational-wave observatories on Earth and in space will begin operations. They will be much more sensitive than current detectors and will observe signals in much greater detail.

    The methods used to calculate the expected signals must be about 100 times more accurate than the current models in order to exploit the full potential of the new observatories.

    @mpi_grav researchers, together with international colleagues, have now taken the most difficult step towards new, more precise analytical waveform models. They have improved methods from particle physics, enabling predictions to be made with unprecedented precision across the four fundamental forces.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499663/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  8. Breakthrough on the path to highly accurate prediction of gravitational-wave signals

    Over the next decade, new gravitational-wave observatories on Earth and in space will begin operations. They will be much more sensitive than current detectors and will observe signals in much greater detail.

    The methods used to calculate the expected signals must be about 100 times more accurate than the current models in order to exploit the full potential of the new observatories.

    @mpi_grav researchers, together with international colleagues, have now taken the most difficult step towards new, more precise analytical waveform models. They have improved methods from particle physics, enabling predictions to be made with unprecedented precision across the four fundamental forces.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499663/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  9. Breakthrough on the path to highly accurate prediction of gravitational-wave signals

    Over the next decade, new gravitational-wave observatories on Earth and in space will begin operations. They will be much more sensitive than current detectors and will observe signals in much greater detail.

    The methods used to calculate the expected signals must be about 100 times more accurate than the current models in order to exploit the full potential of the new observatories.

    @mpi_grav researchers, together with international colleagues, have now taken the most difficult step towards new, more precise analytical waveform models. They have improved methods from particle physics, enabling predictions to be made with unprecedented precision across the four fundamental forces.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499663/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  10. Breakthrough on the path to highly accurate prediction of gravitational-wave signals

    Over the next decade, new gravitational-wave observatories on Earth and in space will begin operations. They will be much more sensitive than current detectors and will observe signals in much greater detail.

    The methods used to calculate the expected signals must be about 100 times more accurate than the current models in order to exploit the full potential of the new observatories.

    @mpi_grav researchers, together with international colleagues, have now taken the most difficult step towards new, more precise analytical waveform models. They have improved methods from particle physics, enabling predictions to be made with unprecedented precision across the four fundamental forces.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499663/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  11. Breakthrough on the path to highly accurate prediction of gravitational-wave signals

    Over the next decade, new gravitational-wave observatories on Earth and in space will begin operations. They will be much more sensitive than current detectors and will observe signals in much greater detail.

    The methods used to calculate the expected signals must be about 100 times more accurate than the current models in order to exploit the full potential of the new observatories.

    @mpi_grav researchers, together with international colleagues, have now taken the most difficult step towards new, more precise analytical waveform models. They have improved methods from particle physics, enabling predictions to be made with unprecedented precision across the four fundamental forces.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1499663/more-precis

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Pic: R. Patil (@mpi_grav); James Webb Space Telescope, ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer

    #EinsteinTelescope #LISAMission #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics

  12. The Hubble Variable Nebula, designated NGC 2261, serves as a significant astrophysical subject for studying the dynamics of star formation. Located in the constellation Monoceros, this reflection nebula is illuminated by the young star R Monocerotis. Its distinctive variability is not caused by the star itself, but by shadows cast from dense, rotating clouds of opaque dust near the stellar surface, causing the nebula to shift in brightness and structure over short timescales. Observing these fluctuations provides researchers with critical data regarding the evolution of protoplanetary environments and the complex interactions between newborn stars and their surrounding interstellar media. #Astronomy #Astrophysics #NASA #NGC2261 #SpaceScience

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  13. The Hubble Variable Nebula, designated NGC 2261, serves as a significant astrophysical subject for studying the dynamics of star formation. Located in the constellation Monoceros, this reflection nebula is illuminated by the young star R Monocerotis. Its distinctive variability is not caused by the star itself, but by shadows cast from dense, rotating clouds of opaque dust near the stellar surface, causing the nebula to shift in brightness and structure over short timescales. Observing these fluctuations provides researchers with critical data regarding the evolution of protoplanetary environments and the complex interactions between newborn stars and their surrounding interstellar media. #Astronomy #Astrophysics #NASA #NGC2261 #SpaceScience

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  14. The Hubble Variable Nebula, designated NGC 2261, serves as a significant astrophysical subject for studying the dynamics of star formation. Located in the constellation Monoceros, this reflection nebula is illuminated by the young star R Monocerotis. Its distinctive variability is not caused by the star itself, but by shadows cast from dense, rotating clouds of opaque dust near the stellar surface, causing the nebula to shift in brightness and structure over short timescales. Observing these fluctuations provides researchers with critical data regarding the evolution of protoplanetary environments and the complex interactions between newborn stars and their surrounding interstellar media. #Astronomy #Astrophysics #NASA #NGC2261 #SpaceScience

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  15. The Hubble Variable Nebula, designated NGC 2261, serves as a significant astrophysical subject for studying the dynamics of star formation. Located in the constellation Monoceros, this reflection nebula is illuminated by the young star R Monocerotis. Its distinctive variability is not caused by the star itself, but by shadows cast from dense, rotating clouds of opaque dust near the stellar surface, causing the nebula to shift in brightness and structure over short timescales. Observing these fluctuations provides researchers with critical data regarding the evolution of protoplanetary environments and the complex interactions between newborn stars and their surrounding interstellar media. #Astronomy #Astrophysics #NASA #NGC2261 #SpaceScience

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  16. The Hubble Variable Nebula, designated NGC 2261, serves as a significant astrophysical subject for studying the dynamics of star formation. Located in the constellation Monoceros, this reflection nebula is illuminated by the young star R Monocerotis. Its distinctive variability is not caused by the star itself, but by shadows cast from dense, rotating clouds of opaque dust near the stellar surface, causing the nebula to shift in brightness and structure over short timescales. Observing these fluctuations provides researchers with critical data regarding the evolution of protoplanetary environments and the complex interactions between newborn stars and their surrounding interstellar media. #Astronomy #Astrophysics #NASA #NGC2261 #SpaceScience

    #astronomy #astrophysics #nasa

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  17. A "born-again" star is a dead star, typically on its way to becoming a white dwarf, that temporarily re-ignites due to a rare late thermal pulse and resumes active evolution.
    #Astronomy #Astrophysics #StellarEvolution #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/astr0916260

  18. A "born-again" star is a dead star, typically on its way to becoming a white dwarf, that temporarily re-ignites due to a rare late thermal pulse and resumes active evolution.
    #Astronomy #Astrophysics #StellarEvolution #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/astr0916260

  19. A "born-again" star is a dead star, typically on its way to becoming a white dwarf, that temporarily re-ignites due to a rare late thermal pulse and resumes active evolution.
    #Astronomy #Astrophysics #StellarEvolution #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/astr0916260

  20. A "born-again" star is a dead star, typically on its way to becoming a white dwarf, that temporarily re-ignites due to a rare late thermal pulse and resumes active evolution.
    #Astronomy #Astrophysics #StellarEvolution #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/astr0916260

  21. A "born-again" star is a dead star, typically on its way to becoming a white dwarf, that temporarily re-ignites due to a rare late thermal pulse and resumes active evolution.
    #Astronomy #Astrophysics #StellarEvolution #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/astr0916260

  22. Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS represents a significant case study in cometary fragmentation and volatile activity. Originally discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, this celestial object displayed a dramatic increase in brightness followed by a rapid structural disintegration as it approached perihelion. Observations of such events provide astronomers with critical data regarding the internal composition of cometary nuclei and the evolutionary processes of Oort cloud objects entering the inner solar system. Analysis of these fragments enhances our understanding of the distribution of frozen gases and dust that characterize early solar system materials.

    #space #astronomy #astrophysics

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  23. Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS represents a significant case study in cometary fragmentation and volatile activity. Originally discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, this celestial object displayed a dramatic increase in brightness followed by a rapid structural disintegration as it approached perihelion. Observations of such events provide astronomers with critical data regarding the internal composition of cometary nuclei and the evolutionary processes of Oort cloud objects entering the inner solar system. Analysis of these fragments enhances our understanding of the distribution of frozen gases and dust that characterize early solar system materials.

    #space #astronomy #astrophysics

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  24. Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS represents a significant case study in cometary fragmentation and volatile activity. Originally discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, this celestial object displayed a dramatic increase in brightness followed by a rapid structural disintegration as it approached perihelion. Observations of such events provide astronomers with critical data regarding the internal composition of cometary nuclei and the evolutionary processes of Oort cloud objects entering the inner solar system. Analysis of these fragments enhances our understanding of the distribution of frozen gases and dust that characterize early solar system materials.

    #space #astronomy #astrophysics

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  25. Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS represents a significant case study in cometary fragmentation and volatile activity. Originally discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, this celestial object displayed a dramatic increase in brightness followed by a rapid structural disintegration as it approached perihelion. Observations of such events provide astronomers with critical data regarding the internal composition of cometary nuclei and the evolutionary processes of Oort cloud objects entering the inner solar system. Analysis of these fragments enhances our understanding of the distribution of frozen gases and dust that characterize early solar system materials.

    #space #astronomy #astrophysics

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  26. Comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS represents a significant case study in cometary fragmentation and volatile activity. Originally discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, this celestial object displayed a dramatic increase in brightness followed by a rapid structural disintegration as it approached perihelion. Observations of such events provide astronomers with critical data regarding the internal composition of cometary nuclei and the evolutionary processes of Oort cloud objects entering the inner solar system. Analysis of these fragments enhances our understanding of the distribution of frozen gases and dust that characterize early solar system materials.

    #space #astronomy #astrophysics

    @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #space #science #nasa #astronomy
  27. @AnaVinuela
    Hi, academic in #astrophysics here. Idk, it's a suggestion I was given a lot when I started, which I am almost consistently ignoring getting senior.
    I guess the point is to give a structure and some expectation about where you want to go to non-experts in the audience (students etc).
    For conferences where only experts are, I find it incredibly boring. The sweet spot is maybe a minimal 30second slide with the outline, in an informative way?

  28. @AnaVinuela
    Hi, academic in #astrophysics here. Idk, it's a suggestion I was given a lot when I started, which I am almost consistently ignoring getting senior.
    I guess the point is to give a structure and some expectation about where you want to go to non-experts in the audience (students etc).
    For conferences where only experts are, I find it incredibly boring. The sweet spot is maybe a minimal 30second slide with the outline, in an informative way?

  29. @AnaVinuela
    Hi, academic in #astrophysics here. Idk, it's a suggestion I was given a lot when I started, which I am almost consistently ignoring getting senior.
    I guess the point is to give a structure and some expectation about where you want to go to non-experts in the audience (students etc).
    For conferences where only experts are, I find it incredibly boring. The sweet spot is maybe a minimal 30second slide with the outline, in an informative way?

  30. @AnaVinuela
    Hi, academic in #astrophysics here. Idk, it's a suggestion I was given a lot when I started, which I am almost consistently ignoring getting senior.
    I guess the point is to give a structure and some expectation about where you want to go to non-experts in the audience (students etc).
    For conferences where only experts are, I find it incredibly boring. The sweet spot is maybe a minimal 30second slide with the outline, in an informative way?

  31. @AnaVinuela
    Hi, academic in #astrophysics here. Idk, it's a suggestion I was given a lot when I started, which I am almost consistently ignoring getting senior.
    I guess the point is to give a structure and some expectation about where you want to go to non-experts in the audience (students etc).
    For conferences where only experts are, I find it incredibly boring. The sweet spot is maybe a minimal 30second slide with the outline, in an informative way?