#doublestar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #doublestar, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/779171/ EU bans Chinese bodies from critical tech programmes, including AI and chips #AI #biotechnology #CaoCong #China #ChineseSocietyOfSpaceResearch #DoubleStar #DukeUniversity #EU #Europe #European #HorizonEurope #JoyZhang #Nature #Ningbo #QuincyInstitute #SMILESatellite #WuJi
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“A political figure is not a single man, so I was learning, but a compatible team. If Bonforte himself had not been a decent sort he would not have had these people around him.” —Robert Heinlein, Double Star, 1956
That seems like a timeless truth. Definitely relevant this November.
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“It seems to me that every time those scientific laddies get busy with their slide rules life becomes more complicated. What was wrong with things the way they were?” —Robert Heinlein, Double Star, 1956
Predicting atomic rockets in the future, but not the electronic calculator or pocket computers. 😁
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“Nobody could accuse me of race prejudice. I didn't care what a man's color, race, or religion was. But men were men, whereas Martians were things. They weren't even animals to my way of thinking. I’d rather have had a wart hog around me any day. Permitting them in restaurants and bars used by men struck me as outrageous. But there was the Treaty, of course, so what could I do?” —Robert Heinlein, Double Star 1956
Real “I’m not racist but…” vibes.
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Kappa Herculis (Marsic)
This is a lovely, easy-to-split yellow-and-garnet-red double star. Despite their appearance, the two stars are not physically associated. The brighter 5th magnitude component of this optical double is 390 light years away, while the fainter 6th magnitude star is 470 light years distant.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #doublestar #hercules
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M40 Winnecke 4
Magnitude 10.11 optical double star located in the constellation Ursa Major. The pair was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 while searching for a reported nebula. The two stars, HD 238107 and HD 238108, are at distances of 1,013 light-years and 470 light-years respectively.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m40 #doublestar #ursamajor #messier #messiermarathon