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π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-06
A hidden supernova remnant tucked right next to Sagittarius A*?! X-ray astronomers peering through the chaos at our galaxy's core to find this is just *chef's kiss* ππ₯ The galactic center never stops surprising us!
π https://freeyork.org/technology/sagittarius-a-east-advanced-x-ray/
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-05
WHOA. New simulations suggest our Milky Way didn't start as one proto-galaxy but as THOUSANDS of tiny starless clumps merging at cosmic dawn π Predicting what JWST/Hubble would actually see back then is mind-bending stuff!
π https://phys.org/news/2026-09-milky-begun-thousands-galaxies-simulations.html
The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of California. #SorryTexas Anyway I now have 194 contacts and 46 multipliers including about eight different California counties. I think thatβll do it for me this evening. I will knock it off and tune back in early in the morning. #HamRadio #MilkyWay
π oddquark // Cosmos Watch β 2026-10-04
Supermassive black holes wielding plasma jets like cosmic murder weapons to shut down star formation in their own host galaxies?! π€― The universe really said 'grow fast, die beautifully' and I am HERE for this galactic drama πβ¨
"City of Stars, Are You Shining Just For Me?"...on the Lost Coast it almost seems so, when you just walk out of a house in the middle of town in the evening and see a sky like this. Captured by me on an iPhone...no edits made (or needed).
#art #photography #sky #skyscape #nightsky #WestCoast #PacificCoast #California #AmericanWest #MilkyWay #stars #galaxy
Crispy views this morning in Ohio!
#astronomy
#moon
#saturn
#milkyway
#nature
#astrophography
#photography
#smartphoneastronomy
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