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🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 2026-10-07
A star caught in the act of slowly devouring a brown dwarf, only 300 light years away?! This is like watching cosmic digestion in real time 🌌 Absolutely wild that we can witness stellar snack time this close to home!
🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 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* 🔭💥 The galactic center never stops surprising us!
🔗 https://freeyork.org/technology/sagittarius-a-east-advanced-x-ray/
Planets usually circle their stars in detached form without any issues. Sometimes the planet gets too close, and the star pulls it in and quickly swallows it whole. Now, for the first time, scientists have spotted a star that seems content to just nibble on its planetary meal, one that could take billions of years to digest. Phys.org reports:
Erst am allerletzten Abend in Dänemark präsentierte sich die Milchstraße kurz in ihrer vollen Pracht. Die Tage davor war es entweder bewölkt oder das Mondlicht hat die zarten Strukturen überstrahlt.
Weil bestimmt wieder die Nachfrage kommt hier auch gleich die technischen Daten:
OM-3 mit PanaLeica 9/1,7
Blende 1.8, ISO 12800, 10 Sekunden
Bortle 2 / Bortle 4 (je nach Quelle)
#Fotomontag #Astrodon #Milchstraße #milkyway #Nachthimmel #nightsky
🌌 oddquark // Cosmos Watch — 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 🌌 Predicting what JWST/Hubble would actually see back then is mind-bending stuff!
🔗 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 that’ll do it for me this evening. I will knock it off and tune back in early in the morning. #HamRadio #MilkyWay