#spaceandastronomy — Public Fediverse posts

The Navy’s Supply Chain Struggle, and Trump’s Unusual Oil Deal in Venezuela

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An Army of Robot Telescopes in Texas Makes the Stars Feel Closer Than Ever - Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes an... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/science/starfront-observatories-remote-astronomy.html #telescopesandobservatories #computersandtheinternet #starfrontobservatories #remotecontrolsystems #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #rockwoodtexas #photography

How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery - The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/science/vera-rubin-telescope-data.html #nationaloptical-infraredastronomyresearchlaboratory #data-mininganddatabasemarketing #largesynopticsurveytelescope #nationalsciencefoundation #computersandtheinternet #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #cloudcomputing #datastorage

Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time - For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Mus... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/science/astronomy-planetarium-amnh-carter-emmart.html #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #americanmuseumofnaturalhistory #contenttype:personalprofile #telescopesandobservatories #spaceandastronomy #haydenplanetarium #starsandgalaxies #milkywaygalaxy #supercomputers #carteremmart #solarsystem #projectors

How Astronomers Are Saving Astronomy From Satellites — For Now - Even the most powerful telescopes are in peril as orbits above Earth fill with thousands ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/science/astronomy-telescopes-satellites-spacex-starlink.html #harvard-smithsoniancenterforastrophysics #starlinksatelliteconstellation(spacex) #nationalsciencefoundation #scienceandtechnology #rubinvera(1928-2016) #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #satellites #muskelon

A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky - Astronomers warn that BlueWalker3, a test spacecraft with a large array of antennas, coul... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/bluewalker3-ast-spacemobile-astronomy.html #telescopesandobservatories #wirelesscommunications #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #nature(journal) #astspacemobile #satellites #research

How Long Is the Drive to the Edge of the Universe? - See you in a quadrillion years or so. Don’t forget to pack zillions of tons of snacks! - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-universe-driving.html #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies #solarsystem #mathematics

Has the Milky Way’s Black Hole Come to Light? - The Event Horizon Telescope reaches again for a glimpse of the “unseeable.” - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.html #telescopesandobservatories #eventhorizontelescope #spaceandastronomy #blackholes(space) #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies #milkywaygalaxy #sagittariusa*

Hear the Weird Sounds of a Black Hole Singing - As part of an effort to “sonify” the cosmos, researchers have converted the pressure wave... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/science/space/astronomy-black-hole-sound.html #gravitationandgravity #spaceandastronomy #blackholes(space) #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies #music

Webb Telescope Approaches Launch, With an Eye Toward Cosmic Origins - The biggest space telescope in history aims to answer astronomy’s oldest question: How di... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/science/webb-telescope-astronomy.html #telescopesandobservatories #jameswebbspacetelescope #scienceandtechnology #hubblespacetelescope #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #blackholes(space) #starsandgalaxies #hubbleconstant #freedmanwendyl #frenchguiana #planets #physics

A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos - On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/science/astronomy-decadal-survey-telescope.html #nationalacademiesofsciencesengineeringandmedicine #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #telescopesandobservatories #jameswebbspacetelescope #spaceandastronomy #blackholes(space) #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies #atacamadesert #canaryislands #unitedstates #europe

The Webb Telescope’s Latest Stumbling Block: Its Name - The long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in Decemb... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/science/webb-telescope-astronomy-homophobia.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #telescopesandobservatories #jameswebbspacetelescope #prescod-weinsteinchanda #hubblespacetelescope #namesorganizational #spaceandastronomy #nelsonbill(1942-) #walkowiczlucianne #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies

Will the Next Space-Weather Season Be Stormy or Fair? - As another 11-year cycle of solar activity begins, scientists debate how violent our stel... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/science/astronomy-sun-space-weather.html #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #starsandgalaxies #solarsystem #radiation #planets #weather #earth #sun

Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake - A neutrino-spotting telescope beneath Russia’s frozen Lake Baikal in Russia is close to delivering... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/science/neutrinos-lake-baikal.html #telescopesandobservatories #domogatskigrigoriv. #lakebaikal(russia) #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #neutrinos #research #physics #siberia #russia #ice

OneWeb’s Launch of 34 Satellites Adds to Astronomers’ Fears for Night Skies - Like SpaceX, the company aims to build a constellation of internet satellites, but its orbiters co... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/science/oneweb-launch.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #regulationandderegulationofindustry #nationalradioastronomyobservatory #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #federalcommunicationscommission #telescopesandobservatories #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies

Europe’s Cheops Satellite Will Try to Launch Again - Follow the launch of the world’s newest orbiting telescope, which will search for habitable worlds... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/science/cheops-satellite-launch.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #rocketscienceandpropulsion #telescopesandobservatories #extraterrestriallife #europeanspaceagency #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #frenchguiana #arianespace #research #planets #cheops

Europe’s Cheops Satellite Will Scour Space for Habitable Planets - Follow the launch of the world’s newest orbiting telescope. more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/science/cheops-satellite-exoplanet.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #telescopesandobservatories #rocketscienceandpropulsion #extraterrestriallife #europeanspaceagency #spaceandastronomy #starsandgalaxies #satellites #planets #cheops