Since the sun is also moving, this is a better representation of how the planets revolve around the sun. pic.twitter.com/2GkP4rLSSO
— Roberto A. González (@robertoglezcano) March 4, 2017
Tag Archives: Space
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The amount of water on Europa compared to Earth… pic.twitter.com/6vnV5Pq6Rg
— Space Snaps (@EducationalPics) December 10, 2016
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'The Cosmic Call' Earth primer for extraterrestrials, sent to Cygnus and Sagitta constellations in 1999 ~ annotated: https://t.co/f5ExPI0YDx pic.twitter.com/cwYR3fKYwY
— ▇▇▇A▇▇▇▇▇▇I▇ (@InfiniteSynths) December 1, 2016
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This is how Jupiter 'shepherds' the asteroid belt, preventing asteroids from falling into the sun or hitting planets pic.twitter.com/mU2nZolEnf
— SciTech & Space News (@worldofscitech) September 22, 2016
Underlinings (#63)
Bezos and his enemies:
“Competition is super healthy … Great industries are never made by single companies. And space is really big. There is room for a lot of winners … At Blue Origin, our biggest opponent is gravity. The physics of this problem are challenging enough … Gravity is not watching us and saying, ‘Uh-oh those Blue Origin guys are getting really good, I’m going to have increase my gravitational constant.’ Gravity doesn’t care about us at all.”
Island Universes
Before we move on to what we don’t know about [cosmological] inflation, there are a few things we do know that are worth mentioning.
1. Inflation isn’t like a ball — which is a classical field — but is rather like a wave that spreads out over time, like a quantum field.
2. This means that, as time goes on and more-and-more space gets created due to inflation, certain regions, probabilistically, are going to be more likely to see inflation come to an end, while others will be more likely to see inflation continue.
3. The regions where inflation ends will give rise to a Big Bang and a Universe like ours, while the regions where it doesn’t will continue to inflate for longer.
4. As time goes on, because of the dynamics of expansion, no two regions where inflation ends will ever interact or collide; the regions where inflation doesn’t end will expand between them, pushing them apart.
(This only gets us to Tegmark Level 1.)
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Plutonism:
Shiver at the coincidence. Pluto is exactly the size of the Earth's core. https://t.co/HCZ69HadWP
pic.twitter.com/qIybbuIDa0— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) March 18, 2016
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In case anyone missed this:
A budding scientist’s dreams are crushed. pic.twitter.com/JmvYMlvsfJ
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 19, 2016