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Looking into the Mirror of Life: Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Science News & Research for Good Observers, Summer & Fall of 2019

By Alex Wierbinski - Posted on 11 July 2019

ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS

&
Really Big and Really Small Scale Sciences
The Fundamental Nature of Reality Big to Small...

We follow Astro-physics and Science News for fun, because the Nature of Life itself is pretty darn entertaining on its own merits. Understanding the Nature and construction of our reality is a pragmatic move for all its "operators," but especially for backpacker's finding context in, and navigating the terrain to both ascertain & clarify our place in the Universe.

This is the amazing universe we are walking through.

Interestingly enough, we have to understand the fundamental nature of the motions & relationships within the Universe around us to find our precise position on this Earth, to understand our context within its Nature, and how we can or cannot fit perfectly into the greater Universe around us.

We follow science to better understand ourselves, what we are hiking through, and our choices along our journey.

Updated

October 30, 2019

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2019

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SUMMER & FALL
of
2019

FALL

Updated

October 30, 2019

ASTROPHYSICS

Measuring Distant Gravity through a Wormhole

How to Spot a Wormhole (if they exist,)
University at Buffalo, October 23, 2019.

Wormhole Perspectives

October 23, 2019

ASTROPHYSICS, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY

Let's Explore Some of the Strange, Complex Elements of Quantum Computing

Achieving Quantum Supremacy

October 21, 2019

ASTROPHYSICS, SOLAR SYSTEM, MARS

Gale Crater: Curiosity Rover & It's Mars Science Lab

Mars Once had Salt Lakes Similar to Earth

ASTROPHYSICS-ASTRONOMY-METEORS

Field Observations

Orionid Meteor Shower

October 17, 2019

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

Mars

Direct to Article
I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s,
Scientific American, October 10, 2019.

More
Life on Mars?

Oct 2018
Where’d the Martian Methane Come From? Is it Alive?

July 2018
Lake Mars Discovered by Italian Radar on Mars Express Probe

ASTROPHYSICS, SPACE, INTERSTELLAR COMET

Second Interstellar Comet Identified and Confirmed

Interstellar Comet with a Familiar Look

October 12, 2019

AXION HUNT

UPDATED

Dark Matter Search for Axions with Meta Metal Plasma Haloscopes

Direct to Research Notice
Physicists have Found a Way to 'Hear' Dark Matter,
Stockholm University, October 9, 2019.

Hunting the Elusive Dark Matter Particle

BLACK HOLE GALACTIC EFFECTS

UPDATED

Do They or Don't They?

Black Holes Don't Stunt Galaxy Star Formation, But Stifle Dwarf Galaxy Star Formation

Black Holes Stunt Growth of Dwarf Galaxies

October 7, 2019

ASTROPHYSICS IN AXION

Found

Direct to Article
Axion particle spotted in solid-state crystal,
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, October 7, 2019.

Related Research

Aug 2019
Axionic Approach to Dark Matter and The Elemental Universe

March 2019
Dark Matter Hunting in 2019: Fields in the Sky, Axions in the Fridge

Feb 2019
New Perspectives on the Hunt for Dark Matter Particles

October 5, 2019

ASTROPHYSICS: STAR FORMATION

New Binary Star Formation: A Cosmic Pretzel

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing, feeding with material from their surrounding birth disk. The complex network of dust structures distributed in spiral shapes remind of the loops of a pretzel. These observations shed new light on the earliest phases of the lives of stars and help astronomers determine the conditions in which binary stars are born, by ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alves et al.

Direct to Article
A Cosmic Pretzel,
ESO, October 4, 2019.

More
Old Stars
Pre-White Dwarf Red Giant & A Post-Red Giant Planetary Nebula.

October 3

ASTROPHYSICS: THE UNIVERSE

Computer Simulation of Galaxy Filiments

This is an image showing filaments in massive galaxy cluster using the C-EAGLE simulation, by Joshua Borrow using C-EAGLE.

Gossamer Threads Tying it All Together

Direct to Research Article
Massive filaments fuel the growth of galaxies and supermassive black holes,
RIKEN, October 3, 2019.

Direct to Research Note
Glowing Gas Reveals Faint Filaments of the Cosmic Web,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, October 3, 2019.

MAIN POINTS

"...report the detection of individual filaments of intergalactic gas spanning among young galaxies in a newly forming cluster - and fueling their growth. "These observations of the faintest, largest structures in the universe are a key to understanding how our Universe evolved through time, how galaxies grow and mature."

"Cosmological simulations predict that more than 60% of the hydrogen created during the Big Bang is distributed as long filaments, which thread through the intergalactic medium and form the so-called "cosmic web." Where these filaments cross, galaxies form and are fed by streams of cooling gas."

More

Galaxy filament
Wiki

The Galaxy
Trail Guide

September 26

ASTROPHYSICS: BLACK HOLE HUNGRY

Black Hole Eats Sun-Sized Star

NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Its 1st Star-Shredding Black Hole

ASTROPHYSICS, & THE NATURE OF REALITY

Black Hole Relativistic Accretion Disk Behavior

NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole's Warped World

FALL EQUINOX

September 23