Sending life to the stars
Reposting with an update
Interesting article from Science daily on Sending life to the stars. Looks like we are getting closer to being able to propel objects to near to the speed of light.
Granted this research they are looking at 20-30% but this is a big step forward.
Original Mastodon post
Happy do discuss on Mastodon, Discourse or at the Paignton Library STEM Group meetings.
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#Space,#Travel,#ScienceDaily,#PaigntonLibrarySTEMGroup
Citation
University of California - Santa Barbara. "Sending life to the stars: Scientists contemplate launching tiny lifeforms into interstellar space." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 January 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220106133257.htm>.
Related (or seems to be) article from Biorxiv – Nematodes can survive in a suspended form of life for indefinite time
Lots of life which can survive in very harsh conditions.
The Webb Space Telescope: Launching a Legacy
This is the December public lecture from the Space Telescope
Science Institute
Location: Online Attendance Only
Date ; December 7th 2021
Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM *
Links
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#Science,#Space,#stsci,#Telescope,#Astronomy,#JamesWebb,#Webb
Astronomy Dec 2021
There are some really good resources out there for Amateur and professional astronomy enthusiasts. Two such websites are listed below.
I have also linked in the tags below so those links should bring up previous posts on this topic.
Skymaps provides a downloadable map, along with monthly events list and also a list of what can be seen, along with the distance to these objects.
Links
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#Astronomy,#Space,#Stellarium,#kstars
Where did the big bang happen
Another video from OpenScience videos
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Fedi Id's
Open Science : opensciencevids@tilvids.com (Mastodon)
* OpenScience videos
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#Science,#Physics,#Astronomy,#BigBang,#Universe,#Beginning,#OpenScience,#education,#Fermilab,#Physics,#science,#space
Astronomy Nov 2021
There are some really good resources out there for Amateur and professional astronomy enthusiasts. Two such websites are listed below.
I have also linked in the tags below so those links should bring up previous posts on this topic.
Skymaps provides a downloadable map, along with monthly events list and also a list of what can be seen, along with the distance to these objects.
Links
Tags
#Astronomy,#Space,#Stellarium,#kstars
From Venice to the edge of the Universe
Interesting video from the European space agency. This was posted to Mastodon so I am sharing here.
A video produced for the Hubble traveling exhibition Our Place in Space in 2017, zooms from Venice out through the Solar System, the Milky Way, the Local Group and into the cosmic web
4 minute video
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#Video, #Space, #ESA,
How Dark is space
This is the October public lecture from the Space Telescope
Science Institute
Location: Online Attendance Only
Date ;October 5 2021
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Links
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#Science,#Space,#stsci,#Telescope,#Astronomy,#Astrology
Astrology versus Astronomy: What's the Difference, Really?
This is the September public lecture from the Space Telescope
Science Institute
Location: Online Attendance Only
Date ; September 7 2021
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Links
Tags
#Science,#Space,#stsci,#Telescope,#Astronomy,#Astrology
Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity?
Another interesting item posted to Mastodon
Artificial gravity for spaceflight is a concept older than spaceflight itself, but we've only ever seen one small scale test ever flown in space. However decades of research have been performed to show that the human body can adapt to the conditions required for rotating artificial gravity.
There is a video on youtube, along with a discussion on Mastodon. Links below.
Video here
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#Science,#Space,#Artificial,#Gravity
