📚🔭 I'm about to be on Science Friday talking about the end of the Universe! The interview (which was recorded in 2020) airs in about 10 minutes, around 3:40pm Eastern. And my book is the SciFri Book Club pick for April! More info / listen here: https://www.sciencefriday.com/sf-books/the-end-of-everything/
Katie Mack
@AstroKatie
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@marijevh @AstroKatie How cool!
You can read more about the image above here https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/cena/ and browse the Chandra photo gallery to see some of the other incredible images and science the Chandra Observatory has brought us. #SaveChandra
Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of the most extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends prematurely for budget reasons. Go to https://www.savechandra.org/ to find out how to help #SaveChandra
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Ask Congress to #SaveChandra! | The Chandra X-ray Observatory, one of NASA's last Great Observatories, has revolutionized our understanding of the Universe and inspired a new generation of explorers. It is now under threat of cancellation for budgetary reasons, even as it delivers best-of-missi
johanna, at the cafe counterHey there Wandering.shop regulars … @AstroKatie over on her Bsky account has a “can anyone find me the title/author of this story… “ question and allowed me to share her request over here.
https://bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3knta6oj2gt2y
Does this ring a bell for any of you hardcore SF&F writers/readers?
Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com)
The gist is in this future there is faster-than-light communication. Two people are sending messages while one is on a rocket. Because of FTL comms, the traveler can learn the future of the one staying home. Messages are censored but traveler sends message in code to save other from car crash.
St. Chris“I want to make it mean something to you. That you are in the cosmos. That you are of the cosmos.”
@AstroKatie has written (and spoken) how I experience the universe, how I want everyone to experience the universe.
…five years ago, so I’m late to the party. But thank you, Katie. It’s timeless.
https://sciences.ncsu.edu/news/disorientation-a-science-poem-by-katie-mack/
@nickkohrn Thank you!! 😊
@aeva Good question! Main way is to use patterns of known absorption or emission lines. They’ll get shifted to longer wavelengths but will appear at the same places relative to each other in the spectrum
@nick_appleyard Nah nothing like that. At worst, it would require altering the expansion rate in the early universe somehow
@[email protected] @badastro Thank you!