Marshall Eubanks

@TMEubanks@astrodon.social
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Asteroid 6696

@IanDSmith

The road to serfdom makes people anxious.

@fraser

Sounds like a binary compact object pair to me. (Two neutron stars?)

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre new pulsar-like object that's throwing out regular bursts of radio waves every 44 minutes. Totally normal, long-period pulsar behavior. But observations from Chandra show that it's also releasing a blast of X-rays every 44 minutes as well. The astronomers also found that the amount of both radio waves and X-rays has been decreasing over the course of six months. Is this a totally new type of object?

https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/25_releases/press_052825.html/

Astronomers have observed Jupiter's moon Europa with JWST and discovered that its icy surface is constantly changing, crystallizing at different rates in different places. There are two broad types of ice, crystalline and amorphous, and the researchers found that these are mixed up together, especially in regions with cracks, ridges, and plains jumbled up. This suggests that water is bubbling up from the interior, pushed by geologic processes.

https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-scientists-contribute-uncovering-ongoing-surface-modification-jupiter-s-moon-europa

Moon Missions: Five Lunar Landers in 2025?

Moon Missions: Five Lunar Landers in 2025?

@_L1vY_

The writer of this article seems to be hyperventilating - the Russians (and Soviets before them) have exercised their treaty rights under the Treaty of Spitsbergen / Svalbard since (IIRC) the 1920s by mining coal, now in the Russian settlement of Barentsburg (probably more for having a listening post there than for the coal itself). From what I hear, this unusual relationship (Svalbard is Norwegian, but not part of Norway proper) works pretty well.

Note, also, that plans to establish a research center in the abandoned Russian (coal-mining) settlement of Pyramidenand with BRICS participation is entirely allowed under the treaty,

Starship breaks up on reentry after loss of attitude control

SpaceX’s Starship suffered a loss of attitude control after reaching space on its latest test flight May 27, leading to an uncontrolled reentry and a third consecutive failure.

https://spacenews.com/starship-breaks-up-on-reentry-after-loss-of-attitude-control/

Starship breaks up on reentry after loss of attitude control

SpaceX’s Starship suffered a loss of attitude control after reaching space on its latest test flight May 27, leading to an uncontrolled reentry.

SpaceNews

@mitch

That trick is about 20 years old.

@wampusmm

And if that it iterated infinitely many times?