Ongoing important Science news thread

[surferguy]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

They way they were talking about it the past few days I had hoped we'd get something better than an orange smudge.

I dunno - kinda looks like it could be a wolf.

[Fuzz]

Somebody get those scientists a new potato.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I dunno - kinda looks like it could be a wolf.

Eye of Sauron.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Nyah

The first ever photo of a black hole was released today:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1115964886687854593

There's a number of live streams happening on YouTube right now regarding this. Here's a BBC article.



https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873592

The first “smudge” taken of Pluto was in 1996, and 19 years later we had an HD image.

This is amazing news.

[Fuzz]

Pretty sure we won't be doing a flyby of a black hole Any time soon.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Pretty sure we won't be doing a flyby of a black hole Any time soon.

[Muffins]

This video helps explain what we're seeing in the picture.

[FLAMESRULE]

And this video is his description of the actual M87 pics and how they got the pics...truly amazing and mind bending!

[photon]

So radio telescope on the moon next to get a better picture?

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Rando

Apologies if this isn't the proper thread, thought it was on topic.



Only watch if you have the full 30 minutes, truly amazing. Filmmaker creates time lapse of the universe. Such sources and voices heard throughout include David Attenborough, Craig Childs, Brian Cox , Neil deGrasse Tyson, Janna Levin and others.

Anything with David Attenborough,Brian Cox and Neil Tyson in it is significant, the others in this are very important.

[OMG!WTF!]

td near me

[Fuzz]

[Red Slinger]

Could this be the long, sought-after origin of the Universe?

[OMG!WTF!]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/asia/...ntl/index.html

On Tuesday, the official, verified Twitter account of the Indian Army's Additional Directorate General of Public Information tweeted a picture of what it claimed were Yeti tracks in the snow. "For the first time, an Indian Army mountaineering expedition team has sited (sic) mysterious footprints of mythical beast Yeti,"

[CaptainCrunch]

I saw that this morning on my twitter alerts and was debating posting it or not. It just might be an enormous fat guy walking to the store.

[CaptainCrunch]

https://twitter.com/user/status/122949373745221633

[OMG!WTF!]

Looks kind of like a fat guy with one leg. But I really want to believe.

[Robbob]

Why didn't they just follow the tracks in the snow?

[OMG!WTF!]

Originally Posted by Robbob

Why didn't they just follow the tracks in the snow?

Cause there's an abominable snowman at the end of those tracks. They eat nuclear bomb toting armies for breakfast.

[CaptainCrunch]

Deadly killer asteroids heading towards earth


https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/nasa...source=twitter

NASA is warning that meteors pose a major threat to Earth, so agencies are already testing out ways to defend against them by using lasers or by ramming spacecraft into them.