Tag: space
Middle of February. Peach trees trying to blossom. I’m out of time for spring prep. Shit.
ON DECK: I need to write about 12 pages in about four hours to get back on track. PROJECT EXPLOITS RIVER needs starting, PROJECT RED HOUSE needs a proper ending and script, new consult thing may be happening on a tight turnaround this week.
INBOX: 91.
OPERATIONS: I want to come to some kind of conclusion in the office by 4pm so I can use the last hour of daylight to clear the garden. But I also need to finish clearing the back of the office so I can do videocalls in here when necessary and generally create a bit more operating space.
LISTENING: ALL LIFE LONG on repeat, for thinking space.
CONDITION: exactly eight hours sleep, resting heart rate 72 but averaging 74 over the last week. Literal pain in neck. Remembering today why other writers form companies while I’m always the idiot who does everything on his own.
THINKING ABOUT: LA ANTENA
OUTSIDE: Astronomers discover universe’s brightest object – a quasar powered by a black hole that eats a sun a day
John Coulthart notes on a current-day surrealist journal.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered 4.29 ounces (121.6 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu when it returned to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023; the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space and over twice the mission’s requirement.
After many delays, Jeff Koons‘s 125 sculptures were finally sent to the moon early this morning from Cape Canaveral at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Best place for them.
Comments closed‘Beyond what’s possible’: New JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxy
“Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of a stellar population bigger than the Milky Way from more than 11 billion years ago that should not exist.”
GALAXY THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST
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Telescopes show the Milky Way’s black hole is ready for a kick
“The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football, according to a new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).”
Comments closedJapan’s moon lander comes back to life
Japan’s moon lander has come back to life, the space agency said Monday, enabling the craft to proceed with its mission of investigating the lunar surface despite its rocky start.
Comments closed‘Old smokers’: Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Wayhttps://phys.org/news/2024-01-smokers-strange-star-milky.html
A mysterious new type of star nicknamed “old smoker” has been discovered hiding in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers revealed on Friday.
Comments closed- The moon is shrinking.
- Scientists propose an updated time scale scheme of the Earth’s moon. This gives us the wonderful term: The Paleolunarian Eon. We are in the Neolunarian Eon.