#universe today

[biglisbonnews]

One of the universe’s most iconic nebulas is changing — scientists don’t know why The Butterfly Nebula is changing, and astronomers are puzzled as to why these changes are occurring. Observations of this planetary nebula show dramatic changes in the butterfly’s ‘wings’ in just 11 years. https://www.inverse.com/science/butterfly-nebula

[leaflets-11]

My soul is a little confused rn. Universe please take the charge!

[inkyvoids]

We live in an age of exoplanet discovery. One thing we’ve learned is not to be surprised by the kinds of exoplanets we keep discovering. We’ve discovered planets where it might rain glass or even iron, planets that are the rocky core remnants of gas giants stripped of their atmospheres, and drifting rogue planets untethered to any star. Now, astronomers have uncovered evidence of an exoplanet in a circumbinary disk around a binary star. The remarkable thing about this discovery is that the disk is in a polar configuration. That means the exoplanet moves around its binary star in a circumpolar orbit, and this is the first one scientists have found. AC Herculis (AC Her) is a binary star about 4200 light-years away. The primary star is well-studied, while its partner is invisible. It has a polar circumbinary disk, which is unusual but not unheard of. In a new paper, a team of researchers presents evidence for the polar circumbinary exoplanet.

[zonetrente-trois]

Does this not coincide with other unusual phenomena that happened in that year?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My Lawyer is going to Get Your Ass.

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[yourlocalabomination]

Ted and Tinky sketch but it’s that one Jesus painting.

[mentalwelllife]

[hajihiko]

Have you ever wanted to rehearse every possible answer to The Marriage Game with your closest people to prove your love in case you ever play it or are you normal

[superheroesandspies]

Sam Rockwell Presents Robert Downey Jr. at the 2024 Academy Awards

Robert Downey Jr. wins Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the portrayal of Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.

[biglisbonnews]

New measurements support the idea that dark matter doesn’t exist Despite numerous searches, we have yet to detect dark matter particles. https://www.inverse.com/science/modified-gravity-dark-matter-galaxies

[rad-batson]

Headcanon that Billy is not only immune to the magical lightning that helps him transform, but he’s also immune to normal lightning and all other forms of electricity.

At first, the realization is super cool. Billy doesn’t get hurt by static electricity anymore. He’s immune to Freddy’s hand buzzer pranks. He even gets 200 bucks from some big shot teenagers that dared him to touch an electric fence.

The problem comes when he tries to catch the bus in the rain one day and gets struck by REAL lightning. In front of dozens of people. Who are not supposed to know he’s immune to lightning. And Billy is very bad at improv.

Billy: *gets struck by lightning*

Billy: WHAT THE F—

Everyone: O_O

Billy: Oooo ouchh

Billy: I am in so much pain

[inkyvoids]

Last September, NASA purposefully smashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a 160m-wide space rock orbiting a larger asteroid named Didymos. The goal of the mission, called DART (the Double Asteroid Redirection Test), was to demonstrate humanity’s ability to redirect hazardous asteroids away from Earth. That part of the mission was a success above and beyond all expectations. But now scientists are also learning more about the origins of the two asteroids. A study conducted in the wake of the DART impact found that Dimorphos is made from the same material as Didymos, and that the pair of asteroids likely originated from a single body.