If you ever get awed and overwhelmed by the incomprehensible vastness of space, just keep in mind that it’s expanding, more rapidly minute by minute, and to the best of our understanding it will never ever stop
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Katie Mack
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Have you heard about JWST seeing galaxies that shouldn’t exist? There’s more to that story!
My latest for BBC Science Focus: https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/james-webb-space-telescope-ancient-galaxies
📚🔭 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/
Curious about quantum tunneling? Check out the latest episode of #Quantum101, from me and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: https://youtu.be/Yg0LT3n4mYY?si=qru2ItWY14ta8giC
If you’ve ever said,
“I’d like someone to explain quantum superposition to me, but in an airplane, between ATC calls and clearances,”
have I got a video for you!
Raising Pilot Nerdery to new heights!
The September edition of my newsletter, WATCH THIS SPACETIME, is out now! 🎉
Featuring: Aliens! Quantum superposition! Airplane physics! And more!
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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
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@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
@jaztrophysicist@astrodon.social Thanks! And yeah, baryons are a hot mess 😂
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@nick_appleyard Nah nothing like that. At worst, it would require altering the expansion rate in the early universe somehow