Interstellar_distances

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Opinion: Jack Sparrow Was Never the Main Character

Houston Press 15 Apr 2024

Good ... Many people can’t imagine a Pirates film without Captain Jack ... He doesn’t learn or grow much ... There is an interstellar distance between Loki’s amusing if one-dimensional actions in Thor and becoming the benevolent God of Stories in Loki Season 2 ... .

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Cepheid variable star with record period of pulsation discovered in Milky Way

Pravda 09 Apr 2024

Given that their pulsation periods are closely related to their luminosity, astronomers use these stars to measure interstellar and intergalactic distances ... ....

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Astronomers discover the longest-period classical Cepheid in our galaxy

Phys Dot Org 08 Apr 2024

Given that their periods of variation are closely related to their luminosity, astronomers use them to measure interstellar and intergalactic distances ... The distance to OGLE-GD-CEP-1884 was measured to be about 14,500 light years.

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Exodus’ Time Dilation is “All About Hard Choices and Long-Term Consequences,” Narrative Director Says

GamingBolt 07 Apr 2024

Most recently, the studio shed light on what will serve as the central hook for the game- time dilation, and how every time players travel long interstellar distances, when they come back home, years ...

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Radio Astronomy: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today 01 Apr 2024

Unlike other forms of light that could carry the evidence of life beyond our solar system, radio waves can propagate unobscured by interstellar gas and dust, making them easily detectable across vast distances.”.

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Netflix series '3 Body Problem' poses some big sci-fi questions

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 25 Mar 2024

Fermi’s question. So where is everybody? ... One reason could be the difficulty of communicating on an interstellar scale, even if that distance is small in universal terms, like the handful of light years to our next closest star, Alpha Centauri.

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The 10 Best Original PlayStation Cut Scenes

Houston Press 18 Mar 2024

Warning. Some Spoilers for Old Games. I've been playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth lately, and it's wonderful ... There is an interstellar distance between the 16-bit world of, say, Chrono Trigger and a PlayStation-era Final Fantasy ... 10 ... 9 ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... .

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Are Andromeda and the Milky Way Already Exchanging Stars?

Universe Today 13 Mar 2024

The reality is different though, stars do move but due to the vast distances in interstellar space, that motion is largely not noticeable. There are exceptions such as Barnard’s star in the constellation Ophiuchus ... ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way ... Source ... .

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Variable star V708 Car has an unusual chemical composition, study finds

Phys Dot Org 27 Feb 2024

Given that their periods of variation are closely related to their luminosity, astronomers use them to measure interstellar and intergalactic distances ... However, although V708 Car has been known for two decades, it remains a poorly studied variable ... V.

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The Belt At The Edge Of The Solar System Is Larger Than We Thought

IFL Science 24 Feb 2024

The dust comes from collisions between KBOs, asteroids, and comets, as well as KBOs' bombardment from interstellar dust. Observations from Earth consider the belt to extend to 50 times the distance ...

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Are Irish petrol prices ever going to come down again?

RTE 23 Feb 2024

Analysis. we pay a global price for fuel so geopolitical events mean we are not seeing any major drop in fuel prices at the pumps ... Last year, we drove — a distance from planet Earth to the edge of interstellar space and back again in just 12 months ... .

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Life Could Spread Across The Galaxy On Cosmic Dust, Wild New Paper Suggests

IFL Science 19 Feb 2024

"We have considered the dynamics of planetary dust particles 'propelled' by planets, and it has been shown that in 5 billion years, dust grains can travel in the [interstellar medium] at distances of ...

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Measuring distances in the universe with fast radio bursts

Phys Dot Org 13 Feb 2024

When the FRB light passes from the intergalactic medium to the more dense interstellar medium of our galaxy, there is a brightening effect known as scintillation, which gives us another distance ...

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Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find

Futurism 07 Feb 2024

At least, that's according to a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, in which a team of researchers concluded that a kilonova could pose a major threat to Earth-like planets, even at formidable interstellar distances.

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How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs

New York Magazine 31 Jan 2024

He claimed that these blobs were metallic droplets that had melted off an interstellar object that might have been “a ... “Biology cannot survive the journey across interstellar distances,” he said.