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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Don’t agree. There is so mucb interesting stuff happening in astrophysics. It’s hard to choose one.

Vera Rubin going online is already giving us a huge boost to detecting near earth objects.

And neutrino astronomy is pretty much still in its infancy. There is still a lot to learn.

We’re finding older and older objects every month. A potential bio signature has been found on Mars. We discovered our third Interstellar visitor. The next stage of the moon mission is about to launch people around the moon in the next few months. The crisis in cosmology is getting bigger and bigger.

Astrophysics is in a great shape.

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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It's still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.

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- Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Is anyone else concerned that Europa Clipper will get more stupider?
  
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- Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The Monolith did tell you not go to Europa. Just Sayan.
  
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  - Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter's radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We're good.
    
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- Slein4273@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And Europa Clipper and JUICE will be exciting! I like JUICE a little bit more because of the name :)
  
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Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Can you define crisis in cosmology please? Trying to learn.

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s basically a disagreement on the expansion rate of the universe. Depending on how we measure it we get two vastly different numbers. And either our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang is wrong or we interpreted data from our telescopes incorrectly.
  
  The hope with the launch lf JWST was that it would go away with better data. But it seems to be getting worse.
  
  So that makes it more and more likely that our universe formation theories are wrong. This does not mean that there wasn’t a Big Bang. But it means that what we thought happened between the Big Bang and now isn’t quite right.
  
  So we can expect some great new theories in the next decades.
  
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  - Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thank you!
    
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