COSMOSposting for your soul: A few nifty space articles

 

Space........... The Final frontier. Join us as we discover a few friggin wicked cool articles about some recent news pertaining to the complex and creative composure of chaos known as the COSMOS (alliteration ftw baybay). Originally this article started off as just one topic but as I was surfing I found a few more things to add in...... Today here's what we got

-Mapping Space with super detailed precision

-Mapping water on the moon, because apparently that's a thing!

-Nevermind a GIANT'S EYE (that's soooo 300 years ago) are we inside of a Black Hole? find out! 

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Definitely went down the rabbit hole on some science articles today but at least it yielding what I would consider to be intriguing results. As stated in the opening paragraph the first article was originally out topic of discussion but I just can't ignore the other two (especially the last article). SHOUTOUT TO GIZMODO.com for being the main source on these selections

1. Mapping Space Dust! (aye, somebody has to do it)

Astronomers working at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy just constructed an IMMENSLEY detailed and 3-dimensional map of the cosmic dust in our galaxy. WHOA It's like counting grains of sand I'm sure, hope they got AI to carry their burden of THAT workload sheesh.....JK THAT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREAKIN COOL!

"...Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale...

...Of the 220 million spectra released by the Gaia mission in June 2022, the research team selected 130 million stars that they determined would be useful for their dust search. The researchers then trained a neural network—a machine learning system that draws conclusions by mimicking the processes of neurons in a brain—to generate spectra based on the properties of the smaller group of stars, along with the properties of the dust itself..." -via GIZMODO.com

Now this is just the TLDR takeaway from the article, so if you're still interested the source article can be viewed HERE

2. Mapping the Water on The Moon (that's why we're mapping erything these days)

It turns out that NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is in Florida and integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in anticipation of its launch into space later this month.

 The petite satellite is set to launch no earlier than February 26 from Kennedy Space Center, with the ultimate objective of getting into lunar orbit and taking a full assessment of the water content on our planet’s rocky satellite. Water molecules exist on the Moon’s sunlit surface, but the water is lost to space, raising the still-open question of how water on the lunar surface is replenished. The Lunar Trailblazer could provide answers.

3. Here's the Best Article of this post: ARE WE INSIDE A BLACK HOLE?

Is it possible that baby universes resides within our own, beyond the limits of our perception and within a larger cosmos at play? Could our universe simply be within a black hole in some larger 'thing' lending credibility to the whole multiverse concept Hollywood is currently obsessed with? Honestly The idea itself is not new one, BUUUUUUT the study of 'galactic rotation' might suggest that there is almost certainly more to the universe than we have been led to believe and it may in fact be........... in the form of light? 

Shamir’s study examined 263 galaxies in the Webb telescope’s Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES. About two-thirds of the galaxies rotated clockwise, he found, while just a third rotate in the opposite direction. Though the motion was detected quantitatively, Shamir said that Webb’s sharp vision made it possible to visually determine the direction each galaxy’s rotation. -via GIZMODO.COM

It certainly is weird wild wacky stuff but my god is it SOO COOL and UBER fascinating. Click HERE for the whole gizmodo article or at the VERY LEAST watch the video