Happy Perihelion!
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“In December 2022, an international team of astronomers released the results of their latest survey of galaxies, and their work has confirmed that the vacuum of spacetime is wreaking havoc across the cosmos. They found that matter makes up only a minority contribution to the energy budget of the universe. Instead, most of the energy within the cosmos is contained in the vacuum, and that energy is dominating the future evolution of the universe.”
An Interesting Article. Let me know if any of you delve into the papers referenced.
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And - more on topic, forget if I posted this one before, but good stuff:
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Wow is the first thing that comes to mind.
Was looking up dark sky maps of the area and came across these terms, with which I was not familiar:
At the bottom of the entries on the latter link on Zodiacal light or “false dawn”, there is this bit:
“In 2007, Brian May, lead guitarist with the band Queen, completed his thesis, A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud , thirty-six years after abandoning it to pursue a career in music.[30] He was able to submit it only because of the minimal amount of research on the topic undertaken during the intervening years. May describes the subject as being one that became “trendy” again in the 2000s.[31]”
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More cool stuff. Only 210,000 LY away!
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Just caught Deep Sky at the IMAX theater inside the Indiana State Museum. Pretty entertaining and informative even though it’s only 45 minutes long.
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Was it on film or video?
I’m guessing it was film, but there aren’t really any tech specs on IMDB. I’ve always assumed that the documentaries specifically for IMAX were on film, but I honestly don’t know. It did fill the entire screen FWIW.
Edit. Found this website that lists it as IMAX Digital.
https://www.giantscreencinema.com/Films/Film-Database/FilmDatabaseDetailView/movieid/2634
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Brian May wasn’t available so are there any resident astrophysicists who can explain why dark matter is such a mystery if an observatory searching for the Big Bang is required to find an object in our own back yard?
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