I saw this and its still here the ball isnt a planet or the moon but its almost like flashing every few minutes i also (might just be my eyes) see a fire streak behind it but it disappears after a few seconds

I used a Canon camera with a macro lense just playing around and I captured this. It's moving then spirals. It starts in the top corner and goes down as I kept snapping pics. I didn't see this in the sky! I have the original copies and how it looks on my laptop I've uploaded them to Google drive - let it load for a second to get the best quality 👌

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FP4qQIk2D2-DwNVLQNtVcQUVWt8df-Lf

I'm just baffled honestly . I'm not a pro either as you can tell

The night sky has captured my attention and awe for decades. I love counting satellites on good nights between meteor showers and other celestial events. There have been three times in my life I’ve been left without explanation as to what I’ve seen. Last night was the third oddity.

At 6:20 I saw something confusing that I’d like to rationalize. I was looking up, to the southeast and immediately spotted two “satellites”, cool but normal. So these two were basically back to back, closer than two belt stars of Orion, I expected them to cross paths or diverge but they didn’t. Just stayed in line together. I shrugged and kept watching for more. Not long before I spotted another…that’s where it got “weird” to me. I noticed this next following across the exact same path as the others. Best I can describe for distance behind the, close together, first two is the top to bottom height of Orion. Then another and another and another. Twenty four in total including the first two. All twenty two that followed were the same, longer, distance between and on the exact same path. I tried to spot any other satellites going on their merry way in their own orbits but I saw nothing. It was cold and I only had it in me to wait a couple minutes longer than the unusual train that initially caught my attention sooo. Anyone have an explanation for what I saw?

Do you actually think we are alone, the universe is endless essentially and I haven’t looked properly into it but we’ve found planets with a possibility of life as in optimal condition

But I mean life as in multicellular, advanced, able to communicate if we are to find life isn’t it more likely it would be a fungi or single cell organism and in the rare likelyhood there is life what are the chances we’ll ever find them

I got curious about growing plants on mars so did a bjt of looking

The atmosphere is like 90% carbon dioxide and a bit of nitrogen Soil ph is around 7 Tempature is -65•c

Obviously these aren’t optimal at all but we have plants that can grow in those ph levels and plants that can grow in cold conditions obviously not that cold

But in a age where we can genetically alter plants for optimal growth and water consumption is there a possibility there’s some form of plant life that could be genetically modified to survive in these conditions and be capable of germinating

Also the atmosphere on mars is very thin if we were to start hypothetically mass planting something how long would it take to alter the air to a more optimal level of oxygen

How do they know space is infinite. Like how do they actually find that out and prove it? Is it just because they haven’t found the end?

Also, two parter, can someone tell me the stages of space i.e earth, the plants near to earth, the milky way?

Bruh idk how no1 is talking bout this but like THE MOON IS GROWING. I’ve been watching it for years now w/ my own eyes, and it’s defs looking bigger every night. Like legit, compare pics from 2018 and now,

NASA probs knows but won’t admit it bc $$$ or sumthin. Like they’re too busy sending rovers to Mars or w/e, but HELLO the moon is literally out here inflating. Like fr, I’m thinking maybe the sun is heating it up or it’s sucking in all the space dust?? Either way,they aint tellin us the TRUTH.

like 2040 the moon; gon be bigger than Texas and tidal waves r gonna be wild. If anyone knows science, can u confirm if I’m right or r they censoring info??? cant trust nassa with anything nymore.

This subreddit is small, but we will be joining the ban on twitter. Posts containing links to twitter/x will be removed. It hasn't been an issue in the past, and I doubt anyone will notice, but we will stand with the other subreddits in this regard.

https://imgur.com/a/nqulPF3

Thank you.

Edit: Would it be around the “Local group” label?

Found it on an iceberg im writing a video about and couldn’t find anything about it from simple searching, decided to ask about it here while i research.

Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Isaac Asimov, Stephen Hawkings are often called popularizers of science. That they simplify complex scientific ideas so that the largely scientifically illiterate public can get the gist of what scientists have achieved. But isn't it true that they are not scientists with any notable achievements? Why can't a genuinely great scientist also be a popularizer of science, instead of the public having to rely on somewhat mediocre middlemen.

What are some of the most unique and undercooked questions or concepts of astrophysics and space that would be a good fit for an essay?

Can someone please explain how gravity assists work like what's the science behind it?

Might be a stupid question, but this accured to me today for the first time in my life.

So let's imagine a star becoming more and more dense because it's dying.

If Black Holes gravitational pulls are so strong that not even light can escape, then how can they even form. If a star is collapsing, how doesn't it's own gravity make it destroy itself before ever even reaching the point of becoming a Black Hole?

You know what I'm trying to say? If nothing can escape it and they destroy everything, then how can they even form before destroying themselves in the process of formation by their own gravity?

So I watch a lot of space based stuff and enjoy reading and learning about space. But the more I learn the more questions I have and I need someone with a better brain to explain it to me because Google doesn't quite understand what I'm asking.

1. Why can't we use magnets on ships and suits for sort of a light weight direction control.

Example: you would launch the ship as usual but wouldn't need as much fuel because once in space the ship is weightless. So you could have two magnets attached to the front and back and the mechanics would be attached to the "wheel"? Or whatever they use for direction assuming they control the ship. So let's say you need to go faster, you would pull the magnets closer causing them to push apart (because negative and negative doesn't attract.) or maybe go slower you could push the other against the back magnet (causing a pull backwards?) or am I just wishful thinking? The magnets both would be well attached to the ship and close together and can flip and turn off (assuming that's an option like with the big magnet tractors?)

2. If let's say the hypothetical partical tachyon is proven to be real, and can go faster than the speed of light as theorized, could this be a link between honest unhyped UFO sightings, supernatural phenomenon and time travel?

3. I understand the sentence "space travel is time travel" however how can we look through a telescope and not see it as it currently is? I understand that the speed of light somehow prevents this due to how far away things are and how vast space is. But if it's that far and the speed of light can't show us what we are looking at currently, how can we see it at all? How does that work and how can I trust my eyes (joking but only a little)

4. I understand the "Christmas tree affect" however if we are using lasers (light) to send messages how is it no one is receiving it? I understand that it's like sending a blinking light into space and how you have to be aware the very moment it reaches you, however if we spent let's say a week sending the same messages over and over then wouldn't it be easier? Also how do we know another planet uses the same systems to distract data? Or can even understand? (I say this because the voynach manuscript, written in an uninterruptible language -as we know anyway)

5. Okay so if shrimp can see more colors than us (I don't know how we know that), and the world can't agree on units of measurement( I'm u.s so we still don't use the metric system however it's here and there and I'm learning) how are we so positive another galaxies math aligns with ours. Let's say another galaxy has found and uses tachyons and has found a way around or to break what we know as the laws of physics meaning they can travel the speed of light or close to it using tachyons and still having mass, how do we know? If something is faster than light we are unlikely to see it unless we know what to look for where to find it and when to look. (A documentary said the laws of physics are the same everywhere but how do we know that for fact if when we look through a telescope we see the past)

6. Why do we confine "life" as we do? Something is literally eating rocks on mars, there are audio tapes of people contacting "entities" from "Venus" which we cannot walk on however a "entity without a flesh suit" could? Why do we assume life has to have a body? Or has to breathe oxygen? If your born somewhere you would likely be born best suited for that planet, we breathe oxygen because that's what our planet offers. Who are we to say life is confined to oxygen breathing chlorophyll producing planets? I mean we've discovered everything in nature communicates so wouldn't that in some way make it a being or alive in some way (I'm not talking intelligent life just, life)

7. Why aren't we bettering our species by sending pregnant women or babies to space. Okay I understand radiation, impact danger, health concerns. But I'm not talking about putting them on a bojing craft and accidently leaving them there. But if space changes our DNA and we've basically quit evolving (I think our next evolution is mental and spiritual but that's an opinion) we should be sending test tubes at least and seeing how they change. And then maybe small short trips for expecting mothers or even babies in order to influence our bodies to change and make space easier. Maybe being exposed to radiation in small short amounts can make us stronger against it in the far future. Also why not end of life cancer patients (maybe that's a dumb question but they get radiation treatment so why not see if space can change anything?)

8. Now for someone well versed in quantum physics I may sound really ignorant but for real. How can an open space bend. Like... Space is a massive, endless constantly expanding place. And I understand (don't let me lie I cried learning about quantum physics so I understand a very small amount ) some about quantum physics however example.

You look up and see a sky a wide open sky. How can open space bend? Causing pushes and pulls? If we aren't sitting on a "blanket" of quantum ripple (I say this because??? It's just open space?? Yet they compare it dropping a ball on a net) how can we see a bend in space

9. How can we see both at once. They looked back at the beginning of time. And they saw a baby galaxy and then beside it, the same galaxy fully formed. How can both exist at once. It's either one or the other (leave Schrodinger's out of this, I get it but in Schrodinger's the cat exists in both until you open the box and look, however if we are looking in the box where 1 cat is how are we seeing 2?) so is it two galaxies??

J1407b I think it's called

One of his theories of the infinite multiverse states that if the universe is infinite in size and matter, then eventually there will be regions outside of our observable universe where matter will be oriented in the exact same way as us, and therefor there are copies of our observable universes including earth and each one of us out there beyond our reach.. not just one copy but an infinite number of copies. He puts some math behind this to calculate how many possible configurations of matter there could be in a region the size of our observable universe, and based on this provides a distance to a region identical to ours.

My question is, it can’t just be as simple as saying here is a region where matter is configured in the same way as ours … there must be variables due to chaos and randomness down to the quantum level to the degree that every quantum subatomic particle must behave and interact with its environment in the exact same way as ours , over the coarse of 14 billion years. Even if matter is configured in the same way after the Big Bang, How many different combination of quantum states are there that are random and may ultimate not result in the same observable universe as we see here today. Quick analogy: if you drop 1000 marbles in a vacuum, under identical conditions, with the marbles settle in the same way?

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but it is one that's relevant to a sci-fi short story I want to write and it is hard for me to visualise it. I am aware that the moon has phases which means that it gets sunlight equally distributed throughout it, and that it has two weeks of daylight and darknesss due to rotating on an axis, but if there were hypothetically a colony of nomads on the moon, would it be possible for them to be on the move to constantly stay in the moon's darkness? or is the sun unavoidable?

Is there a mathematical equation for this? In theory is it empty space between the singularity and event horizon?

I’m trying to picture it like escape velocity. I know there is no escape velocity past the event horizon, but an analogy (e.g the higher the gravity the greater the escape velocity - is it a similar relationship e.g the more massive the singularity, the bigger the event horizon ?)

Help pls

Alright so here’s the question. If solar systems are able to form, and very large gas giants like Kepler-7b can exist, then is it possible for a “solar system” to form, but instead of forming a sun it just forms a large gas giant, and other planets that can form orbit the gas giant?

If there’s nothing to slow down a rocket like no gravity or air why can’t the thrusters just keep it going faster and faster? would it max out to like the same speed of the thrusters or is it just a dumb question lol

Why havent we sent people into an area where the gravity will cause time to flow faster in other areas? Nobody wants to risk their life to go to the future? Idk it kind of seems like a no brainer experiment to send people out on even if its like some passthrough that brings you 50 years in the future and then the journey back. Still though it seems like a possible thing we could do although idk where we would send people to do it.

I always read here and there about how planets are similar to ours to some capacity. What if there was life right next door like in the Andromeda? We would have no idea correct? I know the Andromeda is quite far precisely 260,000 light years in diameter. But even the Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter.

Basically what I am asking is there could potentially be life in our Milky Way Galaxy and we will never know in our lifetime? Or has it been proven there’s no life aside from ours in this specific galaxy. I’m quite intrigued with space recently so if I sound uninformed please educate me! I want to learn.