fossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 10 months agoIncredible galaxy with no visible stars discovered by accidentstudyfinds.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down11
arrow-up182arrow-down1external-linkIncredible galaxy with no visible stars discovered by accidentstudyfinds.orgfossilesque to AstronomyEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squareShdwdrgnlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-210 months agoWow, that’s not something I even considered could happen. It does raise an interesting question though – how many more of these could be out there? Seems like it would require a whole-sky survey just to detect them.
minus-squaregrowsomethinggood ()@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·10 months agoArecibo radio telescope was doing something like this, until it was destroyed by a hurricane. Some info if you’re interested: https://astro.cornell.edu/news/decade-long-galaxy-survey-releases-final-catalog
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoThe fact that we’re not willing to pay the relative pittance (compared to lots of other shit in the Federal budget) to rebuild Arecibo is criminal.
Wow, that’s not something I even considered could happen. It does raise an interesting question though – how many more of these could be out there? Seems like it would require a whole-sky survey just to detect them.
Arecibo radio telescope was doing something like this, until it was destroyed by a hurricane.
Some info if you’re interested: https://astro.cornell.edu/news/decade-long-galaxy-survey-releases-final-catalog
The fact that we’re not willing to pay the relative pittance (compared to lots of other shit in the Federal budget) to rebuild Arecibo is criminal.