The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has been key for allowing us to understand high energy events out in the universe, like the death of stars or matter spinning around black holes. However, X-Rays have this habit of either going right through some solids or being fully absorbed by them. So how do you build such an observatory, and what types of things has this great observatory discovered in its 2 decades out in space?
New research on dark matter reveals that this mysterious stuff may behave even more weirdly than we had imagined.
EJFHIEBDONW SOMEBODY HELP ME
now, i can’t seem to be able to attach anything here but for goodness sake go check it out on NASA’s website and/or Instagram but
NASA AND SOME OTHER GENIUS HUMANS, THOSE ABSOLUTE LEGENDARY NERDS, FOUND A WAY TO USE THE DIGITAL DATA THEY USE TO FORM IMAGES OF AREAS IN SPACE THAT WE CAN’T REACH, TO CREATE MUSIC
They used position, light, intensity of light, stars, compact sources etc to determine pitch, volume, notes and so on
IT’S BASICALLY LIKE A MATHEMATICAL SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION BUT WITH SPACE AND MUSIC AND A MILLION DIFFERENT VARIABLES AND AN UNBELIEVABLE PRODUCT (or at least that’s the way I put it together in my head to help it make sense)
I mean, obviously, considering that this is, essentially, art, although it had a perfectly sound scientific basis for every possible aspect, some parts of the process are, in a way, opinion based
The instruments used and things like that, y'know
People made those decisions and that impacts everything hugely since they made those decisions dependant personal experiences, knowledge, opinions, musical tastes etc BUT STILL I MEAN LIKE EJFIJTNSKEKSKCNSPWLTJFNXMALW
I ACTUALLY CAN’T STOP FREAKING THE HECK OUT
@nasa and @anyone else who deserves credit here, you geniuses, we love you so much, this the one good thing that’s come out of this year and so help me god, am i going to go batshit crazy about it. This honestly one of the most incredible things I have ever come across and I can’t, for the life of me, put into words how much I love it, how much it terrifies me, how at loss I am and how utterly tiny this makes me feel.
Like…just…look.
listen.
it’s, i mean it’s just so utterly
there’s so much out there and even considering how much we know and have explored, in reality, we have seen and understood and come to know about barely anything at all.
Cyclones of Color at Jupiter’s North Pole via NASA.https://ift.tt/330xeqZ this blog is run automatically through the app IF.
