If you’ve been distracted looking at the amazing photos The James Webb Space Telescope has taken, not to worry. Here are three other stellar stories from the last year of space science!
Completely ejected? Imagine running into a rogue black hole in intergalactic space and just having no heads up because there’s nothing around for it to screw with except you.
Wait! I’m confused. When you say “remnant” of a supernova, do you mean the core object or the stuff that it ejected? Are you talking about the distribution of cores, or the interactions of the clouds of ejecta?
The moon forming in a few hours bit sound crazy
That would be like me waking up, no moon
After 3/4 of my day, still no moon
Then looking at the sky before going to bed, there is a moon
The moon formation being fast doesn't surprise me considering it formed from something hitting the earth and that collision threw a chunk of debris into earth's orbit. It would be easy to assume that there was a single chunk that was very large that became the main satellite going around the earth, and it would have been incredibly hot. It would have pulled in other chunks in that orbital path pretty quickly, or pulled them into that orbital path for later collision or pushed objects out of that path as its gravitational force became larger.
Hey maybe in a take on God we can say that body that crashed into Earth was the hand of God because without it life would have been very different or may have been wiped out after it started. It could be that without that chunk the earth's core wouldn't have had the energy to keep the mantle going the way it has or large enough to stay hot.
So thanks God for throwing that big chunk at the earth :-)
This makes me wonder... how does a planet getting hit by, y'know, asteroids or comets or whatever, affect the other objects in the solar system, if at all? Like, did the Chicxulub asteroid impact only affect Earth?
As excitable as the "waking up AND FINDING A WHOLE MOON THERE" was (especially at increased playback speed), I don't think it really quite captured how most of us would have reacted. 😆
A* for effort though.
Another neat little detail about the Moon Formation simulation is that a second, even larger blob of collision debris formed from the impact at the same time as the proto-Moon blob, only to fall back into the proto-Earth and re-merge, and as it did so its gravity slung the proto-Moon out into a stable orbit.
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Only to find out that there aren't really any other uses of JWST
That would be like me waking up, no moon
After 3/4 of my day, still no moon
Then looking at the sky before going to bed, there is a moon
Alien: wakes up 3 hours later and sees a moon Huh?
Hey maybe in a take on God we can say that body that crashed into Earth was the hand of God because without it life would have been very different or may have been wiped out after it started. It could be that without that chunk the earth's core wouldn't have had the energy to keep the mantle going the way it has or large enough to stay hot.
So thanks God for throwing that big chunk at the earth :-)
❤️❤️
A* for effort though.