I hate when they do this:

[dreadnut]

Nice headline. Gonna show it to us? Nah.

Hubble Captures Rare Event: Star Eaten By a Black Hole 300 Million Light Years Away (LOOK)

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star's final moments in detail, as it gets gobbled up by a black hole.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

 

[GAD]

Did you read the article?

The ‘AT2022dsb tidal event’ can’t be photographed up-close with Hubble because the munched-up star is nearly 300 million light-years away. But astronomers used Hubble’s ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the shredded star—which include hydrogen, carbon, and more, all forensic clues to the black hole homicide.

 

[dreadnut]

Yeah I read it. It says "up close."

 

[davismanLV]

When you're talking 300 million light years, "up close" takes on a different meaning.

 

[Nuuska]

Interesting article - thank you.

 

[Guildedagain]

Basically what happens here to a plate of nachos at dinner hour ;[]

 

[GGJaguar]

They could have at least put in an artist rendering of what it looks like.

 

[lungimsam]

Aren’t they saying now that the earths core is a rotating metal ball that reverses directions every 70 years? Didn’t it used to be said to be liquid magma?

 

[davismanLV]

Aren’t they saying now that the earths core is a rotating metal ball that reverses directions every 70 years? Didn’t it used to be said to be liquid magma?

No but Don read something about it changing rotation. So I question him.... but he only reads the headlines. I'm all, "WHAT ABOUT THE MAGMA???" And then we go out for beer and shots and we forget.....

 

[chazmo]

It is kind of amazing that we have less knowledge about our own planet than we do about deep space.

I wonder if "deep Earth" study will become a field someday analogous to deep space astronomy and get more attention. Hubble and James Webb, not to mention the huge radio telescope arrays, get all the attention while no one seems to care about deep Earth.

As a related aside, every movie I've seen about drilling through the Earth has been so flawed (physics-wise, etc.) that I can't stand to watch them. Meanwhile, good space travel shows (like "The Expanse," for example) are out there for sure. Of course, most space travel shows are flawed as well, but honestly which is more relevant to us?!

 

[Uke]

"Ground control to major Tom . . . . "

 

[Nuuska]

Ask Doctor Who - his spaceship beats them all - plus he is friends with silurians who live under Earths surface.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Today's New Atlas email included something about the earth's core:

Earth's inner core may have stopped spinning – but what does that mean?

The inner Earth is a mysterious place, and now scientists may have uncovered a strange new secret. According to a new study, the Earth’s inner core may have recently stopped rotating, relative to the surface, as part of a decades-long cycle.

newatlas.com

 

[Opsimath]

The center of the earth is filled with ants. That's why they're everywhere and killing a mound just brings another mound 10 feet away.