Ancestors

Written by Juan Carlos Muñoz on 2024-12-16 at 19:15

Astronomers take an exquisitely sharp image of a black hole's shadow with an Earth-sized network of radio-telescopes. The internet: lol so fuzzy.

Some guy posts what's clearly an out-of-focus image of a bright star or planet. The internet: OMG THAT'S CLEARLY A DRONE WE'RE BEING ATTACKED

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Toot

Written by Juan Carlos Muñoz on 2024-12-16 at 19:21

Joking aside: if you ever spot something weird in the sky there are many tools out there to help you identify them: Stellarium for stars and planets, Heavens Above for satellites, Flight Radar for planes...

Also, an object's apparent size, its intrinsic size and its distance are all entangled! Same with its apparent speed, which also depends on the viewing angle.

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Descendants

Written by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela on 2024-12-16 at 19:24

@astro_jcm you’re telling me there might be different things matching the same image? The heresy!

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Written by Óscar Morales Vivó on 2024-12-16 at 19:37

@juandesant @astro_jcm and not just that: what the picture shows may or may not be the first thing that pops in my mind!

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Written by Ángela Stella Matutina on 2024-12-16 at 19:26

@astro_jcm

Also, some of us in these networks know enough of the local sky or environment to help. It's just a question of who lives where.

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Written by Juan Carlos Muñoz on 2024-12-16 at 19:40

@angelastella Exactly! Among the many clips I've just seen one of them clearly showed Orion's belt. It's totally ok if one has never seen that asterism before, but that's no justification to automatically assume they drones, spaceships or whatnot.

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Written by Pēteris Krišjānis on 2024-12-16 at 23:52

@astro_jcm I always call back to Contact, if you see something, check and verify. There are tools and communities.

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