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Starry Time Podcasteeek -- sorry I forgot to daily post yesterday! I was gone for a travel adventure (which is also why we prob won't have an episode this weekend😳 ).ANYWHO. In this week's <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#podcast</a>, we discussed the nearest star to our Sun -- PROXIMA CENTAURI! Try to see if you can spot it in the image below (circled in red), and listen here to learn more about the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> of the constellation <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Centaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Centaurus</a> : <a href="https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/</a>📷 :<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Alpha%2C_Beta_and_Proxima_Centauri_%281%29.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Alpha%2C_Beta_and_Proxima_Centauri_%281%29.jpg</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AstroDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AstroDon</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Centauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Centauri</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Constellations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constellations</a>

Nikolas KozloffHopefully the Proxima Centaurians can help jumpstart the anti-<a href="https://federated.press/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> resistance<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opinion/alien-extraterrestrial-arecibo-seti.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opinion/alien-extraterrestrial-arecibo-seti.html</a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/TrumpFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpFascist</a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a>

Thomas RabensteinWe spent 70,000 years traveling on the generation ship to reach Proxima Centauri, generations of Humans who have long forgotten what Earth looks like. The ancestors set out with the hope of opening up a new, stable and life-friendly world and perhaps meeting other intelligences who could teach us the secrets of the universe. But all we found was this ... <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/sciencefiction?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/proximacentauri?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proximacentauri</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/spaceexploration?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spaceexploration</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a> Selects Bold Proposal to "Swarm" <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> with Tiny Probes In order to reach <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AlphaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlphaCentauri</a> this century we need to utilize gram-scale <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacecraft</a> that rely on directed-energy propulsion. NASA selected Swarming Proxima Centauri project for Phase I development as part of this year's NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NIAC</a>). Swarming Proxima Centauri is "a collaborative effort between Space Initiatives Inc. and the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is)" <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/165116/nasa-selects-bold-proposal-to-swarm-proxima-centauri-with-tiny-probes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universetoday.com/165116/nasa-selects-bold-proposal-to-swarm-proxima-centauri-with-tiny-probes/</a>

Matt WillemsenWhat Could the Extremely Large Telescope See at Proxima Centauri's Planet? <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/165383/what-could-the-extremely-large-telescope-see-at-proxima-centauris-planet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universetoday.com/165383/what-could-the-extremely-large-telescope-see-at-proxima-centauris-planet/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExtremelyLargeTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremelyLargeTelescope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reflection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reflection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/starlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starlight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atmosphere</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mask" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mask</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Talking seriously about the challenges in sending a probe to a planet in the nearest star system, if Civilisation makes it through this century we might actually reach for the stars! If....<a href="https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/01/19/data-return-from-proxima-centauri-b/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/01/19/data-return-from-proxima-centauri-b/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

Mac<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Raumfahrt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Raumfahrt</a>: Aufbruch zu <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> zur Jahrhundertmitte <a href="https://www.golem.de/news/raumfahrt-aufbruch-zu-proxima-centauri-zur-jahrhundertmitte-2401-181108.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.golem.de/news/raumfahrt-aufbruch-zu-proxima-centauri-zur-jahrhundertmitte-2401-181108.html</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Reaching out to our nearest star 😀 <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/general/swarming-proxima-centauri/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nasa.gov/general/swarming-proxima-centauri/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

Alan BoyleA radio interferometer array that stretches out as wide as the orbit of Jupiter? A glider for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Venus</a>? An airplane for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mars</a>? A swarm of mini-probes to fly past <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a>? Those are just a few of the far-out ideas receiving a bit of seed funding from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NIAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NIAC</a> program. <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2024/nasa-niac-deep-space-interferometer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.geekwire.com/2024/nasa-niac-deep-space-interferometer/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Nearby Proxima Centauri b might be covered in ice and support an ocean beneath, life protected from Proxima's flares by an ice shell. Telescopes can tell us more. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Exoplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Exoplanets</a> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/nasa-some-icy-exoplanets-may-have-habitable-oceans-and-geysers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/nasa-some-icy-exoplanets-may-have-habitable-oceans-and-geysers/</a>

Daniel PomarèdeNature Astronomy coversThe testing search for technosignatures (2021)Featuring an artist's impression of artificial lights on a hypothetical Earth-like planet in the Proxima Centauri system.credit image: Breakthrough Listen / Danielle Futselaar cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic <a href="https://nature.com/natastron/volumes/5/issues/11" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nature.com/natastron/volumes/5/issues/11</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exoplanet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technosignatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technosignatures</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proximacentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proximacentauri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/planets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/natureastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#natureastronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cover</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coverart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coverart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/covers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#covers</a>

Dr. Eingekochtes WasserWeiteres kurioses aus der Welt der <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biologie</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genetik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genetik</a> und <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DNA</a> Würde man die gesamte humane DNA aller lebenden Menschen aneinanderreihen, wäre sie etwa 1,15 Quadrillionen Kilometer lang. Dies ist etwa 270 Mal länger als die Entfernung von der Erde bis zum nächsten Stern, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProximaCentauri</a>.Oder etwa 2 Milliarden Mal die Strecke von München nach Berlin.

Aschenbach ArtI wonder if our Oort cloud is connected at its extreme edge with Proxima Centauri’s Oort cloud. Far away comets from different neighborhoods just out there chillin’. <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/comets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comets</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/oortcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oortcloud</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/solarsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarsystem</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/proximacentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proximacentauri</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmology</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#joke</a>

Daniel PomarèdeScience Advances astronomy covers appreciation postProxima Centauri c (2020)<a href="https://science.org/toc/sciadv/6/3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://science.org/toc/sciadv/6/3</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/planets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#planets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exoplanet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/exoplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exoplanets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proxima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proxima</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proximacentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proximacentauri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proximacentauric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proximacentauric</a>

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rannug<a href="https://troet.cafe/@ElchrichElch" class="u-url mention">@ElchrichElch</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/@steeph" class="u-url mention">@steeph</a> Unser Video vom Stern <a href="https://norden.social/tags/ProximaCentauri" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ProximaCentauri</a> gestern nach der <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Bombeerernte" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Bombeerernte</a>.

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