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Extremely Rare #citizenScience opportunity for #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #universeodon enthusiasts!

This year, there will be a nova, before or by September, as bright as the North Star.
After peak brightness it will remain bright enough, for several days, to observe with binoculars.

You can help research scientists with observational details.

https://www.seti.org/be-first-see-once-lifetime-stellar-explosion

https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2024/02/27/view-nova-explosion-new-star-in-northern-crown/

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1/ Most massive stellar #BlackHole in our galaxy found! With 33 times the mass of the Sun, this is the most massive black hole formed after the collapse of a star that we've found so far in the #MilkyWay.

ESA's Gaia mission found it via the wobble it induces on a star orbiting it, and data from ground-based telescopes helped confirm its mass and elucidate how it formed.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2408/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space

Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found

Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy.

^www.eso.org

New Solution To The Fermi Paradox Suggests The Great Filter Is Nearly Upon Us

https://www.iflscience.com/new-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox-suggests-the-great-filter-is-nearly-upon-us-73774

#space #spaceexploration #spacetech #spacetechnology #searchforlife #aliens #extraterrestrial #astrophysics #astrobiology #ai #artificialintelligence

New Solution To The Fermi Paradox Suggests The Great Filter Is Nearly Upon Us

Is this why we haven't heard from aliens?

^{James Felton (IFLScience)}