#planets
#PDS70: #Disk, #Planets, and #Moons
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
Blue Full Moon, August 21, 2021
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-blue-moon/
https://www.moongiant.com/phase/today/
https://www.moonpage.com/
https://spreadaloha.net/2021/08/21/astrology-blue-full-moon-august-21-2021/
Four #fullmoons in a #single #season, the #third of which is a #bluemoon.
#blue #moon #fullmoon #luna #8-21-21 #astronomy #saturn #jupiter #earth #sky #planets #astrology #aquarius #sturgeon #fruit #grain #green-corn
Winners of the David Malin Awards, Australia’s most prestigious astrophotography awards, have been announced for 2021.
https://blog.csiro.au/david-malin-awards-astrophotography/
#photography #astrophotography #beauty #stars #planets #thewholeshebang #wonder
The #Plan to #Seed #Life on #Alien #Planets
In a recent study published in Futures, a scientist proposes that human beings could act as the germinal cells for our planet, by launching spacecraft containing “biophores,” dispersed to nearby star systems where they might germinate life on new worlds.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xp3ea/the-plan-to-seed-life-on-alien-planets
Habitable Exoplanets are Bad News for Humanity
"While emergence of intelligent life could be rare, the silence could also be the result of intelligent life emerging frequently but subsequently failing to survive for long. Might every sufficiently advanced civilisation stumble across a suicidal technology or unsustainable trajectory? We know that a Great Filter prevents the emergence of prosperous interstellar civilisations, but we don’t know whether or not it lies in humanity’s past or awaits us in the future."
#planets #exoplanets #aliens #science #Kepler-186f #Fermi #Fermi-Paradox