sharon under the stars @clyminghawk@qoto.org

Saw this in a nearby post office and it reminded me of all the poor Mastodon admins this week ...

When an exoplanet passes between its host star and us, the star's light is filtered by the exoplanet's atmosphere, each molecule leaving a different imprint.

Similarly, during a lunar #eclipse like the one on Nov 7-8, sunlight passes through the Earth's atmosphere before reaching the Moon. We can thus use lunar eclipses to find clues of life on Earth, which will hopefully help us identify life elsewhere. I wrote about it here:

➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/blog/is-there-life-on-earth/

#astronomy #astrodon
📷 ESO/M. Kornmesser

You are not a brand.

Kill your inner capitalist.

I (and a host of other science and non-science folks) am going to be in the new Cosmic Shambles Network documentary, “Rapid Motion Through Space: An Incomplete History of Speed”, which is released next year. Check out the trailer here! 🤓 https://youtu.be/6HPhhbDjZyQ

Reminder about lunar eclipse tonight, visible from the US, Oceania and Eastern Asia. The show starts at about 1am Mountain Time, see link when that is in your time zone. https://everytimezone.com/s/2da3be5c

Here’s my series of photos from the previous eclipse back in May.