Here’s a great video by Cody’s Lab on the subject. Namely, there could be frozen microbes from Earth’s distant past in the permanately shadowed craters since the moon is so much more stable than earth.
It’s not. The photos with the horizon visible are photos taken during the descent, whereas the photos with only ground visible were taken as landing was imminent (or after landing).
There is a photo on the page that shows the horizon from a landed position, that's the one he's referring to.
It links to, and is displayed, here; with no indication that it's an artist's take on what it would look like. It seems to be D. Mitchell's stitching work from this Venera-13 clear-filter panoramic transmission with added perspective from the color-filter panoramic transmissions.
In the main Cosmic Inflation universe, new space is created exponentially with time.
In roughly 1 out of every 30,000 pieces of “new space”, a big bang occurs from a random quantum fluctuation. The big bangs slow down the inflation expansion in a local area that becomes the equivalent of a ‘pocket universe’.
There was perhaps an infinite number of big bangs (and dead pocket universes) in the past, and there will be an infinite number of big bangs (and new pocket universes) in the future.
Yes. The Cosmic Inflation universe grows exponentially bigger every tiny fraction of a second. And this has been going on for possibly billions or trillions of years or longer. The number of big bangs and pocket universes created by that is mind boggling.
Is it really “new” space or is it that the space already here is expanding? And how the actual fuck can we do an experiment to figure out the difference?
It is stated in the article that it is a “second generation planet.”. The primary star went red giant and destroyed all the previous Exoplanets. The one they observed has reformed from that debre.
It’s a preprint tough, so not yet peer reviews. So for now maybe to be taken with a grain of salt.
One thought that always fascinated me was the idea that maybe our universe does appear to outsiders … but it only appears as a sudden momentary flash. We see billions of years, they barely notice a spark.
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