We're in the midst of history-making days (and nights).
May 15, 2022 offers 85 minutes of a total lunar eclipse that begins at 11:29AM ET. All that's required to witness the event is (1) clear skies, and (2) go outside and look.
Midwest GeoSciences Group will join science-minded friends in Carmel, Indiana to watch the eclipse, but the real exciting topic of conversation will be these history making days where astrophysicists have captured the imagery of the massive black hole at the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy.
The imagery for the black hole was released on May 12, 2022 at multiple press conferences simultaneously world-wide.
These images alone do not tell the remarkable nature of these phenomenon.
Scale of time and distance are nearly unfathomable. We as geoscientists can appreciate how computer modeling is used to unravel the context of their size, distance, gravity, and spacetime. May be we have it easy with stratigraphy, plate tectonics, and planetary progressions. For astrophysicists, nature itself changes with the fabric of outer space. Right? .... we can all appreciate the complexity of this phenomenon.
These are exciting times to live. We are witnessing history every day with new research results about exoplanets, dark matter, blackholes, galaxy formation, quantum entanglement, particle physics and telescope technology.
If you are working on an interesting project and would like to share it with us, we'd love to hear from you. -Dan Kelleher
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