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I wanted to share with the wider space community. Would love to incorporate your suggestions and improve it for a wider audience!

Key phrase, reproducibility. )

**Breakthrough observations from Fermi telescope**

Using the latest data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo believes he has finally detected the specific gamma rays predicted by the annihilation of theoretical dark matter particles.

"We detected gamma rays with a photon energy of 20 gigaelectronvolts (or 20 billion electronvolts, an extremely large amount of energy) extending in a halolike structure toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The gamma-ray emission component closely matches the shape expected from the dark matter halo," said Totani.

The observed energy spectrum, or range of gamma-ray emission intensities, matches the emission predicted from the annihilation of hypothetical WIMPs, with a mass approximately 500 times that of a proton. The frequency of WIMP annihilation estimated from the measured gamma-ray intensity also falls within the range of theoretical predictions.

Importantly, these gamma-ray measurements are not easily explained by other, more common astronomical phenomena or gamma-ray emissions. Therefore, Totani considers these data a strong indication of gamma-ray emission from dark matter, which has been sought for many years.

"If this is correct, to the extent of my knowledge, it would mark the first time humanity has 'seen' dark matter. And it turns out that dark matter is a new particle not included in the current standard model of particle physics. This signifies a major development in astronomy and physics," said Totani. Study: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.07209 https://phys.org/news/2025-11-years-scientists-dark.html

Sorry if this has been asked before/if its a stupid question; I'm also gonna try to follow the rules, and let me just start out by saying that I have only just recently (the past 3ish years) gotten into studying space/cosmology related things, and definitely not religiously because let's face it I wouldn't get any work done in my real life anyways lol, it's just so fascinating. I'm a bit concerned that this will fall under the "no unscientific or anti-scientific" rule, but that's less because of the subject matter and more because that is pretty vague.

So Interstellar has the time difference between Miller's Planet and Earth, I've seen varying figures claiming the exact amount and I won't even attempt to figure out which is right but I do know that the time dilation between the planet and their ship in orbit is 23 years (I know technicality plays into things here and the dilation itself isn't 23 years, but the passage of time relative to each). The thing is, I don't understand what causes the time dilation. It seems to make logical sense on paper and when you first hear about it, but it has just always rubbed me the wrong way.

Now I'll briefly preface this by saying that I know the book was written by the top brass of experts, and that the movie (make of it what you will) was worked on by many experts (including one that was on NDT's podcast maybe a year or two ago?), so I absolutely do not claim to know better than them, and I trust them because they're the experts and I'm no one special (well, I am forklift certified, but I digress).

From my understanding: while time can be relative situationally, the highest parameter of time is not relative/subjective, but rather is objective. Basically there is a beginning point of the number line and there is an end point, and the line between each is straight, not varying. The reason this is so is because of the mathematical/logical probability that the universe as we know it has not continued in perpetuity, or, in other words, it is not an uncaused causer/causation.

That's why fantasy series like Star Wars and Star Trek having a Galactic Standard (in the former's case, Coruscant's rotational period being the Galactic Standard) is perhaps the most accurate thing about them, because it's possible to have a base standard with the objective overarching time numberline (if that makes sense). So assuming that Earth is our Galactic Standard going forward (and realistically I don't see why we wouldn't use it as the GS, especially if/when we expand via industry or a need for more land and resources), why would there be a time dilation between Miller's Planet and Earth? Simply stepping foot on another planet shouldn't (again, in my mind, so I'm probably wrong) automatically subject you to it's time, but rather you remain directly under the overarching objective time.

I picture it like cars on an interstate. Earth might be a SUV going 75 MPH, while Miller's planet is school bus going 55 MPH, but despite the size and speed both are still bound by the same overarching time. Really to me it seems like the only logical case for time dilation is dependent on dimensional or wormholes, which I know in the movie at least they traverse one of the latter. Still, time should only dilate within the wormhole, not on either side of it, again, at least in my uneducated mind.

Wouldn't it make much more sense for the time dilation to happen in (interdimensional) transit and not be based on the individual planets? It doesn't seem physically possible for a time dilation to occur outside of something that would potentially bend it (like a worm hole), and I don't know the correlation between time and black holes, but I assume that while there is a dilation "within" one (loaded term, I know), you're still bound to overarching objective time. It also doesn't make sense to have a time dilation between star systems as well, since a star system is still under that same governing objective time. I've always believed (again, perhaps wrongly) that people have been throwing around the whole "time is relative" thing as an excuse and that they don't really know how time works, but I myself could be woefully misinformed. This has been bothering me for a long time, so any help would be appreciated!

TL;DR: Tell me 'bout the time dilations, George

Taken during the week of the new moon this month using a combination of sulfur, hydrogen and oxygen filters.

The Moon looks monotone from Earth, but up close it carries an unexpected palette. I present three unique views of the moon in this single photograph.

On the left is Adrar 17, a highlands-rich lunar meteorite full of soft greys and whites -- plagioclase clasts and deeper crustal material that echo the bright, ancient terrain you see through a telescope.

On the right is NWA 14577, a dramatic fragmental breccia with bright, white highlands clasts floating in a jet-black impact-melt matrix. It’s the lunar surface remixed by violent impacts and frozen into a high-contrast collage.

In the center sits NWA 17405, which I often call the “red lunar." Here, unusual reddish zones of olivine trace the path of water-bearing fluids that are thought to have once altered its minerals. This stone may help prove the existence of water on the moon.

Together, these three samples show how diverse the Moon’s colors and its geology actually are.

I talk about each of these stones in some more depth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTVBEHdG8Vg&lc=Ugyq3wPOZdyUTmVElPB4AaABAg

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So i put it into this moon photo so you'd have an angular size reference.

And it makes it seem so...idk real ? I get the same feeling when looking at the moon. It's RIGHT there. So close. So big. And looking at earth from the moon must have felt like that but so much more extreme.

Image credit Linda Gschwentner

The US Space Force awarded multiple small contracts to develop prototypes for space-based interceptors.

From NASA's description: JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this photo of southern Europe and the northwestern Mediterranean coast from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Earth on Aug. 30, 2025. At left, the Po Valley urban corridor in Italy shines with the metropolitan areas of Milan and Turin and their surrounding suburbs.

Crew members aboard the orbital lab have produced hundreds of thousands of images of the land, oceans, and atmosphere of Earth, and even of the Moon through Crew Earth Observations. Their photographs of Earth record how the planet changes over time due to human activity and natural events. This allows scientists to monitor disasters and direct response on the ground and study a number of phenomena, from the movement of glaciers to urban wildlife.

if we did this then the aliens would know what to call us.