‘astronomy’ directory
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- “The Scaling Law in Stellar Light Curves”, Pan et al 2024
- “AstroPT: Scaling Large Observation Models for Astronomy”, Smith et al 2024
- “Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity”, Litina & Fernández 2023
- “Is There a Black Hole in the Center of the Sun? No”, Caplan et al 2023
- “Element Abundance Patterns in Stars Indicate Fission of Nuclei Heavier Than Uranium”, Roederer et al 2023
- “SatCLIP: Global, General-Purpose Location Embeddings With Satellite Imagery”, Klemmer et al 2023
- “Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in the Trapezium Cluster”, Pearson & McCaughrean 2023
- “All Objects and Some Questions”, Lineweaver & Patel 2023
- “The Oxygen Bottleneck for Technospheres”, Balbi & Frank 2023
- “On Stellar Migration from the Andromeda Galaxy”, Gülzow et al 2023
- “Dynamic Soaring As a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed”, Larrouturou et al 2022
- “Prediction and Politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit Astronomer and His Technical Resources in a Time of Crisis”, Cullen & Jami 2022
- “Lazarus Stars: Numerical Investigations of Stellar Evolution With Star-Lifting”, Scoggins & Kipping 2022
- “A Causal Limit to Communication within an Expanding Cosmological Civilization”, Olson 2022
- “Why NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Matters So Much”
- “Late-Time Small Body Disruptions for Planetary Defense”, King et al 2021
- “Mining for Strong Gravitational Lenses With Self-Supervised Learning”, Stein et al 2021
- “How a Fake Kepler Portrait Became Iconic”, Shore & Pavlík 2021
- “Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. The National Academies Said the United States Must Study Technologies That Would Artificially Cool the Planet by Reflecting Away Some Sunlight, Citing the Lack of Progress Fighting Global Warming.”, Flavelle 2021
- “Why Are There Seven Sisters?”, Norris & Norris 2021b
- “The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare”, Snyder-Beattie et al 2020
- “Multiple Subglacial Water Bodies below the South Pole of Mars Unveiled by New MARSIS Data”
- “Water on Mars: Discovery of Three Buried Lakes Intrigues Scientists: Researchers Have Detected a Group of Lakes Hidden under the Red Planet’s Icy Surface.”, O’Callaghan 2020
- “M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy”, Stefano et al 2020
- “Phosphine Gas in the Cloud Decks of Venus”, Greaves et al 2020
- “Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star?”, Anchordoqui & Chudnovsky 2020
- “On the Potential of Silicon As a Building Block for Life”, Petkowski et al 2020
- “Collections/Images: Cosmography Manuscript (12th Century)”, Review 2020
- “Phosphine As a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres”, Sousa-Silva et al 2020
- “Bayesian Parameter Estimation Using Conditional Variational Autoencoders for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy”, Gabbard et al 2019
- “A ‘Halo Drive’ Could Accelerate Interstellar Spacecraft to close to the Speed of Light”
- “Investigating the ‘Halo Drive’”
- “Pondering the ‘Dyson Slingshot’”
- “The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons”, Kipping 2019
- “The Degree of Fine-Tuning in Our Universe—And Others”, Adams 2019
- “The Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta”, Caplan et al 2018
- “The Random Walk of Cars and Their Collision Probabilities With Planets”, Rein et al 2018
- “Super-Earths in Need for Extremely Big Rockets”, Hippke 2018
- “Life under a Black Sun”, Opatrný et al 2016
- “On The History and Future of Cosmic Planet Formation”, Behroozi & Peeples 2015
- “Identifying the Source of Perytons at the Parkes Radio Telescope”, Petroff et al 2015
- “The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe”, Loeb 2013
- “Halley and the Eternity of the World Revisited”, Levitin 2013
- “Life Before Earth”, Sharov & Gordon 2013
- “A Universe without Expansion”, Wetterich 2013
- “The Wait Calculation: The Broader Consequences of the Minimum Time from Now to Interstellar Destinations and Its Statistical-Significance to the Space Economy”, Kennedy 2013
- “Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific”, Tippett 2012
- “Gods As Topological Invariants”, Schoch 2012
- “Dispelling the Myth of Robotic Efficiency: Why Human Space Exploration Will Tell Us More about the Solar System Than Will Robotic Exploration Alone”, Crawford 2012
- “Bayesian Analysis of the Astrobiological Implications of Life’s Early Emergence on Earth”, Spiegel & Turner 2012
- “Detection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects in the Outer Solar System and Beyond”, Loeb & Turner 2011
- “Limiting the Impact of Light Pollution on Human Health, Environment and Stellar Visibility”, Falchi et al 2011
- “The Cosmic Distance Ladder”, Tao 2010
- “The Theory Of Interstellar Trade”, Krugman 2010
- “The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar”, Aslaksen 2010
- “Telescope Time Without Tears: A Distributed Approach to Peer Review”, Merrifield & Saari 2009
- “Down-Sizing Forever”, Scott & Frolop 2008
- “Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress”, Kennedy 2006
- “Genome Increase As a Clock for the Origin and Evolution of Life”, Sharov 2006
- “Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development”, Bostrom 2003
- “Provenance in Contest: Searching for the Origins of Jesuit Astronomy in Early Qing China, 1664–1705”, Hu 2002
- “The Long-Term Future of Extragalactic Astronomy”, Loeb 2001
- “Must Early Life Be Easy? The Rhythm of Major Evolutionary Transitions”, Hanson 1998
- “Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing 1601–1805”, Udias 1994
- “A Search for Life on Earth from the Galileo Spacecraft”, Sagan et al 1993
- “The Schwarzschild Black Hole As a Gravitational Mirror”, Stuckey 1993
- “The 1936–1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers”, McCutcheon 1991
- “The Slingshot Effect: Explanation and Analogies”, Bartlett & Hord 1985
- “The Anthropic Principle and Its Implications for Biological Evolution”, Carter 1983
- “Man’s Size in Terms of Fundamental Constants”, Press 1980
- “Halley’s Atheism and the End of the World”, Schaffer 1977
- “Particles, Environments, and Possible Ecologies in the Jovian Atmosphere”, Sagan & Salpeter 1976
- Interstellar Communication: Scientific Perspectives, Ponnamperuma & Cameron 1974
- “Life on a Neutron Star: An Interview With Frank Drake”, Drake 1973
- “Life in the Clouds of Venus?”, Morowitz & Sagan 1967
- “Gravitational Machines”, Dyson 1963
- “The Effect of Friction on Elliptic Orbits”, Parkyn 1958
- “Artificial Living Plants: Proposed Here Is a Design for Self-Reproducing Machines That Would Be Harvested for the Materials from Which They Construct Themselves. They Might Prove More Feasible Than Spaceships and More Profitable”, Moore 1956
- “Available Energy”, Millikan 1928
- “A Possible Explanation of the Behavior of the Hydrogen Lines in Giant Stars”, Compton & Russell 1924
- “Dyson, Freeman John (1923-)”
- “A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps V2 § Letter 48”, Sullivan 1794
- “Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?”, Stephens et al 2025
- “02008-02025 (17 Years): The First True Interstellar Mission, Targeted at the Closest Star to the Sun or Even Farther, Will Be Launched Before or on December 6, 2025 and Will Be Widely Supported by the Public.”
- “02008-02025 (16 Years): By 2025, New Astronomical Observations and Theories Will Render the Big Bang an Untenable Explanation for the Origin of the Universe”
- “The Comet Book (1587)”
- “Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek”
- “How We Can Mine Asteroids for Space Food”
- “Dyson Slingshot”
- “Gravity Assist”
- “Risks of Astronomical Suffering (S-Risks)”
- “1 to 10 Billion Earthlike Planets in the Milky Way Galaxy”
- “Search Resumes for Evidence of Life Out There”
- “Using Black Holes to Conquer Space: The Halo Drive!”
- “Star Timelapse Revealing the Earth’s Rotation”, Rivest 2025
- “The Halo Drive”
- “On the Age of the Sun’s Heat”
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Newton’s System of the World and Comets”, Gwern 2016
“‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, Gwern 2013
Links
“The Scaling Law in Stellar Light Curves”, Pan et al 2024
“AstroPT: Scaling Large Observation Models for Astronomy”, Smith et al 2024
“Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity”, Litina & Fernández 2023
Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity
“Is There a Black Hole in the Center of the Sun? No”, Caplan et al 2023
“Element Abundance Patterns in Stars Indicate Fission of Nuclei Heavier Than Uranium”, Roederer et al 2023
Element abundance patterns in stars indicate fission of nuclei heavier than uranium
“SatCLIP: Global, General-Purpose Location Embeddings With Satellite Imagery”, Klemmer et al 2023
SatCLIP: Global, General-Purpose Location Embeddings with Satellite Imagery
“Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in the Trapezium Cluster”, Pearson & McCaughrean 2023
“All Objects and Some Questions”, Lineweaver & Patel 2023
“The Oxygen Bottleneck for Technospheres”, Balbi & Frank 2023
“On Stellar Migration from the Andromeda Galaxy”, Gülzow et al 2023
“Dynamic Soaring As a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed”, Larrouturou et al 2022
“Prediction and Politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit Astronomer and His Technical Resources in a Time of Crisis”, Cullen & Jami 2022
“Lazarus Stars: Numerical Investigations of Stellar Evolution With Star-Lifting”, Scoggins & Kipping 2022
Lazarus Stars: Numerical investigations of stellar evolution with star-lifting
“A Causal Limit to Communication within an Expanding Cosmological Civilization”, Olson 2022
A causal limit to communication within an expanding cosmological civilization
“Why NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Matters So Much”
“Late-Time Small Body Disruptions for Planetary Defense”, King et al 2021
“Mining for Strong Gravitational Lenses With Self-Supervised Learning”, Stein et al 2021
Mining for strong gravitational lenses with self-supervised learning
“How a Fake Kepler Portrait Became Iconic”, Shore & Pavlík 2021
“Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. The National Academies Said the United States Must Study Technologies That Would Artificially Cool the Planet by Reflecting Away Some Sunlight, Citing the Lack of Progress Fighting Global Warming.”, Flavelle 2021
“Why Are There Seven Sisters?”, Norris & Norris 2021b
“The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare”, Snyder-Beattie et al 2020
The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
“Multiple Subglacial Water Bodies below the South Pole of Mars Unveiled by New MARSIS Data”
Multiple subglacial water bodies below the south pole of Mars unveiled by new MARSIS data
“Water on Mars: Discovery of Three Buried Lakes Intrigues Scientists: Researchers Have Detected a Group of Lakes Hidden under the Red Planet’s Icy Surface.”, O’Callaghan 2020
“M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy”, Stefano et al 2020
M51-ULS-1b: The First Candidate for a Planet in an External Galaxy
“Phosphine Gas in the Cloud Decks of Venus”, Greaves et al 2020
“Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star?”, Anchordoqui & Chudnovsky 2020
Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star?
“On the Potential of Silicon As a Building Block for Life”, Petkowski et al 2020
“Collections/Images: Cosmography Manuscript (12th Century)”, Review 2020
“Phosphine As a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres”, Sousa-Silva et al 2020
“Bayesian Parameter Estimation Using Conditional Variational Autoencoders for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy”, Gabbard et al 2019
“A ‘Halo Drive’ Could Accelerate Interstellar Spacecraft to close to the Speed of Light”
A ‘halo drive’ could accelerate interstellar spacecraft to close to the speed of light :
“Investigating the ‘Halo Drive’”
“Pondering the ‘Dyson Slingshot’”
“The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons”, Kipping 2019
The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons
“The Degree of Fine-Tuning in Our Universe—And Others”, Adams 2019
“The Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta”, Caplan et al 2018
“The Random Walk of Cars and Their Collision Probabilities With Planets”, Rein et al 2018
The Random Walk of Cars and Their Collision Probabilities with Planets
“Super-Earths in Need for Extremely Big Rockets”, Hippke 2018
“Life under a Black Sun”, Opatrný et al 2016
“On The History and Future of Cosmic Planet Formation”, Behroozi & Peeples 2015
“Identifying the Source of Perytons at the Parkes Radio Telescope”, Petroff et al 2015
Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope
“The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe”, Loeb 2013
“Halley and the Eternity of the World Revisited”, Levitin 2013
“A Universe without Expansion”, Wetterich 2013
“The Wait Calculation: The Broader Consequences of the Minimum Time from Now to Interstellar Destinations and Its Statistical-Significance to the Space Economy”, Kennedy 2013
“Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific”, Tippett 2012
Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific
“Gods As Topological Invariants”, Schoch 2012
“Dispelling the Myth of Robotic Efficiency: Why Human Space Exploration Will Tell Us More about the Solar System Than Will Robotic Exploration Alone”, Crawford 2012
“Bayesian Analysis of the Astrobiological Implications of Life’s Early Emergence on Earth”, Spiegel & Turner 2012
Bayesian analysis of the astrobiological implications of life’s early emergence on Earth
“Detection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects in the Outer Solar System and Beyond”, Loeb & Turner 2011
Detection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects in the Outer Solar System and Beyond
“Limiting the Impact of Light Pollution on Human Health, Environment and Stellar Visibility”, Falchi et al 2011
Limiting the impact of light pollution on human health, environment and stellar visibility :
View PDF:
“The Cosmic Distance Ladder”, Tao 2010
“The Theory Of Interstellar Trade”, Krugman 2010
“The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar”, Aslaksen 2010
“Telescope Time Without Tears: A Distributed Approach to Peer Review”, Merrifield & Saari 2009
Telescope Time Without Tears: A Distributed Approach to Peer Review
“Down-Sizing Forever”, Scott & Frolop 2008
“Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress”, Kennedy 2006
Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress
“Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development”, Bostrom 2003
Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development
“Provenance in Contest: Searching for the Origins of Jesuit Astronomy in Early Qing China, 1664–1705”, Hu 2002
Provenance in Contest: Searching for the Origins of Jesuit Astronomy in Early Qing China, 1664–1705 :
“The Long-Term Future of Extragalactic Astronomy”, Loeb 2001
“Must Early Life Be Easy? The Rhythm of Major Evolutionary Transitions”, Hanson 1998
Must Early Life Be Easy? The Rhythm of Major Evolutionary Transitions
“Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing 1601–1805”, Udias 1994
“A Search for Life on Earth from the Galileo Spacecraft”, Sagan et al 1993
“The Schwarzschild Black Hole As a Gravitational Mirror”, Stuckey 1993
“The 1936–1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers”, McCutcheon 1991
“The Slingshot Effect: Explanation and Analogies”, Bartlett & Hord 1985
“The Anthropic Principle and Its Implications for Biological Evolution”, Carter 1983
The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution
“Man’s Size in Terms of Fundamental Constants”, Press 1980
“Halley’s Atheism and the End of the World”, Schaffer 1977
“Particles, Environments, and Possible Ecologies in the Jovian Atmosphere”, Sagan & Salpeter 1976
Particles, environments, and possible ecologies in the Jovian atmosphere
Interstellar Communication: Scientific Perspectives, Ponnamperuma & Cameron 1974
“Life on a Neutron Star: An Interview With Frank Drake”, Drake 1973
“Life in the Clouds of Venus?”, Morowitz & Sagan 1967
“Gravitational Machines”, Dyson 1963
“The Effect of Friction on Elliptic Orbits”, Parkyn 1958
“Artificial Living Plants: Proposed Here Is a Design for Self-Reproducing Machines That Would Be Harvested for the Materials from Which They Construct Themselves. They Might Prove More Feasible Than Spaceships and More Profitable”, Moore 1956
“Available Energy”, Millikan 1928
“A Possible Explanation of the Behavior of the Hydrogen Lines in Giant Stars”, Compton & Russell 1924
A Possible Explanation of the Behavior of the Hydrogen Lines in Giant Stars :
“Dyson, Freeman John (1923-)”
“A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps V2 § Letter 48”, Sullivan 1794
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps v2 § Letter 48
“Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?”, Stephens et al 2025
“02008-02025 (17 Years): The First True Interstellar Mission, Targeted at the Closest Star to the Sun or Even Farther, Will Be Launched Before or on December 6, 2025 and Will Be Widely Supported by the Public.”
“02008-02025 (16 Years): By 2025, New Astronomical Observations and Theories Will Render the Big Bang an Untenable Explanation for the Origin of the Universe”
“The Comet Book (1587)”
“Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek”
Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek
“How We Can Mine Asteroids for Space Food”
“Dyson Slingshot”
“Gravity Assist”
“Risks of Astronomical Suffering (S-Risks)”
Risks of Astronomical Suffering (S-risks) :
View External Link:
https://www.lesswrong.com/w/risks-of-astronomical-suffering-s-risks
“1 to 10 Billion Earthlike Planets in the Milky Way Galaxy”
“Search Resumes for Evidence of Life Out There”
“Using Black Holes to Conquer Space: The Halo Drive!”
“Star Timelapse Revealing the Earth’s Rotation”, Rivest 2025
“The Halo Drive”
“On the Age of the Sun’s Heat”
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cosmic-formation cosmological-theory extragalactic-history topological-physics universe-expansion cosmic-legacy
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Wikipedia
Miscellaneous
Bibliography
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14930: “AstroPT: Scaling Large Observation Models for Astronomy”, -
2023-litina.pdf: “Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity”, -
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2019.2149: “The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare”, -
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423: “The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion of Large Masses via Recycled Boomerang Photons”, -
2013-kennedy.pdf: “The Wait Calculation: The Broader Consequences of the Minimum Time from Now to Interstellar Destinations and Its Statistical-Significance to the Space Economy”, -
2006-kennedy.pdf: “Interstellar Travel: The Wait Calculation and the Incentive Trap of Progress”, -
1963-dyson.pdf: “Gravitational Machines”,