thanks!
oof, my fingers did the typing and my brain did the thinking and what came out was sort of a garbled mess. i updated the wording. they are absorption lines—in an attempt to be clear, i was not. sorry!
“southern africa” would have made more sense, editorial oversight, sorry about that. since no one was harmed, the location didn’t matter to the story as much as the fact that a meteor struck the earth a few hours after it was detected.
i have figured out how to do subscripts in kinja (command+L on apple) and have updated the article appropriately, lol
but then i wouldn’t have gotten to explain the xenon-xenon collision results i was excited about that no one else cared about
part of the reason this article came out so late is because i really dove into reading about this stuff and i love the fact that hams use q codes in daily conversation
glad you liked it—this post was super fun to write. it’s actually an interesting looking plot—there’s both an outward pressure inside, and an inward pressure holding them together. the pressure is caused by the strong nuclear force, which gets stronger with distance.
yeah someone tells me this every time i say “Just happened” https://gizmodo.com/amateur-astronomer-spots-supernova-right-as-it-begins-1823192936