The SPAAAAAAAACE Thread

[fillow]

Can't get enough of this

[allegate]

pretty sweet shot. I tried to get a shot of the moon this morning because it looked so awesome with the sun coming up under it but I don't know if it came out well at all. What you see with your eyes is so rarely captured in an image of the sky unless you have a really nice camera.

[allegate]

so, you remember this clever little twit?

uh. about that.

Almost two years exactly too.

[sonic_discord]

Apparently Nasa will be making a "major announcement" of "exciting news" about the Moon. I'm really curious what that could be...

ALIENS!!

[october_midnight]

Apparently Nasa will be making a "major announcement" of "exciting news" about the Moon. I'm really curious what that could be...

ALIENS!!

There's tons of water on the moon.

[allegate]

[Findus]

Last night I watched Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer's new doc about meteorites..... and I liked it..... particularly the section featuring micrometeorites. Every day, approximately 100 metric tons of stardust collide with Earth! I'm thinking of picking up Jon Larsen's two books on the subject, In Search of Stardust, and On the Trail of Stardust. The former being full of great photos of magnified micrometeorites, and the latter being an instructional guide for finding micrometeorites.
The doc is called Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds, and it's on AppleTV+.

[allegate]

The Great Conjunction is in the news, does that mean the Republicans - I mean the Skeksis - will be going home soon?

[allegro]

VERY cool (thread).

[allegate]

a brief translation was made available: "what the fuck is wrong with your planet"

[Substance242]

Nice Low Earth Orbit Visualization, try to turn on also debris...

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

(found in latest LTT video about Starlink youtu.be/Fh1a2K9ZgNA)

PS: For future searches for this thread, the number of "A" in title is 8, remember that.

[marodi]

Persy is set to land on Mars tomorrow!

NASA's toolkit to experience the landing, aka worrying to death with the team for the seven minutes Persy will be unreachable, can be find here: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/

GO PERSY!

[richardp]

They have 23 cameras on Percy right? Is NASA actually going to have the feeds from those going during the stream or are they going to gather and release that footage at a later time?

[marodi]

They have 23 cameras on Percy right? Is NASA actually going to have the feeds from those going during the stream or are they going to gather and release that footage at a later time?

The cameras will not be filming but it is possible that photographs could be sent. Perseverence will send signals to indicate how the landing process is going. It has to land all on its own, without help from NASA. All NASA can do is cross fingers and hope for the best.

NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02...a-mars-landing

edit: TOUCHDOWN! PERSEVERENCE HAS LANDED!!!

[allegate]

[marodi]

@richardp

[richardp]

@richardp

Absolutely fucking incredible. God I would love to see that on a giant IMAX screen.

[Substance242]

This is 80 minutes but very interesting (really).

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

[Erneuert]

This is 80 minutes but very interesting (really).

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

That was outstanding! Watched it up to the Q&A.

[botley]

Congratulations team on a successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope! Very exciting.

[allegate]

Spoiler: Update: Santa has been destroyed by the range safety officer.

[allegate]

What if the universe had no beginning?

It is too early to try to read this. Going to try again later.

[Jon]

What if the universe had no beginning?

It is too early to try to read this. Going to try again later.

All of this is very fascinating, but does nothing to answer why these singularities exist in the first place. We've moved past relativity and into causal-set, which denies singularities exist?

[Erneuert]

@elevenism @allegro @allegate @eachpassingphase @ickyvicky @botley

Pretty interesting:

Australian scientists discover ‘spooky’ object beaming out from space that flashes on and off

https://www.theguardian.com/australi..._b-aplnews_d-3

When something in space switches on and off it’s called a “transient”. It might come from a pulsar, which flashes on and off in milliseconds or seconds. Or a supernova that might appear for a few days before disappearing again.

“What we found, though, is something that switches on and off every 20 minutes,” astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker said.

[botley]

My favourite line in that article is "REALLY EXTREME PHYSICS" lol.

[allegate]

Damn dude. It's only Monday morning, you didn't have to go that hard.

[Erneuert]

^ I thought that was a bat hanging upside down at first, lol.

[Alexandros]

On achieving the landmark of 5,000 exoplanets discovered, NASA released a cool little animation/sonification which tracks the discovery of the planets across the years, with position in the sky, orbit size, orbital period and detection method being the info conveyed by the visual and audio elements.

[allegate]

The Juice is Loose!

Spoiler: JWST - Juiced

[allegate]

In one of the photos of this binary star you can actually see both stars. I'll see if I can scrub it up again.