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Title: Space News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Aug 27, 2016, 03:31:59 PM
Thought I'd start an Astronomy thread.

Anyone have a telescope or really interested in Astronomy? As a huge Alien fan I'm fascinated with this stuff. A couple of years ago between 2009-2010 and again 2014 I went on a massive Astronomy equipment buying run. I had to downsize at some point but now that I bought a house with no neighbors in the backyard thinking of re starting for fun.. Anyhow here are 2 videos I took of the moon with my first telescope. Really not easy with this one because it did not have a tracking system (I have one now though :)) so I had to constantly manually drag it and hold the camera..I have more from Saturn, our Sun etc.. If anyone has a telescope or wants to get one...discuss if you wish. :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GOuIeNtFUC4&feature=youtu.be

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=7rgNp0An7yU
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: The Alien Predator on Aug 27, 2016, 04:26:15 PM
Really cool thread, I look forward to seeing more discoveries shared on here.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Aug 27, 2016, 05:03:03 PM
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Aug 27, 2016, 04:26:15 PM
You have a telescope, Nostromo?

That is so f**king AWESOME!

I love space so much.  ;D

Same here :) I have this telescope now:

http://www.celestron.com/browse-shop/astronomy/telescopes/advanced-vx-8-edgehd-telescope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=3cATYe7kd7U
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: The Alien Predator on Aug 27, 2016, 05:53:32 PM
That is some great stuff man!
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Aug 27, 2016, 08:50:17 PM
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Aug 27, 2016, 05:53:32 PM
That is some great stuff man!

I used to have this telescope, it's one of the best telescopes for the price on the market still to this day I'm sure. 10 inches but no tracking, although now I'm sure they make them with tracking. They are huge and heavy though. Tracking is only useful if you want to photograph but not absolutely necessary.

http://www.telescope.com/Orion-XT10-Classic-Dobsonian-Telescope-amp-Beginner-Barlow-Kit/p/27162.uts



Finally a real pic of Jupiter from Juno.

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/juno-completes-jupiter-flyby

(https://d2xkkdgjnsfvb0.cloudfront.net/Vault/Thumb?VaultID=4866&Interlaced=1&Mode=R&ResX=720&OutputFormat=jpg&Quality=80&t=1471439922)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Predboy on Aug 29, 2016, 09:01:44 PM
You should have the x-files theme playing through one of the videos. lol
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Aug 29, 2016, 09:31:41 PM
WOW...this is going to possibly be the news of the year ...or more...in the Astronomy world at least.

Is Earth being contacted by ALIENS? Mystery radio signals coming from a sun-like star baffle scientists

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3763416/Is-Earth-contacted-ALIENS-Mystery-radio-signals-coming-sun-like-star-baffle-scientists.html

Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal From Deep Space

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/29/12/37AECA0900000578-0-Two_SETI_research_groups_will_track_HD_164595_tonight_using_the_-a-17_1472468548908.jpg

Working out the strength of the signal, the researchers say that if it came from an isotropic beacon, it would be of a power possible only for a Kardashev Type II civilisation.'

'If it were a narrow beam signal focused on our solar system, it would be of a power available to a Kardashev Type I civilisation.'

The Kardashev scale is a way of measuring an alien society's technological advancement based upon how much energy it has at its disposal.
A Type I civilisation is given to species who have been able to harness all the energy that is available from a nearby star, gathering and storing it to meet its population's demands.

A Type II civilisation is much more advanced and can harness the power of their entire star.
Type III is a species that has been able to master everything having to do with energy. Earth doesn't feature on the scale. 

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2F12%2F37AECA0900000578-0-Two_SETI_research_groups_will_track_HD_164595_tonight_using_the_-a-17_1472468548908.jpg&hash=83983eb3b49f6d1a149a441d91c805294b9a32b8)


If there are any intelligent alien life forms out there, Stephen Hawking thinks we're playing a dangerous game by trying to contact them.
The physicist believes if aliens discovered Earth, they are likely to want to conquer and colonise our planet.

'If aliens visit us, the outcome could be much like when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,' he said in an interview.
But co-founder and former director of the Seti Institute, Jill Tarter, doesn't think this will be the case.
She argues any aliens who have managed to travel across the universe will be sophisticated enough to be friendly and peaceful.
'The idea of a civilisation which has managed to survive far longer than we have...and the fact that that technology remains an aggressive one, to me, doesn't make sense,' she said.


Update: Stay Tuned!

http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal?utm_content=buffer10136&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

If they find a signal..could become the story of the century!



https://twitter.com/jrseti/status/770394028378497024?s=02

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 30, 2016, 09:31:21 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Aug 29, 2016, 09:31:41 PM
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal?utm_content=buffer10136&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

If they find a signal..could become the story of the century!

Only skim read this yesterday but if it's legit it would be amazing. Doesn't sound like SETI are confident about it though.

I've got a telescope though I don't get it out far enough. Where I live at the minute doesn't have the greatest of views so I can't say I've used it recently. I did get the pleasure of seeing Mars and Jupiter through it when I brought it though and that was just wonderful. It wasn't the greatest photo and not very representative of the actual view but I've attached a picture from a year or so back.

Also got my pledgers pack through for supporting the Lowell Pluto Discovery Telescope. It included the discovery plates for how they discovered Pluto. Jesus. It's so minuscule. The effort that went into this kind of thing.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Le Celticant on Aug 30, 2016, 09:31:53 AM
It indeed makes very little sense at first to have more develop civilization which basically would be even more colonialist than we are.
Chances are, they could be not interested at all about our planet. It's small, it ain't the richest in mineral, it may not even be suitable for sustaining extra-terrestrial life and there are great risk that people never think of contamination.
A cold could probably wipe out (works both way) their entire civilization.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Aug 30, 2016, 10:35:03 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 30, 2016, 09:31:21 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Aug 29, 2016, 09:31:41 PM
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal?utm_content=buffer10136&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

If they find a signal..could become the story of the century!

Only skim read this yesterday but if it's legit it would be amazing. Doesn't sound like SETI are confident about it though.

I've got a telescope though I don't get it out far enough. Where I live at the minute doesn't have the greatest of views so I can't say I've used it recently. I did get the pleasure of seeing Mars and Jupiter through it when I brought it though and that was just wonderful. It wasn't the greatest photo and not very representative of the actual view but I've attached a picture from a year or so back.

Also got my pledgers pack through for supporting the Lowell Pluto Discovery Telescope. It included the discovery plates for how they discovered Pluto. Jesus. It's so minuscule. The effort that went into this kind of thing.


Hey that's cool =) you heve a telescope also Hicks? Trust me I know how hard it can be to find locations with all the lighting everywhere. Yes first try at pictures usually is quite hard. I see you got a Jupiter moon or 2 in your picture :).

Anything but the moon is quite hard to catch if your camera is not afocally attached to the telescope.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Aug 31, 2016, 04:25:06 AM
Ha, no one believes the Russians anymore.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 31, 2016, 08:04:46 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Aug 30, 2016, 10:35:03 AM
Hey that's cool =) you heve a telescope also Hicks? Trust me I know how hard it can be to find locations with all the lighting everywhere. Yes first try at pictures usually is quite hard. I see you got a Jupiter moon or 2 in your picture :).

Anything but the moon is quite hard to catch if your camera is not afocally attached to the telescope.

I'd love to get into proper astrophotography at some point but it requires more money than I'm willing to spend at this moment in time.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Aug 31, 2016, 09:54:17 PM
Yes it's pretty expensive. That's why I did Afocal Astrophotography.

Not much to see, but another first: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galleries/quaoar
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Sep 01, 2016, 10:51:42 AM
Whelp, the Russians are pretty certain the signal was a satellite of earthly origins. Oh well, maybe next time.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 01, 2016, 12:15:50 PM
How stupid or messed up is that. The Russians detected something last year, they release the news a few days ago, than a day later come out saying it was probably a signal from earth?

Perhaps Seti found out and told the Russians hey dumbasses the signal is coming from Earth...so the Russians came out quickly to say that so they don't look dumb..pah....the f was this all about..I feel like deleting all the posts about this story.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 01, 2016, 12:33:24 PM
Got a link to the confirmation?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 01, 2016, 01:35:28 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 01, 2016, 12:33:24 PM
Got a link to the confirmation?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/hd164595-signal-not-aliens-russian-scientists/amp
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 01, 2016, 02:11:18 PM
Thanks, will give it a read.

http://www.wftv.com/news/local/nasa-spacex-rocket-explosion-rocks-kennedy-space-center/434865764

Was this one of the reused rockets?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 01, 2016, 03:43:03 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 01, 2016, 02:11:18 PM
Thanks, will give it a read.

http://www.wftv.com/news/local/nasa-spacex-rocket-explosion-rocks-kennedy-space-center/434865764

Was this one of the reused rockets?

Hehe, what do you mean, that is another story, it just happened today, those type of rocket failures happen a lot. :)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 01, 2016, 05:06:38 PM
I know it's a new story. Was just posting it.  :P I just mean Space X was due to launch one of the rockets they had successfully landed. Was wondering if this was one of them.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 01, 2016, 06:15:06 PM
ROFL: Forgive me,  ;D

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fd2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net%2Fimages%2Fd%2F5%2Fsomebody-wake-up-hicks-avp-alien-vs-predator-ccg-premiere-card-ex-nm-aliens-be9097a1909be5adef8f91ef286a4546.jpg&hash=72655d9a89c59075a0a23194445d6f54f06cd38b)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 02, 2016, 11:35:03 AM
http://www.seeker.com/spacex-rocket-israeli-satellite-destroyed-during-test-firing-1994278022.html

Just a bit more info on the explosion. There's some videos available online too.



Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 01, 2016, 06:15:06 PM
http://d2ydh70d4b5xgv.cloudfront.net/images/d/5/somebody-wake-up-hicks-avp-alien-vs-predator-ccg-premiere-card-ex-nm-aliens-be9097a1909be5adef8f91ef286a4546.jpg

Joker.  ::)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 02, 2016, 01:47:47 PM
Damn! Nice video!^

Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System

http://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-aurora-sounds-2016-9

https://twitter.com/CassiniSaturn/status/771814693308510210
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 05, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrXHx_GVUAAo_Ll.jpg)

Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 05, 2016, 05:15:52 PM
Missing comet lander Philae spotted at last

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-09-orbiter-comet-lander-philae-space.html

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.phys.org%2Fnewman%2Fcsz%2Fnews%2F800%2F2016%2Fmissingcomet.jpg&hash=966c8f329549da0bf117b6d49d681c9be51c5ab0)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 05, 2016, 10:10:48 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 05, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrXHx_GVUAAo_Ll.jpg)

Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.

They gonna land? or just a fly by ?

(I'm getting tired of nasa just flying around... time to land some rovers on multiple planets/moons lol)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 05, 2016, 10:34:12 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 05, 2016, 10:10:48 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 05, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrXHx_GVUAAo_Ll.jpg)

Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.

They gonna land? or just a fly by ?

(I'm getting tired of nasa just flying around... time to land some rovers on multiple planets/moons lol)

Haha...no they can't land on Jupiter. There probably isn't even any landmass to land on. You would also be crushed by pure pressure just entering it's deadly atmosphere! They've already sent something crash landing on Jupiter and it was crushed instantly. They may land on Europa someday but only with a rover for now. The Cassini mission is much more advanced right now, I believe they have something on Saturn's moon Titan but they are so cheap and secretive with their pictures...

And you can't land on Saturn either, it's another gas giant.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 05, 2016, 11:29:22 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 05, 2016, 10:34:12 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 05, 2016, 10:10:48 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 05, 2016, 08:45:25 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrXHx_GVUAAo_Ll.jpg)

Absolutely f**king gorgeous. Really looking forward to seeing what they discover from Juno.

They gonna land? or just a fly by ?

(I'm getting tired of nasa just flying around... time to land some rovers on multiple planets/moons lol)

Haha...no they can't land on Jupiter. There probably isn't even any landmass to land on. You would also be crushed by pure pressure just entering it's deadly atmosphere! They've already sent something crash landing on Jupiter and it was crushed instantly. They may land on Europa someday but only with a rover for now. The Cassini mission is much more advanced right now, I believe they have something on Saturn's moon Titan but they are so cheap and secretive with their pictures...

And you can't land on Saturn either, it's another gas giant.

I know lol, i'm just saying they need to stop flying around and get some rovers on the moons/planets with a 'surface'

or would be interesting to send in a probe with some HD cams straight into Jupiter see what data we'll get before its crushed.


Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 06, 2016, 08:01:41 AM
They landed the Huygens probe on Titan. It functioned for about 90 minutes on the surface.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2F545754main_pia08427-full_full.jpg&hash=def16892f95a17ea38b5719492e42524e856b6c0)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2Fimages%2Fi%2F000%2F044%2F970%2Fi02%2Fhuygens-probe-titan.jpg%3F1421267025%3Finterpolation%3Dlanczos-none%26amp%3Bdownsize%3D640%3A%2A&hash=44427e4ed6983ffba9bcf6ca59c4d9c920777bea)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsubstance.etsmtl.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2Ftitan-surface.jpg&hash=598fa3a900ad02b760cd3ebf6fce56edea5f9f16)

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/nasa-and-esa-celebrate-10-years-since-titan-landing

I believe they're working on a mission proposal for a Europa mission but I'm not sure about Rovers and etc. They need to be careful of contaminating any possible life and etc.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 08:18:05 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 06, 2016, 08:01:41 AM
They landed the Huygens probe on Titan. It functioned for about 90 minutes on the surface.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2F545754main_pia08427-full_full.jpg&hash=def16892f95a17ea38b5719492e42524e856b6c0)
http://www.space.com/images/i/000/044/970/i02/huygens-probe-titan.jpg?1421267025?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=640:*
http://substance.etsmtl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/titan-surface.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/nasa-and-esa-celebrate-10-years-since-titan-landing

I believe they're working on a mission proposal for a Europa mission but I'm not sure about Rovers and etc. They need to be careful of contaminating any possible life and etc.

I remember that, but why 90 min? power ran out? or dangerous surface?

As for Europa, it's a ball of ice, but they believe an ocean exists under it? if thy start drilling? makes you wonder, but i don't see them getting on Europa anytime soon.

Did you watch Europa report movie?  http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 06, 2016, 08:20:29 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 08:18:05 AM
I remember that, but why 90 min? power ran out? or dangerous surface?

Not sure to be honest. I'll have a gander.

QuoteAs for Europa, it's a ball of ice, but they believe an ocean exists under it? if thy start drilling? makes you wonder, but i don't see them getting on Europa anytime soon.

I'm certain there's a project in development to get to Europa. I'll see if I can find it.

QuoteDid you watch Europa report movie?  http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/

I watched it a while back. Surprisingly good movie!
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 06, 2016, 04:04:54 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 06, 2016, 08:01:41 AM
They landed the Huygens probe on Titan. It functioned for about 90 minutes on the surface.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2F545754main_pia08427-full_full.jpg&hash=def16892f95a17ea38b5719492e42524e856b6c0)
http://www.space.com/images/i/000/044/970/i02/huygens-probe-titan.jpg?1421267025?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=640:*
http://substance.etsmtl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/titan-surface.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/nasa-and-esa-celebrate-10-years-since-titan-landing

I believe they're working on a mission proposal for a Europa mission but I'm not sure about Rovers and etc. They need to be careful of contaminating any possible life and etc.

Incredible pictures! We're very lucky to see these. Usually Nasa doesn't show much.

Yes I meant to say a probe not a rover!!  I'd stopped studying Astronomy around this time, will definitely need to read into this and the Juno probe a bit more. That Cassini mission has been a huge success, it's amazing that it's still going around Saturn for all these years! (Its mission is ongoing as of 2016. It has studied the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004).

Not only that, but it even launched that nice Huygens probe to Titan, which is the 2nd largest moon in our Solar System. By the way, Huygens is classified as a derelict lander, how sexy is that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)

Largest moons in our Star System (diameter over 1,000 km)

Moon    Planet   Mean diameter (km)
Ganymede    Jupiter   5262
Titan           Saturn      5150
Callisto    Jupiter   4821
Io              Jupiter     3643
Moon         Earth       3475
Europa       Jupiter     3122
Triton         Neptune   2707
Titania        Uranus    1578

http://www.ianridpath.com/moons.htm


Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 04:37:07 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 06, 2016, 04:04:54 PM
it's amazing that it's still going around Saturn for all these years! (Its mission is ongoing as of 2016. It has studied the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004).

Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/


They've definitely got to make a Voyager 3 someday. (with our current tech and faster speeds etc)

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 06, 2016, 07:00:33 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 04:37:07 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 06, 2016, 04:04:54 PM
it's amazing that it's still going around Saturn for all these years! (Its mission is ongoing as of 2016. It has studied the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004).

Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/


They've definitely got to make a Voyager 3 someday. (with our current tech and faster speeds etc)

Voyager 2 still going as well.. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/

In case anyone wants to go live on Pluto, this is what it looks like in some parts:

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-methane-snowcaps-on-the-edge-of-darkness

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Ffull_width%2Fpublic%2Fthumbnails%2Fimage%2Fnh-contextimageuse.jpg%3Fitok%3DyUYEsUkn&hash=fbbd830a32458e3bacff8bb4ffec947c6bf53d0a)


Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 07, 2016, 07:15:15 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 04:37:07 PM
Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.

Most likely nothing. It'll probably be a long time before the Voyagers see anything of interest. Dedicated interstellar probes are a long way off with our current level of technology. It'd just take too long for them to get anywhere. Someday though.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 07, 2016, 02:14:46 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 07, 2016, 07:15:15 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Sep 06, 2016, 04:37:07 PM
Don't forget Voyager 1, Launched September 5, 1977 and still going. (makes you wonder what she has seen and where is she now...) - Hard to believe she is still transmitting data back to NASA.

Most likely nothing. It'll probably be a long time before the Voyagers see anything of interest. Dedicated interstellar probes are a long way off with our current level of technology. It'd just take too long for them to get anywhere. Someday though.

You're right, after reading more about it, it won't come into contact with any planet or star for another 30,000 Years... 

(i'll make sure i'll be out on that day.)


Also, i remember this pic.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Ffull_width_feature%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F117632main_image_feature_346_ys_full.jpg%3Fitok%3DdFgvfP-s&hash=7613b3b836ced0a6674ba792335cf1a25e6ab9a7)

Active Volcano/lava flow on the moon 'Lo'
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 12:05:29 PM
That is lovely. Which probe is that from?

http://www.seeker.com/asteroid-named-for-rock-star-freddie-mercury-1998298240.html

That's a lovely tribute.  :)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 09, 2016, 12:50:29 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 12:05:29 PM
That is lovely. Which probe is that from?

Think it was the Galileo spacecraft or Pioneer 11.


Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 12:05:29 PM
http://www.seeker.com/asteroid-named-for-rock-star-freddie-mercury-1998298240.html

That's a lovely tribute.  :)

Nice.


One of my favorites

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Flh4a46c.jpg&hash=101568e905a6f550ab8e86fb9265eb1e7ff42fd3)

SURFACE OF VENUS
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 03:17:03 PM
One of the Russian probes?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 09, 2016, 05:59:03 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 03:17:03 PM
One of the Russian probes?


Possibly, i remember reading about it, and they said something along the lines,

*second we landed we started to experience massive failures of systems and extreme temperatures rising*

Place is a living hell, dat yellow sky lol
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 09, 2016, 06:15:33 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 09, 2016, 12:05:29 PM
That is lovely. Which probe is that from?

http://www.seeker.com/asteroid-named-for-rock-star-freddie-mercury-1998298240.html

That's a lovely tribute.  :)

An active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io was captured in this false color image taken on February 22, 2000 by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. White and orange areas on the left side of the picture show newly erupted hot lava. The two small bright spots are sites where molten rock is exposed to the surface at the toes of lava flows. The larger orange and yellow ribbon is a cooling lava flow that is more than more than 60 kilometers (37 miles) long.

QuoteOne of the Russian probes?

Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 tend to be more widely circulated because they are in color.

The spacecraft was designed to last about half an hour on Venus' harsh surface, but sent back data for more than two hours after its landing March 1, 1982.

Since no lander has ventured on to Venus since the 1980s, the Venera program's images of the surface stand as the best close-up record of the planet today.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tu-8h_l-IzY/maxresdefault.jpg)

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimenow.com%2Fimg%2Fastronomy%2Fall%2Fatmosphere-of-venus.png&hash=a6dcdaaff0cfcc2bbfe9659cc22cb5ef6c008ea4)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 11, 2016, 08:10:24 PM
Found this very interesting:

If Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants, could you fly straight through them?

Our friends at the W.A. Gayle Planetarium in Montgomery, Alabama, are curious to know, if Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants, could you fly straight through them?

We think of a gas as something very . . . well, airy. After all, air is the gas we all know and love. We breathe it and fly planes right through it with no trouble. So it makes sense to think that a gas planet must be like a big, airy cloud floating out in space.

But take another look at Jupiter and Saturn—or pictures of them. Notice how round they are. You will never see a cloud on Earth so nearly spherical. Why are Jupiter and Saturn so round if they are just gas? For that matter, why are any planets round?

Well, the short answer is—gravity. Gravity causes all matter to be pulled toward all other matter. Let's think about this in more detail. When the planets were first forming, the solar system was a big, swirling disk of gas and dust, with the newborn Sun at the center. Bits of dust and clouds of gas were attracted to each other because of gravity. As these bits and clouds clumped, they attracted still more matter in their neighborhood and grew larger and larger until there was no longer any stray material nearby for them to attract. The growing planets were like big solar system vacuum cleaners, sweeping up all the debris in their paths. And they became round because gravity pulls equally toward the center of large masses such as planets, so anything sticking out gets pulled back to make a ball.

The bigger a planet becomes, the heavier is the material weighing down on its center. Think of how it feels to dive under water. If you are wearing a face mask, you notice that as you dive deeper, the mask presses harder and harder on your face. Also, your ears start feeling the pressure even at 2 or 3 meters (5 or 10 feet) below the surface. The pressure you feel on your body is due to the weight of the water above you. The deeper you go, the heavier the water above you and so the greater the pressure on your body. Even on Earth's surface, each square inch of your body experiences 14.7 pounds of pressure due to the weight of theatmosphere above you. If you could dive down to the center of Earth, the pressure on your body would be about 3.5 million times as great! The center of Jupiter is more than 11 times deeper than Earth's center and the pressure may be 50 million to 100 million times that on Earth's surface!

The tremendous pressure at the center of planets causes the temperatures there to be surprisingly high. At their cores, Jupiter and Saturn are much hotter than the surface of the Sun!

Strange things happen to matter under these extraordinary temperatures and pressures. Hydrogen, along with helium, is the main ingredient of Jupiter's and Saturn's atmospheres. Deep in their atmospheres, the hydrogen turns into a liquid. Deeper still, the liquid hydrogen turns into a metal!

But what's at the very center of these planets? The material becomes stranger and stranger the deeper you go. Scientists do not understand the properties of matter under the extreme environments inside Jupiter and Saturn. Many different forces and laws of nature are at work, and the conditions inside these planets are very difficult to create in a laboratory here on Earth. But you can be sure that you wouldn't be able to fly through these bizarre materials! As we now know, the gas giants are much more than just gas.

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 12, 2016, 09:57:16 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 09, 2016, 06:15:33 PM
Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 tend to be more widely circulated because they are in color.

The spacecraft was designed to last about half an hour on Venus' harsh surface, but sent back data for more than two hours after its landing March 1, 1982.

Since no lander has ventured on to Venus since the 1980s, the Venera program's images of the surface stand as the best close-up record of the planet today.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tu-8h_l-IzY/maxresdefault.jpg)

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimenow.com%2Fimg%2Fastronomy%2Fall%2Fatmosphere-of-venus.png&hash=a6dcdaaff0cfcc2bbfe9659cc22cb5ef6c008ea4)

Wow. I've not seen those ones before. I can't say I've really read into Venus but I sure as shit am going to later.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 12, 2016, 10:29:32 AM
Need to book a Flight there, must be nice during the summer lol.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 12, 2016, 11:13:15 AM
http://www.seeker.com/new-virgin-galactic-spaceship-takes-first-flight-2001229603.html?slide=itpxSQ

Looking good for Virgin's recovery from the first ship.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 13, 2016, 12:21:14 PM
Three giant worlds found orbiting twin suns

Very interesting.

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1386/three-giant-worlds-found-orbiting-twin-suns/
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 14, 2016, 12:37:40 PM
One billion stars in 3-D: Gaia's billion-star map hints at treasures to come

Now that's a map:

http://go.newsfusion.com/nasa-news/item/2131624506





Anyone really interested in extra terrestials and UFO's, not my type of thing, but this could be very interesting: (Peoploe left a lot of answers below)

The Truth About Zeta Reticuli

http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/the-truth-about-zeta-reticuli.html
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 15, 2016, 11:02:19 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Sep 14, 2016, 12:37:40 PM
One billion stars in 3-D: Gaia's billion-star map hints at treasures to come

Now that's a map:

http://go.newsfusion.com/nasa-news/item/2131624506

http://www.seeker.com/gaia-completes-first-mind-blowing-3-d-galactic-map-2004810255.html

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/09/Gaia_s_first_sky_map

Link doesn't work for me but damn, that's impressive.


http://www.seeker.com/a-nearby-star-is-birthing-a-massive-icy-world-2004899608.html

I never cease to be amazed at what we can see out there.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 20, 2016, 12:34:34 AM
50,000 Kilometers over the Sun


(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fapod.nasa.gov%2Fapod%2Fimage%2F1609%2FFilaprom_Lawrence_960.jpg&hash=7515a0d12273cd041d506d65c1a0c74b1be9a053)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160919.html?utm_content=buffer023db&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Sep 26, 2016, 02:48:42 PM
China begins operating world's largest radio telescope

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/china-begins-operating-worlds-largest-radio-103546347.html

(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Wg_Zj_6QfircXf6wUh0UyA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/56de9783ab2143540d1dc4aa0f396544)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 27, 2016, 08:12:02 AM
Impressive. I wonder if they'll be cooperating with SETI and similar organisations.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 27, 2016, 10:52:07 AM
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-spots-possible-water-plumes-erupting-on-jupiters-moon-europa/

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Ffull_width%2Fpublic%2Fthumbnails%2Fimage%2Feuropa02-photoa-plumes1042x1042-160919.jpg%3Fitok%3Did2vofAr&hash=883fa8dec826927af42d7558f42be3b04cc5bb11)

Really can't wait for them to get there.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Gilfryd on Sep 27, 2016, 12:12:26 PM
QuoteBeyond Mars! —

Elon Musk scales up his ambitions, considering going "well beyond" Mars

Musk may soon detail the architecture he hopes will colonize the solar system.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/spacexs-interplanetary-transport-system-will-go-well-beyond-mars/
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 27, 2016, 12:38:14 PM
The conference is supposed to be today, isn't it?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 29, 2016, 07:54:56 AM
http://nautil.us/blog/today-is-galactic-tick-day

Happy Galactic Tick Day!
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Sep 29, 2016, 08:13:21 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Sep 29, 2016, 07:54:56 AM
http://nautil.us/blog/today-is-galactic-tick-day

Happy Galactic Tick Day!
I was expecting a big dumb guy in a blue suit.... but this is neat too.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 04, 2016, 11:40:19 AM


http://www.seeker.com/musk-this-is-how-spacex-will-colonize-mars-and-beyond-2019588513.html
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 05, 2016, 06:29:50 AM
Imagine how much interest that is going to generate when it actually does happen. Just knowing humans are on their way to another planet...at least a decade away?

Speaking of planets..I think this is worth setting up the telescope after 2 years...

(https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/14516407_1030760687050739_3954838320605583391_n.png.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=887b0b3898ef889a76dbea81327f0037&oe=58684902)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 07:24:18 AM
I need to remember to get the telescope out and setup! Thanks for the info.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 07:43:38 AM
Hope one day... we can invent FTL in our lifetime, would love to know what's actually out there.... does make you wonder exciting and also frightening at the same time.

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 07:46:06 AM
I'll be happy with getting a man on Mars in my lifetime. I'd be ecstatic if I managed to get into space, or even just the edge of the atmosphere.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:08:59 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 07:46:06 AM
I'll be happy with we get a man on Mars in my lifetime. I'd be ecstatic if I managed to get into space, or even just the edge of the atmosphere.
Oh my goodness, you think like I feel. Man, I've always wondered just what that moon landing was like to watch as it happened. So naturally I'm waiting for the Mars landing myself. Space stations... not to much confidence in that one in my lifetime.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 08:17:43 AM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:08:59 AM
Oh my goodness, you think like I feel. Man, I've always wondered just what that moon landing was like to watch as it happened. So naturally I'm waiting for the Mars landing myself.

I have the same thoughts. If I could somehow magically live another life, I'd want to live one that was around for the moon landing and that early exploration. I've been lucky enough to witness New Horizons and Pluto, I want to see man put foot on another body.

QuoteSpace stations... not to much confidence in that one in my lifetime.

You don't need to wait for that one!

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fspaceflight.nasa.gov%2Fgallery%2Fimages%2Fstation%2Fassembly%2Fhires%2Fs119e009765.jpg&hash=375410f62ae1b6745882a60ae095d01cf101ca61)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella.  ;)


NASA did say by 2030 we'll get to mars... i seriously doubt it though...


I'll be more curious to visit the bootes Void

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Barnard_68.jpg/600px-Barnard_68.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void

Makes you wonder what the HELL is in that dark space....
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:39:51 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella.  ;)
Well I didn't want to sound that cold... but yea, what he said. :)

Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Makes you wonder what the HELL is in that dark space....
Probably just a lot of Dark Space. That or engineers and predators duked it out and wiped out a few hundred thousand star systems.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 08:46:32 AM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:39:51 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella.  ;)
Well I didn't want to sound that cold... but yea, what he said. :)

I was being funny.  :P
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 05, 2016, 11:53:44 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 07:24:18 AM
I need to remember to get the telescope out and setup! Thanks for the info.
Hehe...Uranus is not an easy find. It took me some major star hopping to find it without tracking and you need at least a 6 inch telescope I'd say. (Not sure what you have). Even as important are dark skies but less so for planets.  What you see for Uranus and Neptune are 2 blueish green (more blue for Neptune) very circular discs the size of a pinhead..a little bigger for Uranus and both are very distinct looking compared to stars. Without tracking or a go-to system you need good navigational skills. A good program like Stellarium (now comes as an app too) is needed.

But when you do find them, you're like holy shyte there it is! I took a picture of Uranus but it's blurry because I had no tracking than. Now that I do have tracking I don't have my Canon camera. Canon is hands down the best everyday cam for Astrophotography by the way.

I've seen all the planets with my scope, including Pluto, and Mercury only with binoculars since it's always setting with the Sun. I still haven't seen Earth though :).





Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 08:17:43 AM
Quote from: whiterabbit on Oct 05, 2016, 08:08:59 AM
Oh my goodness, you think like I feel. Man, I've always wondered just what that moon landing was like to watch as it happened. So naturally I'm waiting for the Mars landing myself.

I have the same thoughts. If I could somehow magically live another life, I'd want to live one that was around for the moon landing and that early exploration. I've been lucky enough to witness New Horizons and Pluto, I want to see man put foot on another body.

QuoteSpace stations... not to much confidence in that one in my lifetime.

You don't need to wait for that one!

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fspaceflight.nasa.gov%2Fgallery%2Fimages%2Fstation%2Fassembly%2Fhires%2Fs119e009765.jpg&hash=375410f62ae1b6745882a60ae095d01cf101ca61)

Wish I could pay somewhere to go in cryostasis for say 500-1000 years. I'd do it. Some people are already doing it I think or it's slowly getting started.. You best have ready plans though lol. Imagine waking up with no money or anything...You may never even wake up if there's a planetary catastrophe or imagine waking up and there's been an Alien invasion.


Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 05, 2016, 08:24:02 AM
Hicks, i think he was talking about the 'ULTIMATE SPACE STATIONS' not a giant satellite around orbit fella.  ;)


NASA did say by 2030 we'll get to mars... i seriously doubt it though...


I'll be more curious to visit the bootes Void

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Barnard_68.jpg/600px-Barnard_68.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void

Makes you wonder what the HELL is in that dark space....

It says they found 60 galaxies in there. :)

Still that is one weird object or void. Wonder what the heck happened there.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 12:54:57 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 05, 2016, 11:53:44 AM
Hehe...Uranus is not an easy find. It took me some major star hopping to find it without tracking and you need at least a 6 inch telescope I'd say. (Not sure what you have).

Aaahhh. Mine is going to be too small. It's only 5.1"

I only brought an entry level thing. Sky-Watcher Explorer-130 EQ2.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 05, 2016, 06:10:35 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 05, 2016, 12:54:57 PM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 05, 2016, 11:53:44 AM
Hehe...Uranus is not an easy find. It took me some major star hopping to find it without tracking and you need at least a 6 inch telescope I'd say. (Not sure what you have).

Aaahhh. Mine is going to be too small. It's only 5.1"

I only brought an entry level thing. Sky-Watcher Explorer-130 EQ2.

Hey Hicks that's a pretty nice Newtonian telescope and from a very reputable company! Sky Watcher/Orion is what I had too. Newtonian/Reflectors on an EQ mount are serious kick ass no matter the size. That's like a perfect go to scope. I'm pretty sure you can see Uranus/Neptune under dark skies. Try and be in a red/yellow zone. Nice to know someone has a decent scope!
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 06, 2016, 06:52:58 PM
'Alien Megastructure' Star Keeps Getting Stranger

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-110000285.html
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 11, 2016, 03:37:32 PM
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/bill-dunford/20161010-new-gems-from-the-moon.html

Absolutely f**king gorgeous.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fplanetary.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F3-moon%2F2016%2F20161008_earth_lensflare_f840.jpg&hash=d599de85f560375c0fc8279f8f90a73753b075ff)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 13, 2016, 06:41:49 PM
Found this news pretty awesome. I also hope they find that Neptune sized one they think exists.

A Potential New Dwarf Planet Has Been Found In The Solar System

The planet is twice as distant as Pluto and takes more than 1,000 years to orbit the sun.

http://www.iflscience.com/space/potential-new-dwarf-planet-found-in-the-solar-system/
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 14, 2016, 09:52:48 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 13, 2016, 06:41:49 PM
Found this news pretty awesome. I also hope they find that Neptune sized one they think exists.

I'm really curious to see if that pans out. They've been looking for Planet X for so long.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37650274

So that's an interesting concept.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Oct 14, 2016, 11:18:02 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 14, 2016, 09:52:48 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 13, 2016, 06:41:49 PM
Found this news pretty awesome. I also hope they find that Neptune sized one they think exists.

I'm really curious to see if that pans out. They've been looking for Planet X for so long.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37650274

So that's an interesting concept.

It's great, but tooooooo expensive and i doubt we'll see it in the next 20/30 years or so.


Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 14, 2016, 12:12:14 PM
That's one nice looking spaceship. No matter how expensive or how long these projects in space will take, one thing is for certain, they will happen. Makes me want to go back to school and study hard in something that would give me a good chance of getting aboard on a project like this...

Can only imagine 50-200 years from now what will be happening up there. Someone please put me in the old freezarino lol.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 19, 2016, 03:09:53 PM
Some very good space related stories here if anyone's bored:

https://www.inverse.com/article/22383-new-horizons-nasa-pluto-clouds
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)

I'm sure we're all alone though.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 19, 2016, 07:14:56 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)

I'm sure we're all alone though.

Over 1 Trillion Galaxies, imagine that...1 trillion x 100 billion stars on average per Galaxy, x 5-6 planets perhaps each star, x 1-10 moons, incredible....With such a huge number, I'm pretty sure a creature like Alien has spawned somewhere...we just need to find it.

If you like Galaxies, you can see the Andromeda galaxy with a decent pair of binoculars in a dark sky, as it's the nearest Galaxy to ours apart from smaller companion galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, and it's always directly on top of you, where it's very dark. In the countryside you can probably see it without binoculars. I've seen it in my scope, it's huge!

The sad realization is it will collide and merge with our galaxy in 5 billion years, destroying us for sure. So no matter how far Humans get in our Galaxy, they better to learn to travel to another Galaxy before this happens:) Damn, I wish I could see the sight from earth say 50,000 years before they merge...
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Oct 19, 2016, 07:26:55 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)

I'm sure we're all alone though.

Yea.. ALL ALONE... lol

Still tho does make you wonder what is out there... and should we explore/discover it ?

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Master Chief on Oct 19, 2016, 07:45:59 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 19, 2016, 07:26:55 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)

I'm sure we're all alone though.

Yea.. ALL ALONE... lol

Still tho does make you wonder what is out there... and should we explore/discover it ?
We know what's out there, planets and stars.   ;)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Oct 19, 2016, 07:47:12 PM
Quote from: Master Chief on Oct 19, 2016, 07:45:59 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Oct 19, 2016, 07:26:55 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)

I'm sure we're all alone though.

Yea.. ALL ALONE... lol

Still tho does make you wonder what is out there... and should we explore/discover it ?
We know what's out there, planets and stars.   ;)

Do we?  :P
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 12:15:45 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 19, 2016, 07:14:56 PM
Over 1 Trillion Galaxies, imagine that...1 trillion x 100 billion stars on average per Galaxy, x 5-6 planets perhaps each star, x 1-10 moons, incredible....With such a huge number, I'm pretty sure a creature like Alien has spawned somewhere...we just need to find it.

And that's just the observable universe. 
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: The Alien Predator on Oct 20, 2016, 12:44:14 AM
Quote from: Nostromo on Oct 19, 2016, 07:14:56 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 19, 2016, 06:47:25 PM
The Universe Has 10 Times More Galaxies Than Scientists Thought (http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html)

I'm sure we're all alone though.

Over 1 Trillion Galaxies, imagine that...1 trillion x 100 billion stars on average per Galaxy, x 5-6 planets perhaps each star, x 1-10 moons, incredible....With such a huge number, I'm pretty sure a creature like Alien has spawned somewhere...we just need to find it.

If you like Galaxies, you can see the Andromeda galaxy with a decent pair of binoculars in a dark sky, as it's the nearest Galaxy to ours apart from smaller companion galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, and is usually directly on top of you, where it's very dark. In the countryside you can probably see it without binoculars. I've seen it in my scope, it's huge! There's also another

The sad realization is it will collide and merge with our galaxy in 5 billion years, destroying us for sure. So no matter how far Humans get in our Galaxy, they better to learn to travel to another Galaxy before this happens:) Damn, I wish I could see the sight from earth say 50,000 years before they merge...

I watched a documentary that said when the galaxies do collide, the chances of two stars hitting each other won't be as high as it may seem. Galactic collisions are not destructive, it's just two galaxies "absorbing" each other to become a bigger and more fertile galaxy due to the exchange of the materials needed to form new stars. It's a process called "Galactic Cannibalism", but it looks like a beautiful cosmic dance as two galaxies pork LOL!

This is why the biggest galaxy, IC-1101, is dying. Because there's no nearby galaxies to collide with it and no fresh material for the formation of new stars. It's also a sickly yellow looking galaxy rather than a bright blue or white one like ours, Andromeda or Triangulum.

Also I doubt we'd be around when this collision happens anyway. XD If we are, we'd be unrecognizable. Look at life 4 billion years ago... and look at it today. We won't be around as a species to witness this in 10 billion years, we'd either be extinct through our own destruction or due to becoming so different that we're not recognizable as humans anymore.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: The Alien Predator on Oct 20, 2016, 03:00:32 AM
It feels humbling to know how small and insignificant we are and how none of our little squabbles on our spinning wet green volcanic rock even matter to the darkness beyond.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 04:37:20 AM
Just think of how much we'll be able to see once Hubble's successor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is in orbit and gives us an even better view of the universe.

QuoteOne particular goal involves observing some of the most distant events and objects in the Universe, such as the formation of the first galaxies. These types of targets are beyond the reach of current ground and space-based instruments. Another goal is understanding the formation of stars and planets. This will include direct imaging of exoplanets.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 27, 2016, 11:10:24 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 04:37:20 AM
Just think of how much we'll be able to see once Hubble's successor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is in orbit and gives us an even better view of the universe.

I find all these developments really exciting. The wait is almost unbearable.

http://www.seeker.com/alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-seti-intelligent-civilization-dyson-sp-2064947450.html

SETI is devoting some serious time to checking out Tabby's Star. It'd be remarkable if they do detect something but I'm sure they wont.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 27, 2016, 02:02:53 PM
'Planet Nine' Can't Hide Much Longer, Scientists Say

http://www.space.com/34455-planet-nine-discovery-coming-soon.html

NASA's Jupiter Probe Back in Action After Glitch

http://www.space.com/34521-juno-jupiter-spacecraft-rebounds-from-glitch.html?utm_source=notification
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Oct 31, 2016, 02:31:53 PM
For Halloween  :P

These Scary Things in Space Will Haunt Your Dreams

http://www.space.com/34546-scariest-things-in-space-photo-gallery.html?utm_source=notification
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Oct 31, 2016, 07:37:37 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 27, 2016, 11:10:24 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 04:37:20 AM
Just think of how much we'll be able to see once Hubble's successor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is in orbit and gives us an even better view of the universe.

I find all these developments really exciting. The wait is almost unbearable.

http://www.seeker.com/alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-seti-intelligent-civilization-dyson-sp-2064947450.html

SETI is devoting some serious time to checking out Tabby's Star. It'd be remarkable if they do detect something but I'm sure they wont.

What if SETI finds a derelict space ship?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 01, 2016, 09:24:37 AM
I'll be pretty impressed.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Nov 01, 2016, 02:03:28 PM
Monster Chinese Telescope to Join Tabby's Star Alien Hunt

http://www.space.com/34571-breakthrough-listen-seti-alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-china-fast.html?utm_source=notification
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 02, 2016, 01:23:09 PM
http://www.seeker.com/china-astronauts-space-station-dock-record-breaking-mission-2053211598.html

Looks like China are getting on well with Heavenly Palace.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Nov 02, 2016, 04:52:54 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 01, 2016, 09:24:37 AM
I'll be pretty impressed.

Do you have a shotgun?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 03, 2016, 08:36:26 AM
Of course. I like to keep one handy. You know, for close encounters.  :P
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Nov 03, 2016, 11:56:23 AM
All NASA and Russia and china ever seem to do is


1: Build Telescopes
2: Send up satellites to orbit earth or other planets...


It's really time to 'step up the game'


NASA need to send a new type of rover to Europa (or a team with drilling equipment)

Get a satellite around Neptune or maybe get it inside Neptune and report back

Make Voyager 3 and send it the other way not the same route as V1 & V2 (give it the latest tech/hardware we currently have that works and will work for 50/100 years.


And finally get to mars ffs....


lol

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: g2vd on Nov 04, 2016, 12:53:55 AM
On about that Flat Earth stuff.....

Farking hell! I looked at a few articles because I thought it would be funny but my god. people honest to god believe it the same way they believe Dinosaurs didn't exist, Hitler was innocent, There was no Holocaust, there was no WW2.

.....Even my OCD at it's highest height was not nearly as insane as these people.

Ironically the tall weird dude with the twitch in the corner is probably the most normal person in the room.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: DerelictShip on Nov 04, 2016, 12:55:16 AM
The major world powers need to unite and invest in space travel....the only thing that will save this human race
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Nov 21, 2016, 05:02:17 PM
Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn Shines in Spectacular NASA Photo

http://www.livescience.com/56924-photo-bizarre-hexagon-on-saturn.html?utm_source=notification

http://www.space.com/18674-saturn-vortex-hexagon-storm-photos.html?_ga=1.241628802.127677819.1477929766
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 21, 2016, 11:30:26 PM
(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--znl1KbW---/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/clsnzrv4zchucfkfe8ph.jpg)

NASA's Dawn Probe Sent Some Stunning New Images of Ceres (http://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-dawn-probe-sent-some-stunning-new-images-of-cere-1789212627)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 22, 2016, 08:32:28 AM
Astonishing. It still surprises me at what we're capable of when mankind isn't busy arguing over stupid things.

I've just finished watching The Expanse and a good chunk of it is set on a colonized Ceres.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Nov 22, 2016, 06:19:05 PM
Is that show worth my time?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: g2vd on Nov 22, 2016, 06:22:05 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Nov 22, 2016, 06:19:05 PM
Is that show worth my time?
Yes, very much worth it.

If you can get the first Season on Blu-Ray looks amazing.

Still not as good as Firefly though.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Nov 22, 2016, 06:35:04 PM
If it's a SyFy series, I can probably binge watch the HD episodes on demand.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 25, 2016, 12:41:34 PM
^^ Good show. Definitely worth a watch.

http://www.seeker.com/one-second-of-bad-data-doomed-mars-lander-2107178851.html
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 25, 2016, 06:48:45 PM
https://vimeo.com/191664574
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 30, 2016, 11:41:30 AM
Quote from: Crazy Shrimp on Nov 25, 2016, 06:48:45 PM
https://vimeo.com/191664574

http://www.seeker.com/space-poop-challenge-nasa-astronauts-exploration-spacesuit-crowdsourci-2118607081.html

Loving the Apollo anecdote  :laugh:


http://www.seeker.com/mars-water-nasa-colony-astronauts-climate-change-red-planet-2116417629.html

Massive Ice Reservoir on Mars Could Keep Settlers Alive
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: AL on Dec 02, 2016, 05:32:01 AM
Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto's Icy Heart (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/scientists-probe-mystery-of-pluto-s-icy-heart)
.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Necronomicon II on Dec 02, 2016, 10:09:10 AM
Perfect organism...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151217-the-tiny-creatures-that-flew-to-the-moon-twice-and-survived?ocid=fbert
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Dec 03, 2016, 08:15:23 PM
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Shinawi on Dec 07, 2016, 04:27:18 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/30f42fe0-bf82-389c-b593-560455e957b3/nasa-just-spotted-a-massive.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/30f42fe0-bf82-389c-b593-560455e957b3/nasa-just-spotted-a-massive.html)
QuoteNASA just spotted a massive hole growing on the surface of the sun — here's what it means

Business Insider Mon, Dec 5 9:00 PM PST

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory just spotted a massive hole on the sun called a coronal hole. The hole appears black because it's cooler than its surroundings and is responsible for high-speed solar winds that can sometimes disrupt satellite and radio communication satellites.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Dec 22, 2016, 12:23:33 PM
http://www.seeker.com/space-junk-jaxa-debris-problem-international-space-station-2156194264.html

QuoteThe Japanese space agency will soon be testing a new technology that would use a roughly half-mile-long tether to grab large pieces of space debris and dispose of them.



http://www.seeker.com/nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-big-hits-2016-red-planet-2155745847.html

Curiosity's Most Incredible Mars Snapshots of 2016

(https://assets.rbl.ms/9074675/980x.jpg)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Dec 24, 2016, 07:15:42 PM
Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Seriously need to get a man/woman to mars in the next 15 years or so....


:)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Dec 24, 2016, 08:59:40 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Dec 24, 2016, 07:15:42 PM
Absolutely gorgeous!!!! Seriously need to get a man/woman to mars in the next 15 years or so....

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Pvt. Himmel on Dec 28, 2016, 11:35:45 PM
NASA DEVELOPING FOOD BARS FOR TRIP TO MARS!!

Quote NASA is currently in the process of developing special food that will one day be used on manned-trips to Mars.

The food (which can be seen in the video below) is currently being developed for use on the Orion Spacecraft, which is designed to take astronauts beyond low Earth orbit. Orion's upcoming trip, Exploration Mission 2, will take its crew around the Earth's moon "without being attached to any habitation module," explains Orion Crew Support Equipment System Manager Jessica Vos.

"In order to complete that mission," Vos says, "we need to pack all the food that we need for four crew for, like, 10 to 14 days. So that's quite a bit of mass and volume that we're talking about." In order to combat that, she continues, NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory has developed meal replacement bars meant to be low in mass, but high in caloric density.

"We have the banana nut bar, orange cranberry bar, ginger vanilla bar, and barbecue nut bar," NASA Food Scientist Takiyah Sirmons shows off in the video. "Each are totaling about 700 to 800 calories. So it's a huge meal replacement." NASA is currently carrying out human studies to see how often astronauts will need to eat the bars during missions, she says.


       https://youtu.be/ZvE8jIf5Efw  (https://youtu.be/ZvE8jIf5Efw)


   http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/12/28/nasa-developing-food-bars-for-trip-to-mars?abthid=586406aaa51671153a000007 (http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/12/28/nasa-developing-food-bars-for-trip-to-mars?abthid=586406aaa51671153a000007)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 05, 2017, 12:34:45 PM
(https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/7573_PIA20513_full.jpg)

Cassini's Breathtaking New View of Saturn's Enigmatic Hexagon

http://www.seeker.com/cassini-nasa-saturn-mystery-hexagon-solar-system-spacecraft-photograph-2171829992.html

NASA to Send Mission to Metal Asteroid That Could Be Dead Planet's Core

http://www.seeker.com/nasa-discovery-program-asteroid-missions-solar-system-origins-2179287316.html

I'd never known about these entirely metal asteroids. I'm quite intrigued.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Jan 06, 2017, 06:41:56 AM
Makes you wonder what type of *Metal*  it is though... and if one of these hit earth? jesus.

Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 06, 2017, 08:47:28 AM
QuoteUnlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Jan 06, 2017, 02:28:12 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 06, 2017, 08:47:28 AM
QuoteUnlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.

How would they know just by looking at it? lol (maybe thats a retarded question but still i'm no scientist lol)


I expect asteroid mining in the next 200 years lol
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Le Celticant on Jan 09, 2017, 12:56:40 AM
Quote from: x-M-x on Jan 06, 2017, 02:28:12 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 06, 2017, 08:47:28 AM
QuoteUnlike other rocky or icy asteroids, Psyche is made entirely of iron-nickel metal, similar to Earth's core.

How would they know just by looking at it? lol (maybe thats a retarded question but still i'm no scientist lol)


I expect asteroid mining in the next 200 years lol

There are plenty of ways to figures it out.
Like for example analyzing the Wavelength of the light.
Each element absorb and reflects / refracts a certain amount of energy.
You just have to figure what wavelength correspond to what element  ;)

Then with the addition of Electromagnetic scans, planet's mass data and a bazillion of other things you can refine more and more each composition to decipher the very layers of every planet ;)

But like all science, it's a matter of patience (I can vouch, I do science on DEdit lol).
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 10, 2017, 12:07:16 AM
A Stellar Explosion Could Be Visible In the Night Sky In 2022 (http://gizmodo.com/a-stellar-explosion-could-be-visible-in-the-night-sky-i-1790999540)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 10, 2017, 11:38:23 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jan 10, 2017, 12:07:16 AM
A Stellar Explosion Could Be Visible In the Night Sky In 2022 (http://gizmodo.com/a-stellar-explosion-could-be-visible-in-the-night-sky-i-1790999540)

That would be spectacular. Really hope that comes to pass and we can get a good look at a nova.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 18, 2017, 03:56:40 PM
An Enormous Atmospheric Anomaly Has Been Spotted On Venus (http://gizmodo.com/an-enormous-atmospheric-anomaly-has-been-spotted-on-ven-1791172483)

Still waiting for news of mysterious probes around Uranus.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 18, 2017, 04:15:51 PM
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info.. They know we are not alone, and i would go so far as to say that they know exactly in which direction to look, and are afraid to.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 24, 2017, 01:23:22 PM
http://www.seeker.com/south-pole-telescope-extreme-astronomy-dark-energy-cosmology-2200868930.html

Pretty cool read about astronomy from the South Pole.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Jan 25, 2017, 06:38:06 PM
Quote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 18, 2017, 04:15:51 PM
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info.. They know we are not alone, and i would go so far as to say that they know exactly in which direction to look, and are afraid to.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg)

Indeed, always suspect them, but then again... if we actually found a planet with life on it, and they are advanced... not good for earth lol.

kinda like Prometheus lol
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: The Alien Predator on Jan 25, 2017, 07:01:02 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Jan 25, 2017, 06:38:06 PM
Quote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 18, 2017, 04:15:51 PM
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info.. They know we are not alone, and i would go so far as to say that they know exactly in which direction to look, and are afraid to.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LxdVW6AuPg)

Indeed, always suspect them, but then again... if we actually found a planet with life on it, and they are advanced... not good for earth lol.

kinda like Prometheus lol

Let's hope "hunting for sport" is not a thing among them as well. XD
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 26, 2017, 11:36:57 AM
http://www.seeker.com/international-space-station-retire-private-axiom-orbit-commercializati-2214242152.html

A Private Space Station Might Be Born From the ISS
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 26, 2017, 07:07:20 PM
  https://mobile.twitter.com/AnunnakiAwake/status/821221473729839105        (https://mobile.twitter.com/AnunnakiAwake/status/821221473729839105)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AL on Jan 27, 2017, 06:31:37 AM

NASA's Awesome new Spacesuits look inspired by 2001: A space Odyssey (http://geektyrant.com/news/nasas-awesome-new-spacesuits-look-inspired-by-2001-a-space-odyssey)

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/t/58894fa33a04118a0c61442a/1485393834492/nasas-awesome-new-space-suits-look-inspired-by-2001-a-space-odyssey?format=750w)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: SiL on Jan 27, 2017, 06:52:01 AM
Quote from: Pvt. Himmel on Jan 18, 2017, 04:15:51 PM
You know what's odd?? Out of all the known planets discovered we are the only one with life, but i think honestly NASA is hiding info..
Of all the planets discovered, we have the ability to visit 7.

Of those seven, four have no surface.

Of the remaining three, we've landed on two.

Of those two, one is incapable of supporting any sort of life as we know it, and we're still not sure if the other one does/doesn't, or did/never did.

Of all the moons, we've landed on two. One is dead. The other has lakes of farts. We're pretty sure it's worth our time to look under another one.

How in the hell people expect NASA to have found alien life after looking under the equivalent of a few grains of sand on an entire beach, I've no clue. But assuming people are lying to you to spoil the fun is a lot more palatable than the fact life can be pretty disappointing, so whatever floats your boat.
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 27, 2017, 09:00:11 AM
Quote from: SiL on Jan 27, 2017, 06:52:01 AM
Of all the moons, we've landed on two. One is dead. The other has lakes of farts. We're pretty sure it's worth our time to look under another one.

Lol!  :laugh:

We're still a long, long, long, long way off discovering anything. Certainly not in our own lifetime. But we still get to witness a lot of firsts. I'm so thankful the Pluto fly-by happened while I was alive and hopefully I'll get to see man land on Mars.


And snipped. Let's keep on track please.  :)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/

While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.

I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Pvt. Himmel on Feb 01, 2017, 06:42:15 PM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/

While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.

I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.

At least someone agrees, and I would love to explore that but alas not in this lifetime. :)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Alien Predator on Feb 01, 2017, 07:13:24 PM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/

While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.

I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.

Ah, yes!

IC-1101!

I love that galaxy. Unfortunately, it's one of the dying ones. It's yellow-ish in colour due to the lack of fresh star material to form new stars. Unlike the vibrant blue and white colours of galaxies such as our own and Andromeda which still have plenty of stellar matter to help form new stars.

What helps galaxies gain new star materials is through galactic cannibalism, where the two (such as our Milky Way and Andromeda will eventually do) merge together into one and exchange all this fresh and fertile star dust.

IC-1101 doesn't seem to have many galaxies nearby to achieve cannibalism, or if it does, they're too small to have any big contribution to it. It'd be like you eating a single pea for the entire day.

Our universe truly is one fascinating entity.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Feb 04, 2017, 12:15:11 AM
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Feb 01, 2017, 07:13:24 PM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/

While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.

I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.

Ah, yes!

IC-1101!

I love that galaxy. Unfortunately, it's one of the dying ones. It's yellow-ish in colour due to the lack of fresh star material to form new stars. Unlike the vibrant blue and white colours of galaxies such as our own and Andromeda which still have plenty of stellar matter to help form new stars.

What helps galaxies gain new star materials is through galactic cannibalism, where the two (such as our Milky Way and Andromeda will eventually do) merge together into one and exchange all this fresh and fertile star dust.

IC-1101 doesn't seem to have many galaxies nearby to achieve cannibalism, or if it does, they're too small to have any big contribution to it. It'd be like you eating a single pea for the entire day.

Our universe truly is one fascinating entity.

Would it not be at least millions of more years into the future until it dies off? Then again, I have no idea if when and how we will have the capability of galaxy hopping. Our boys and girls in white are working hard day and night trying to figure out better ways to move planet from planet, so its astonishing and amazing to see how tech will improve centuries from now.

Plus on a meta universal scale, I am looking back at 1917 and 2017 and realize wow....if 2017 is the equivalent of thier millennium timeline, damm so much can happen. Its like look how far we came in 100 years, whats it like going to be 100 years later?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Alien Predator on Feb 04, 2017, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 04, 2017, 12:15:11 AM
Quote from: The Alien Predator on Feb 01, 2017, 07:13:24 PM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Feb 01, 2017, 06:33:18 PM
Dudes, look at this...

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/e84da8e13beea2572640eb8ec61939c4/tumblr_okb7rsBcPn1s1vn29o1_1280.jpg)
https://futurism.com/ic-1101-the-largest-galaxy-ever-found/

While there are some debates here and there about its actual size...its still EPIC.

I don't believe we are the only ones here in this universe at all, it completely solidified on my book. Thats a whole lot of adventure right there to check out and explore.

Ah, yes!

IC-1101!

I love that galaxy. Unfortunately, it's one of the dying ones. It's yellow-ish in colour due to the lack of fresh star material to form new stars. Unlike the vibrant blue and white colours of galaxies such as our own and Andromeda which still have plenty of stellar matter to help form new stars.

What helps galaxies gain new star materials is through galactic cannibalism, where the two (such as our Milky Way and Andromeda will eventually do) merge together into one and exchange all this fresh and fertile star dust.

IC-1101 doesn't seem to have many galaxies nearby to achieve cannibalism, or if it does, they're too small to have any big contribution to it. It'd be like you eating a single pea for the entire day.

Our universe truly is one fascinating entity.

Would it not be at least millions of more years into the future until it dies off? Then again, I have no idea if when and how we will have the capability of galaxy hopping. Our boys and girls in white are working hard day and night trying to figure out better ways to move planet from planet, so its astonishing and amazing to see how tech will improve centuries from now.

Plus on a meta universal scale, I am looking back at 1917 and 2017 and realize wow....if 2017 is the equivalent of thier millennium timeline, damm so much can happen. Its like look how far we came in 100 years, whats it like going to be 100 years later?

Yeah, it'd definitely be millions (or even trillions) of years before IC-1101 begins fading out of existence. Andromeda is already 10 billion years away from colliding with us.

That is amazing to consider. We've progressed so much in recent times which is interesting because when you go to Medieval times, or Paleo times, 100 years would've meant very little as far as progression is concerned.

Like, 1100 to 1200, people still used swords and shields.

Or 76,000 BC to 75,000 BC, Ugg still swung his stone axe like a champion.  :P

But 1900 to 2000, you see huge (YUUUGE) leaps in tech, you see people go from horses and carriages, to cars, planes, CHOPPAHs, rocket space craft, submarines, particle accelerators, genetic engineering you name it and it probably happened.

I think that despite our flaws, despite so many human things that piss me off, from an animal and nature perspective, humans are the most fascinating creature to have evolved on this planet.

While on the topic, in the Rage War novels, Isa Palant tells Elder Kalakta how she thinks "galactic travel is impossible" to which the Predator elder tells her "imagine telling your ancestors a thousand years ago about your Dropholes (which are man-made wormhole gates)." So from 2692, that'd be 1692. Holy shit!

If we continue to progress at this pace, imagine what we'd have in our own 2692 AD!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Pvt. Himmel on Feb 09, 2017, 11:54:36 PM
   https://mobile.twitter.com/TimeOutNewYork/status/829827335536988161       (https://mobile.twitter.com/TimeOutNewYork/status/829827335536988161)

    https://www.timeout.com/usa/blog/a-snow-moon-a-lunar-eclipse-and-a-comet-are-all-hitting-the-sky-simultaneously-tomorrow-night-020917    (https://www.timeout.com/usa/blog/a-snow-moon-a-lunar-eclipse-and-a-comet-are-all-hitting-the-sky-simultaneously-tomorrow-night-020917)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 13, 2017, 12:51:38 PM
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ozmarecords/voyager-golden-record-40th-anniversary-edition

Pretty cool project.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 17, 2017, 11:57:02 AM
http://www.seeker.com/organics-found-on-dwarf-planet-ceres-2266073354.html

These is pretty interesting!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 17, 2017, 09:56:56 PM
Imagine the number of habitable planets that could be orbiting these superstars.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FDVceZsn.jpg&hash=91edc2d9f64fa51ec666e6cb4999095609320985)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2017, 06:39:33 PM
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/22/nasa-we-found-7-earth-sized-planets-just-40-light-years-away/?sr_source=Facebook

NASA: We found 7 Earth-sized planets just 40 light years away

Now for the follow up!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Feb 22, 2017, 08:52:54 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2017, 06:39:33 PM
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/22/nasa-we-found-7-earth-sized-planets-just-40-light-years-away/?sr_source=Facebook

NASA: We found 7 Earth-sized planets just 40 light years away

Now for the follow up!

Looks like our current setup.... scary if LIFE is on one of those planets.


We really shouldn't be messing around with this *search for life business* lol it's gonna backfire one day i think.

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 22, 2017, 10:50:20 PM
Zeta 2 Reticuli is around 40 light-years away too...  :o
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Feb 22, 2017, 10:59:24 PM
There are aliens out there. Right now. In our back yard. Now all we need to do it create the technology to detect them.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 22, 2017, 11:11:44 PM
We lack the proper motivation, thus...

Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Scorpio on Feb 22, 2017, 11:45:48 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?

Not many people have even explored much of this planet.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: slipknotpredator on Feb 23, 2017, 12:00:33 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170223/246ea51f4c5bffb92ce2899e48053119.jpg)
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 23, 2017, 12:01:16 AM
Quote from: Scorpio on Feb 22, 2017, 11:45:48 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?

Not many people have even explored much of this planet.

So you have no interest in exploring the rest of the universe?
Title: Re: Astronomy News & Views
Post by: Scorpio on Feb 23, 2017, 12:17:19 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 23, 2017, 12:01:16 AM
Quote from: Scorpio on Feb 22, 2017, 11:45:48 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2016, 01:05:44 AM
How does it feel knowing that you'll never see any of these places in person?

Not many people have even explored much of this planet.

So you have no interest in exploring the rest of the universe?

Universe?  Chicken feed.  Multiverse.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Feb 23, 2017, 02:11:46 AM
Most of these planets have orbits less than 10 days long... instead of 365 days like ours. Can you imagine if they rotate and are tilted on their axis like earth so that they have "seasons" like winter spring summer and fall, all in one week. In fact, the rotation period (the length of a day, 24 hours here) could be anything. Mercury rotates only once every 59 day. We could end up looking at a planet who's days are longer than their years and have a full set of seasons within a single dawn to sundown period. How weird would it be living on something like that? You planet could have 4 seasons before it even went from daylight to night and back... and from dawn to sundown could take a week or two of our time. When you left home for work you would need to bring both shorts and a winter coat. And if you wanted to "enjoy your spring weather" you could do so every morning from 10 am to noon. The concept of 24 hours or the concept of an entire year would be absolutely meaningless there.... but still I really do believe that we are and never have been alone. Life is everywhere. The universe is teeming with life that we can only imagine. As above so below. Some scientists are actually talking about our existence being a computer generated one as which would be inevitable to civilisations which are millions of years ahead of us. Who knows. It's easy for us to reject the thousands of anecdotal stories by people from every walk of life about their sometimes life changing experiences. It may just be so incomprehensible to us what it really is that we may just be better not knowing. Folk like Brian Cox and the likes are great but really know no more than anyone.



Total mindf**k that.

WHOS BOOKING TICKETS?  :D
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gilfryd on Apr 20, 2017, 09:18:23 PM
Small Saturn moon has most of conditions needed to sustain life, Nasa says (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/13/alien-life-saturn-moon-enceladus-nasa?CMP=fb_us)
QuoteSpace organization finds that hydrogen erupts out of underground ocean on Enceladus, meaning it has the water, chemistry and energy sources life requires
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 21, 2017, 10:23:02 PM
Tabby's Star (AKA "Alien Megastructure") is dimming again:

QuoteAs reported by Popular Science, Fairborn Observatory in Arizona confirmed that the star's light output has recently dimmed by approximately 3 percent. As with previous dimming events, this can't be easily explained by any ordinary stellar behavior.

That 'Alien Megastructure' Star Is Freaking Out Again (http://gizmodo.com/that-alien-megastructure-star-is-freaking-out-again-1795385620)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 27, 2017, 05:36:24 PM
QuoteScientists are a step closer to understanding the inner-workings of the universe following the laying of the first stone, and construction starting on the world's largest optical and infrared telescope.

With a main mirror 39 metres in diameter, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), is going to be, as its name suggests, enormous. Unlike any other before it, ELT is also designed to be an adaptive telescope and has the ability to correct atmospheric turbulence, taking telescope engineering to another level.

To mark the construction's milestone, a ceremony was held at ESO's Paranal residencia in northern Chile, close to the site of the future giant telescope which will be on top of Cerro Armazones, a 3046-metre peak mountain.

Construction begins on the world's first super telescope (https://phys.org/news/2017-05-world-super-telescope.html)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 17, 2017, 06:45:59 PM
http://start.att.net/news/read/category/News/article/bgr-nasa_wants_to_probe_uranus_in_search_of_gas-rpenskemc
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jul 24, 2017, 02:27:54 PM
https://www.space.com/37576-mars-moon-phobos-amazing-hubble-video.html?utm_source=notification

(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA2Ny85OTcvb3JpZ2luYWwvcGhvYm9zLW1hcnMuZ2lmPzE1MDA2NTAwMDk=)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 24, 2017, 06:08:12 AM
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/20987360_1365672690218055_6687057393160814592_n.jpg)

Elon Musk reveals first official photo of SpaceX space suit (https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/23/16188658/elon-musk-reveals-first-official-photo-spacex-spacesuit)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Sep 18, 2017, 02:36:37 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/

I'll make sure i'll be out on that day then.

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Sep 19, 2017, 07:42:16 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/

Again?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Olde on Sep 19, 2017, 09:00:55 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 18, 2017, 12:54:48 PM
Apparently, we're all gonna die on 9/23 this year according to Christian numerologists, YouTube and "confirmed" reports from NASA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/
In your own article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/), a professor is cited as saying "There's no such thing as a Christian numerologist" (and the person who is claimed to be one denies being one). So what you said is untrue. "Christian numerologists" don't believe "we're all gonna die on 9/23." An idiot named David Meade thinks that.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 19, 2017, 08:01:14 PM
Do you think Christian numerologists who believe the world is gonna end on 9/23 really care what some professor says about them?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Oct 17, 2017, 06:10:24 PM
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16471616/gravitational-waves-ligo-virgo-neutron-stars-merger-multi-messenger-astronomy (https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16471616/gravitational-waves-ligo-virgo-neutron-stars-merger-multi-messenger-astronomy)

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FMFUVrmT.jpg&hash=042ace7d4f6ccb55d36e9ba75e1deeeba24623fe)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2017, 03:08:20 PM
https://www.space.com/38838-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-space-cigar.html

Wow! 1st Interstellar Asteroid Is a Spinning Space Cigar
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 21, 2017, 03:46:06 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2017, 03:08:20 PM
https://www.space.com/38838-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-space-cigar.html

Wow! 1st Interstellar Asteroid Is a Spinning Space Cigar

It's happening!

(https://i0.wp.com/nerdgeekfeelings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/encontro-com-rama-capa-edicao-original.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2017, 03:50:22 PM
For a book where nothing happens, I sure enjoyed Rama.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 22, 2017, 05:13:55 PM
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/933176530951376896


https://twitter.com/NASA/status/933052146639167488
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 23, 2017, 08:14:32 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPLd-zXWsAgeK-T.jpg:large)

Beautiful! It's a real shame that Cassini has gone.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Nov 30, 2017, 11:53:48 PM
Recently started listening to the Gravity Assist podcast from NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist).

It's presented in a very basic fashion, clearly aimed at the layman, but I've found it quite informative so far (eg. I never knew there was a theory that Mercury was the core of a dead gas giant - which sounds awesome).
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: FenGiddel on Dec 01, 2017, 03:32:39 PM
Thanks for the recommendation, SM!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 03, 2017, 03:49:51 PM
(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/pia21972.jpg)

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/936407954101809159

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Dec 04, 2017, 08:57:09 AM
That is mesmerizing. Absolutely gorgeous.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: FenGiddel on Dec 04, 2017, 02:46:15 PM
What a wonderful time we live in, when we get to see these things on an almost daily basis!  Thanks for sharing these Crazy Shrimp
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Shinawi on Dec 05, 2017, 02:49:00 PM
Yes, that's very beautiful. At the same time, the winds are dangerously powerful.


Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 07, 2017, 07:48:24 PM
https://twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/938527815191932928

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: FenGiddel on Dec 08, 2017, 06:50:34 PM
Quote from: SM on Nov 30, 2017, 11:53:48 PM
Recently started listening to the Gravity Assist podcast from NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gravity-assist).

It's presented in a very basic fashion, clearly aimed at the layman, but I've found it quite informative so far (eg. I never knew there was a theory that Mercury was the core of a dead gas giant - which sounds awesome).
I'm caught up on these. I really enjoy the conversational tone and the excitement with which these folks talk about these missions, and the 'gravity assist' that got them started on their careers in astronomy.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Dec 08, 2017, 07:32:51 PM
  :D

"SpaceX confirmed Wednesday its CEO Elon Musk plans to blast his cherry red electric car off toward the Red Planet when the company's Falcon Heavy rocket launches for the first time next month."

http://www.gdnonline.com/Details/297331/SpaceXs-Elon-Musk-to-launch-his-own-car-into-deep-space


Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Shinawi on Dec 08, 2017, 11:42:35 PM
He should make sure that the paint job doesn't get ruined by the Martian sandstorms.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Dec 12, 2017, 12:59:25 PM
https://www.americasuncommonsense.com/1-apollo-17-diary-of-the-12th-man/

I thought this might be of interest to some. It's the diary of Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. Only a couple of chapters actually released, though.


President Trump Directs NASA to Return to the Moon, Then Aim for Mars (https://www.space.com/39050-trump-directs-nasa-humans-to-moon.html)

Quote"Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute, Jack [Schmitt] become one of the last Americans to land on the moon," Trump said. "Today, we pledge that he will not be the last."

"The directive I'm signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said during the ceremony. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint — we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Dec 15, 2017, 01:08:18 PM
https://www.space.com/39088-blue-origin-upgraded-new-shepard-test-flight-video.html

Mannequin Skywalker  :laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Dec 15, 2017, 06:02:34 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 12, 2017, 12:59:25 PM
https://www.americasuncommonsense.com/1-apollo-17-diary-of-the-12th-man/

I thought this might be of interest to some. It's the diary of Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. Only a couple of chapters actually released, though.


President Trump Directs NASA to Return to the Moon, Then Aim for Mars (https://www.space.com/39050-trump-directs-nasa-humans-to-moon.html)

Quote"Exactly 45 years ago, almost to the minute, Jack [Schmitt] become one of the last Americans to land on the moon," Trump said. "Today, we pledge that he will not be the last."

"The directive I'm signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said during the ceremony. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint — we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."

Everything on the Space Coast just became electrified over this, really looking forward to the space programs amping up!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Dec 15, 2017, 09:28:58 PM
Until he gives NASA more money it's just more Trump bluster.  Bush said much the same thing in 2004 but at least he said he was going to get congress to increase their budget (don't know if he succeeded).
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Dec 15, 2017, 09:46:22 PM
You make it sound as if Trump's credibility is in question.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Dec 15, 2017, 09:47:11 PM
Had he any, I would question it.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 19, 2017, 01:46:30 AM
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/942924707720024066

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Dec 19, 2017, 02:16:54 AM
Spliffs in SPAAAAAACE!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Dec 19, 2017, 08:27:25 AM
Quote from: Crazy Shrimp on Dec 19, 2017, 01:46:30 AM
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/942924707720024066

I'd love for them to find an ET in my life time and I love reading about these kind of thing but it's just such a long-shot.  :'(
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Dec 19, 2017, 12:10:38 PM
www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/radio-telescopes-combine-data-to-capture-firstever-image-of-a-supermassive-black-hole/news-story/d9c2cb732eea80fb381f0cfb055bf106
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Dec 21, 2017, 06:32:11 PM
Quote from: SM on Dec 15, 2017, 09:28:58 PM
Until he gives NASA more money it's just more Trump bluster.  Bush said much the same thing in 2004 but at least he said he was going to get congress to increase their budget (don't know if he succeeded).

Wouldn't it be something to blink at if Trump becomes a huge investor in jumpstarting space research and tech?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Dec 21, 2017, 07:44:42 PM
He would if he had family members who stood to make money off it.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Dec 27, 2017, 05:07:57 PM
Tesla going to Mars orbit, pictures from Elon Musk

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.larevueautomobile.com%2Fimages%2F2017-Photo%2F12%2FTesla_Roadster_Mars.jpg&hash=1a746e3132fa1bd2962a41f616bb6e8f303f0887)

Link to the article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-car-rocket-mars-instagram-photo-2017-12/#falcon-heavys-fairing-stands-dozens-of-feet-tall-and-is-made-of-lightweight-yet-incredibly-strong-carbon-fiber-composite-materials-1

Quote"Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring," Musk wrote in his Instagram post. "Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel.

"The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit."
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 08, 2018, 01:24:02 AM
Apparently, the universe in its infancy used to have a greater abundance of massive stars.

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/949120159926464513

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/949396172568854528

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/949491044936134657
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 14, 2018, 12:17:19 AM
https://twitter.com/io9/status/951677435858292736

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/952266029161304065
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 17, 2018, 09:56:57 AM
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/0116-a-new-look-at-venus-with-akatsuki.html

QuoteAkatsuki (also known as PLANET-C and Venus Climate Orbiter) is a Japanese mission that launched almost eight years ago, in 2010. It missed its first attempt to orbit Venus on December 7, 2010 due to the failure of its orbital insertion rocket. It was only on December 7, 2015, after several years of wandering around the Sun, that Akatsuki succeeded in placing itself in orbit around the enigmatic planet. Even though the new orbit of Akatsuki is distant and highly elongated, a large portion of the original science objectives may still be achieved.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fplanetary.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F2-venus%2F20180113_ir2_20160904_170212_174_l2b_v10_PseudoRGB_f840.jpg&hash=ca2fb903a8976ebe87abbdec23fc30a7b889e7fc)
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Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 17, 2018, 03:30:39 PM
Venus looks like a nice place to live.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 17, 2018, 08:33:16 PM
The ultimate holiday planet. Nice and warm.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Jan 18, 2018, 01:15:53 AM
Too many dinosaurs.

Also stumbled across this (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/).
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 18, 2018, 08:17:16 AM
I think I've seen some of the extrasolar ones before but never our planets. Those are great. I love that kinda retro vibe.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Jan 29, 2018, 09:25:46 AM
Can anyone tell me.

(https://i.imgur.com/lh4a46c.jpg)

Is this the correct colour of venus surface or has it been edited? because that is some yellow sky we got there.

:o


One of my favs (MARS)

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Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Feb 06, 2018, 01:26:10 PM
Falcon Heavy launch today!  Here is a live stream from PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-spacex-launches-the-falcon-heavy-the-rocket-that-could-go-to-mars 

1:30 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST is the window.  Leaving early from work today to drive up as close as possible.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 06, 2018, 09:02:54 PM
Beautiful launch and landings! Comeon number 3!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Jacku on Feb 06, 2018, 11:21:22 PM
Watched the launch live! Was great seeing them land. Hope to hear good news for the core but it's been a while.


Sounds like the core didn't have enough propellant to slow down and crashed on or next to the pad.

LIVE conference:

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: slipknotpredator on Feb 07, 2018, 01:09:59 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180207/2f0fc0fc759f994984fc56d1e312b8a0.jpg)

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180207/f272bae77d67328da6930a867f67dfce.jpg)

Amazing.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Jacku on Feb 07, 2018, 01:40:06 AM
The pad seems to have survived save for two destroyed engines. Cool.

My new twitter header:

(https://i.imgur.com/2d4OKUM.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Uncanny Antman on Feb 07, 2018, 02:28:31 AM
Makes me wanna watch Heavy Metal again.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 07, 2018, 08:21:32 AM
Plenty of photos from the event - https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0NPoU0AAMWk6.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0HCTU0AE9DxO.jpg)

Sounds like the central core didn't make it, unfortunately and the third main burn didn't put it on the right trajectory.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Feb 07, 2018, 09:26:39 PM
Quote from: slipknotpredator on Feb 07, 2018, 01:09:59 AM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180207/2f0fc0fc759f994984fc56d1e312b8a0.jpg)

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180207/f272bae77d67328da6930a867f67dfce.jpg)

Quote from: Jacku on Feb 07, 2018, 01:40:06 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/2d4OKUM.jpg)

This is straight outta Heavy Metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyfInT1y0c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyfInT1y0c)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Feb 09, 2018, 06:11:12 PM
Quote from: Jacku on Feb 07, 2018, 01:40:06 AM
The pad seems to have survived save for two destroyed engines. Cool.

My new twitter header:

(https://i.imgur.com/2d4OKUM.jpg)

Mine too!

There is an old hidden boat dock positioned directly in front of the VAB.  It was worth jumping over a few barricades for this view:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVYjW53WkAEzUvR.jpg:large)

When the two rocket boosters descended together, they looked like giant fireballs slowly coming down.  The four sonic booms were incredibly loud, I was an emotional wreck.  Having spent most of my life watching shuttle launches, words just don't describe the feels. Couldn't stop reading posts of Starman lol.  Still excited, can you tell!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Feb 10, 2018, 10:09:52 AM
What a coincidence you share a name with such a famous singer!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Feb 10, 2018, 10:15:06 AM
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury

Dead?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 10, 2018, 10:36:45 AM
If you are a Scottish lord then I am Mickey Mouse!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 12, 2018, 08:20:32 AM
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury

What's your views on the successful landings on the Moon?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Deadmeat on Feb 12, 2018, 09:36:14 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 12, 2018, 08:20:32 AM
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury

What's your views on the successful landings on the Moon?

Are you dense?? That was all fake, staged. Sounding like some democrat...
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Feb 13, 2018, 03:50:31 AM
Quote from: Deadmeat on Feb 12, 2018, 09:36:14 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 12, 2018, 08:20:32 AM
Quote from: D88M on Feb 10, 2018, 09:04:31 AM
If that thing with the car in space is real then i am Freddy Mercury

What's your views on the successful landings on the Moon?

Are you dense?? That was all fake, staged. Sounding like some democrat...
Ya know I just can't help but wonder centuries from now when we start colonizing other planets, where these conspiracy theorists will be or come up with next. Be kind of funny actually in a morbid sort of way.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 13, 2018, 01:31:28 PM
https://www.space.com/39671-trump-nasa-budget-2019-funds-moon-over-iss.html

QuoteNASA's 2019 budget request formalizes the agency's handover of human-spaceflight activities in low-Earth orbit to private industry, in favor of a shift toward the moon.


(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3My85NzUvb3JpZ2luYWwvVGVzbGFSb2Fkc3Rlcl8wOGZlYjIwMThfdGVuYWdyYUlJSV9zMi5naWY/MTUxODE5ODYyOQ==)

QuoteFly, Starman, fly! The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver, that launched into space aboard SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6), has been spotted zipping through space by a telescope on the ground. And we can't stop watching it!

https://www.space.com/39647-spacex-tesla-roadster-spotted-in-space.html
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Feb 13, 2018, 09:15:31 PM
That is beautiful.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 15, 2018, 09:03:25 PM
The Earth and the Moon photographed from 62 million kilometers away

https://twitter.com/OSIRISREx/status/963803706960457728
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Deadmeat on Feb 16, 2018, 03:23:04 PM
The video with the Tesla Roadster spotted in space is my favorite thing ever.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Feb 16, 2018, 07:38:44 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 13, 2018, 01:31:28 PM
https://www.space.com/39671-trump-nasa-budget-2019-funds-moon-over-iss.html

QuoteNASA's 2019 budget request formalizes the agency's handover of human-spaceflight activities in low-Earth orbit to private industry, in favor of a shift toward the moon.


https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3My85NzUvb3JpZ2luYWwvVGVzbGFSb2Fkc3Rlcl8wOGZlYjIwMThfdGVuYWdyYUlJSV9zMi5naWY/MTUxODE5ODYyOQ==

QuoteFly, Starman, fly! The Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver, that launched into space aboard SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6), has been spotted zipping through space by a telescope on the ground. And we can't stop watching it!

https://www.space.com/39647-spacex-tesla-roadster-spotted-in-space.html

The bar has officially and literally been knocked out of space for the most epic event in my lifetime after this  8)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: x-M-x on Feb 16, 2018, 08:01:42 PM
Is that car on a collision course by any chance? i'm sure they just didn't send it out there and *pray/hope* Right?


god knows what it's aimed at... i have seen several reports it's gonna crash into mars... and if that is true? That musk guy should be ashamed.

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Jacku on Feb 16, 2018, 08:36:27 PM
Quote from: x-M-x on Feb 16, 2018, 08:01:42 PM
Is that car on a collision course by any chance? i'm sure they just didn't send it out there and *pray/hope* Right?


god knows what it's aimed at... i have seen several reports it's gonna crash into mars... and if that is true? That musk guy should be ashamed.



No. I believe it was aimed to orbit the sun in a way where it's orbit would intersects that of Mars (when it wasn't there) so that it didn't contaminate the planet but still 'get there' in a sense. Though it overshot I think and will go the long way around through the asteroid belt. Since it's space the odds of it hitting anything are very very low.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Jacku on Feb 22, 2018, 02:16:30 PM
Falcon 9 launching shortly. They're going to try catching the nose cone like this:

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Feb 22, 2018, 03:25:57 PM
 :laugh: http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/21/painting-100-years-ago-show-first-alien-visit-earth-expert-claims-7330557/

QuoteWhacked on drugs including mescaline, opium and hash, Crowley 'made contact' with a being which now looks oddly familiar... like the 'grey aliens' beloved of UFO fans. Crowley made a painting of the entity, which he called 'LAM' – and his fans later linked the painting with planets beyond Pluto, Paranoia magazine reports.

(https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/sei_560711.jpg?w=620&h=864&crop=1)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 24, 2018, 03:38:02 PM
https://twitter.com/spacedotcom/status/966733996062253056

https://twitter.com/spacedotcom/status/967147842681765888
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 27, 2018, 05:02:53 PM
https://twitter.com/gizmodo/status/968516893136097280
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Mar 14, 2018, 05:08:54 AM
Stephen Hawking, the master and translator of the universe himself just passed away....

Damm dude  :-[

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/stephen-hawking-physicist-who-reshaped-cosmology-dies-at-76?cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Mar 14, 2018, 05:12:51 AM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Mar 14, 2018, 07:57:02 AM
Oh man, Stephen Hawkins, that's a rather heavy loss. Damn dude is right.  :'(
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Mar 14, 2018, 08:23:46 AM
Was sad to read this this morning.  :( A Brief History of Time is sat on my to-read pile. Must get to it soon.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Mar 14, 2018, 11:18:41 AM
Damn... This really hit hard for me. What an individual, so sad to see him go.  :'(
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 24, 2018, 07:04:21 PM
https://twitter.com/io9/status/976292285263486976

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/977551609579393024

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Mar 31, 2018, 12:10:26 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 14, 2018, 08:23:46 AM
Was sad to read this this morning.  :( A Brief History of Time is sat on my to-read pile. Must get to it soon.

A Long History of No-Time to Read a Brief history of Time.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 03, 2018, 10:52:19 AM
Lol. I'm sure we've all got that dreaded pile!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 11, 2018, 05:38:44 PM
Busted!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVo1UG6VwAAloXK.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Apr 11, 2018, 07:04:21 PM
Now this made me laugh!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 12, 2018, 07:12:22 AM
 :laugh: Who filmed this one? Kubrick did the moon landing, right?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Apr 12, 2018, 11:39:46 AM
Rian Johnson.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 13, 2018, 03:43:52 PM
A mix of science fiction and NASA footage in the musical video below

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Apr 18, 2018, 02:07:44 AM
BAMM DONE CHECK MATE

(https://i.imgur.com/ZrLpeI1.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on May 26, 2018, 11:34:46 PM
Apollo 12 LMP, Skylab commander and painter Alan Bean has passed away, aged 86. (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean)

:'(

In interviews he always seemed to be the guy who was just happy to be part of the space program, which undersold his skill.

"SCE to AUX"
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on May 27, 2018, 05:21:04 AM
You guys down under know about American astronauts?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on May 27, 2018, 05:47:40 AM
The famous ones.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on May 27, 2018, 05:56:09 AM
Remember that time the Aborigines helped John Glenn with their bonfire?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on May 27, 2018, 08:29:33 AM
I was busy that night.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Vermillion on May 27, 2018, 12:22:04 PM
These guys are real heroes.
Smart and someone to aspire to.

Godspeed.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 06, 2018, 02:51:24 PM


https://www.space.com/40783-tiny-asteroid-hits-earth-2018-la-video.html
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 06, 2018, 05:53:44 PM
QuoteScientists discovered the asteroid, called 2018 LA, early Saturday. After a closer look at the space rock's trajectory, it "was determined to be on a collision course with Earth (https://www.space.com/39925-hammer-spacecraft-dangerous-asteroid-nuclear-bomb.html), with impact just hours away," NASA officials said in a statement.

:o :o :o
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nostromo on Jun 18, 2018, 10:51:31 PM
You guys definitely need to get a telescope if you love space. Finally got back into observing after a few years and enjoying it more than ever. Also upgraded from an 8" to an 11" CPC 1100 telescope and got some wide field 100 degree eyepieces that have hooked me so hard. I was out with some friends I met over in the cloudy nights forum (great forum for advice etc) at a nice dark site this past Friday. I still can't forget the views I saw. Not just of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars (currently 25% covered by a planet wide dust storm and growing) but these fantastic views of open star clusters and Nebulae in the Sagittarius constellation. Best investment I ever made! Would highly recommend a scope to all you guys. There's so much to see up there. Check out M51 (2 colliding Galaxies), M23 & M24 open cluster & star cloud and the Lagoon Nebula, just awesome.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 26, 2018, 07:17:43 AM
(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA3Ny8yNzcvb3JpZ2luYWwvYXN0ZXJvaWQtcnl1Z3UtaGF5YWJ1c2EyLmpwZw==)

https://www.space.com/40987-japan-hayabusa2-asteroid-probe-closes-on-ryugu.html?utm_source=notification

A Japanese Probe Is Closing in on an Asteroid 180 Million Miles from Earth
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 28, 2018, 12:55:19 PM
When are we going to start mining those damn things?

https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system (https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system)

QuoteElkins-Tanton has estimated the value of the asteroid's iron content alone at approximately $10,000 quadrillion (https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/18/nasa-announces-plan-to-visit-asteroid-worth-10-000-quadrillion/21656990/). That's to say nothing of the gold, copper, and platinum to be found. The value of this asteroid alone could wipe out global debt, $60 trillion (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4128582/Nasa-plans-explore-expensive-asteroid.html), and leave enough left over to give every human on the planet a comfortable lifestyle, or conversely, cause the collapse of the world economy and send us hurdling back to the Dark Ages. Take your pick. Elkins-Tanton suggested dragging back a hunk and doling it out little by little, but also played with the idea of solving mineral scarcity for all-time.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Old One on Jun 28, 2018, 01:04:18 PM
f**k me, go get the damn thing.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Jun 28, 2018, 08:40:15 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 28, 2018, 12:55:19 PM
When are we going to start mining those damn things?

https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system (https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/nasas-asteroid-mission-likely-to-uncover-mysteries-surrounding-the-origins-of-our-solar-system)

QuoteElkins-Tanton has estimated the value of the asteroid's iron content alone at approximately $10,000 quadrillion (https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/18/nasa-announces-plan-to-visit-asteroid-worth-10-000-quadrillion/21656990/). That's to say nothing of the gold, copper, and platinum to be found. The value of this asteroid alone could wipe out global debt, $60 trillion (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4128582/Nasa-plans-explore-expensive-asteroid.html), and leave enough left over to give every human on the planet a comfortable lifestyle, or conversely, cause the collapse of the world economy and send us hurdling back to the Dark Ages. Take your pick. Elkins-Tanton suggested dragging back a hunk and doling it out little by little, but also played with the idea of solving mineral scarcity for all-time.

I knew they were a potential gold mine, but to be worth 10,000 trillion?!  :o I hope the whole world is investing towards this. 
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 29, 2018, 12:17:21 AM
That's $10,000 quadrillion.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Jun 29, 2018, 06:16:34 PM
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?

Though that's a pretty big rock. It's so exciting just imagining the potential. If humanity is cautious and wise, we as a species have a bright future ahead of us.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: whiterabbit on Jun 29, 2018, 09:17:16 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 29, 2018, 12:17:21 AM
That's $10,000 quadrillion.
Probably cost 11,000 quadrillion to mine though. Also you'd need to find somebody that would want to buy that much steel at that price point. It's value at the moment is zero. :P
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 426Buddy on Jun 29, 2018, 10:43:17 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 29, 2018, 06:16:34 PM
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?

Though that's a pretty big rock. It's so exciting just imagining the potential. If humanity is cautious and wise, we as a species have a bright future ahead of us.

We're doomed
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 29, 2018, 11:38:11 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 29, 2018, 06:16:34 PM
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?

I imagine it's based on the current market value of iron.  However, if iron were to become so abundant, it's price would naturally plummet.

I think I'd like living in a post-scarcity world.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Jun 30, 2018, 03:22:07 PM
Humans love to build things. Discovering new resources has always pushed our progress further. Even if it's not a new type like cheap fusion energy, the shear abundance of metals/raw materiel is very exciting IMO.





Quote from: 426Buddy on Jun 29, 2018, 10:43:17 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 29, 2018, 06:16:34 PM
Damn, my bad! But how the hell does did they estimate such worth?

Though that's a pretty big rock. It's so exciting just imagining the potential. If humanity is cautious and wise, we as a species have a bright future ahead of us.

We're doomed

:laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 30, 2018, 03:46:32 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 30, 2018, 03:22:07 PM
Humans love to build things. Discovering new resources has always pushed our progress further. Even if it's not a new type like cheap fusion energy, the shear abundance of metals/raw materiel is very exciting IMO.

You seem quite enthused.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Jun 30, 2018, 08:59:12 PM
I like seeing optimistic news and if it's news that Sci Fi ideas could maybe become a reality, without ending the world, I can't help but be excited. Just like the probability that I'll see the first human set foot on Mars in my lifetime, it puts a smile on my face.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 30, 2018, 09:31:08 PM
What if the invention of FTL space travel, the development of an inexhaustible clean energy source and contact with a friendly alien species all happened within the next ten years?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Jul 01, 2018, 01:59:40 PM
I'm a bit skeptical of that happening so soon, especially of the FTL part as physics is kinda demonstrating how unlikely and impractical that is.

Though if any one of those things happened within the next ten years, that would be a huge milestone for humanity. I'd be very grateful to live to see any of those things whatever their probability may be.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 01, 2018, 05:46:25 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jul 01, 2018, 01:59:40 PM
I'm a bit skeptical of that happening so soon, especially of the FTL part as physics is kinda demonstrating how unlikely and impractical that is.

Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (https://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html)

QuoteA warp drive (https://www.space.com/6649-star-trek-warp-drive-impossible.html) would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light (https://www.space.com/5725-spaceship-fly-faster-light.html). A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.  Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.

How about now?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 426Buddy on Jul 01, 2018, 07:55:08 PM
Sweet!

Someone get Sam Neil on the line in case something goes wrong.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 01, 2018, 09:48:06 PM
https://twitter.com/nature/status/1012337726849519617
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Jul 01, 2018, 11:09:31 PM
Nice!

Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 01, 2018, 05:46:25 PM
Quote from: Still Collating... on Jul 01, 2018, 01:59:40 PM
I'm a bit skeptical of that happening so soon, especially of the FTL part as physics is kinda demonstrating how unlikely and impractical that is.

Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say (https://www.space.com/17628-warp-drive-possible-interstellar-spaceflight.html)

QuoteA warp drive (https://www.space.com/6649-star-trek-warp-drive-impossible.html) would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light (https://www.space.com/5725-spaceship-fly-faster-light.html). A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre; however, subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.  Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.

How about now?

I've seen this, it's an old idea. Theoretically it's only possible, but the greatest problem with it is that it requires "exotic matter" which there is no evidence for at all. And there are other problems with it as well. Still, out of all the FTL ideas, this is the most probable one, though that's not going by much.

FTL is very, very unlikely unfortunately and nothing would surprise me more if it turns out it's possible and practical. I hope I get surprised though.
There are great episodes on youtube about FTL from PBS Space Time and Isaac Arthur.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jul 02, 2018, 02:31:57 PM
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It's a Beautiful Baby Exoplanet! Historic Photo Is 1st View of Alien World Being Born (https://www.space.com/41051-newborn-exoplanet-first-confirmed-photo.html)

QuoteThis photo from the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the act of formation, around the dwarf star PDS 70. The planet is clearly visible as a bright point to the right of center, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the star.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 02, 2018, 03:44:04 PM
Looks like an ear.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Old One on Jul 02, 2018, 03:46:50 PM
Incredible.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Jul 18, 2018, 01:08:37 AM
Someone 'shopped the cover of Meddle.

(https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-22e5c37c0c4e0dc76be9ab7e97a66c9c-c)

In other news - Jupiter has 12 new moons and one is going the wrong way. (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/17/astronomers-discover-12-new-moons-orbiting-jupiter)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 29, 2018, 12:24:39 PM
New Horizons Spies Its Next Target Beyond Pluto — from 100 Million Miles Away
(https://www.space.com/41652-new-horizons-2014-mu69-photo-100-million-miles-away.html?utm_source=notification)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Sep 01, 2018, 04:28:55 AM


https://twitter.com/NASAHubble/status/1035194513747333120
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Sep 23, 2018, 06:15:17 AM
Japan makes history as rovers land on asteroid.

https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa/status/1043486871504867329
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Old One on Sep 23, 2018, 11:51:51 AM
Superb!

Planet cracking incoming
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Sep 23, 2018, 11:52:21 AM
Did you learn nothing from Dead Space?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Old One on Sep 23, 2018, 12:16:32 PM
Yes, we need more Engineers trained in dismemberment with Plasma Cutters!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 11, 2018, 02:10:50 PM
Engine Burn Puts New Horizons on Track for New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule (https://www.space.com/42049-new-horizons-engine-burn-ultima-thule.html)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 16, 2018, 12:01:29 PM
Record Breaker: 4 Huge Alien Planets Spotted Around Baby Star (https://www.space.com/42147-alien-solar-system-four-huge-exoplanets.html)

QuoteIn an astronomical first, four gigantic planets have been detected around a very young star, a new study reports.

The star in question is CI Tau, which lies about 500 light-years from Earth. CI Tau is just 2 million years old and is still surrounded by a swirling clump of dust and gas known as a protoplanetary disk.

The star was already known to host one planet, a world about 10 times more massive than Jupiter that circles CI Tau once every nine Earth days. This planet, called CI Tau b, was the first "hot Jupiter" ever discovered around such a young star. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 17, 2018, 09:15:50 PM
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1050758511204823040

https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1052218389354053632



No Space News exactly, but I didn't find a better place  ;D

https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1052608948212097025


https://twitter.com/BDisgusting/status/1052991880194117633
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 21, 2018, 06:47:40 PM
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1053084842706063360

Not exactly space news but still interesting...

https://twitter.com/NASA_ICE/status/1052601381712887809
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 05, 2018, 02:58:54 AM
With a grain of salt as usual.

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1058335238890364928
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 06, 2018, 06:49:48 PM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 07, 2018, 09:06:34 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 05, 2018, 02:58:54 AM
With a grain of salt as usual.

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1058335238890364928

How amazing would that actually be?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 08, 2018, 02:33:24 AM
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1060275904956583937

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1059963017041854464

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 07, 2018, 09:06:34 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 05, 2018, 02:58:54 AM
With a grain of salt as usual.

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1058335238890364928

How amazing would that actually be?

Amazing wrapped in steroids! but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, I'm afraid  :'(

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1060041941713387520

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 13, 2018, 04:27:43 AM
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1061741864355840000

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1061415715872391168

https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1056903707550511104

https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1061027853536559104

https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1060649260029493248

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Nov 15, 2018, 12:57:37 AM
Aliens are going to be pissed when they finally show up and want to speak to our Supreme Leader Karen Carpenter.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 15, 2018, 04:08:03 PM
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1062843372619132929
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 17, 2018, 01:14:03 AM
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1063529896486547456
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 19, 2018, 12:33:15 AM
Such a beautiful pareidolia (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22686500).  :)

https://twitter.com/chandraxray/status/1063131187277955073
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Ingwar on Nov 19, 2018, 07:33:13 AM
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QuoteIcy 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Spotted Around Nearby Barnard's Star

The nearest single star to the sun apparently hosts a big, icy planet.

Astronomers have found strong evidence of a frigid alien world about 3.2 times more massive than Earth circling Barnard's Star, a dim red dwarf that lies just 6 light-years from the sun. Barnard's Star is our sun's nearest neighbor, apart from the three-star Alpha Centauri system, which is about 4.3 light-years away.

The newly detected world, known as Barnard's Star b, remains a planet candidate for now. But the researchers who spotted it are confident the alien planet will eventually be confirmed. [Barnard's Star b: What We Know About the "Super-Earth' Candidate]

"After a very careful analysis, we are 99 percent confident that the planet is there," Ignasi Ribas, of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia and the Institute of Space Sciences in Spain, said in a statement.

"However, we'll continue to observe this fast-moving star to exclude possible, but improbable, natural variations of the stellar brightness which could masquerade as a planet," added Ribas, the lead author of a new study announcing the detection of Barnard's Star b. That study was published online today (Nov. 14) in the journal Nature.

Barnard's Star b, if confirmed, will not be the nearest exoplanet to Earth. That designation is held by the roughly Earth-size world Proxima b, which orbits Proxima Centauri, one of the Alpha Centauri trio.

NASA's Kepler space telescope showed that small planets are common in the Milky Way galaxy at large. Together, Proxima b and Barnard's Star b strongly suggest that such worlds "are also common in our neighborhood," study co-author Johanna Teske, of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., told Space.com. "And that is super-exciting."

A near solar neighbor
Barnard's Star is named after the American astronomer E.E. Barnard, who in 1916 discovered the speediness Ribas mentioned. No other star moves faster across Earth's sky than Barnard's Star, which travels about the width of the full moon every 180 years. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]

This unparalleled apparent motion is a consequence of the proximity of Barnard's Star and its high (but not record-setting) velocity of 310,000 mph (500,000 km/h) relative to the sun.

And Barnard's Star is getting closer to us every day: In about 10,000 years, the red dwarf will take over the nearest-star mantle from the Alpha Centauri system. At that time, just 3.8 light-years will separate Barnard's Star from the sun.

Barnard's Star is about twice as old as Earth's sun, one-sixth as massive and just 3 percent as luminous. Because Barnard's Star is so dim, its "habitable zone" — the range of distances where liquid water may be possible on a world's surface — lies extremely close-in. Indeed, researchers estimate that zone to be a sliver that lies 0.06 AU to 0.10 AU from the star. (One AU, or astronomical unit, is the Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)

The habitable-zone concept is a tricky one, of course. Gauging a world's true habitability requires a strong working knowledge of its atmospheric composition and thickness, among other characteristics. And such information is hard to come by for exoplanets.

A long search
Barnard's Star has long been a target of exoplanet hunters, but their searches have always come up empty — until now.

And the new detection wasn't easy: Ribas and his team analyzed huge amounts of data, both archival and newly gathered, before finally digging up Barnard's Star b.

They used the "radial velocity" method, which looks for changes in starlight caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet. Such tugs cause a star to wobble slightly, shifting its light toward red wavelengths at times and toward the blue end of the spectrum at others, as seen from Earth. [7 Ways to Discovery Alien Planets]

"We used observations from seven different instruments, spanning 20 years of measurements, making this one of the largest and most extensive datasets ever used for precise radial-velocity studies," Ribas said in the same statement. "The combination of all data led to a total of 771 measurements — a huge amount of information!"

Never before had the radial velocity method been used to find such a small planet in such a distant orbit, study team members said. (Big, close-in planets tug their host stars more powerfully and therefore cause more dramatic, and more easily detectable, light shifts.)

Those seven instruments were the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile; the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope, at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile; HARPS-North, at the Galileo National Telescope in the Canary Islands; the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, at the Keck 10-meter telescope in Hawaii; the Carnegie Institute's Planet Finder Spectrograph, at the Magellan 6.5-m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile; the Automated Planet Finder at the 2.4-m telescope at the University of California's Lick Observatory; and& CARMENES, at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.

The researchers also detected hints of another possible planet in the system, orbiting farther out than Barnard's Star b — way farther out, with an orbital period of 6,600 Earth days. But this second signal is too weak to be deemed a planet candidate, Teske said.

"There's not enough data," she told Space.com.

A frigid super-Earth
Barnard's Star b is at least 3.2 times more massive than our own planet, making it a "super-Earth" — the class of worlds that are significantly larger than Earth but smaller than "ice giants" such as Neptune and Uranus.

The newfound planet candidate lies 0.4 AU from its host star and completes one orbit every 233 Earth days, according to the new study.

This orbital distance is similar to that of radiation-blasted Mercury in our own solar system. But, because Barnard's Star is so dim, the potential planet lies right around the system's "snow line" — the region where volatile materials such as water can condense into solid ices.

"Until now, only giant planets had been detected at such a distance from their stars," Rodrigo Diaz, of the Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research and the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, said in an accompanying "News and Views" article that was also published today in Nature.

"The authors' discovery of a low-mass planet near the snow line places strong constraints on formation models for this type of planet," added Diaz, who was not involved in the new study.

Barnard's Star b, if it does indeed exist, is not a very promising abode for life as we know it, at least not on the surface. The potential planet is likely very cold, with an estimated surface temperature of about minus 275 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 170 degrees Celsius), study team members said.

Confirmation of Barnard's Star b is unlikely to come from additional radial-velocity measurements, Diaz wrote. But super-precise measurements of star positions, such as those now being made by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, may do the job in the next few years, he added.

"Even more excitingly, the next generation of ground-based instrumentation, also coming into operation in the 2020s, should be able to directly image the reported planet, and measure its light spectrum," Diaz wrote.

"Using this spectrum, the characteristics of the planet's atmosphere — such as its winds and rotation rate — could be inferred," he added. "This remarkable planet therefore gives us a key piece in the puzzle of planetary formation and evolution, and might be among the first low-mass exoplanets whose atmospheres are probed in detail."

https://www.space.com/42423-barnards-star-super-earth-exoplanet-discovery.html

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 19, 2018, 08:11:03 PM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 21, 2018, 01:25:32 AM
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1064985071134887939

https://twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/1064582206566350848


https://twitter.com/Seeker/status/1064933895576190977



https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1065224232659873792
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 25, 2018, 02:30:18 AM






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3O9TgZwMuE
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 28, 2018, 01:16:46 AM
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1067146825931661313
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Old One on Nov 28, 2018, 08:42:04 PM
Excellent.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 29, 2018, 02:27:47 AM
Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihxYC1P4EaI
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 03, 2018, 07:32:27 PM
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1069668380171493382

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1068583758088019968
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 14, 2018, 05:03:48 PM
https://youtu.be/K2kf1I8yx_4

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1073189323644653569

https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1073442521970294784

https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1073090802086227968

https://twitter.com/JSTOR_Daily/status/1071943332996243458

https://twitter.com/ScienceAlert/status/1073568791186075648
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 23, 2018, 01:23:45 AM
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1076528460569460737

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1076534348533379072

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1076313724896587777
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Dec 23, 2018, 05:36:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfd0oC3eFWw
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Jan 04, 2019, 12:16:04 PM
Oh come on, no love for New Horizons' ongoing mission?

https://www.wired.com/story/new-horizons-first-photos-ultima-thule/

Ultimate Thule (tool-ee), motherf**kers! More, closer, higher-res photos coming in February, with data from the flyby drip-feeding until 2020, all going well.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 07, 2019, 01:13:39 PM
I am so glad I'm alive for this. Feels like I missed out with the Space Race and Voyager's Tour.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 08, 2019, 10:26:29 PM
Wouldn't you rather be alive during a time when we have FTL space travel and can actually explore the universe?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Jan 08, 2019, 11:24:28 PM
Yes.

Quote from: SiL on Jan 04, 2019, 12:16:04 PM
Oh come on, no love for New Horizons' ongoing mission?

https://www.wired.com/story/new-horizons-first-photos-ultima-thule/

Ultimate Thule (tool-ee), motherf**kers! More, closer, higher-res photos coming in February, with data from the flyby drip-feeding until 2020, all going well.

Sounds like a baddie from Conan the Barbarian.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Jan 08, 2019, 11:49:19 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jan 08, 2019, 10:26:29 PM
Wouldn't you rather be alive during a time when we have FTL space travel and can actually explore the universe?

You mean "if" we have FTL?  :P
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 11, 2019, 09:00:44 PM
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1083071819865882625

https://twitter.com/NatGeoMag/status/1083774408303423488

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1083567087983964160
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 15, 2019, 06:29:46 PM
Historical! China manages to germinate seeds on the moon for first time  8)

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1085094095637438469

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1085205306962071552

https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/1084796039784263680

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDYN5J5chA

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1084572889427398656

https://twitter.com/AstronomyCast/status/1083085003234390016
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 22, 2019, 11:12:13 PM
https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1087715950873493504
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Jan 23, 2019, 03:28:12 AM
We had so many close calls with huge city destroying meteors if it weren't for our lovely moon.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 25, 2019, 08:46:15 PM
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1088817926717825024

https://twitter.com/JHUAPL/status/1088544283202863105

https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1088873495575101441

Quote from: Mr.Turok on Jan 23, 2019, 03:28:12 AM
We had so many close calls with huge city destroying meteors if it weren't for our lovely moon.

Yup, our shield against planetary puberty  :laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Feb 02, 2019, 12:44:03 AM
i just want to admire the beauty of our Super Blood Wolf Moon

(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4Mi80MTAvb3JpZ2luYWwvbHVuYXItZWNsaXBzZS1pbXBhY3QuSlBH)

(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4Mi8zNDcvb3JpZ2luYWwvZWNsaXBzZTIwMTktamFtZXMtam9yZGFuLmpwZw==)

(https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4Mi8zNTMvb3JpZ2luYWwvbHVuYXItZWNsaXBzZS0yMDE5LWhhbnMuanBn)

Makes me wonder how would this kind of moon be used in mythology like for werewolves.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Baron Von Marlon on Feb 03, 2019, 12:51:30 AM
Sorry if this has already been posted.

Attention: I was only able to read it once. Second time I went back to the link I couldn't read it anymore unless I payed.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-if-true-this-could-be-one-of-the-greatest-discoveries-in-human-history-1.6828318?fbclid=IwAR1HdIIqCGSGN3Il6oqyiPKQL8iEhrZ3eFmUukQgkUgb__jFqZE2VYMSVwA
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 11, 2019, 08:36:23 PM
https://twitter.com/engadget/status/1095057385855414272
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Feb 14, 2019, 04:47:20 PM
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/c203ec63d476d39b5f59d595e8bc3ab8/tumblr_pmuoor8TYS1ro9w51o1_540.png)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/6309673e4d1d2eff72fbdbe84d89b653/tumblr_pmuoor8TYS1ro9w51o4_640.png)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/c328a82784c1045a8b3956ba3cd57c9b/tumblr_pmuoor8TYS1ro9w51o3_640.png)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/25b07a6e1c73bc82e42602d1c3515713/tumblr_pmuoor8TYS1ro9w51o2_640.png)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/eb29e6cf4fba3a098127da1e56581348/tumblr_pmuoor8TYS1ro9w51o5_640.png)

Quote"my battery is low and it's getting dark" is so hauntingly human, so crushingly lonely. I can't articulate the deep, profound ache that sentence evokes. It's acceptance and defeat and terror and sadness all at once, all from one tiny machine we asked to explore the stars for us.

Found me that quote and damm. I its projecting and all but when you include the situation at hand, you just can't help it. You are lost but never forgotten Opportunity.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Feb 15, 2019, 12:46:37 AM
This made me cry when i read the announcement. Don't know why I got so emotional about it. Opportunity will not be forgotten, it's a great piece of our space exploration history. A sad day indeed.   
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 16, 2019, 07:29:09 PM
Despite the truth, she has done a good job, indeed.

(https://i.imgur.com/mm5j6wM.jpg)

R.I.P  :'(
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Feb 17, 2019, 09:43:30 PM
Can Mark Watney still use her?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Huggs on Feb 17, 2019, 11:36:46 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 17, 2019, 09:43:30 PM
Can Mark Watney still use her?

Only if we leave him there, again. Who's ready for a sequel?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 21, 2019, 08:27:46 PM
https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1095052738101161985
Title: Space News & Views
Post by: slipknotpredator on Mar 01, 2019, 04:00:46 PM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190301/6a5cc6d9b082487862518923cba7e8b4.jpg)

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190301/d99beda1afc76bed8c98bdef0051efa0.jpg)

"We are excited that Ripley, an anthropomorphic test device, will be making the trip to and from the International Space Station on Demo-1. She is outfitted with many sensors to provide teams detailed information to further understand the effects on future crew members who will be traveling in #SpaceX's Crew Dragon."

This is so cool, can't wait. Loving the dummy's name :)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Mar 01, 2019, 07:12:29 PM
The name use is brilliant!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Mar 28, 2019, 11:52:10 PM
After referencing Alien, now NASA is getting down with Predator (https://www.facebook.com/NASA/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARAfZOOY8L2lf2Qgee7_ZxlgE4qSlqX_KbSh2-Q9hnBNAKNjNlhH2Iv96etbjul4NVlCJmaZopEhxzsd&hc_ref=ARRNfXB9clA02ouqHxCTfYHeewXk90b95yOuOAhBj2DQypOaGOnpZeSBtYjmbVnBLrc&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCeyCYS-nrvDC_nJpLmGR-vT5sP5CyZ-RS68uB2MO2_VJV7b7DfNX-JWmTQxX5R5s99uRT2_J66BdZINsUPVUtR7qiCd9wCPtt2gsSIktoTYmaJUWkrsDEAxPDhZ9fKhEfbWUhmDmqD5W3VOnWum_S87zMjfNmnC4EKqdGOBSJykpWvO1fpMcYYsuRCIOXSi_o7a6-KYCJpHXMeB8QIF6_1uRLFHI01NPeGlbRfaIs4c5m4AGOAQFI67dKcDLcf7f6jnjCCovIEuf_U_9zcqSVg_g-ukBnWtXrX3YTgJsK1vQ4kcZn8wkV5bXl1cOK8tH9Ya8n8B4KvTLLVSA).
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Apr 10, 2019, 01:18:18 PM
Say hello to a black hole.

Taken from the live stream of the press conference.

And a news report:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-10/black-hole-event-horizon-telescope-announcement-astrophysics/10989534

(https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/10990954-3x2-large.jpg?v=3)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Old One on Apr 10, 2019, 03:29:24 PM
Excellent.

https://youtu.be/qp2jt2xq7J8
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 10, 2019, 03:35:26 PM
I want to show this to all the science deniers.  Until now, black holes were still theoretical and had never been directly observed.

But science makes predictions and has a sterling record of doing so.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The Kurgan on Apr 10, 2019, 04:08:16 PM
Fascinating stuff.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Apr 10, 2019, 04:40:44 PM
Beautiful! The first ever picture of a black whole. Just stunning.
Just a blurry image for now, but this blurry image is literal proof of decades of scientific research and hard work. Now that's what science is all about. Finding the hard to find through the laws of the universe. A huge thanks to all the scientists involved.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Mr.Turok on Apr 13, 2019, 12:57:52 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 10, 2019, 03:35:26 PM
I want to show this to all the science deniers.  Until now, black holes were still theoretical and had never been directly observed.

But science makes predictions and has a sterling record of doing so.
Its impossible, they'll just say fake CGI and move on. Funny though we have been taking images long before CGI but they'll never get it. Oh and the eye reminds me of that of the Egyptian Duck
(https://s.hdnux.com/photos/06/45/44/1726779/3/920x920.jpg)

At the same time, the whole thing is right here:

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/7178e3c66e74e4ebb69bfffed1295f5a/tumblr_pptira1lYM1tji4d6_1280.jpg)
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/302e39d4eb370e5eef8caebeb37eb6e6/tumblr_inline_ppr58pkf831u9o7m1_540.png)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Apr 13, 2019, 06:16:09 AM
Quote from: Mr.Turok on Apr 13, 2019, 12:57:52 AM
At the same time, the whole thing is right here:

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/7178e3c66e74e4ebb69bfffed1295f5a/tumblr_pptira1lYM1tji4d6_1280.jpg)
Holy f**k that's doing the rounds and it's pissing me off. In the sense that's a photo of the same black hole, yes; not in the sense of the description given, that it's the "full image" and that the EHT is just a cropped selection. Different telescope, taken two years ago, in an entirely different spectrum of light. The data from the telescope was used in conjunction with the EHT shot to get a more complete profile of the black hole's properties, but this is not the "full" EHT photo.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Wysps on Apr 13, 2019, 02:22:51 PM
(The picture is eerily similar to that duck's eye, funny enough.)

Still very beautiful, yet chilling nonetheless. 
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 28, 2019, 12:27:40 PM
NASA Is Sending a Life-Hunting Drone to Saturn's Huge Moon Titan (https://www.space.com/nasa-dragonfly-mission-saturn-moon-titan.html)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 426Buddy on Jun 28, 2019, 12:51:17 PM
Sweet, I hoped they would do it in my lifetime.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: The1PerfectOrganism on Jun 29, 2019, 10:20:42 PM
Awesome, yep.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jul 16, 2019, 02:48:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQpaSKJaZA
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 26, 2019, 03:44:23 AM
Quote"NASA still doesn't have a suit because the decision was taken suddenly," Pablo de Leon, engineer and director of a NASA financed spacesuit project at the University of North Dakota, told AFP. "On the one hand, there's this order to get to the Moon by 2024, and on the other, we haven't developed new spacesuits since 1977."

https://twitter.com/futurism/status/1154026605813125120
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 26, 2019, 03:50:15 AM
https://youtu.be/Az_qrXQzYOA

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1164406859970670592
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 27, 2019, 04:14:58 AM
First space crime in human history?

"Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

https://twitter.com/LawScribes/status/1166064800809586688
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Aug 28, 2019, 11:51:04 AM
Wow, that's not something you see every day. I'm quite curious how space laws will develop regarding everyday human interaction.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 15, 2019, 10:48:23 PM
Quote from: The VergeToday, NASA unveiled its designs for future spacesuits that astronauts will wear during trips to the lunar surface. The suits are still in development, but NASA claims they'll be ready to keep astronauts alive in space by 2024 — the space agency's deadline to return humans to the Moon.

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Oct 16, 2019, 08:53:11 AM
People on Twitter are complaining it doesn't look "futuristic" enough!  :laugh:

Yeah, it's not like these things need to be functional, the physics of cold cruel space really care for fashion and sleek Prometheus styled suits...  :P
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 16, 2019, 05:13:40 PM
Seriously?  :laugh:

(https://i.imgur.com/N5oxXCR.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Oct 16, 2019, 08:10:31 PM
Yep, directly in the comments from that post. The human race disappoints me yet again... :'( Though at the same time it's so sad it's actually hilarious.

If they just alone fixed the bloody problem of not enough space suits of different sizes so that there won't be anymore idiotic problems when smaller men and women need to go on space walks, I'll be happy with that. 
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: oduodu on Oct 17, 2019, 08:43:04 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)


quote

The Ripley impact crater on Pluto's moon Charon was given its name in honor of Ellen Ripley

end quote


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_(crater)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Baron Von Marlon on Nov 05, 2019, 06:48:19 AM
Anyone watched these?

First one's with a physicist who worked in Area 51.
Second with retired US Navy pilot who encountered a UFO. This one is hard to deny imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWz4SXfyCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eco2s3-0zsQ

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 08, 2019, 03:12:48 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=depVrbYifmE
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 12, 2019, 01:07:26 AM
Popular science sites tend to exaggerate news and claims from academics, but this sounds interesting anyway. Apparently, some geneticists are proponing human-tardigrade hybrids in order to achieve a more strong physiology in humans, so they can resist the hard conditions of space and  planets.

(https://i.imgur.com/lGqBJsZ.gif)

Quote from: Space.comWill we one day combine tardigrade DNA with our cells to go to Mars?

Chris Mason, a geneticist and associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell University in New York, has investigated the genetic effects of spaceflight and how humans might overcome these challenges to expand our species farther into the solar system. One of the (strangest) ways that we might protect future astronauts on missions to places like Mars, Mason said, might involve the DNA of tardigrades, tiny micro-animals that can survive the most extreme conditions, even the vacuum of space!

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1192417430565351429
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 426Buddy on Nov 12, 2019, 02:10:38 AM
Sounds ripe for a scifi horror film
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Nov 12, 2019, 02:11:15 AM
Anyone found the Klingons around Uranus yet?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 12, 2019, 02:41:57 AM
Quote from: 426Buddy on Nov 12, 2019, 02:10:38 AM
Sounds ripe for a scifi horror film

Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLDMg9ABiIg


Quote from: Local Trouble on Nov 12, 2019, 02:11:15 AM
Anyone found the Klingons around Uranus yet?

Uranus is huge and there are poisonous gases. So, no.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 09, 2020, 09:33:20 AM
New 'Self-Centering' Laser Sail Could Enable Interstellar Travel (https://www.space.com/laser-sail-centering-breakthrough-starshot.html)

QuotePrevious research has suggested that "light sailing" might be one of the only technically feasible ways to get a probe to another star within a human lifetime. Although light does not exert much pressure, scientists have long suggested that what little it does apply could have a major effect. Indeed, numerous experiments have shown that "solar sails" can rely on sunlight for propulsion, given a large enough mirror and a lightweight-enough spacecraft.

The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which was announced in 2016, plans to launch swarms of microchip-size spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, each of them sporting extraordinarily thin, incredibly reflective sails propelled by the most powerful lasers ever built. The plan has them flying at up to 20% the speed of light, reaching Alpha Centauri in about 20 years.

One concern with using laser sails is that if they drift out of alignment with the propelling laser beams — which will be based here on Earth, at least initially, in Breakthrough Starshot's plan — they may veer wildly off course from their targets. Now scientists have designed and tested a new sail that could in principle automatically keep itself centered on a laser beam for the required few minutes, allowing a spacecraft to stay on course for interplanetary or even interstellar journeys.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 426Buddy on Jan 09, 2020, 04:57:02 PM
Pretty amazing really.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 29, 2020, 01:45:38 PM
NASA's Parker Solar Probe hears whispers of solar wind (https://www.space.com/nasa-solar-probe-hears-solar-wind-whisper.html)

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Jan 30, 2020, 02:43:08 AM
Voyager 2 tried to run the kettle and hairdryer at the same time. (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/voyager-2-engineers-working-to-restore-normal-operations)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 30, 2020, 05:39:03 AM
What happened to Voyager 6?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Jan 30, 2020, 05:43:57 AM
SILENCE, CARBON UNIT.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 27, 2020, 08:07:28 PM
First US Space Force satellite has launched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zb3Qg6BadY
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Apr 08, 2020, 11:32:23 PM
NASA is contemplating the idea of turning a Moon crater into a giant telescope.

(https://cnet1.cbsistatic.com/img/z65Br0_CdVbnGoIETrbUfRwddBU=/940x0/2020/04/08/3e90fc3e-d39c-4a05-a67e-e64bde61a81f/niac2020-bandyopadhyay.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Apr 09, 2020, 05:07:07 PM
That's so cool!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Shasvre on Apr 09, 2020, 09:55:58 PM
Quote from: Gr33n M4n on Apr 08, 2020, 11:32:23 PM
NASA is contemplating the idea of turning a Moon crater into a giant telescope.

(https://cnet1.cbsistatic.com/img/z65Br0_CdVbnGoIETrbUfRwddBU=/940x0/2020/04/08/3e90fc3e-d39c-4a05-a67e-e64bde61a81f/niac2020-bandyopadhyay.jpg)

"That's no moon."
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 12, 2020, 01:15:59 AM
https://twitter.com/coreyspowell/status/1248293685038587904?s
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Huggs on Apr 12, 2020, 01:32:07 AM
It'd be so great if there was a little guy in the middle of it yelling, "the burgers are about done!"
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Apr 19, 2020, 10:15:31 PM
New research suggests time in space causes Astronauts' brains to expand.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/space-travel-astronauts-brains-expand/amp


Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 20, 2020, 02:34:58 AM
Quote from: Gr33n M4n on Apr 19, 2020, 10:15:31 PM
New research suggests time in space causes Astronauts' brains to expand.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/space-travel-astronauts-brains-expand/amp

One of these lives has a future

(https://i.imgur.com/dqvATbN.jpg)

and one of them does not...

(https://i.imgur.com/uDuZpmE.gif)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Apr 21, 2020, 02:21:59 AM
Astronomers found a star that's "dancing" around a black hole.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/einstein-star-dancing-around-black-164002411.html
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Apr 22, 2020, 04:41:41 AM
Space Force Accepting Applications Starting May 1

https://www.airforcemag.com/space-force-accepting-applications-starting-may-1/

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 17, 2020, 01:09:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTL_sJycQAA
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 27, 2020, 04:50:39 PM
Currently busy suiting-up for today's historic launch:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZCeHBuWsAMILw7?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZCeHEFXYAI5sc8?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZCdXk6XQAA0Y1T?format=jpg&name=large)

First time in over a decade that the US would be able to put a man in space again. All thanks to a private entrepreneur from South Africa.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 27, 2020, 05:28:49 PM
I've seen this before. This is the part where Ripley and Newt exits their pods.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/47693733_380851102675688_6220553681029071445_n.jpg)

(https://www.scified.com/u/Screenshot_20190101-125248_Instagram.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 27, 2020, 07:20:15 PM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 27, 2020, 08:27:07 PM
Dammit, it's been scrubbed.

Bloody weather!  >:(
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 28, 2020, 08:10:48 AM
We'll try again at the weekend!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 28, 2020, 04:30:34 PM
Mmm... Saturday's weather is not really looking good either at the moment.  :-\

Remind me again, why did NASA build all it's space launch facilities in Hurricane Central?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2020, 07:05:35 PM
I'm just happy NASA is at this again.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 28, 2020, 07:37:33 PM
Well, SpaceX is really the star of this particular show.

It is what makes this launch so historic, it's a new dawn in private sector driven manned-space-exploration.

Elon Musk is basically a real-life Peter Weyland. He even has big plans for the colonization and terraforming of Mars, just like Weyland.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Voodoo Magic on May 28, 2020, 07:40:37 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 28, 2020, 07:37:33 PM
Well, SpaceX is really the star of this particular show.

Agreed. But they're in partnership with NASA. So SpaceX stars, NASA produces.  ;)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 29, 2020, 03:27:45 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 28, 2020, 07:37:33 PM
Elon Musk is basically a real-life Peter Weyland. He even has big plans for the colonization and terraforming of Mars, just like Weyland.

Building better worlds to plant marihuana baby  :laugh:

(https://i.imgur.com/QyqGhTT.gif)

Earth is doomed anyway and I bet Elon has millions of marijuana seeds here, for the future of mankind on Mars.

(https://i.imgur.com/gyQ9xgE.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 29, 2020, 03:58:04 PM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on May 29, 2020, 03:27:45 AM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 28, 2020, 07:37:33 PM
Elon Musk is basically a real-life Peter Weyland. He even has big plans for the colonization and terraforming of Mars, just like Weyland.

Building better worlds to plant marihuana baby  :laugh:

And now you know why the Covenant had all that weed onboard.  ;)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Huggs on May 29, 2020, 04:00:13 PM
You mean we can't grow Moon Weed?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Master Chief on May 30, 2020, 06:57:53 PM
This is giving me anxiety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uexTqJGzFtE
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on May 30, 2020, 07:01:49 PM
Yep, getting antsy and excited watching this...
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 30, 2020, 07:42:39 PM
All nominal, all nominal, they are in LEO.

Now on a 19 hour trip to ISS.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on May 30, 2020, 07:57:27 PM
Fantastic. Absolutely exhilarating watching this.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Huggs on May 31, 2020, 12:33:17 AM
Watched it live with my cousin this afternoon while assembling a new grill outside.

It was nice to have a positive event on the tv for once.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on May 31, 2020, 12:48:09 AM
Next up, the Mars Rover scheduled to be launching around late July. 8)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on May 31, 2020, 03:58:58 PM
The astronauts have just arrived safely at the ISS. Mission accomplished:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904 (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904)


What is really amazing about SpaceX rockets is their recovery methods. 

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZSoGI6U0AEqeS8?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Unfortunately the camera signal was lost just as the rocket landed on the drone ship but another aerial drone camera managed to capture the landing.
Video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be)

Incredible how it can return all the way from space to land upright on a tiny moving platform on a pitching and rolling ship.

I wonder if the drone ship's name is an Ian M. Banks reference?


Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 01, 2020, 07:06:55 AM
It's cool to see the US get back in the game, and to see commercial success like that. Shame I'll never be able to afford a trip, but it's a step into a very interesting direction! Really enjoyed watching the launch and dock too.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Master Chief on Jun 01, 2020, 02:47:55 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 31, 2020, 03:58:58 PM
The astronauts have just arrived safely at the ISS. Mission accomplished:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904 (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1267098143805435904)


What is really amazing about SpaceX rockets is their recovery methods. 

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZSoGI6U0AEqeS8?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Unfortunately the camera signal was lost just as the rocket landed on the drone ship but another aerial drone camera managed to capture the landing.
Video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys&feature=youtu.be)

Incredible how it can return all the way from space to land upright on a tiny moving platform on a pitching and rolling ship.

I wonder if the drone ship's name is an Ian M. Banks reference?

haha My dad and I were anxiously waiting for it to land and when the signal was lost and restored, to see it had already landed, we pretty much made that face.  ;D
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Jun 01, 2020, 09:32:48 PM
Quote from: Master Chief on Jun 01, 2020, 02:47:55 PM
haha My dad and I were anxiously waiting for it to land and when the signal was lost and restored, to see it had already landed, we pretty much made that face.  ;D

Apparently is was the rocket exhaust that caused the signal disruption, but I wouldn't be surprised if Elon intentionally organized it in order to troll the conspiracy theory crowd.  :laugh:

(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180907100732-elon-musk-smokes-marijuana-podcast-1-super-169.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 01, 2020, 10:16:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrveYIwPArM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: razeak on Jun 03, 2020, 06:36:24 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jun 01, 2020, 09:32:48 PM
Quote from: Master Chief on Jun 01, 2020, 02:47:55 PM
haha My dad and I were anxiously waiting for it to land and when the signal was lost and restored, to see it had already landed, we pretty much made that face.  ;D

Apparently is was the rocket exhaust that caused the signal disruption, but I wouldn't be surprised if Elon intentionally organized it in order to troll the conspiracy theory crowd.  :laugh:

(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180907100732-elon-musk-smokes-marijuana-podcast-1-super-169.jpg)

He couldn't convince Eddie Bravo if he took him up in a rocket himself lol.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Jun 18, 2020, 03:00:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIWyFX0uxoc
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 18, 2020, 11:21:43 PM
https://twitter.com/BBCScienceNews/status/1272580080733208579




Our planet plus Venus from Mars.

(https://i.imgur.com/3KkaT9L.jpg)

https://twitter.com/inversedotcom/status/1273553793003773953
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 25, 2020, 05:22:00 PM
Quote from: Science AlertA 50-year-old theoretical process for extracting energy from a rotating black hole finally has experimental verification.

Using an analogue of the components required, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism to slurp out some of that rotational energy - if we could ever develop the means.

https://twitter.com/AnoushehAnsari/status/1276147328353742849
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Jun 26, 2020, 05:09:59 PM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 25, 2020, 05:22:00 PM
Quote from: Science AlertA 50-year-old theoretical process for extracting energy from a rotating black hole finally has experimental verification.

Using an analogue of the components required, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism to slurp out some of that rotational energy - if we could ever develop the means.

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 26, 2020, 06:00:32 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Jun 26, 2020, 05:09:59 PM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 25, 2020, 05:22:00 PM
Quote from: Science AlertA 50-year-old theoretical process for extracting energy from a rotating black hole finally has experimental verification.

Using an analogue of the components required, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism to slurp out some of that rotational energy - if we could ever develop the means.

https://i.imgur.com/cJlBUVL.gif?noredirect

Indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jul 01, 2020, 05:25:16 PM
Quote from: BBCAstronomers have been baffled by the disappearance of a massive star they had been observing.

They now wonder whether the distant object collapsed to form a black hole without exploding in a supernova.

If correct, it would be the first example of such a huge stellar object coming to the end of its life in this manner.


https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1277965073009369097
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Jul 01, 2020, 09:48:16 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3QQQu7QLoM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Vasquez, J on Jul 03, 2020, 12:22:13 PM
where did Triton come from? I like the idea that it was part of the Uranus system first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwuUujh4-OM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Jul 15, 2020, 04:26:32 PM
If only  :D

https://youtu.be/hf5H7rO5D1c (https://youtu.be/hf5H7rO5D1c)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 02, 2020, 06:18:23 PM
He is not serious, but  ;D

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1289051795763769345

(https://i.ibb.co/x56pxgN/4a7m64.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 02, 2020, 07:02:28 PM
Elon likes nothing better than a good bit of trolling.

And his tweets have landed him in hot water all so very often.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 03, 2020, 08:14:42 AM
I don't think he gives a shit at this point.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 04, 2020, 02:15:37 PM
Well, he's the kind of troll who knows his stuff for sure  :laugh:

https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1039785763431481344
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 05, 2020, 08:16:59 AM
SpaceX's Starship SN5 prototype soars on 1st test flight! 'Mars is looking real,' Elon Musk says (https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn5-prototype-1st-test-flight.html)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Aug 05, 2020, 12:09:13 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 05, 2020, 08:16:59 AM
SpaceX's Starship SN5 prototype soars on 1st test flight! 'Mars is looking real,' Elon Musk says (https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn5-prototype-1st-test-flight.html)

Very exciting!


Watching these guys also:

https://firefly.com/ (https://firefly.com/)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 06, 2020, 02:42:54 AM
Quote from: AliceApocalypse on Aug 05, 2020, 12:09:13 PM
Very exciting!

As a luggage problem?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Aug 06, 2020, 12:08:56 PM
As in watching "boots on the ground" on Mars in our lifetime, just amazing!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 13, 2020, 03:34:30 AM
Did you know that Andromeda and the Milky Way are going to kiss passionately to give life to a son named Milkdromeda?

(https://i.ibb.co/nw4mht4/Screenshot-20200812-232133.png)

(https://i.ibb.co/JyHcvsw/Screenshot-20200812-230020.png)

(https://i.ibb.co/yQntMLm/Screenshot-20200812-230033.png)

(https://i.ibb.co/gy6tCK4/Screenshot-20200812-230058.png)

(https://i.ibb.co/5vVxbGh/Screenshot-20200812-230235.png)

(https://i.ibb.co/Msnq2DF/gif.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiv6tKtoKg

I doubt we'll be in the neighborhood by the time that happens  :laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 16, 2020, 02:00:56 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8XvQNt26KI
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Master Chief on Aug 20, 2020, 02:09:53 PM
https://www.space.com/mysterious-gamma-ray-heartbeat-gas-cloud.html

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHB5KfFeiY/?igshid=1o27it0nrm9h8
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Shinawi on Sep 16, 2020, 01:48:20 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_mkTe7w-_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCEBlpBdMo
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Sep 16, 2020, 06:28:04 PM

"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" ~ Bones.

Read about this recently, "life" in the clouds of Venus would be sulfur based.  Interesting what this would look like to us.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Shinawi on Oct 25, 2020, 12:33:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4eg95rG18M
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 26, 2020, 07:17:14 PM
:laugh:

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1319293721976791042




https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1320757460269895680
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Nov 02, 2020, 04:49:55 PM
Next crewed SpaceX launch is November 14, 2020 at 7:49 P.M. EST:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-crew-1-mission-update-target-new-launch-date (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacex-invite-media-to-crew-1-mission-update-target-new-launch-date)

(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/jsc2020e026314.jpg)

(https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/crew-1_ceitpt2-20200612-dsc05519_2_.jpg?itok=k-lQGNLt)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Shinawi on Nov 04, 2020, 10:58:30 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Ife6iBdsU
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 06, 2020, 01:47:50 AM
SpaceX launched U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite

https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-u-s-space-force-gps-3-satellite/ (https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-u-s-space-force-gps-3-satellite/)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 09, 2020, 03:37:43 AM
The asteroid NASA just landed on turns out to be hollow, with a large 'void' at its center. It may be spinning itself to death.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-asteroid-bennu-is-hollow-spinning-to-death-2020-11?amp
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 09, 2020, 04:31:19 PM
New space race  :laugh:

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1324426692920836097
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Nov 09, 2020, 06:16:27 PM
So chest girth is more important than acting talent in Russia?  Why am I not surprised  :laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 09, 2020, 07:51:42 PM
The Kremlin claimed Venus as a Russian planet awhile back. They ought to go shoot the movie there to really stake their claim.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Xeno Killer 2179 on Nov 09, 2020, 08:09:05 PM
Quote from: AliceApocalypse on Nov 09, 2020, 06:16:27 PM
So chest girth is more important than acting talent in Russia?  Why am I not surprised  :laugh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Nov 10, 2020, 01:12:08 PM
The Dragon Crew is here in Florida, yay  8)

https://www.space.com/spacex-nasa-crew-1-astronauts-launch-site-arrival (https://www.space.com/spacex-nasa-crew-1-astronauts-launch-site-arrival)


(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DWzsR7gJQwaPT7m8Uduq6F-970-80.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 10, 2020, 06:56:58 PM
The beginning of regular crew rotations to the ISS, with private companies.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 12, 2020, 02:22:42 PM
Europa Glows: Radiation Does a Bright Number on Jupiter's Moon

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/europa-glows-radiation-does-a-bright-number-on-jupiters-moon

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 17, 2020, 10:45:39 PM
U.S. Military shoots down ICBM in space from warship for first time in successful test.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeland-defense-test-intercepts-destroys-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-u-s-missile-defense-agency

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Nov 17, 2020, 11:47:16 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiD8nGD0Q6w
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 19, 2020, 06:53:31 PM
Scientists Discover Outer Space Isn't Pitch-Black After All

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936219170/scientists-discover-outer-space-isnt-pitch-black-after-all
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 22, 2020, 09:14:16 PM
NASA has selected five 3D model submissions to the Advanced Lightweight Lunar Gantry for Operations (ALLGO) challenge. The ideas offer potential ways to unload supplies on the Moon, something NASA is considering as it works toward sustainable exploration under the Artemis program. As part of its 21st century lunar exploration program, NASA has proposed building an Artemis Base Camp at the lunar South Pole. Such a camp would likely need systems to unload and transport cargo from landing zones located a safe distance away. The ALLGO challenge gave the public an opportunity to submit their ideas.

The first prize selection uses a tripod structure on wheels.
(https://scitechdaily.com/images/Moon-Supply-Unloading-System-First-Prize-777x777.jpg)

https://scitechdaily.com/moon-supply-unloading-system-design-winners-announced-by-nasa/
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 25, 2020, 03:02:21 AM
Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs

''It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to Earth. And for a long time, the concept – first developed by the Russian scientist, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, in the 1920s – was mainly an inspiration for writers.

A century later, however, scientists are making huge strides in turning the concept into reality. The European Space Agency has realised the potential of these efforts and is now looking to fund such projects, predicting that the first industrial resource we will get from space is "beamed power".

(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZfSBbm5Z3h9RQmuEKCTUhn-970-80.jpg.webp)

https://www.livescience.com/solar-power-stations-in-space.html
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 26, 2020, 07:07:23 PM
The best space board games of 2020

(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2LkwETRHUUGWWdgqteCHfa-970-80.jpg.webp)

https://www.space.com/best-space-board-games
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 27, 2020, 04:07:25 AM
Mmmm interesting. Can I grow potatoes with my poop ala Matt Damon?


Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Nov 28, 2020, 09:28:06 PM
Turning Lunar Dust Into Oxygen – And Using the Leftovers to 3D Print a Moon Base

(https://scitechdaily.com/images/Moon-Base-777x429.jpg)

''British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into construction materials for a Moon base. It could be an early step to establishing an extra-terrestrial oxygen extraction plant. This would help to enable exploration and sustain life on the Moon while avoiding the enormous cost of sending materials from Earth.''

''The project is part of ESA's preparations to establish a permanent and sustainable lunar presence. Astronauts will live and work on the Moon, where they will help to develop and test technologies needed for missions farther into deep space. British company Metalysis has already developed a mineral extraction process that is used by industries on Earth to produce metals for manufacturing.''
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Dec 01, 2020, 10:29:41 PM
An Object that will buzz past Earth might be an old NASA rocket From 1960s.

https://www.complex.com/life/2020/12/old-nasa-rocket-from-1960s-to-buzz-past-earth-2020-so
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Dec 04, 2020, 04:44:12 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97V8jw7rc9I
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Dec 05, 2020, 06:58:47 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1ygf5AAuM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gr33n M4n on Dec 09, 2020, 02:30:46 AM
Chang'e-5 spacecraft smashes into moon after completing mission.

https://spacenews.com/change-5-spacecraft-smashes-into-moon-after-completing-mission/
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Dec 15, 2020, 01:05:48 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-starship-explodes-spectacularly-after-successful-high-altitude-test-flight/ar-BB1bjTZ6?ocid=uxbndlbing (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-starship-explodes-spectacularly-after-successful-high-altitude-test-flight/ar-BB1bjTZ6?ocid=uxbndlbing)

Sad face, RIP SN8  :-\

(https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106808969-1607554610416-sn8_impact_explosion.png?v=1607554643)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Jan 07, 2021, 06:02:49 PM
https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1347204268722421761 (https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1347204268722421761)

Considering a manned mission to Mars will cost about $500 billion, Mr. Weyland Musk could theoretically self-fund one in less than four years if his fortune keeps rising like this.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 08, 2021, 08:21:08 AM
I'm sure he fully intends to.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Jan 08, 2021, 06:12:51 PM
Looking forward to this, awe  :)

Meet Au-Spot, the AI robot dog that's training to explore caves on Mars:
(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s5PoA7GNDDcR2mwtCXBAMK-970-80.jpg)

https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu (https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu)

It actually makes me sad to see them kicking the robotic dogs in their videos  :-[
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Feb 03, 2021, 12:40:56 PM
Win a seat to space!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-dragon-civilian-mission-gives-public-opportunity-to-win-seats-to-space/ar-BB1djSAC?ocid=uxbndlbing (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spacex-dragon-civilian-mission-gives-public-opportunity-to-win-seats-to-space/ar-BB1djSAC?ocid=uxbndlbing)

I'm in, oh yeah  8)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gilfryd on Feb 17, 2021, 08:11:28 PM
Expert says Humans are Aliens—and we were Brought to Earth Hundreds of Thousands of Years Ago (https://www.touch-univers.com/2021/02/expert-says-humans-are-aliensand-we.html)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Feb 17, 2021, 08:17:19 PM
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AdventurousInfatuatedFlatfish-max-1mb.gif)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: [cancerblack] on Feb 17, 2021, 09:12:34 PM
The terrible broken English on that site is not helping its wild claims.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Gilfryd on Feb 20, 2021, 06:47:38 PM
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Feb 17, 2021, 09:12:34 PM
The terrible broken English on that site is not helping its wild claims.

What for is to you up?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SpaceJac37 on Feb 25, 2021, 11:01:01 AM
Hi! You've probably heard that Perseverance roved successfully landed on Mars several days ago. Now we can enjoy a panoramic view (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8873/nasas-perseverance-rover-gives-high-definition-panoramic-view-of-landing-site/) of the rover landing site. I just want you all to share this joy with me. Is there someone who'd waited for this with equal eagerness?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Feb 25, 2021, 12:08:40 PM
The video of the landing was spectacular!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Feb 25, 2021, 12:36:58 PM
Quote from: SpaceJac37 on Feb 25, 2021, 11:01:01 AM
Hi! You've probably heard that Perseverance roved successfully landed on Mars several days ago. Now we can enjoy a panoramic view (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8873/nasas-perseverance-rover-gives-high-definition-panoramic-view-of-landing-site/) of the rover landing site. I just want you all to share this joy with me. Is there someone who'd waited for this with equal eagerness?

Absolutely!  I also get the pleasure of watching the launches when it's done from the Space Coast  8)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Xeno Killer 2179 on Apr 02, 2021, 02:29:33 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoII9TQd8k
Comparison is at 10 minutes, but maker of video says you can get better shots with smaller telescope if you track/take longer exposure/stitch pictures together.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Xeno Killer 2179 on Apr 05, 2021, 02:12:14 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/03/string-theory-michio-kaku-aliens-god-equation-large-hadron-collider

QuoteYou believe that within a century we will make contact with an alien civilisation. Are you worried about what they may entail?
Soon we'll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we'll have thousands of planets to look at, and that's why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilisation. There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that's a terrible idea. We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago. Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can't gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Baron Von Marlon on Apr 06, 2021, 02:28:35 AM
There's also a theory that we'll discover dead alien civilasations.
For someone like me with an interest in archeology and aliens/ufos, a find like that would be da beezneez.
I hope I live long enough to see that day.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Xeno Killer 2179 on Apr 06, 2021, 03:53:44 AM
If there are dead civilizations all over the place and with the fact we could become one, suddenly the universe seems quite gothic. I can get with that theme.  :P
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Baron Von Marlon on Apr 06, 2021, 04:38:34 AM
One of the ideas behind the theory is that there are or were civilizations like ours, because there are so many Earth like planets in this universe (and others). And either they destroy themselves at some point in their history, or they evolve and progress enough so they're able to explore other planets.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Xeno Killer 2179 on Apr 21, 2021, 07:39:35 PM
https://news.osu.edu/black-hole-is-closest-to-earth-among-the-smallest-ever-discovered/
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Xeno Killer 2179 on Apr 28, 2021, 03:53:33 AM
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antimatter-stars-antistars-milky-way-galaxy-space-astronomy/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SM on Apr 28, 2021, 08:40:00 PM
Michael Collins passes away aged 90.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/28/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-dies-90
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 28, 2021, 11:06:52 PM
90 years and astronaut, what a life  :o R.I.P




This should be addressed in a movie again  8)

(https://s3.gifyu.com/images/gif-1d847291b35815d15.gif)

https://youtu.be/QqsLTNkzvaY
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: AliceApocalypse on Apr 30, 2021, 11:43:27 AM
Quote from: SM on Apr 28, 2021, 08:40:00 PM
Michael Collins passes away aged 90.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/28/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-dies-90

What an amazing life. 
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Xeno Killer 2179 on May 01, 2021, 10:12:22 PM
https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/the-radio-we-could-send-to-hell
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Shinawi on Jul 07, 2021, 10:47:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkD5SeuwzM
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 22, 2021, 05:07:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FfQ7z6dbJ4
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Baron Von Marlon on Sep 01, 2021, 06:03:06 AM
I hope and wonder if I'll ever get to see pictures or footage of one of those Earth like planets.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 04, 2021, 10:48:31 PM
https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1445013102873899013

Edit -

(https://s9.gifyu.com/images/nice-captain-kirk.gif)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 13, 2021, 10:32:03 PM
Captain Kirk went to space!

(https://i.ibb.co/WVJ39Sn/Screenshot-2021-10-13-19-26-49-2.png)

https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1448335526378020866
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Nov 15, 2021, 06:37:01 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX8ZH5zH_MY
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Dec 09, 2021, 07:34:27 PM
SpaceX's monstrous Gigerian Raptor engines looks like something from an Alien film set:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGG5s-1VQAUd6Dj?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Kradan on Dec 09, 2021, 08:06:18 PM
Sure does
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 10, 2021, 12:01:55 AM
And if it's Giger style, even better 💜👉👈💜

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Dec 26, 2021, 05:47:49 AM
I thought this thread would be abuzz with excitement over the launch of the James Webb telescope today. :-\
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 26, 2021, 07:30:31 PM
SM would be excited  :'(

https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1475178141714894853
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Dec 27, 2021, 04:06:51 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 26, 2021, 07:30:31 PM
SM would be excited  :'(

(https://media2.giphy.com/media/AIquwoMr0IzkP5h1Gb/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Dec 29, 2021, 11:05:49 AM
I'm super-excited about it! It's been a long time coming. I still remember hearing about this for the first time and being blown away. I would have watched the launch but was kinda busy. I really can't wait to see the first data coming down. Just hope it doesn't have the same issues Hubble had - it'll be harder to go service Webb.  :P
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Dec 31, 2021, 10:56:51 AM
James Webb Space Telescope uncovers massive sunshield in next step of risky deployment (https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-uncovers-sunshield)

QuoteThe James Webb Space Telescope has unwrapped its sunshield, crossing another important item off of its lengthy and risky deployment to-do list.

After successfully extending its deployable tower assembly (DTA), a structure that connects Webb's two halves, on Thursday (Dec. 29), the telescope had the room to begin the preliminary steps to unfurl its gigantic sunshield. Today (Dec. 30), mission teams completed two major next steps: deploying the James Webb Space Telescope's aft momentum flap and releasing the sunshield's protective membrane cover.

Webb still must unfurl the sunshield, which it will do in the next day or so by extending two booms. The mission team will then spend a few days getting the five-layer structure to the proper tension, wrapping up such work no earlier than Sunday (Jan. 2). 


1st orbital test flight of SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket pushed to March at the earliest (https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-orbital-test-flight-faa-delay-march)

QuoteWe'll have to wait a bit longer for the orbital debut of SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket.

SpaceX had been aiming to launch Starship on its first orbital test flight in January or February, provided that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wrapped up a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) of the company's South Texas launch site by Dec. 31 as planned.

But that timeline no longer applies. The FAA announced on Tuesday (Dec. 28) that it has pushed the release of the final PEA back to Feb. 28, citing "the high volume of comments submitted on the draft PEA" and "discussions and consultation efforts with consulting parties."
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 05, 2022, 04:19:28 AM
Did Hicks see this?

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-fuel-lifetime
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 05, 2022, 09:04:54 AM
Glad to hear it! Just hope the mirror isn't f**ked.  :P


On This Day in Space! Jan. 5, 2005: Discovery of Eris ignites Pluto-planet debate (https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html)

QuoteOn Jan. 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system.


White House directs NASA to extend International Space Station operations through 2030]=https://www.space.com/white-house-international-space-station-2030-extension]White House directs NASA to extend International Space Station operations through 2030 (http://=https://www.space.com/white-house-international-space-station-2030-extension)

QuoteThe White House has given NASA a New Year's Eve "go" to continue operations on board the International Space Station through 2030, granting the orbital outpost a six-year life extension.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Jan 05, 2022, 02:46:14 PM
Excellent news.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 05, 2022, 07:03:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwVL51YI9U
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 08, 2022, 06:28:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBLkr7_PkSw
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jan 18, 2022, 03:23:36 PM
Pentagon launches new UFO office. Not all believers are happy about it. (https://www.space.com/us-government-investigate-ufos)

QuoteA new office in the Pentagon will investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — but longtime UFO enthusiasts are skeptical.

According to NBC, putting the new "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" program in the purview of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security has some UFOlogists upset, as they don't exactly trust the military to reveal whatever truth is out there.

"This is a subject with a provable history of secrecy, and anything that lacks a new openness about the information is subject to more, possibly inappropriate control," Ron James, a spokesperson for the nonprofit Mutual UFO Network, which investigates such sightings, told NBC News.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 27, 2022, 08:56:48 PM
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1486801700962942979
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 31, 2022, 08:48:26 PM
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1509198797427073030
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 03, 2022, 02:07:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIeIag2Ji8k


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oe_Im8irjg
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on May 05, 2022, 09:00:13 PM
@Corporal Hicks

https://twitter.com/AndrasGaspar/status/1520145182670430208
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 06, 2022, 07:21:09 AM
It's an incredible difference isn't it?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on May 12, 2022, 12:59:23 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ws0iPDSqI4
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jun 02, 2022, 10:45:06 PM
https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1531621522753966080
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jun 14, 2022, 02:39:00 AM
@Corporal Hicks

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23160209/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-meteor-strike-impact
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jun 14, 2022, 09:31:24 AM
I can imagine some heads-in-hands that morning. Fortunately it'll still be operational.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jul 12, 2022, 12:03:10 AM
@Corporal Hicks

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Jul 12, 2022, 06:19:57 PM
Incredible!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 04, 2022, 05:19:07 AM
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1554441811355226114
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 04, 2022, 05:19:39 AM
@Corporal Hicks

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1554469773433606144
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 04, 2022, 05:27:40 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afm-ZzSRFvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xuMe5rLGc
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 04, 2022, 07:29:51 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Aug 04, 2022, 05:19:39 AM@Corporal Hicks

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1554469773433606144

Absolutely stunning.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 27, 2022, 04:27:43 AM
https://twitter.com/SpaceFoundation/status/1562816663409803264
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 28, 2022, 07:55:14 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1563332273210261505
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 28, 2022, 05:29:13 PM
CG video illustrating how the Artemis Space Launch System works:

https://twitter.com/esa/status/1563925156661264385
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 29, 2022, 12:35:14 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1564224808933539840

Inclement weather also incoming...

(https://data.whicdn.com/images/314013499/original.gif)

"Do we scrub?"



Update:

https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1564232429279272962
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 30, 2022, 07:11:58 AM
Much sadness was felt here. Was watching the stream when it was announced.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 30, 2022, 09:00:36 AM
It's no big deal Corporal, happens all the time, we just have to wait 'till Friday or Monday for the next attempt.

Better safe than having another Apollo 1 disaster. One small step at a time...
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Aug 31, 2022, 08:00:19 AM
I know, I know. I'll be watching the new launch if I can, of course. I was just ready for it.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 31, 2022, 09:46:30 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 31, 2022, 08:00:19 AMI know, I know. I'll be watching the new launch if I can, of course. I was just ready for it.

Re-scheduled to a possible Saturday evening (7pm) launch, so work shouldn't get in the way:

https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1564744300927356930

Love the late 60's vibe here:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbcEx5yWYAIYaDi?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: BlueMarsalis79 on Aug 31, 2022, 10:38:26 AM
Not like it's rocket science.  ;D
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 31, 2022, 11:27:58 AM
NASA will be over the moon if this is successful.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 03, 2022, 10:44:14 AM
Today's launch is a go and fueling of the rocket has begun.

60% Favourable weather conditions are forecast during the start of the launch window (19:17 BST) and 80% favourable conditions during the end of the launch window (21:17 BST).
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 03, 2022, 03:00:53 PM
Another scrub, hydrogen fueling issue:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1566077508142993408
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Sep 04, 2022, 08:14:11 AM
I wasn't watching this attempt - was on the way to see Wrath of Khan on the big screen for the first time in my life!! - but disappointed it was scrubbed again. NASA isn't having a good show with Artemis.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 04, 2022, 10:41:26 AM
It's a bit of a Frankenstein monster really. The rocket engines are a hodgepodge of recycled shuttle engines and solid rocket boosters with varying mileages, at least one engine having being re-cycled at least 6 times already.

Throw in a few other used shuttle parts and some old support gantries and shit, it's as if a post-apocalyptic Mad Max warlord decided to cobble together a rocket.

I suppose it's more cost effective to recycle older tried-and-tested technology but it seems that also comes with its own set of problems.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Sep 16, 2022, 04:40:07 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBhTtaTGhao
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 26, 2022, 09:05:00 PM
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1574428436688523265
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Sep 27, 2022, 06:07:11 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1574539270987173903
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Oct 20, 2022, 08:04:03 AM
@Corporal Hicks
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1582773836915048448
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 30, 2022, 05:10:01 PM
@Corporal Hicks

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1585996531705978881

I just love the vibes so much 👀🥐

(https://i.ibb.co/jL7d2yT/james-cameron-alien-landscape1.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/Yhz1cgy/gigerderelict.jpg)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Oct 31, 2022, 10:39:35 AM
It really does give those vibes, doesn't it! Am absolutely loving these new Webb images.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 13, 2022, 07:33:52 PM
https://twitter.com/EMSpeck/status/1591476859014991874



https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1591049869438984193
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 15, 2022, 09:24:03 AM
Third time lucky?

https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1592302969390759936

@Corporal Hicks ,They give a confusing amount of times but the 2 hour launch window opens at 6am tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 15, 2022, 11:05:25 AM
Knowing my luck it'll launch while I'm driving to work. lol Thanks for the shares!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 16, 2022, 06:40:09 AM
Looks like we finally have a go after some minor issues. T minus 10 minutes to launnch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLD0Lp0JBg
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 16, 2022, 06:44:30 AM
Was just coming on to share the link myself. It's actually happening!  ;D
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 16, 2022, 07:39:11 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 16, 2022, 06:44:30 AMWas just coming on to share the link myself. It's actually happening!  ;D

Yup, yup, yup, that was an awesome launch. Most powerful rocket since Apollo's Saturn V's.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NASA/status/1592772202289430528
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 16, 2022, 08:59:25 AM
I actually managed to watch it! Incredible. I can't wait to see how this one progresses.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 16, 2022, 11:57:40 AM
Left Earth orbit and on the way to the moon which will take about 3 days.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NASAArtemis/status/1592826283838214144
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Nov 16, 2022, 09:41:23 PM
@Corporal Hicks
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1592902833766076416
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 21, 2022, 12:00:05 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
Flyby taking place shortly.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 04, 2022, 01:27:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvxenTNLjWE


https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1598173684811939840
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 27, 2022, 06:49:38 PM
(https://i.ibb.co/j83P1TM/Picsart-22-12-27-15-41-35-315.jpg)



(https://i.ibb.co/vQyh9qQ/Screenshot-20221227-154701-Chrome.jpg)

(https://i.ibb.co/CV4r30F/Screenshot-20221227-154341-Chrome.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCmVu934Vo
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 19, 2023, 11:17:26 PM
By far the second best cake in the universe😍🌌

(https://i.ibb.co/Dbynng6/Screenshot-20230119-200850-Facebook.jpg)

Here is the first best one 👉👈


Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 27, 2023, 01:52:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmS6pDF3Ho
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Jan 29, 2023, 05:54:03 AM
@Corporal Hicks
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1617555788007985157
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 08, 2023, 07:57:07 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3KxgUxPhqI
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 17, 2023, 02:14:09 PM
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1626310964214628352
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 02, 2023, 04:41:06 PM
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1630682591702441985
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Master Chief on Mar 02, 2023, 06:29:57 PM
Was able to see Jupiter and Venus share a cosmic kiss (https://www.livescience.com/jupiter-and-venus-kiss-in-a-stunning-planetary-conjunction-tonight-heres-how-to-watch) last night.  Pretty cool!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 07, 2023, 11:40:43 PM
https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1633068172260655104
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 20, 2023, 03:58:52 AM
https://twitter.com/NASA_Marshall/status/1637516037443780613
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Mar 31, 2023, 05:31:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFbNDSttnPQ
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 01, 2023, 12:09:44 PM
Only another year and a half after the announcement to see them launch then!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Still Collating... on Apr 02, 2023, 05:04:47 PM
Lovely trailer, horrible music choice. Absolutely disgusting and generic :laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 03, 2023, 07:12:08 AM
All the money was spent on R&D. Saving some cash on royalty free music.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 03, 2023, 01:37:42 PM
This 👆😅
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 03, 2023, 03:32:54 PM
So not surprising, a pretty experienced crew (bar the one rookie, Jeremy Hansen). Note that this crew will not actually land on the moon but only fly past it because NASA is wisely following in the footsteps of Apollo with the "one small step at  a time" philosophy.

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642910860845756419

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642911119491694592

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642911463781068806

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1642911787669389314
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 03, 2023, 08:48:29 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FszLu-lXgAo84Xe?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Master Chief on Apr 04, 2023, 01:29:21 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 03, 2023, 03:32:54 PMSo not surprising, a pretty experienced crew (bar the one rookie, Jeremy Hansen). Note that this crew will not actually land on the moon but only fly past it because NASA is wisely following in the footsteps of Apollo with the "one small step at  a time" philosophy.

I hope they break protocol and land on it anyway.  Just to make some lunar soil angels.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 04, 2023, 03:00:01 PM
Quote from: Master Chief on Apr 04, 2023, 01:29:21 PMI hope they break protocol and land on it anyway.  Just to make some lunar soil angels.

That's probably going to be a bit tricky without the Lunar Lander on board!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Master Chief on Apr 04, 2023, 03:30:10 PM
 :laugh: I believe in them!
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 17, 2023, 01:00:14 PM
Live feed for the SpaceX Starship launch, the biggest rocket ever built.

Currently T-minus 15 minutes to launch:

https://www.youtube.com/live/eN57x2a_waw?feature=share

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1yNGaNXwdkjJj



Update:

Scrubbed 8 minutes before launch. :(
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 20, 2023, 01:35:55 PM
We just got a successful launch, biggest rocket ever:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649043715686793218?cxt=HHwWhIDQybehyuItAAAA

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVQrgzwGb

(https://media2.giphy.com/media/CLUsGxG8zgoc8/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952a8ee9ea66f8c5a854858e5ab9642083926c68c70&ep=v1_internal_gifs_gifId&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

(https://media.tenor.com/wQ5IslyynbkAAAAC/elon-musk-smoke.gif)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: kwisatz on Apr 20, 2023, 01:56:57 PM
and boom
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 20, 2023, 02:00:19 PM
Quote from: kwisatz on Apr 20, 2023, 01:56:57 PMand boom

Oh noes!!

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649045802332073986?cxt=HHwWhMDRpfKay-ItAAAA

(https://gifdb.com/images/high/slow-motion-elon-musk-smoking-edpbtrrs3kcx6lsj.gif)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 21, 2023, 09:10:34 AM
Sonavabitch is huge!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuMGQlXWYAITZ3L?format=jpg&name=large)


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuMFooiWIAEtxVH?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Apr 21, 2023, 09:14:21 AM
It looked truly impressive! The power behind that thing.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 21, 2023, 09:27:50 AM
Must have been awesome to witness that in person. I know people have remarked on the earth tremmoring power of a shuttle launch before, but this must have been several magnitudes higher.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Ingwar on Apr 21, 2023, 03:04:33 PM
I don't like Musk but at least he's trying. I'll give him credit for that.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: TC on Apr 22, 2023, 02:55:10 PM
The take-off leaving the launch pad looked seriously bad ass!

But then you learn why: Stage zero of the launch (before it even left the ground) is where it started to go wrong. They had decided not to build a humungous and elaborate launch pad to receive the tremendous blast of the rocket engines, so that huge and highly impressive exhaust plume you saw was the cheaper pad that they did build being pulverised into rubble and dust. Some of the disintegrating concrete chunks got blasted back up into the rocket engines, damaging a few of them before the ship even took off.

If you're interested, look up Scott Manly's YouTube channel for more details.

TC

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 22, 2023, 05:37:08 PM
How does NASA prevent the same from happening? Won't a bigger and more elaborate launch pad also have bits of concrete flying around?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 426Buddy on Apr 22, 2023, 07:04:03 PM
I think NASA uses tons of water under the pad to help break up the energy/sound waves so the pad isn't destroyed.

I'm sure Space X would already be doing that though. May need a larger more elaborate pad with an even greater water system.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: TC on Apr 23, 2023, 04:33:21 AM
Quote from: 426Buddy on Apr 22, 2023, 07:04:03 PMI think NASA uses tons of water under the pad to help break up the energy/sound waves so the pad isn't destroyed.

I'm sure Space X would already be doing that though. May need a larger more elaborate pad with an even greater water system.



If anyone's interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJuqyZVQzTc

Remember when the space shuttle took off there was always that huge white exhaust cloud blossoming out from the pad? That was mostly caused by water from the deluge system being vapourised by the shuttle's rocket engines.

SpaceX decided on a dry launch based on their test of specially toughened concrete. Elon Musk also hinted that they were in a hurry to move their program along, but we know better than to take his words at face value, right?

TC

EDIT: For all the rocketry nerds I want to make the correction that the space shuttle's water deluge system was only partially responsible for the large, white launch cloud. Huge amounts of water vapour were also the result of combusting the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuels in the shuttle's main engines. They even worried that the temporary micro-climate was to the detriment of all the surrounding estuaries at the Cape.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:53:17 AM
So is it like in Martian ?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 23, 2023, 09:00:57 AM
@426Buddy @TC , thanks for the info.

Looks like Artemis is also using the same water deluge system as the shuttle. Can see it clearly in the video below.

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1592772202289430528
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 426Buddy on Apr 23, 2023, 01:21:12 PM
Wow Space X went with a dry launch?

Losing some respect on that one.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: TC on Apr 23, 2023, 04:22:10 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:53:17 AMSo is it like in Martian ?

Do you mean the movie The Martian? Is there a specific scene in there you're referring to?


Quote from: 426Buddy on Apr 23, 2023, 01:21:12 PMWow Space X went with a dry launch?

Losing some respect on that one.

Yeah, I know. It's like Musk feels like there's some loss of face if he ever resorts to taking advantage of conventional wisdom.

TC
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:29:56 PM
Quote from: TC on Apr 23, 2023, 04:22:10 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:53:17 AMSo is it like in Martian ?

Do you mean the movie The Martian? Is there a specific scene in there you're referring to?


Yes, I refer to scene where the rocket explodes shortly after the launch cause they neglected to properly test it
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 23, 2023, 04:36:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqGksZ2iCg
The SpaceX Starship didn't actually blow up by itself. It was deliberately self-destructed after going off course to prevent it crashing in a populated area.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 06:29:19 PM
I see
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Apr 24, 2023, 03:57:56 AM
Quote from: TC on Apr 23, 2023, 04:22:10 PM
Quote from: Kradan on Apr 23, 2023, 04:53:17 AMSo is it like in Martian ?

Do you mean the movie The Martian? Is there a specific scene in there you're referring to?


Quote from: 426Buddy on Apr 23, 2023, 01:21:12 PMWow Space X went with a dry launch?

Losing some respect on that one.

Yeah, I know. It's like Musk feels like there's some loss of face if he ever resorts to taking advantage of conventional wisdom.

TC
He's rich enough to afford to be really dumb but still occasionally land a win.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Apr 27, 2023, 05:09:56 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 23, 2023, 04:36:08 PMThe SpaceX Starship didn't actually blow up by itself. It was deliberately self-destructed after going off course to prevent it crashing in a populated area.

@SiL
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1650945913949417485
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Apr 27, 2023, 05:18:30 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Apr 27, 2023, 05:09:56 PM
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Apr 23, 2023, 04:36:08 PMThe SpaceX Starship didn't actually blow up by itself. It was deliberately self-destructed after going off course to prevent it crashing in a populated area.

@SiL
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1650945913949417485

Well, I suppose little bits of rocket raining down all over the place is better than a whole 5000 ton rocket full of highly explosive liquid oxygen and methane landing on top of your head...
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on May 16, 2023, 06:04:54 PM
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1658498957272662017
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Chieftain Suom on May 26, 2023, 12:36:47 PM
via The Guardian: Hibernation Artificially Triggered In Potential Space Travel Breakthrough (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/25/hibernation-artificially-triggered-in-potential-space-travel-breakthrough)
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 10, 2023, 04:17:54 AM
https://twitter.com/Parsec44/status/1689485431241601024



https://twitter.com/mars_atlas/status/1689362387604844545



https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1689383094208303106



https://twitter.com/PopMech/status/1687190366707998720
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 11, 2023, 12:41:53 PM
https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1689788731455397888



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uA8Kak1rQ
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1689973714211717120
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: DarthJoker45 on Aug 12, 2023, 10:53:05 PM
Asteroids can be found in the most bizarre places.

https://twitter.com/futurism/status/1690376107638296576
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 16, 2023, 06:40:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFslUSyfZPc


https://twitter.com/BBC_Future/status/1691800726648082828
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Wweyland on Aug 19, 2023, 09:30:35 PM
The Russian Luna 25 project is having trouble on landing. Somehow, I am not sad for them.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Local Trouble on Aug 20, 2023, 12:01:30 AM
Quote from: Wweyland on Aug 19, 2023, 09:30:35 PMThe Russian Luna 25 project is having trouble on landing. Somehow, I am not sad for them.

I can only imagine what kind of corners they cut for this mission.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 20, 2023, 07:54:54 AM
Probably lots of washing machine chips and 70's tech inside that thing.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: [cancerblack] on Aug 20, 2023, 10:09:05 AM
Special moon operation is over.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: kwisatz on Aug 20, 2023, 11:09:45 AM
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Aug 20, 2023, 10:09:05 AMSpecial moon operation is over.

Mars in three days.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Aug 20, 2023, 01:25:52 PM
Quote from: [cancerblack] on Aug 20, 2023, 10:09:05 AMSpecial moon operation is over.

Too bad. Heard there were Nazi's on the moon...
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Wweyland on Aug 20, 2023, 02:26:01 PM
I was surprised they had the funding for this project, but it seemed to have kicked off 10 years ago already. I don't think Luna 26 will go ahead now, with the hard crash of the previous one and the economy...
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Aug 31, 2023, 07:46:52 PM
https://twitter.com/SpaceScience_/status/1697252638113587646



https://twitter.com/planetarysci/status/1696901099968434668
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Sep 10, 2023, 12:58:39 PM
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1698034261352145378

https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1699754482005860766
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 04, 2023, 05:37:01 PM
https://twitter.com/SpaceNews_Inc/status/1709150102604980567



https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1708844041540977114
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 04, 2023, 11:29:00 PM
https://twitter.com/wwd/status/1709472631362113944
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Oct 05, 2023, 07:54:06 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 04, 2023, 11:29:00 PMhttps://twitter.com/wwd/status/1709472631362113944

Don't forget to consult Gucci and Janty Yates as well.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: DarthJoker45 on Oct 09, 2023, 10:58:34 PM
https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1711510427283153348
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 10, 2023, 12:35:29 AM
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1709588951013470370
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 11, 2023, 03:01:53 PM
https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1711787353298080015



https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1711948368795038132
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 13, 2023, 08:55:31 PM
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1712888321297334420



https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1712140634952282306
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 17, 2023, 10:48:50 PM
https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1714350827412799635
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Oct 21, 2023, 08:55:48 PM
https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1713895833282953297
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 02, 2023, 07:04:57 PM
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1720118883917738159



https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1719825390737265118
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 15, 2023, 03:21:22 PM
Space Marines are now a thing:

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1724504025771462714
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 18, 2023, 06:54:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCH0NH1tt5k
https://twitter.com/guardianvideo/status/1725904992719216867
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 18, 2023, 07:02:09 PM
Musk not having a good day today.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Nov 19, 2023, 12:23:30 AM
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 18, 2023, 06:54:42 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCH0NH1tt5k
https://twitter.com/guardianvideo/status/1725904992719216867
As much as I like seeing Musk's work go up in flames there were some significant advancements made in this test.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 19, 2023, 08:56:34 AM
Yeah, these sort of things are a given with prototype rockets, but I'm sure he'd much prefer the darn thing didn't go boom.

@Immortan Jonesy do you know what the cause was? Launchpad debris again?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: SiL on Nov 19, 2023, 10:08:01 AM
Self destruct after contact was lost for as yet unknown reasons.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 19, 2023, 01:17:51 PM
Yup.

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Nov 19, 2023, 08:56:34 AMYeah, these sort of things are a given with prototype rockets, but I'm sure he'd much prefer the darn thing didn't go boom.







@Immortan Jonesy do you know what the cause was? Launchpad debris again?

Not as far as I know,  and that's how it works actually;

1. They build a system.

2. Test it, and see if it works.

If it doesn't work then they fix the problem and re-test.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Nov 19, 2023, 01:55:15 PM
Ok thanks. So looks like they may have licked the chronic issues with the dry launch.
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 20, 2023, 07:28:59 AM
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1726314284488225050

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726328010499051579
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 20, 2023, 06:43:52 PM
https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1726432728634052829
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 21, 2023, 03:08:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgnjdW-x7mQ
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Nov 24, 2023, 06:11:05 PM
https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1727969698883711050



https://twitter.com/Thales_Alenia_S/status/1727681024606224812
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 04, 2023, 07:59:56 PM
https://twitter.com/SpaceNews_Inc/status/1730580087085416602
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 08, 2023, 11:51:16 PM
https://twitter.com/AvID_Feed/status/1722417208222175330
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 22, 2023, 03:25:51 PM
https://twitter.com/SciStarter/status/1738193310080999472
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 24, 2023, 04:06:22 AM
https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines/status/1737681266114236697
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 26, 2023, 03:39:52 AM
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1737234323903037620
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 29, 2023, 07:43:42 AM
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1679072314653016064
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Dec 29, 2023, 07:15:44 PM
https://www.youtube.com/live/yWUU1PqX6Og

https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1740577166553977095
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 02, 2024, 05:21:12 PM
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1742155897009225810



https://twitter.com/nativenews_net/status/1742191760154013946
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 04, 2024, 12:26:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiP4wocRp3g
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 04, 2024, 09:04:07 PM
https://twitter.com/AAS_Press/status/1743006298097029268
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Jan 09, 2024, 07:32:47 PM
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1744795716013175212

Artemis II pushed to next year. :'(
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 09, 2024, 11:37:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUrCc_S7Ut0
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Jan 11, 2024, 07:10:52 PM
Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jan 09, 2024, 07:32:47 PMhttps://twitter.com/NASA/status/1744795716013175212

Artemis II pushed to next year. :'(

Was kind of expecting that anyway, no surprises.

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." - JFK
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 12, 2024, 03:55:51 PM
https://twitter.com/guardianscience/status/1745542119463469289
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Nightmare Asylum on Jan 25, 2024, 07:35:09 PM
https://twitter.com/SenBillNelson/status/1750602013639844177
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Jan 26, 2024, 09:35:31 PM
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1750972843339153626
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 03, 2024, 01:35:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1-lbwNJ3c


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AiJpvergBI


https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1750972843339153626/FirstClassSpace/status/1753042414938509663
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 03, 2024, 07:17:51 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFNgd3pitAI
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 03, 2024, 11:13:35 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNIwLgX178
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 13, 2024, 01:48:32 AM
https://twitter.com/verge/status/1757172159460384903

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 15, 2024, 08:46:21 PM
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1757807267288629475

Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Wweyland on Feb 17, 2024, 12:38:27 PM
So what did Russians send to space, nukes?
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 05, 2024, 11:34:07 AM
https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1763249193982779679



https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1764956045187895347
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 on Mar 14, 2024, 02:47:13 PM
Successful launch and re-entry of the biggest rocket ever built:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1768279990368612354
Title: Re: Space News & Views
Post by: Immortan Jonesy on Mar 17, 2024, 11:20:16 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNqTamaKMC8