astronomy

muhyb, 3 miesiące temu w White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

That should help to put a flag on Mars.

Fourth, 3 miesiące temu w Friday Night Stargazing 2025-03-07

I biked out to a park yesterday with my big binoculars but I’m still waiting for my tripod to show up so I just checked out the moon some. Thanks for posting.

conditional_soup, 3 miesiące temu

The Pleiades and Hyades should still be fairly high in the sky, and make great targets for binoculars. I’m also VERY partial to the little beehive cluster in Canis Major (go to the first barely visible star down from sirius, along the dog’s spine, and move directly right from there). If they’re strong enough, the Orion Nebula also makes a great target. The regular beehive cluster is alright; it can be tricky in the city, but you should juuuust be able to see what kinda looks like a faint, blurry star just left of the angle of you make a right angle between Pollux and Procyon. There’s also a few binary stars that make good targets right now. You should be able to split the first bright star out from the cup in the handle of the big dipper into three stars.

Fourth, 3 miesiące temu

Appreciate it, looking forward to future posts from you.

BigMacHole, 3 miesiące temu w White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

Woah! We just found a FREE half of Nasa’s Budget not being used! We should GIVE IT to President Elon Musk!

gravitas_deficiency, 3 miesiące temu w White House may seek to slash NASA’s science budget by 50 percent

Wow, the government agency with literally the best long term ROI by an order of magnitude is getting its budget cut. Cool cool cool.

derzeppo, 3 miesiące temu

Well the IRS is about the same at $7 revenue per $1 spent, but yeah.

disguy_ovahea, 3 miesiące temu

National parks have a 10:1 ROI.

npca.org/…/832-background-the-economics-of-nation…

Rhaedas, 3 miesiące temu w NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going

Flyby: The Interplanetary Odyssey of Voyager 2 - Joel Davis (1987)

Lots of behind the scenes stuff of innovation, discovery, and making adjustments for things that went wrong.

HylicManoeuvre, 3 miesiące temu w NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going

Oh noo I’m literally using Voyager to browse Lemmy

dmtalon, 3 miesiące temu w NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going

everything about these two spacecraft is just amazing. It’s going to be quite a sad day when they transmit their last byte of data to our little planet. Reading about all the things we’ve done to keep talking to them. The redundancies that they’re running on etc… Fascinating stuff

earphone843, 3 miesiące temu w NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going

It’s really fucking wild that they can still operate at all.

Olgratin_Magmatoe, 3 miesiące temu

And there’s a second layer of it being wild that we can even communicate with them, despite being outside of the solar system.

rimu, 3 miesiące temu w The Telescope Images Scientists Have Been Waiting 12 Years For | Euclid

Holy shit that Horsehead nebula shot 15:00 is insane

MrFappy, 3 miesiące temu w X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Finds

What if the planet used to have intelligent life but they blew themselves up accidentally.

Enkers, 3 miesiące temu

It would be interesting if the answer to the Fermi paradox was that every advanced lifeform accidentally blows themselves up.

chowdertailz, 3 miesiące temu

That’s the Great Filter. Basically, no intelligent life can survive past a certain point because they end up offing themselves. Pretty much what we’re about to do ourselves.

LordTrychon, 3 miesiące temu

It doesn’t HAVE to be that intelligent life is its own doom, but it does seem increasingly likely.

Enkers, 3 miesiące temu

There are other explanations, ofc. Maybe there’s a galactic moratorium on contacting new space faring civilisations.

If you’re willing to discard the conclusion that we’re an early civilisation, then it’s reasonable to think that old civilisations have had plenty of time to decide whether or not to contact us.

There are quite a few different takeaways you could draw from that. My personal favourite is that they want to recreate the “early universe” experience for us because it’s an important process for civilisations to go through.

CluckN, 3 miesiące temu w Controllers getting no response from Lunar Trailblazer orbiter or Odin asteroid mining probe

Let them enjoy their lunch break in peace.

threelonmusketeers, 3 miesiące temu w We planned for the unexpected, say stranded Nasa astronauts from space station

stranded Nasa astronauts

They are not currently stranded, and were never considered stranded, except maybe for the few days between Starliner’s empty return and the Crew-9 Dragon’s arrival.

This also isn’t really relevant to astronomy.

sbv, 3 miesiące temu w Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing - NASA+

The mission art is amazing.

blarth, 3 miesiące temu w NASA cuts off international climate science support

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

edgemaster72, 3 miesiące temu w NASA cuts off international climate science support

Later, the atmosphere:

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/01/14/this-is-fine_custom-b7c50c845a78f5d7716475a92016d52655ba3115.jpg?s=1100&c=50&f=jpeg

ornery_chemist, 3 miesiące temu

later?

edgemaster72, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

What they’ll say then: The atmosphere used to be on fire. It still is, but it used to be too.

But yeah, I probably should have said “meanwhile” instead of “later”