astronomy

Zier, 9 miesięcy temu w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

As a former Plutonian, I can confirm it's small, that's why we immigrated to Earth. And fucking cold!

samus12345, 9 miesięcy temu

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/rickandmorty/images/3/3c/S1e9_plutonian_morty.png/revision/latest?cb=20160918042802

Zier, 9 miesięcy temu

Stop posting pictures of my family, they are very shy!!!

nnullzz, 11 miesięcy temu w OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)

With all the impacts the moon seems to take, is there any footage of a new crater being made? That would be super cool to see.

Feathercrown, 11 miesięcy temu

Here you go! First time seeing this footage myself!

youtu.be/000iTCoEE1s?si=mKO_1XCDVLYS-Yqk

I seem to recall a story about a large impact visible to Europe from Earth sometime around the renaissance as well, but I couldn’t find it.

nnullzz, 11 miesięcy temu

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing!

Fizz, 11 miesięcy temu w OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)

Fuck that looks crisp

padjakkels, 11 miesięcy temu w The sun's magnetic field is about to flip. Here's what to expect.

That title is click bait

Marin_Rider, rok temu w Voyager 1 contact restored

finally some good news!

will_a113, rok temu w Advanced solar sail mission prepares to catch the wind in the void of space

The interesting part of the article:

The new flexible polymer and carbon composite boom is coupled with a twelve-unit (12U) CubeSat built by NanoAvionics. After the mission launches atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand, the spacecraft will go into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 600 miles (~1,000 km) and the sail will deploy in about 25 minutes to cover an area of 860 ft² (80 m²) with the boom unfolding from the size of a hand to 23 ft (7 m) long. Once deployed, the sail will adjust the vehicle’s orbit by angling itself in relation to the solar wind.

Atelopus-zeteki, rok temu

Yar! Sailing the Solar Winds! TBH, been waiting for this since I first heard of solar sails. Yay, ingenious tool using primates!!!

lvxferre, rok temu w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.

Three decades, two astronomy degrees, 5 years operating a planetarium, and 5 years as a guide at the local observatory later, and I’m fully prepared.

Me, watching a total eclipse 30 years ago: “MUUUUUM! WHERE’S THE OLD CAMERA FILM? I WANT TO MAKE ECLIPSE GLASSES!” Then I was fully prepared!

It was exciting. (I hope that those folks in MX/US/CA have fun.)

Maultasche, rok temu w A baby star's planet-forming disk has 3 times more water than all of Earth's oceans

Nestlé is already building a rocket.

Grass, rok temu w Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

Did anyone ever think it was inhabitable?

thebardingreen, rok temu

The news is really interesting exobiology science, but the headline is terrible.

wintermute_oregon, rok temu

Yes. That’s been a theory even since I was a child in the 70’s. They don’t mean humans but life in general

Shdwdrgn, rok temu w Incredible galaxy with no visible stars discovered by accident

Wow, that’s not something I even considered could happen. It does raise an interesting question though – how many more of these could be out there? Seems like it would require a whole-sky survey just to detect them.

growsomethinggood, rok temu

Arecibo radio telescope was doing something like this, until it was destroyed by a hurricane.

Some info if you’re interested: …cornell.edu/…/decade-long-galaxy-survey-releases…

grue, rok temu

The fact that we’re not willing to pay the relative pittance (compared to lots of other shit in the Federal budget) to rebuild Arecibo is criminal.

evasive_chimpanzee, rok temu w Nasa Peregrine 1 has ‘no chance’ of landing on moon due to fuel leak

Peregrine 1 is not NASA’s. NASA paid for some payloads on the lander, but the lander itself is from Astrobiotic. It’s an important distinction because it seems like people are trying to blame NASA for whatever went wrong.

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.

chemical_cutthroat, 4 miesiące temu w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Jesus is coming back and he’s pissed…

queermunist, 4 miesiące temu w Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster

It’d be so funny if Kessler Syndrome was started by a car accident.

rottingleaf, 8 miesięcy temu w Elon Musk destroys astronomy

Can we just do things the conservative way and lay more wire?

And where that doesn’t help, use packet radio links?

And where that doesn’t help, use mesh networks?

Why do they have to do it all the ugly and pretentious way?

HurlingDurling, 8 miesięcy temu

If he could he would arrange the sattelites to spell his name on the sky