astronomy

themeatbridge, rok temu w Astrobotic's Peregrine lander suffers propulsion issue, making moon landing unlikely

You mean farming out scientific discovery to the lowest bidder doesn’t yield the best results?

wahming, rok temu

Were they the lowest bidder? The article doesn’t mention anything about that.

Also, going with the lowest bidder gave us spacex, which turned out pretty well. Fuck Boeing

verity_kindle, rok temu

Indeed, this is the way. Fuccckk thaaatt Boeiiiinggg ::::meditation mantra::::::

nooneescapesthelaw, rok temu

Farming out to the lowest bidder works well when the guidelines are strict and the client (gvmnt) does good QA.

Lots of stuff was farmed out in the apollo mission and it was still ok. Strict QA was noted as a very important factor in why that mission was a success.

You can read the case study by NASA about this, and you’ll see that they have 1 article just about QA and how they did testing, and another one about testing and deadlines

xxce2AAb, 26 dni temu w NASA completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction

The… What?

idiomaddict, 26 dni temu

It’s not named after Nancy Grace, don’t worry.

Roman’s namesake—Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer—made it her personal mission to make cosmic vistas readily accessible to all by paving the way for telescopes based in space.

brown567, 26 dni temu

Her Wikipedia is worth a read, she was pretty awesome

MelodiousFunk, miesiąc temu w Boiling oceans may lurk beneath the ice of solar system's smallest moons

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/5ce88c2d-0a14-4abf-9c25-04ef987ee752.jpeg

LFG

DelightfullyDivisive, miesiąc temu w The 12th Anomaly of 3I/ATLAS: Orientation of the Jets is Not Smeared by Rotation

Avi Loeb is a crank. He is not taken seriously by any real scientists. He decided to sell his scientific integrity years ago.

very_well_lost, miesiąc temu

harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb

gravitas_deficiency, miesiąc temu w Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason

are you crabs yet? 🦀 🦀 🦀

InternetCitizen2, 4 miesiące temu w LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul

The project was like bearly getting started too. I remember the first detection in 2015

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące temu

bearly

🐻

*barely :)

shnizmuffin, 6 miesięcy temu w “The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

Stillwater, 6 miesięcy temu

https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfvmq5j01n1qcykapo1_250.gifv

xylol, 6 miesięcy temu

https://leminal.space/pictrs/image/cdf48f24-a013-4a61-a259-3a25eee52c6c.jpeg

otter, 9 miesięcy temu w Saturn has 128 new moons – more than the rest of the planets combined

Slut.

Try not to grab another moon on your way through the parking lot!

shoulderoforion, 10 miesięcy temu w Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on the far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes, scientists say

that's what they want you to believe, they still haven't shown us the monolith

Subtracty, 11 miesięcy temu w Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising

Can’t even escape to the great outdoors. I’ve never even considered this type of advertising as a possibility. Fuck that’s bleak.

Bronzebeard, rok temu w Heliophysicists call for fresh missions to study the Sun—and a new name for the field

Who wrote this shit? You can’t make an article that’s half about wanting a new name for your field and end it with “there’s a lot of ideas” without giving a single one. Garbage.

5714, rok temu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wigNvFGF8

todd_bonzalez, rok temu

Sunologists

vzq, rok temu w Roman Space Telescope reaches assembly milestone

When your space program delays are so massive that your empire hasn’t existed for 1500 years, but your payload is still in the assembly stage.

threelonmusketeers, rok temu

Nancy Grace Roman

She may be elderly, but she’s not quite that ancient :)

HurlingDurling, rok temu w Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade

Cool, one more thing to keep me up at night

aaaaace, rok temu

And one more… www.williamflew.com/blue.html

Evil_Shrubbery, rok temu w Astronomers detect black hole 'starving' its host galaxy to death

To shreds spaghetti you say?

captain_aggravated, rok temu w Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia

Meanwhile, Australia is down there like “WTF mate?”

milicent_bystandr, rok temu

Nah, no one likes lives in that part of Australia. Pluto sitting there just means drivers from Perth to Sydney have to take a little detour.

captain_aggravated, rok temu

I mean, I’m pretty sure you’d be able to see it from everywhere in Australia, so I bet many of them would be like “WTF?” But they’ll be dead soon. Fuckin’ kangaroos.

TonyOstrich, rok temu

Fucking kangaroos