Greatest #astronomy #space headline ever

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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.

^{Victor Tangermann (Futurism)}

And here is the confirmation of what everybody knew about the WaPo refusing to endorse…

Bezos is in talks to buy the Space Division of Boeing.

jalopnik.com/boeing-might-be-q…

#space

Boeing Might Be Quitting Space With A Potential Division Sale To Jeff Bezos

Boeing's new CEO is willing to sell basically everything to keep its core business afloat

^{Ryan Erik King (Jalopnik)}

A fireball streaked by while Yasutaka Saika was taking a photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, producing this beautiful, accidental celestial alignment.

Captured on Oct 24 from Tereske, Hungary.

facebook.com/yasutaka.saika/ #space #science #astronomy #photography

Space, the final frontier. Our solar system is in space, right? This BBC series gets into the nitty gritty of Earth, asteroids, moons and the other planets near us. Maybe it doesn't sound like edge of your seat stuff but Brian Cox does his best to keep your attention. Cox simplifies complicated concepts while he tries to figure out how life began here while postulating about where else life could be found. BBC 2 on iPlayer.

#tv #space #science #astronomy

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023884

BBC Two - Solar System, Series 1, Volcano Worlds

Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons erupting with fire and ice.

^BBC

I still want to go to Mars, but not if Elon Musk punches the ticket:

"It's not just Musk. The same goes for all the self-declared rationalists and tech-bro billionaires who think they're head and shoulders above the common herd. Far too many of them prove to be con artists, like Sam Bankman-Fried, or swollen with lethal hubris, like Stockton Rush, or wannabe mad scientists who believe that rules are for little people, like Marc Andreessen.

None of them are trustworthy. None of them have wisdom to match their wealth or their lofty rhetoric. If we're going to go to Mars—and, for the record, I do hope we eventually go to Mars—it shouldn't be the private vanity project of a billionaire. It should be a shared commitment on behalf of all humanity, with only our best representatives selected for the mission."

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#onlysky #future #space

I still want to go to Mars, but not if Elon Musk punches the ticket

It's bad enough what Musk does on Earth. I don't want him controlling my oxygen supply.

^{Adam Lee (OnlySky)}

Jeden z najlepších snímkov Jupitera, ktoré fotografovala sonda Juno NASA.

#space

Here is this year's winner in the astronomy photographer "Skyscapes" category.

It's remarkable composite of local and deep-space photography. (Credit: Tom Rae)

#space #art #astronomy

The 2024 winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year are out...and they are spectacular.

Here's the overall winner: a time-sequence of a solar eclipse that shows deepening shadows from mountains on the Moon. (Credit: Ryan Imperio)

rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-p…. #science #space #photography #nature

The “Pillars of Creation” taken by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) 🛰️✨

📸 NASA / ESA

#space

What a set of headlines, can't get any more dystopian than that. The rich go into vanity trips into space, while the common people down below drown.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climate #space #spacex

According to news media: today, a billionaire is being taken into space, where the crew will open the rocket door and put him outside.

This seems like a great start, and I hope that the remaining 1,780+ billionaires left here on earth will be following suit soon.

#note #space #capitalism

Via: 🔗 danq.me/2024/09/10/private-spa…

Brand-new pics of planet Mercury, just in from the European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft!

esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp… #space #science #astronomy #ESA

Triple alignment captured near Turin, Italy. The photograph took six years of attempts and was recently featured on the NASA Astronomic Picture of the day.

Credit: Valerio Minato

#space

NASA still hasn't decided on how Boeing Starliner astronauts will return.

But recent developments, and NASA's mention of an "unsuited return" have led to a lot of questions about why the launch and entry suits aren't compatible between Boeing and SpaceX. Let's dive into what that unsuited return means, how launch and entry suits are used, and why NASA didn't mandate compatibility here.

#space #starliner #boeing #spacex #nasa #iss

youtu.be/pFjOIf8Kd5I

Why didn't NASA make Boeing and SpaceX's spacesuits compatible?

NASA still hasn't decided whether Boeing Starliner astronauts will return on their original spacecraft or a SpaceX Crew Dragon. But recent developments, and ...

^YouTube

Stunning images of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby in October 2018.

Video credit: NASA/​JPL-Caltech/​SwRI/​MSSS/​Gerald Eichstädt
#space #science #nasa

Yep, a self-healing metal.

Scientists have discovered that metal-halide perovskite, a next-generation semiconductor material, can self-heal from radiation damage in space. And this could be a game-changer for space-based solar panels and future power generation.

theconversation.com/space-radi…

#Space #Research #Engineering #News

#PPOD: This stunning photo was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. Phobos is the larger and closer of Mars's two moons, the other being Deimos. One hypothesis of their origin involves the possible capture of primitive asteroids. Unfortunately, Phobos is being pulled apart and closer by Mars's tidal forces and gravity. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/ @andrealuck CC BY (flickr.com/photos/192271236@N0…)

#mars #phobos #space #science #scicomm

I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.

#space #astronaut #mars
eldiario.es/sociedad/capa-perd…

The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit.

They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine, seen from 420 km (261 miles) above: flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore… #space #eclipse #space #astronomy

I had a couple things come across my timeline that made me think about how far science, especially space science, has come during my lifetime.

For example, when I was younger, Pluto was not much more than a few blurry pixels of a planet, now it is a richly detailed world (and dwarf planet).

When I was a kid, there were 9 planets, now we know thousands, most exoplanets outside the solar system. Wild to think about. 1/3 🧵

#science #space

Fanoušci kosmonautiky už tuší: RFA neboli Rocket Factory Augsburg se snaží o vícenásobně použitelný nosič je to tedy potenciální evropská konkurence pro Elona. Česká solární výprava náhodou jela kolem jrn náhodou, protože @cobic -ovi na kole praskaj dráty a naproti "fabrice na rakety" je cyklosupermarket.

#thesuntrip2024 #augsburg #rocket #rfa #space #aerospace #kosmír

This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.

Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.

#space #science #astronomy #ESA

No new info on the status of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which since Sep 2023 has been sending a 1010 bit pattern instead of real data.

Several popular science outfits have been covering it lately. A bit flip in the FDS is suspected, but it is difficult to identify since the memory cannot be read back.

Several commands were sent yesterday to Voyager 1; responses will arrive 45 hours later tomorrow.

Wonder why they cannot overwrite all prog and data memory.

arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/…
#Space
13/n

I don't do new year's resolutions, but all the same it's as good a time as any to change something, or start something, or renew something. I'd like to do more writing this year, but I want it to be useful for some subset of people rather than just an outlet for me.

So...

1. If you consider yourself to be a "not-maths" person in some way (or lack confidence, or struggle(d) with it), I'd like to answer any #maths-themed questions that you have. I'm not talking homework or exam questions. I'm thinking your personal queries _about_ maths more generally. Stuff like "what does nth mean?", or anything else that you may be wondering. I occasionally post maths stuff at tommaths.blogspot.com .

2. If you've got a burning question about #space, Blogstronomy still exists, though it's been very quiet for a while now. Maybe drop me a line and ask your question? (You can check I haven't already answered it here: blogstronomy.blogspot.com)

3. If you think I might be able to write about something mathsy for your blog, website, publication (or museum exhibition) I'm totally up for that even (especially?) if you think there's no way maths could fit with what you do. I tend to link to external work I've done here: tkbriggs.co.uk/topics/portfoli… (though it does need updating).

How Long Does it Take the Moon to Orbit the Earth?

Question posed by Elly. The Moon is a popular subject on Blogstronomy so I was surprised to find that this question hadn't been covered ...

^{TeaKayB (Blogger)}

Phew! Thanks to new data from ESO's Very Large #Telescope, we now know that a white dwarf that was set for a close encounter with our Solar System in 29000 years isn't actually headed our way. Turns out that the intense magnetic field of the #star had biased the previous measurements of the approach speed. You're welcome everyone! 😉

We tell you everything in our latest ESO #blog: eso.org/public/blog/rogue-star…

#astrodon #astronomy #space #scicomm

ESOblog: Rogue star not heading for Solar System collision after all

Rogue star not heading for Solar System collision after all

^www.eso.org

We have a new post in our Blog article series illuminating 🪔the #science background 👩🏻‍🔬 👨🏾‍🔬 of ##ESAEuclid 🛰️ and the techniques we'll employ for high-precision #cosmology: "Measuring the Universe with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations?"

👉 euclid-ec.org/measuring-the-un…

#astrodon #astronomy #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #space

Explore the extraordinary eons-old details of the moon’s surface in an astounding 1.3-gigapixel composite #photography #science #space

thisiscolossal.com/2023/05/and…

Mars - #HopeMarsMission spotted an elongated cloud around Ascraeus Mons

Full size image: flic.kr/p/2oDddEZ

North Polar Cap ↖️
Timetag: 2021-07-10
Altitude: 33580 km
Raw Data from: sdc.emiratesmarsmission.a
Filters: f635+f546+f437 (f320UV used just to enhance a little bit the cloud around the Ascraeus Mons)

I love also Olympus and Arsia Mons on the Terminator!

#Mars #HopeProbe #Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy
Credit:
UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck

Galactic collisions result in a billion-year gravitational dance, as shown in this captivating supercomputer simulation. The simulation depicts the collision of two spiral galaxies and is complemented by actual images of galactic collisions at various stages captured by Hubble.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
Source: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30686
#Astronomy #Space #Universe #AltText4Me

Was the SpaceX Starship’s launch a failure or a success?

Ars Technica says "For those who know a bit more about the launch industry and the iterative design methodology, getting the Super Heavy rocket and Starship upper stage off the launch pad was a huge success." The company's development process is messier, but it's also much faster, says author Eric Berger.

arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…

#Space #SpaceX #NASA

So what was that? Was Starship’s launch a failure or a success?

SpaceX's development process is messier, but it's also much faster.

^{Ars Technica}