The Space Thread

I can see a bit of space 

https://www.shiningscience.com/2024/12/quantum-physicists-just-found-evidence.html?m=1

visible light photo of a protoplanetary disk - HL Tauri. 

the bands are hypothesized to show protoplanets forming

Mercury 

  On 1/17/2025 at 4:56 AM, ManjuShri said:

 

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Pictured here is how it would look from the southern hemisphere.

Starship Flight 7 had an engine problem in orbit and self destructed, the views from the ground of the fragments re-entering are kindof sublime, like a special effect

another one and another

  On 1/17/2025 at 8:55 PM, zazen said:

Starship Flight 7 had an engine problem in orbit and self destructed, the views from the ground of the fragments re-entering are kindof sublime, like a special effect

another one and another

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quite expensive fireworks show

NG-1:
On Jan. 16 2025, the New Glenn rocket, the new heavy-lift launch vehicle developed and operated by the American commercial space company Blue Origin, blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and successfully reached its intended orbit, an important milestone for Blue Origin. The first-stage booster missed its landing on a barge in the Atlantic though, but it's still a great achievement for a commercial space company.

The rocket is designed to have a partially reusable, two-stage design with a diameter of 7 meters (23 ft) and 98 m (322 ft) tall (which is very big d) (almost double the size of a SpaceX Falcon 9, but smaller than a SpaceX Starship). The first stage is powered by seven BE-4 engines, while the second stage relies on two BE-3U engines, designed and built by Blue Origin.

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-bezos-blue-successfully-glenn-rocket.html

io from juno

  On 1/19/2025 at 3:12 AM, Rubin Farr said:

 

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This is the end lol

  On 1/19/2025 at 3:12 AM, Rubin Farr said:

 

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isn't that how the Titans got free in Hercules

Infrared image of Jupiter

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered-to-remove-anything-about-women-in-leadership-from-its-websites-report-2000559596

composited shot of the alignment

JWST

Lightning on Jupiter 

Gateway Lunar Space Station