The Space Thread

So now we know why they reclassified Pluto as a planetoid, so that the new planet would not be called Planet X. Because when people Google search planet x, they will end up with results the prevailing viewers might not be comfortable with promoting so planet IX it is. Bit of a stretch, but I'm comfortable with that, you should see the state of my love handles, heh.

btw any fans of this late night show that used to play back in da dayzz???

i'm trying to remember the name of a similar program that used to play all night long on other satellite channel... it was quite trippy, i'm not sure but i think it was computer animated...
 

nasa will be sending out a light sail craft that will reach 64,000 mph

that's really fast. the voyager 1 was the fastest man made object for a while, going 38,000 mph. a couple other craft surpassed that record since, presently the record is held by the juno craft, which is going 384,000 mph. for a craft not using fuel, 64,000 mph is amazing. the mass is less than 12 kg.

Dissertation on photonic propulsion for space flight:

http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A-Roadmap-to-Interstellar-Flight-15-h.pdf

mars: here we come (again)

I listen to Stardate every night at 7PM on my local public radio station:

https://stardate.org/

And, going waaaaay back to my childhood, I used to watch this after Doctor Who aired on PBS on Saturday nights:

NASA simulation of a black hole at the center of a galaxy

  On 3/10/2016 at 10:56 PM, Joyrex said:

I listen to Stardate every night at 7PM on my local public radio station:

 

https://stardate.org/

 

And, going waaaaay back to my childhood, I used to watch this after Doctor Who aired on PBS on Saturday nights:

that guy was awesome

3 months until we get close up color photos of jupiter. juno will be swooping down to within a few thousand km of the cloud tops.

Expandable habitat being added to ISS

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-attach-test-first-expandable-habitat-on-international-space-station

Transit of Mercury today. Trying to project it onto paper but it's bloody cloudy innit

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a time-lapse movie of Neptune's dynamic atmosphere and satellite orbits was assembled by combining images taken over a 15-hour period by the hubble space telescope's advanced camera for surveys

  On 5/18/2016 at 7:02 PM, Nebraska said:

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a time-lapse movie of Neptune's dynamic atmosphere and satellite orbits was assembled by combining images taken over a 15-hour period by the hubble space telescope's advanced camera for surveys

 

LUSH

Newer pic of Mars via the Hubble.

Sn

this is well lush

lovely

space is a lie

Space is the place.

There's space in my Rolls Royce for one lucky female low rent £25 tex07234142623542 razwan.

  On 5/22/2016 at 2:00 AM, Hail Sagan said:

 

  On 5/18/2016 at 7:02 PM, Nebraska said:

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a time-lapse movie of Neptune's dynamic atmosphere and satellite orbits was assembled by combining images taken over a 15-hour period by the hubble space telescope's advanced camera for surveys

 

 

LUSH

 

Mars is at its closest position to Earth in a decade.

I'll sit back and wait for the invasion.

Just checked out Saturn through my neighbor's telescope. plus Mars and Jupiter. Lush. Saturn was just layin it all out, slutting it up for us. Beautiful.

NASA uses Delta IV Heavy Lift Configuration to launch spy satellite:

http://www.space.com/33129-worlds-biggest-rocket-launches-spy-satellite-nrol-37.html

Circumbinary "Tatooine" planet discovered: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/new-planet-is-largest-discovered-that-orbits-two-suns

Paralel Suns innit

july 4th (independence day) juno will arrive at jupiter (to observe the monolith close by and make first contact)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html