WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Perseverance lands on Mars February 18th 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morays Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 15 minutes ago, WhereTheSkiesEnd said: Perseverance lands on Mars February 18th So exciting!! I hope everything goes according to plan. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole Quote 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean_Bird Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 17 minutes ago, Unleash the Echidnas said: Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole That looks so cool 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Some people theorize that another protoplanet, called Theia, has collided with Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. The remnants of this protoplanet has formed the Moon later on and some have accumulated (possibly) blobs of hot rocks under Africa and Pacific Ocean. More here: https://www.livescience.com/theia-may-be-in-mysterious-mantle-blobs.html?fbclid=IwAR2PvmsgnPup3lg8SUYl2mWOUqdzZNVOhUPhieVkRtDQvfhAKSsrM2JwMnc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Also on the topic of impacts: A large meteoritic event over Antarctica ca. 430 ka ago inferred from chondritic spherules from the Sør Rondane Mountains Quote Large airbursts, the most frequent hazardous impact events, are estimated to occur orders of magnitude more frequently than crater-forming impacts. However, finding traces of these events is impeded by the difficulty of identifying them in the recent geological record. Here, we describe condensation spherules found on top of Walnumfjellet in the Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica. Affinities with similar spherules found in EPICA Dome C and Dome Fuji ice cores suggest that these particles were produced during a single-asteroid impact ca. 430 thousand years (ka) ago. The lack of a confirmed crater on the Antarctic ice sheet and geochemical and ¹⁸O-poor oxygen isotope signatures allow us to hypothesize that the impact particles result from a touchdown event, in which a projectile vapor jet interacts with the Antarctic ice sheet. Numerical models support a touchdown scenario. This study has implications for the identification and inventory of large cosmic events on Earth. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SorryNotSorry Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 On 10/28/2020 at 2:37 PM, Karst said: Exactly what it says on the tin- this thread is a place to post interesting news and facts about outer space! Politicians here in the US probably think of outer space as a US territory which doesn’t know it’s a US territory. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Ingenuity took flight today https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-succeeds-in-historic-first-flight 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morays Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 hour ago, WhereTheSkiesEnd said: Ingenuity took flight today EeeeeeEEEEEeeeeEEEeee!!! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morays Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Okay, fun non-space-related fact: I just did an image search for "robot squee" to accentuate that last post with a reaction image, only to find that there is an actual robot named Squee, built in the early 1950s. And it's pretty damn adorable. Anyway. Space helicopter good, I am excite. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 20 hours ago, SocialMorays said: That is the cutest robot and I want one. Also love that it looks like someone is interviewing Squee. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 Voyager still breaking barriers decades after launch Quote The interstellar magnetic field has surprised researchers with both its strength and its direction, and the new data have even fed a controversy over the geometry and activity of the heliosphere—the Sun’s magnetic domain. Is the heliosphere the shape of a comet, as has long been assumed, or is it instead more spherical? And does it expand and contract when sunspots wax and wane, or is it more stable? The spacecraft have offered up some tantalizing clues. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 OSIRIS-REx is on its way back to Earth. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-heads-for-earth-with-asteroid-sample 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
soychiara Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Hi! I love this thread!! I'm in second year of university studying astronomy. I'm not an expert yet so I'll give the context I can :-) sorry for so many made up scientific words haha. On a side note english is not my first language so maybe my wording is weird. OK SO this image was taken using spectroscopy (the study of electromagnetic radiation), and it's the spectrum of visible light of our sun. Those black lines are not an accident. When the sun emites light, certain waves cannot pass through the chemicals in the sun's atmosphere, so they stay "trapped" and we can't see them. This means that every line is attached to a chemical element, and depending on the colour you can know which element is. In other words, we know the chemical composition of the star and that is a LOT of information because from that we can know its age, mass, weight, distance, luminosity, temperature, relative motion, and much more!! all from a rainbow picture. The sun said gay rights And a bonus chemistry fun fact: using this technique it's how hellium was discovered. That's right: hellium was found first in our sun and then on the earth. That is so cool wtf Sorry for so much rambling haha. I want to specialize in stellar spectroscopy and I love telling people about this picture <3 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 2 hours ago, soychiara said: I want to specialize in stellar spectroscopy and I love telling people about this picture Excellent! It is cool stuff. (actually, I suppose it's hot stuff, coming from the sun ) 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
michaeld Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 That's great @soychiara. We have a science channel on the AVEN unofficial discord; it'd be great to share all this over there too if anyone wants to. (But don't stop here as well!) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morays Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 2 hours ago, soychiara said: The sun said gay rights ... and science can't be wrong! ☀️ 🏳️🌈 Seriously, that's incredibly cool, thank you so much for sharing! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
soychiara Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Just now, michaeld said: That's great @soychiara. We have a science channel on the AVEN unofficial discord; it'd be great to share all this over there too if anyone wants to. (But don't stop here as well!) That's so amazing! thank you so much! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 James Webb Space Telescope is on schedule to launch later this year. I have waiting for this for years! I don’t ask for a lot in my life, I just want my space telescopes😫 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/webb-s-golden-mirror-wings-open-one-last-time-on-earth 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 See also Katie Mack's response in the comments. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Unleash the Echidnas Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 I don't want my mind to collapse! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Zagadka Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 My poor little underachieving babe... I relate and love you Pluto... we can do this! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
soychiara Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Just now, Zagadka said: My poor little underachieving babe... I relate and love you Pluto... we can do this! Yees! baby takes 248 Earth years to go one revolution around the sun! Also fun fact: during 20 of those years Pluto is actually closer than Neptune! They won't crash each other though, Pluto's orbit is inclined. Here's a very nice animation I got from wikipedia: 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Stanford astrophysicists report first detection of light from behind a black hole -> https://news.stanford.edu/2021/07/28/first-detection-light-behind-black-hole/?fbclid=IwAR3BHfhgE66uJHa10LD-ZE12fmFXeI_ZC-u89OCfcy_ayf0Mt5aNyLkCViU Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Partial lunar eclipse next week https://starwalk.space/en/news/beaver-moon-partial-lunar-eclipse-2021 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhereTheSkiesEnd Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 JWST launches tomorrow https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SorryNotSorry Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 The idea of inexpensive mass emigration into outer space must surely give real estate VIPs nightmares. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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