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About 9 pm at night, Im seeing a quarter size moon in west.. quite high up in the sky and a little further over one very bright star (? ) the only star in the sky at that time
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Thanks a ton for the link.....
position wise Id guess what Im seeing is Venus at 9 pm like a very bright star.... the only star in the sky ! |
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About 9 pm at night, Im seeing a quarter size moon in west.. quite high up in the sky and a little further over one very bright star (? ) the only star in the sky at that time
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Thanks a ton for the link.....
position wise Id guess what Im seeing is Venus at 9 pm like a very bright star.... the only star in the sky ! |
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Getting closer to Ceres http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4605
Looks like it's taken quite a battering. |
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Getting closer to Ceres http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4605
Looks like it's taken quite a battering. Late Heavy Bombardment |
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![]() Posted this link before but for new readers of the thread this National Geographic blog is always a very good read. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ace-like-home/ |
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As expected poor Ceres has had the living shit kicked out of it over the billions of years of it's existence!
![]() Posted this link before but for new readers of the thread this National Geographic blog is always a very good read. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ace-like-home/ And now it's Pluto time! NASA's 'Pluto Time' Shows You How Bright It Is on Dwarf Planet A new NASA Web tool called "Pluto Time" allows people around the world to experience the light levels that prevail at noon on the dwarf planet. Users enter their location, and Pluto Time tells them the next available opportunity to go outside and see what midday Plutonian rays would look like. (Everyone has two chances each day, around dusk and dawn.) http://www.space.com/29600-pluto-tim...-horizons.html Hubble observes chaotic dance of Pluto’s moons In a new study, scientists have gathered all available NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data on the four outer moons of Pluto to analyse the system in more depth than ever before. The observations show that at least two of Pluto’s moons are not neatly rotating on their axes but are in chaotic rotation while orbiting around Pluto and its companion Charon. The study also hints that one of the moons has a mysterious jet-black colouring. These surprising results appear in the 4th June issue of the journal Nature. http://astronomynow.com/2015/06/04/h...-plutos-moons/ http://www.spacetelescope.org/static.../heic1512a.pdf Meanwhile, high in Earth's upper atmosphere: Huge parachute shredded during Mars entry experiment Flying more than twice the speed of sound in the thin air 34 miles above Hawaii, a flying saucer-shaped test vehicle successfully inflated a doughnut-like airbrake, technology needed to slow heavy payloads down during descent to Mars, but a huge supersonic parachute ripped apart seconds after release in the $230 million program’s second straight failure. “First off, it looked like our rockets fired correctly, it looks like we got up to the altitude and the speed we were looking for,” said Daniel Coatta, a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “The (airbrake) inflated, it looked like it performed great.” http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/06/08...ry-experiment/ Back on terra firma: Construction to begin on world’s largest optical telescope The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization announced today that its 11 international partners have committed more than $500 million to begin construction of the first of a new generation of extremely large telescopes. Once it is built, the Giant Magellan Telescope is poised to be the largest optical telescope in the world. The telescope’s seven mirrors, produced at the University of Arizona, will focus more than six times the amount of light of the current largest optical telescopes into images up to 10 times sharper than those of the Hubble Space Telescope. The GMT will enable astronomers to look deeper into space and farther back in time than ever before. http://astronomynow.com/2015/06/03/c...cal-telescope/ |
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New closer views of Ceres
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4619 |
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New closer views of Ceres
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4619 Thank you for posting the link, very good pictures. |
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Thank you for posting the link, very good pictures.
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Latest from Philae and Pluto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32423509 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33110288 |
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Philae comet lander wakes up
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he European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885
Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November. It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran flat. The comet has since moved nearer to the sun and Philae has enough power to work again, says the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos. An account linked to the probe tweeted the message, "Hello Earth! Can you hear me?" On its blog, Esa said Philae had contacted Earth, via Rosetta, for 85 seconds in the first contact since going into hibernation in November. |
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Looks like the end of Iridium flares
![]() http://www.universetoday.com/120761/...ent-this-year/ Shame if so, one of the more impressive random lights in the sky. |
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A very interesting National Geographic magazine article on New Horizons and Pluto, with a photo gallery and video.
Not long to wait now. ![]() http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...uto/drake-text |
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A very interesting National Geographic magazine article on New Horizons and Pluto, with a photo gallery and video.
Not long to wait now. ![]() http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...uto/drake-text |
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Thanks for that, very interesting. It's going to be a very interesting time coming up with Pluto and Philae coming back online.
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Looks like the end of Iridium flares
![]() http://www.universetoday.com/120761/...ent-this-year/ Shame if so, one of the more impressive random lights in the sky. Only just started using the app for these..... Progress...who needs it? |
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An interesting article on Pluto and New Horizons and make sure you watch the wonderful, emotional and inspiring video at the top.
This is humanity at it's very best - forget about the primitive bullshit of religion - science is the true light. ![]() http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ountain-range/ |
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did anyone get to see any aurora ? it was blanket cloud coverage here
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New closer views of Ceres
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Latest from Philae and Pluto
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32423509 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33110288 What Is Glittering at Pluto’s North Pole? New Horizons sees Pluto’s close approach hemisphere and Charon’s ‘dark pole’ Quote:
did anyone get to see any aurora ? it was blanket cloud coverage here
![]() ![]() And now for some astro news and highlights: Pluto, Ceres and an exciting summer for space exploration: Bob McDonald New study favours cold, icy — not warm, wet — early Mars (that particular debate is still ongoing - were Mars' early seas like the Arctic Ocean or the English Channel?) Volcanoes on Venus May Still Be Awake Messier 87 has swallowed an entire galaxy in the last billion years Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test |
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An interesting article on Pluto and New Horizons and make sure you watch the wonderful, emotional and inspiring video at the top.
This is humanity at it's very best - forget about the primitive bullshit of religion - science is the true light. ![]() http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ountain-range/ |
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It would be nice if this thread wasn't used to bash religion.
![]() Yesterday's news was just horrific and I was in a foul mood thinking about all those innocents slaughtered in the name of faith through the ages. |
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