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Old 20-09-2016, 21:21
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This is quite bizarre and has not yet been fully explained:

X-ray Detection Sheds New Light on Pluto. Scientists using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have made the first detections of X-rays from Pluto. These observations offer new insight into the space environment surrounding the largest and best-known object in the solar system’s outermost regions.
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Old 24-09-2016, 18:00
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NASA is to announce big news on Europa on Monday - but sadly it's not the discovery of alien life-forms in that vast ocean beneath the ice.

Yet.

http://www.livescience.com/56236-jup...ouncement.html

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-nasa-re...on-europa.html

http://www.seeker.com/nasa-activity-...l?slide=FlTdHM

https://assets.rbl.ms/5257413/980x.jpg
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Old 27-09-2016, 01:56
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This always seems to be the fastest moving astronomy thread online.

http://phys.org/space-news/
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Old 03-10-2016, 13:30
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SpaceX have given some more details on how and why they plan to put 100 people on Mars in 2025. First link is a 90 minute talk (with embarrassing Q&A), second is a written interpretation (with bad language):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAZ-Xbn5hr0.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacex...ull-story.html.

There is a lot more about it elsewhere online. I'm a bit surprised to be the first to mention it here. It's based around a big rocket, and it seems clear that can do a lot more than Mars.
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Old 10-10-2016, 01:25
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Thanks for keeping this thread going, things move so fast these days perhaps it is best if I just post the links to the space section of sites I often visit.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ace-180958410/

http://www.livescience.com/space

http://phys.org/space-news/

http://www.seeker.com/science-space/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/space/
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Old 11-10-2016, 10:19
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Had to smile at Jeremy Paxman's little slipup in University Challenge last night. In reply to a contestant who wrongly thought that Sirius might be in Ursa Minor (The Little Bear) he informed him that it was in the Great Bear (Ursa Major instead of Canis Major - The Great Dog).
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Old 11-10-2016, 15:07
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Had to smile at Jeremy Paxman's little slipup in University Challenge last night. In reply to a contestant who wrongly thought that Sirius might be in Ursa Minor (The Little Bear) he informed him that it was in the Great Bear (Ursa Major instead of Canis Major - The Great Dog).
What a f***ing t*t head! HAHahahahaaaa....
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Old 14-10-2016, 02:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEbLT_U0XyY
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Old 14-10-2016, 21:51
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Old 20-10-2016, 21:37
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The space section of Phys.org is always updated, very, very quickly.

http://phys.org/space-news/

Excellent articles from National Geographic.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...space-science/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...space-science/

It's such a shame people have put years and years of their lives into the Schiaparelli lander and now that has all gone - they must be utterly heartbroken.
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Old 21-10-2016, 18:50
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http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161...d-another-star
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Old 22-10-2016, 06:16
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to ESA’s ExoMars Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module.

Schiaparelli entered the martian atmosphere at 14:42 GMT on 19 October for its 6-minute descent to the surface, but contact was lost shortly before expected touchdown. Data recorded by its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter, are currently being analysed to understand what happened during the descent sequence.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Sp...i_landing_site
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Old 22-10-2016, 15:51
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It's such a shame people have put years and years of their lives into the Schiaparelli lander and now that has all gone - they must be utterly heartbroken.
On the other hand, they have the telemetry, which is more than we got from Beagle 2. As I understand it, this lander was mostly a dress rehearsal for a much bigger lander they intend to send in a few years. They'd rather it landed successfully, of course, but the telemetry is crucial and having it makes the mission a qualified success. The orbiter is still on track too.
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Old 22-10-2016, 18:39
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Well they certainly demonstrated that technology. Mission accomplished. Now back to the drawing board.
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Old 22-10-2016, 18:42
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They must be gutted all that time and effort to fail on the final part.
At least with the latest images and the Data it sent back they can maybe learn lessons from it
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Old 10-11-2016, 18:27
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The biggest 'Supermoon' for 68 years.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...onomy-science/

I have mentioned it before but this site updates the quickest and always has plenty of interesting new astronomy articles every day.

http://phys.org/space-news/

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/csz/news/...lsarwindne.jpg
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Old 23-11-2016, 21:50
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Hot off the presses from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and it is good news):

Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined. Scientists examined part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region, in the mid-northern latitudes, with the orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument.
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Old 23-11-2016, 23:03
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I've recently got hooked on the US Cosmology series 'How The Universe Works' which is being aired on the Discovery Science channel every weekday afternoon......

Having checked the episode list I think I've joined somewhere near the end but new ones are still being made........into the 5th series and going on 40 episodes

Watch out for it........it's really good !
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Old 24-11-2016, 08:32
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I've recently got hooked on the US Cosmology series 'How The Universe Works' which is being aired on the Discovery Science channel every weekday afternoon......

Having checked the episode list I think I've joined somewhere near the end but new ones are still being made........into the 5th series and going on 40 episodes

Watch out for it........it's really good !
Don't spoil the end please

Isn't it a bit American though? I only tend to like BBC Horizon etc


40 x 50mins?
What about the Director's Cut Box Set. at 7 days?
Or 6500 years?

True afficionados go for the full 13.7 billion years on Youtube
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Old 24-11-2016, 15:18
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Don't spoil the end please

Isn't it a bit American though? I only tend to like BBC Horizon etc
it's the same 'talking heads' that appear on all the cosmology documentaries

today they're doing fusion in stars and we've got Professor Michio Kaku who you'd certainly recognise !
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Old 24-11-2016, 16:26
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Yeah, I like Kaku-sensei, mostly

Actually, my main gripe against documentaries and presenters is when they dumb-down.

I know there are commercial and educational and target-audience reasons for this

Still, annoying when you are looking forward to a decent documentary and Brian Cox (or Michio Kaku) opens the programme with...

"This is our Sun <points at sky>. It is big and yellow and keeps us warm and the crops growing"
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Old 25-11-2016, 01:06
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Michio Kaku, on one of those documentaries, said that if all of the stars in the Milky Way were peas there would be enough to fill a stadium. No mention of pea variety or which stadium! Just say, "somewhere between one hundred million and four hundred million stars", and don't patronise me by telling me how may zeroes that is.
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Old 25-11-2016, 13:24
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You can get 500 million Petit-Pois into Ibrox apparently (not deep-fried)
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