I know I'm not the only one who likes to read about new planet discoveries and other Space intrigue.  We have a new candidate for life-supporting planets, and like all the others, it's the "best one yet."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exoplanet-alien-life-search-for-found-habitable-zone-new-earth-20-signs-cetus-sea-monster-a7691576.html

Pretty exciting, really.

On 2021-02-19 at 1:32 PM, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Listening to the sound from the surface of another planet.... that is monumental...

Some doorknobs say Utah!!!!! 

No audio during landing and the audio while on the ground is very meh but some pretty cool video.

Edited February 22, 20214 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

https://www.sciencealert.com/every-white-dot-in-this-image-is-a-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-a-distant-galaxy

I'd rock this.

Getting closer!

Edited March 4, 20214 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Getting closer!

But if ever the phrase “close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” was to apply, it would be with these tests. 

Ontario researcher helps capture important image of monstrous black hole

Edited March 24, 20214 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

 

Last sentence is comical.

 

"For example, the waves given off by the cataclysmic final merger of GW150914 reached Earth after travelling over a billion light-years, as a ripple in spacetime that changed the length of a 4 km LIGO arm by a thousandth of the width of a proton, proportionally equivalent to changing the distance to the nearest star outside the Solar System by one hair's width.^[37] This tiny effect from even extreme gravitational waves makes them observable on Earth only with the most sophisticated detectors."

 

hard to grasp these numbers.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mars-oxygen-1.5997547

Quote

NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.

The unprecedented extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved Tuesday by an experimental device aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover that landed on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 after a seven-month journey from Earth.

In its first activation, the toaster-sized instrument dubbed MOXIE — short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment — produced about five grams of oxygen, equivalent to roughly 10 minutes' worth of breathing for an astronaut, NASA said.

This is an astounding achievement.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/music-on-mars-if-you-thought-space-was-silent-take-a-closer-listen-1.6029648

Pretty incredible!

6 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/music-on-mars-if-you-thought-space-was-silent-take-a-closer-listen-1.6029648

Pretty incredible!

Ha! I was just reading and listening to these.... it's pretty insane.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-mars-rover-animation-appears-copy-nasa-video-shot-shot-1592824

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/28/22457316/nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-navigation-glitch-sixth-flight

NASA will send two missions to Venus for the first time in over 30 years https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/2/22465588/nasa-mission-to-venus-davinci-veritas-discovery-program

Pretty neat, thought I would share. There is also a good article in that thread too:

 

Edited June 30, 20214 yr by wanna-b-fanboy

https://www.universetoday.com/151548/iridescent-clouds-on-mars-seen-by-curiosity/

https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-branson-safely-lands-space-launch-virgin-galactic-1234790258/

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-branson-safely-lands-space-launch-virgin-galactic-1234790258/

Would i like to go sure but for $250k US that's a lot of ******* & ****.

NASA revives ailing Hubble Space Telescope with switch to backup computer https://trib.al/P7C48VV

There is rich and then there's this guy, good luck to him tomorrow

 

the world needs a trillionaire.

Edited July 19, 20214 yr by Mark F

1 hour ago, Mark F said:

the world needs a trillionaire.

One more pandemic ought to do it.