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.

5 hours ago, bustamente said:

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

 

I thought the picture was a visual representation of how much he pays in taxes each year. 

 

 

What do you give a guy who has everything that earth has to offer .......................space of course

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/astronomers-detect-moon-forming-disc-around-exoplanet-for-the-first-time-1.5521972

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/bezos-branson-not-astronauts-faa-1.5521890

1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/astronomers-detect-moon-forming-disc-around-exoplanet-for-the-first-time-1.5521972

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/bezos-branson-not-astronauts-faa-1.5521890

No big deal. We've had mooning around for along time.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/28/astronomers-detect-light-behind-black-hole-for-first-time

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-booster-stacked-1st-time

Odds of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth are low, but higher than previously thought

 

 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-has-completed-testing

https://manyworlds.space/2021/08/25/new-findings-suggest-that-red-dwarf-stars-may-not-sterilize-exoplanets-as-much-as-feared/

11 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://manyworlds.space/2021/08/25/new-findings-suggest-that-red-dwarf-stars-may-not-sterilize-exoplanets-as-much-as-feared/

I will alert my travel agent.

James webb tested and launch date set Dec 21. 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-readies-james-webb-space-telescope-for-december-launch

wasn't sure if this belonged to this thread or the star trek thread

https://www.tmz.com/2021/09/24/william-shatner-going-space-jeff-bezos-blue-origin/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/one-of-the-largest-comets-ever-seen-is-headed-our-way

https://earthsky.org/space/great-red-spot-winds-accelerating-jupiter/

                                       

for the record if age was an issue John Glenn wouldn't have gone up 23 years ago

https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/12/neil-degrasse-tyson-william-shatner-space-flight-blue-origin-jeff-bezos/

 

 

'Alien' signal from Proxima Centauri

https://petapixel.com/2021/10/08/scientists-use-hubbles-photo-of-a-molten-ring-galaxy-for-new-research/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pluto-dark-side-image-atmosphere-ice-frost-charon

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Pluto’s dark side has come into dim view, thanks to the light of the dwarf planet’s moon.

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, almost all the images of the dwarf planet’s unexpectedly complex surface were of the side illuminated by the sun (SN: 7/15/15). Darkness shrouded the dwarf planet’s other hemisphere. Some of it, like the area near the south pole, hadn’t seen the sun for decades.

Now, mission scientists have finally released a grainy view of the dwarf planet’s dark side. The researchers describe the process to take the photo and what it tells them about how Pluto’s nitrogen cycle affects its atmosphere October 20 in the Planetary Science Journal.

Before New Horizons passed by Pluto, the team suspected the dwarf planet’s largest moon, Charon, might reflect enough light to illuminate the distant world’s surface. So the researchers had the spacecraft turn back toward the sun to take a parting peek at Pluto.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59299101

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The US has condemned Russia for conducting a "dangerous and irresponsible" missile test that it says endangered the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
 

The test blew up one of Russia's own satellites, creating debris that forced the ISS crew to shelter in capsules.
 

The station currently has seven crew members on board - four Americans, a German and two Russians.

"Earlier today, the Russian Federation recklessly conducted a destructive satellite test of a direct ascent anti-satellite missile against one of its own satellites," US state department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing.

"The test has so far generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris and hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris that now threaten the interests of all nations."

Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said he was outraged at the incident.
 

"With its long and storied history in human spaceflight, it is unthinkable that Russia would endanger not only the American and international partner astronauts on the ISS, but also their own cosmonauts" as well as Chinese "taikonauts" aboard China's space station, he said in a statement.
 

Russian space agency Roscosmos downplayed the incident.
 

"The orbit of the object, which forced the crew today to move into spacecraft according to standard procedures, has moved away from the ISS orbit. The station is in the green zone," the agency tweeted.

26 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59299101

Also found under the headline

" What humans do when they get bored with screwing around with the earth."