The Space Thread: Diablo's Home Planet Found

Camel · May 10, 2016

Damn. Something so big looking so small still boggles the mind. Things like this really put other things not like this into perspective. And then in the grander scheme of things the Milky Way is tiny even though it's incomprehensibly huge.

How insignificant does it make you feel?

Ozzmcom · May 11, 2016

Damn. Something so big looking so small still boggles the mind. Things like this really put other things not like this into perspective. And then in the grander scheme of things the Milky Way is tiny even though it's incomprehensibly huge.

How insignificant does it make you feel?

not at all because, if you look up at the night sky and see the stars, galaxies moons and planets, you can say to yourself I am made out of the same stuff as those objects so we are all connected.

TIMELESS · May 23, 2016

For my space loving friends:

CLR-GTR · June 1, 2016

Nice video of the landing of Falcon 9:

And in other news: Swedish astronomers have done computer simulations on Planet X, the earlier-hinted planet 20 times further from the sun than Neptune and already blamed for just about every bad thing that can happen to Earth. They had to conclude that this planet is most likely an exo planet that was ejected from a different star-planet system to such a distance our sun had the chance to take Planet X with it.

As the researches say, it could be the only exo planet we could actually visit with a space probe.

CLR-GTR · June 30, 2016

Jupiter has ignited the fireworks for the arrival of the Juno probe upcoming Monday:

It's a picture made of two pictures made by Hubble: one of Jupiter in regular light, and one of the aurora's in ultraviolet.

Eudemon · June 30, 2016

That is cool but severely misleading no? :bdown:

Ozzmcom · July 1, 2016

That is cool but severely misleading no? :bdown:

what do you mean?

Hubble telescope has a light filter system where it could block or combine several spectrum of visible and non-visible lights.

Eudemon · July 1, 2016

what do you mean?

When I first saw the image I thought this was a Jupiter version of the typical earth aurora shots we see often but as it's using UV light, it's not.

CLR-GTR · July 1, 2016

I don't find it any more misleading than the best car photos which are also heavily edited in light, contrast, hues and whatnot. :p And Jupiter couldn't care less, it just tosses a moon at you to show calling Jupiter's moons small is also misleading.

Ryzza5 · July 1, 2016

Most beautiful space photos (i.e. red/blue colours in nebula) have been selectively composed from various filters though, haven't they? The really distant stuff is only 'visible' to us by means of 'radio'-telescopes, for example.

Ryzza5 · July 6, 2016

Watch in 4K

Now go buy a new CPU

CLR-GTR · September 5, 2016

Ladies and gentlemen..... we got him:

GIHDBGLD.1

*Philae photographed by 'mothership' Rosetta, missing a leg and tipped over.

Eudemon · September 5, 2016

Aww that's quite sad, the wee dude did his best in the time he had and let us not forget he landed on a comet.

CLR-GTR · September 5, 2016

Yes very sad. It is an achievement they have pulled off landing on such an irregular shaped and relatively small object.

Speaking of which, there's another, even more ambitious mission under way. It's called OSIRIS-REx, and it will be launched this week. It will travel to a planetoid called Bennu, from which it will grab some material and send that back to Earth. And it will be the probe itself doing the material-grabbing, so no separate modules commanded by an orbiter this time. It will arrive at the planetoid in July 2020, in March 2021 it will start the trip back home, to arrive here in September 2023.

Another launch is that of the Mars InSight, which will happen in May 2018 with an arrival on Mars in November the same year. One of the novelties is drilling to depths of up to 4,5 meters.

And to conclude the post, here's another video: the Solar Dynamics Observatory witnesses a double eclipse as both Earth and the moon pass through the image:

Eudemon · September 5, 2016

Well that's certainly ambitious of them and I'll be sure to listen out for mentions of it in those years and thanks for posting that double eclipse video, it was cool seeing the vast earth coming and covering the craft's view and then the moon shortly afterwards.

Ryzza5 · September 5, 2016

SpaceX receive a bill for $50m after a little kaboomboom

SpaceX explosion: Amos-6 satellite owner demands $50M from Muskâ€™s firm | Ars Technica

CLR-GTR · September 25, 2016

NASA's going to announce a discovery about Jupiter's moon Europa, should be on NASA TV at 18:00 GMT.

astronomers will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean

NASA to reveal 'surprising' activity on Jupiter's moon Europa

CLR-GTR · November 21, 2016

It's just Monday but it's already time to fry some brains: NASA's published its paper regarding EmDrive, a proposed propulsion system that ignores one of Newton's fundemental laws (every action has an equal+opposite reaction). Short said: we still don't understand how, but it works!*

It's official: NASA's peer-reviewed EM Drive paper has finally been published - ScienceAlert

*it works, on a miniscule, unrefined scale, but provides several times more force than lightsails.

Ryzza5 · January 2, 2017

Panoramic photos from Chilean observatories

Some perspective on our place in the Universe from the high Chilean desert | Ars Technica

Eudemon · January 2, 2017

@Ryzza5 Awesome pics in that, the laser ones are a bit weird looking but I never tire of seeing low pics of the stars with galaxies visible.

Stories · January 2, 2017

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coronal mass ejection from 30-09-2015, the sun is the little white circle in center of the pic, we can see that the mass ejection is severals millions times larger than a planet like the Earth for example (the sun in center (little white circle in center) is +1 305 000 times the volume of Earth planet)

Eudemon · January 3, 2017

Yeah space is unbelievable in its sizing of common events and distances. That image where it shows you all the planets and then it zooms out to show you the larger dwarf stars and then the local galactic cluster and beyond is so brain-exploding. :derp:

Ozzmcom · January 3, 2017

I think that desktop screenshot is actually from another star. You can see it took 10 years to reach us xD

Stories · January 3, 2017

:toof:sure it makes 10 years to reach us, like a (finished) game or a real président for examples

because when we saw (bests) video games, best mods for them coming out only actually, and it needed 10 years to have a beautifull GTA SA or a TDU for examples :happyroll:

luckily there was other things to do :duck:

Stories · January 4, 2017

Offtopic => So, dear Ozzmcom, look at this in here : Ils vendaient de fausses licences Windows XP, ils devront verser 4,6 millions deuros Ãla Microsoft - ZDNet

it talk bout false XP licenses dealers in france, they made +720 000euros to sold false XP licenses with 45-75eur per false license, so 720 000/75 = +9600 licenses sold in last 2 years in france :nods:

back in topic => "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke

What do you think is out there? Do you believe that we'll ever find proof of alien life? Do you think WE are the alien life, sent to this planet? Or do you believe we are alone, and exist purely by chance?"

I think there is 400 milliards of solar systems per Galaxy, and it estimated about several thousands milliards of galaxies,

400 milliards x 1000 milliards = 400 000 milliards (000 000 000) solars systems minimum in 1 Universe

if we consider about 0.1% are with people like us = 40 000 000 000 000 (40 000 milliards systems are like us in 1 Universe)

and I consider the Holly Bible : genese 1.26 : "Puis Dieu dit: Faisons l'homme à notre image, selon notre ressemblance" (Then God said, Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness)

genese 1:27 : "Dieu créa l'homme à son image, il le créa à l'image de Dieu, il créa l'homme et la femme" (God created man in his image, he created him in the image of God, he created man and woman)

40 000 milliards of systems like us seems a good begining, but there is probably many more because this statistic according only 0.1% of possiblitilies :duck: