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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
1st image from NASA's new IXPE X-ray telescope looks like a ball of purple lightning. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) probe launched Dec. 9, 2021, on a mission to observe objects like black holes and neutron stars in X-ray light, shedding much-anticipated light on the inner workings of the cosmos. The probe spent its first month in space checking out its various systems to get ready to capture its first images, and now the IXPE team has released its very first science image.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The Sun Has Erupted Non-Stop All Month, And There Are More Giant Flares Coming. The past few weeks or so have been a very busy time for the Sun. Our star has undergone a series of giant eruptions that have sent plasma hurtling through space.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I guess that we'll soon know who owns the rocket that is soon to hit the moon, but there is 1 positive to it (aside from the litter). A rocket is going to crash into the Moon – the accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space. On March 4, 2022, a lonely, spent rocket booster will smack into the surface of the Moon at nearly 6,000 mph. Once the dust has settled, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will move into position to get an up-close view of the smoldering crater and hopefully shed some light on the mysterious physics of planetary impacts.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Has your compass bearings been out of late? This is why. The Magnetic North Pole Is Rapidly Moving Because of Some Blobs. ..Ever since the British polar explorer James Clark Ross first identified it on the Boothia Peninsula in Canada’s Nunavut territory in 1831, scientists have been carefully measuring its location. But in recent years, our north pole has been inching closer and closer to Siberia at a surprisingly rapid pace.Cheers. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
The Speed of Sound on Mars Is Kinda Funky, New Evidence Suggests |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Astronomers Are Stumped by New High-Frequency Wave on the Surface of the Sun. Astronomers have discovered a bizarre, new high-frequency wave on the surface of the sun.Cheers. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
This must off been a thrill seeking Kiwi's idea. :-O Rocket Lab to catch an Electron rocket with a giant helicopter. Space launch provider Rocket Lab plans to catch an Electron rocket using a giant helicopter, as the launch vehicle returns to Earth from space.Those flying fan thingies havn't been the most reliable things at staying up in the sky of late let alone trying to catch something that's already falling down. Cheers. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Great to see that a valuable place of Space Science & Astronomy will once again be open to visitors and scientists! Urban spelunking: Yerkes Observatory, which will soon reopen to the public Every now and again I'm faced with a subject so rich in facts and history and details that I can't imagine I'll ever get it all into the story. Meet the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, on Geneva Lake, Wisconsin |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Hmm... now what are the odds that something could possibly go wrong? Anyone willing to calculate those odds? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The world's biggest catapult will be tested this year. SpinLaunch's rocket-flinging launch system will loft NASA payload on test flight this year. NASA will soon take a unique launch system out for a spin.Cheers. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
UFOs left 'radiation burns' and 'unaccounted for pregnancies,' new Pentagon report claims 1,500 pages of UFO related research were just declassified as part of a FOIA request. The report concludes that there is sufficient evidence "to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed, and opaque to full US understandings." |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1383 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
The language in the conclusion to that report is intriguing. 'Advanced systems already deployed'. Somebody, then, had to devise those 'advanced systems', and then deploy them. 'Opaque to full US. understanding.' Hmmm... Such advanced systems, it seems, that we are unable to even comprehend how they work! Resorting to the explanation that these systems had their origin in some foreign (Earthly) nation strikes me as unsatisfying and really unconvincing. It supposes that some nation on our planet managed to leap technologically ahead of the rest of the world, and keep it a tight secret. Hard enough to believe. Further-- If some nation had such an extraordinary advantage over the rest, why has it not pressed that advantage, and made itself master of the world? When you realize that other nations, like China and Russia, were and are seeing the same sorts of 'advanced systems' and reacting with as much puzzlement as the United States does, one's incredulity about terrestrially produced Unidentified Aerial Phenomena rises, even higher. Then, too, these UAPs have been flying rings around our world's aircraft for at least the last 80 years, and yet, and yet-- the secret has never leaked out or been spied out?! That scenario strikes me as considerably less likely than the proposition that we could have extraterrestrial visitors. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well the Rocket Lab helicopter catch is on for this coming week, but will it work? ‘No Easy Feat:’ Daring Helicopter Rocket-Catch Attempt Set for Next Week. ...The mission is scheduled to take off within a two-week window starting April 22...Well we'll soon find out I guess. Cheers. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Auctioneer puts Space Shuttle CPUs under the hammer IBM kit made 20 journeys into space, now selling for surprisingly down-to-Earth prices |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Surprised astronomers find new type of star explosion - a micronova. Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white dwarf after it has siphoned material from a companion star.Cheers. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Time Might Not Exist, According to Physicists Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20142 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Thanks for that conundrum... After all... Time is merely an illusion (regardless of the time-warp effects of lunchtimes). And so far, our only way for noticing the assumed passage of time is to note that some movement/motion (change of state) has happened. All just happenstance?... Einstein made progress in our understanding of our universe by relaxing, what were considered to be at that time, a number of 'absolutes'. That gave rise to relativity and deforming space as we know it. I dread to think what we get if go all multidimensional quantum! Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
It amazes me how these brainiacs can get millions for research into subjects like the existence of time and space. But I guess if they can satisfy themselves that time doesn't exist then they don't have to worry about the really important things. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
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