The Astronomy Thread

iannis

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I was all "that's kinda neat" but then I realized that you can look up and down and even behind your starting POV as well and I was all "OOOOHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT"
 

Borzak

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Click on the "i" at the bottom to label stuff and you can hover over most stuff and it will pop up and tell you what it is.
 

iannis

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So like.. there are areas of interstellar space where you probablycouldnavigate with a 3d compass, an astrolabe, and dead reckoning?


ARRR, THAR BE SPACE PIRATES IN THIS HERE SECTOR.
 

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Magnetars are pretty cool, just read about them a bit. They can have magnetic fields of something like 100 000 000 000 Tesla. For comparison Earth's magnetic field is like 0.000065 Tesla.
Magnets!? How the fuck do they work, right?
 

Tuco

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Lenas

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Didn't Lumie say that was gonna kill us? Lumie, why are you wrong about everything?
 

iannis

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Salvage mission for our Apollo moon buggies.


Which aren't there because we faked it. Troll Level: International
 

Loser Araysar

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chinese are the worst at naming things

jade rabbit?

its a fucking spaceship, not a restaurant with $4 appetizers
 

VariaVespasa_sl

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Copy-pasta from the article- "Its name - chosen in an online poll of 3.4 million voters - derives from an ancient Chinese myth about a rabbit living on the moon as the pet of the lunar goddess Chang'e."
 

Sentagur

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Copy-pasta from the article- "Its name - chosen in an online poll of 3.4 million voters - derives from an ancient Chinese myth about a rabbit living on the moon as the pet of the lunar goddess Chang'e."
What does the rabbit have to do with Ben Chang from Community again?
 

Tuco

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Stupid question: what's the risk in contaminating that water? Are we afraid we'll unleash life on Mars that will evolve and take us over? Or are we afraid we'll corrupt potential testing areas?