- 2,570
- 4,889
I thought the same thing , and didn't even click it. Stupid old physics messing up all their plans.
The Astronomy Thread
- Thread starter Araxen
- Start date
-
Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
It's just an upgrade for the same ole really.
I'm curious what we will implement for a fixed system in the future, still early for any real plans now. Our mission based systems won't be effective for a colony, especially more than one.
I've always imagined some kind of high intensity laser array on each, with repeaters to account for orbits, basically the wireless point of a giant fibre cable, but I'm sure there's a smarter way.
I'm curious what we will implement for a fixed system in the future, still early for any real plans now. Our mission based systems won't be effective for a colony, especially more than one.
I've always imagined some kind of high intensity laser array on each, with repeaters to account for orbits, basically the wireless point of a giant fibre cable, but I'm sure there's a smarter way.
Lambourne
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 2,905
- 6,928
You're going to need a local proxy on Mars for data heavy stuff like video streaming because any Earth-Mars link is going to have limited capacity and (when the planets are on the opposite side of the Sun) over 20 minutes of latency. Early on it's probably cheapest to just ship physical media when it comes to stuff the size of Netflix libraries.
- 5
- 2,570
- 4,889
M74 is a large spiral galaxy 32 million light years from earth.
This is the result of 924 10 second exposures stacked and processed using Siril, Starnet ++, & GraXpert. Captured by a ZWO Seestar S50.
Funny thing about this one, in one of the 10 second stacks and airplane flew right through the picture, and now it's gone!
This is the result of 924 10 second exposures stacked and processed using Siril, Starnet ++, & GraXpert. Captured by a ZWO Seestar S50.
Funny thing about this one, in one of the 10 second stacks and airplane flew right through the picture, and now it's gone!
- 10
- 34,735
- 135,470
TheNozz
Bronze Baron of the Realm
- 8,060
- 41,099
Seriously people? Did no one stop to think tha- ugh nevermind
cosmosmagazine.com
Uranus wind made it harder for spacecraft to probe
Scientists have found that NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft’s flyby of Uranus occurred under rare planetary conditions which made it hard to probe.
cosmosmagazine.com
- 4
This is from a weather radar an hour ago. What are we looking at here? The trail is 200km/124 miles long. Radar images are 5 minutes apart, and it doesn't show before or after this one. Is it Musk sending a Tesla in orbit? It is Bitcoin going to the moon? A plane? A bird? Looks pretty cool anyways.
- 3
- 34,735
- 135,470
camera arrives tomorrow. will try it over the weekend. for 50 bucks got a used canon eos 12.2 MP camera and for 10 got 1.5" to eos adapter for my mak-cas 102mm telescope,. and got a cheap 800 mm telephoto lens off amazon for 80 bucks, will try camera only then the makcas
- 2
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
- 6,525
- 4,808
Astronomers take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy
“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” says Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist from Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. Located a staggering 160 000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the...
Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, at a staggering distance of over 160 000 light-years from us, WOH G64 is a dying star roughly 2000 times the size of the Sun. This image of the star (left) is the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy. This breakthrough was possible thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI), located in Chile.
The new image, taken with the VLTI’s GRAVITY instrument, shows that the star is enveloped in a large egg-shaped dust cocoon. The image on the right shows an artist’s impression reconstructing the geometry of the structures around the star, including the bright oval envelope and a fainter dusty torus. Confirming the presence and shape of this torus will require additional observations.
- 4
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
- 6,525
- 4,808
JWST takes a look at M104
Hubble (2004):
JWST (2024):
www.astronomy.com
Hubble (2004):
JWST (2024):
The Sombrero Galaxy doffs its cap to the power of JWST
M104 shines in a different light thanks to new infrared observations.
www.astronomy.com
- 9