The Astronomy Thread

Lenas

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Malinatar_sl said:

Supermassive black holes might actually be super common - The Washington Post

OK,

I can imagine twice, 10x, maybe even 100x bigger, but 10,000,000,000 times bigger than our sun? That is incomprehensible...

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You are confusing mass with size.

 

opiate82

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Missions | Europa Mission

Not till the 2020's, but there is some non-Mars stuff planned. Not sure how they'll find signs of life w/o landing though.

 

meStevo

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Really looking forward to JWST in 2018 (guessing first science in 2019), hope there aren't any more delays or anything.

 

Jysin

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JWST should be a whole new era of amazing. Think what Hubble did and amp it all up by a factor of 10.

James Webb vs Hubble

 

meStevo

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Cool mirrors image from the JWST wiki page.

Some of the new techniques used on ground-base observatoriesmake these new ones coming online in the next decade pretty exciting too.

 

Cad

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How do they plan to service JWST out at L2?

 

Big Phoenix

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It's all good they can update the firmware.

 

Cad

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Falcon 9 landed on the barge this time. Fucking sweet.

 

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Great job spacex

 

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JWST launch is still a couple years away and I'm already nervous.

 

Mudcrush Durtfeet

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Tuco_sl said:

Great job spacex

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^

We've taken our first step in a larger world.

 

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Cad_sl said:

Falcon 9 landed on the barge this time. Fucking sweet.

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Zindan

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That is truly amazing.

 

meStevo

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Mission Manager Update: Kepler spacecraft in emergency mode | NASA

 

Dandain

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This is the full Webcast, 27:03 is more or less the landing start. For the nerd roars.

 

khorum

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Itzena_sl said:

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Capitalism! FUCKYEAH!

 

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A glimpse of the future for sure....amazing stuff

 

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• Apr 9, 2016

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I wonder how confident they feel that they have it figured out or is it going to still be touch and go for a while yet?

 

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Seems a little weird for a private company to be the big innovator while NASA is going back and tearing apart old Apollo rockets to figure out how they worked.

 

Vaclav

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Big Phoenix_sl said:

Seems a little weird for a private company to be the big innovator while NASA is going back and tearing apart old Apollo rockets to figure out how they worked.

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It's still NASA basically... all of them hobnob with each other and staffing moves between them pretty fluidly.

It's pretty much only a difference of where the equity is coming from now.