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- sted1
How to Survive Flying Too Close to the Sun
- uan2
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) exploits the polarization state of light from astrophysical sources to provide insight into our understanding of X-ray production in objects such as neutron stars and pulsar wind nebulae, as well as stellar and supermassive black holes.
nice design...
looks like a mini version of the sci-fi 2001 Discovery.
- utopian0
Mind Blown
- Interesting how the laws of physics change when we look really really far away, and also really really close (sub atomic particle level).mort_
- they don'tmonospaced
- I mean the differences between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics.mort_
- they might, and i find that interesting.Nairn
- Quantum mechanics denial?mort_
- It might appear they change, but my belief is that we don’t have a full understanding, which is in line with the science.monospaced
- mort_2
I’m not remotely superstitious, but given the way things in general have gone in the past few years... let’s just say it will be incredibly uplifting to see a successful launch on Christmas day!
- grafician-5
- Still early days, but looks good.
Over 200K km so far, until the target of 1.5M km will be reached.grafician - incredible, hubble is only 570 km from earth and this is 1.5M km! almost 5x the distance to the moon._niko
- no threat of Russian space debris impacting it there I guess_niko
- I believe the Russia will launch a far-side-of-the-Moon rover mission this yeargrafician
- and China several Moon missions alsografician
- Still early days, but looks good.
- grafician-1
Webb is fully deployed!
- grafician-1
The woman behind SpaceX:
"Gwynne Shotwell (née Rowley; born November 23, 1963) is an American businesswoman and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth.[1]
As of 2020, Shotwell is listed as the 49th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[2] In 2020, she was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[3]"
- been saying it... spacex will be forever solvent as long as they launch whatever the CIA tells them to.jonny_quest_lives
- sarahfailin0
What's happened to our Sun? Last month, it produced the largest prominence ever imaged together with a complete solar disk. The record image, featured, was captured in ultraviolet light by the Sun-orbiting Solar Orbiter spacecraft. A quiescent solar prominence is a cloud of hot gas held above the Sun's surface by the Sun's magnetic field. This solar prominence was huge -- spanning a length rivaling the diameter of the Sun itself. Solar prominences may erupt unpredictably and expel hot gas into the Solar System via a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When a CME strikes the Earth and its magnetosphere, bright auroras may occur. This prominence did produce a CME, but it was directed well away from the Earth. Although surely related to the Sun's changing magnetic field, the energy mechanism that creates and sustains a solar prominence remains a topic of research.- Oh fuck off already.
Not you, sarah, Existence.
The twenties suck.Nairn
- Oh fuck off already.