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- Nairn3
Let's see if the Indians have better luck than the Russians...
- Yaaay! Well done!Nairn
- No love for this? India will have someone on the moon before 2040, I reckon. The cost of this mission here was less than the production budget for Oppenheimer.Nairn
- Brexit Britain should pal up with ISRO - not that they need our help, in fact, the opposite, so best get in there whilst we're still relevant.Nairn
- sted0
Space-X docking on ISS in an hour
- OBBTKN1
Dragon's Draco thrusters firing:
- _niko11
Free moving Planet-like objects found off Orion
https://www.bbc.com/news/science…
Those aren’t planets, they’re attack ships...
- Alright! Now this is what I'm talking.. well, want in this thread!Nairn
- More mad space shit going on in space again, while scientists scratch their tiny mindsIanbolton
- And yet you wouldn’t know about them were it not for the big brained scientists, and without them you wouldn’t learn more.monospaced
- Tears in the rain.Akagiyama
- They’re heading this wayfuturefood
- @Akagiyama; Blade Runner was premonitory ;)OBBTKN
- Elon will find a way to get us there.utopian
- Nasa just released an enhanced version:
https://i.imgur.com/…_niko - Space needs to chillKrassy
- Mono, I love that our tiny minds can collaborate so succinctly to work out half the things we know today. It's beautiful stuffIanbolton
- Yes I too love that we use science to figure things out.monospaced
- neverscared0
A planetary collision afterglow and transit of the resultant debris cloud
Nature | Vol 622 | 12 October 2023 | 251ArticleA planetary collision afterglow and transit of the resultant debris cloudMatthew Kenworthy1,21 ✉, Simon Lock2,21, Grant Kennedy3,4,21, Richelle van Capelleveen1,21, Eric Mamajek5,6,21, Ludmila Carone7,21, Franz-Josef Hambsch8 ,9,1 0, Joseph Masiero11, Amy Mainzer12, J. Davy Kirkpatrick11, Edward Gomez1 3 ,1 4, Zoë Leinhardt15, Jingyao Dou15, Pavan Tanna16, Arttu Sainio17, Hamish Barker18, Stéphane Charbonnel19, Olivier Garde19, Pascal Le Dû19, Lionel Mulato19, Thomas Petit19 & Michael Rizzo Smith20Planets grow in rotating disks of dust and gas around forming stars, some of which can subsequently collide in giant impacts after the gas component is removed from the disk1–3. Monitoring programmes with the warm Spitzer mission have recorded substantial and rapid changes in mid-infrared output for several stars, interpreted as variations in the surface area of warm, dusty material ejected by planetary-scale collisions and heated by the central star: for example, NGC 2354–ID8 (refs.4,5), HD 166191 (ref.6) and V488 Persei7. Here we report combined observations of the young (about 300million years old), solar-like star ASASSN-21qj: an infrared brightening consistent with a blackbody temperature of 1,000Kelvin and a luminositythat is 4percent that of the star lasting for about 1,000days, partially overlapping in time with a complex and deep, wavelength-dependent optical eclipse that lasted for about 500days. The optical eclipse started 2.5years after the infrared brightening, implying an orbital period of at least that duration. These observations are consistent with a collision between two exoplanets of several to tens of Earth masses at 2–16 astronomical units from the central star. Such an impact produces a hot, highly extended post-impact remnant with sufficient luminosity to explain the infrared observations. Transit of the impact debris, sheared by orbital motion into a long cloud, causes the subsequent complex eclipse of the host star.
- uan1
live in 48mins
- Ramanisky29
- this looks as good as James Webb. what equipment did he use?_niko
- oh let me guess, shot on an iPhone 15_niko
- I mean it probably could work with an iPhone 15 Pro and a telescope. I can capture star trails with mine.ephix
- $2k setup vs $9.7billion setupOBBTKN
- amazedBeeswax
- prompts?Krassy
- Makes you want to boldly go where no one has gone before.jagara
- I remember this kind of space from 80s posters. Amazing!SimonFFM
- I know we're jaded, but you can't get this from an iPhone. I'm familiar with this dude, and his setup is fucking insane.garbage
- He's got multiple telescopes, has essentually built his own private Hubble. I'd be scared to breath around his gear.garbage
- There's a great entertaining YouTuber - AstroBiscuit who shows what you can achieve on the cheap.Centigrade
- here's his Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/…Krassy
- This is awesome! A DIY equatorial platform is next on my list for my Dob. What rig did you use?slappy
- I didn't read the description, Ill go find out, cheers!slappy
- prompt?Ianbolton
- Ramanisky20
Andrew McCarthy’s backyard setup
(def not a cheap one)Equipment shown in this video:
7×50 Binoculars (The Celestron pair shown in the video I could not find a good link for- here is a
Meade equivalent):
https://optcorp.com/products/ori…Orion xt10 Dobsonian:
https://optcorp.com/products/ori…Meade Ix200 fork-mounted SCT (Modern equivalent of the Meade 2120 shown in the video):
https://optcorp.com/products/mea…Eq6-R Pro Equatorial Mount:
https://optcorp.com/products/sky…Celestron Edge HD 800 SCT:
https://optcorp.com/products/cel…Meade 6000 series Quadruplet Refractor:
https://www.telescopesplus.com/p…- St Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Mannequin and Class really paid off for this guy.Morning_star
- ^ ahem, Weekend at Bernie’s.. lolRamanisky2
- ^ how that one escaped my memory is unforgivable ;)Morning_star
- grafician0
"NASA's Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe"
- Nairn1
10 mins 'til Starship second attempt
- 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'kingsteven
- That took me by surprise, I must admit! Most important thing is that all the engines lit and stayed lit 'til second stage separation -Nairn
- - afaik, thta's never been achieved before at this sort of quantity. Certainly, the Soviets never managed it.Nairn
- Ramanisky20
- Sun Ra would be proud.garbage
- did I say moon? oops I meant meant my colonoscopy cam_niko
- ^ haha ... I was slightly tempted to post on SFW thread.Ramanisky2