Space is the place

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  • ok_not_ok12

    • "They finally managed to take a pic of your mom's anus"Nairn
    • out of focusuan
    • Original is 185MB https://www.eso.org/…
      Why?
      drgs
    • seriously science, learn to focusGnash
    • yeah, how hard is it to focus on something 100,000 light years away, ffs?monospaced
    • That's what happens when you open up the aperture too much, kids.Continuity
    • There are sooo many bad jokes I can think of right now...SimonFFM
    • Let down. Looks like most black hole artist renderings ive seen lolCygnusZero4
    • It is a render from data, not a photo capturing visible light... right?robthelad
    • guys... http://www.canon.ca/…aliastime
    • ^ SimonFFM, I'm sure you've seen your share of these over the years?

      ; )
      ideaist
    • Is this from the penis cam someone posted?BH26
    • https://i.imgur.com/…BH26
    • at the other end of it doctors are waiting.. .lol all the.comments.sted
    • M87 is 55 million light-years from Earthutopian
    • been there.neverscared
    • So M87 isn't just a crappy band?futurefood
    • https://techcrunch.c…imbecile
    • Soundgarden Supernkown cover.stoplying
    • its just a blob, could be anything. The Earph is flat anyway!!!!1Bennn
    • So, the gravity of the discovery here is that black holes are not black?Krassy
    • Well, their event horizons and accretion discs certainly aren't.Continuity
    • This article talks about the accretion disc having a color/intensity shift due to the direction of spin... could that be the asymmetry we see?monNom
    • ^ https://io9.gizmodo.…monNom
    • LOL.. my entire Facebook has been nothing but this all morning.. but it took until qbn that the first “your mom” comment .. never change QBNautoflavour
    • HHhhm space donut_niko
    • Seems almost non news worthy... i feel like its a prelude to chinas 70'th communism bash. A US PR releasedeathboy
    • china has been pushing the space lately, chinas the wandering earth reminds me of shit i read early in the space race with politicsdeathboy
    • personally i prefer more theory than photos of relevance to blackholes in our concepts of reality and time and matter.deathboy
    • It's a hole in the dome.robthelad
    • It's an incredible nothing. Carry on with your praises...robotron3k
    • it's practically the opposite of nothing robo. it's so massive that not even light can escape its gravity. pull your head out of your own black hole anussarahfailin
    • But then again a singularity is 'physically impossible' and everything beyond the event horizon is taken from our universe, so he's also sort of right.Nairn
  • _niko12

    woah.

    Hubble telescope

    vs
    James Webb

    • what ai is this?sted
    • VGA vs. 5Kgrafician
    • These both feel cartoonishutopian
    • god's ejaculatehotroddy
    • more evidence that god doesn’t existmonospaced
    • If you‘re looking for a white bearded man in those clouds then no.NBQ00
    • yeah if you look closely he's busy punishing men who shave their beards and women who don't cover up in all of those star systems_niko
    • your eyes and brain are an amazing pattern solvers, just not enough to cover it all.sted
    • it's gorgeous!whatthefunk
    • Is that a lens flare effect on those 6 spiked star?shapesalad
    • @shape, I'm curious: possibly by the shape of the array? Like how apertures create flares predictability: "n flares = n blades".kaiyohtee
    • @kaiyohtee true, it's also made of hexagon tiles, so maybe that's why.shapesalad
    • Where thee created by J.J. Abrams or Michael Bay?utopian
    • Amazing! But if Hubble set the bar and this new tech is 30 years later, kinda expected more. Also, who forgot to remove the Hoya Star filter?futurefood
    • those extra large stars w/ the flare effect are in the foreground. They're larger because they're much closer.sarahfailin
    • https://i.redd.it/qd…scarabin
    • https://i.imgur.com/…prophetone
    • ^ & ^^ bahahahagarbage
  • PhanLo11





    • <<< READ.sted
    • I don't agree with that pissing contest part :)
      we need this to move forward, and with very fucking hard work and some inventions what i think won't happen in
      sted
    • in our lifetime we will be able to solve these problems and and we will be able to cover longer distances and spend more useful time in space :)sted
    • We are at the very beginning of overcoming difficulties in the two major subjects: physiological effects and movement.sted
    • well saidutopian
    • Would be good if Branson was pulled inside out through his arsehole in the process.PhanLo
    • Why Branson? Bezos maybe? :)sted
    • All three would be a bonusPhanLo
    • or we could work on making our biosphere sustainable... instead of throwing money away at the mars pipedreamjonny_quest_lives
    • Let them live in space. They’ll provide jobs on earth until they die in space.imbecile
    • purrfectly putVandal7
    • Let them build some infrastructure. If it's inevitable that they fail, so be it. Let's just stop giving them a platform and let other billionaires save earthbainbridge
    • EAT THE RICH!prophetone
    • various decades ago the aristos build golden temples and exuberant parks for their entourage.. nowadays the technorates build decadent tech products...same oldneverscared
    • different objects...neverscared
    • lol @ Low-Earth Mar A LagoRamanisky2
    • the projection of spiritual need for transcendenceonto onto mechanical hardware is out of proportions and its not gettin better till it blows up as another richneverscared
    • boys out of touch civilatory lunatic fantasy...neverscared
    • 'or we could work on making our biosphere sustainable... instead of throwing money away at the mars pipedream' <-- thischerub
    • Oh boy. So many degrees of wrong. A - these guys are going to live a lot longer than any of you (unless you are also a billionaire).maikel
    • B - it’s their money, let them blow it however the hell they want. It’s easy to make charity with someone else’s dimemaikel
    • C - I work with NASA, and yes life in space is shit today, but a lot of the efforts are now put in changing that.maikel
    • NASA has been disgraced for being slow and bureaucratic (that’s why now they work with startups). I think the twits are based in NASA timescales...maikel
    • A -You sound like a lunatic who thinks that money can buy eternity
      B -We are talking about how they spend it.
      C -Cool, read our notes, have something to add?
      sted
    • D -That is why these companies exists and that is why they get launch permits for ballistic missiles. Again nothing new added.sted
    • so where is this post/notes: "So many degrees of wrong"?sted
    • NASA facts or GTFO.garbage
    • @maikel if you really work for Nasa then you could give us some opinion in these subjects in way that fits the conversation.sted
    • One of the companies I work with is involved in one of the projects to improve food on spaceships, for the Artemis program mostlymaikel
    • The sponsors for that particular area are the methuselah foundation, coincidentally.maikel
    • :) I work on projects for TTP form time-to-time starting with Integrated Nanosystems back in 2004 and I never claimed to work with Nasa because that isn't true.sted
    • Lol, so you contract for somebody that NASA contracts on a side-project that are funded by Thiel and some e-coin con artists..garbage
    • ..that are afraid to die? Got it.garbage
    • There are serious bets between PHDs for age reversing treatment to be available (for billionaires) methuselah foundation the most conservatives say decades.maikel
    • I'm guessing it's one of the 5 labs/companies that won the Space Food Challenge last year.sted
    • Winners of phase I and II of DSFC - so, I’m not a NASA employee (nor I pretend to be) but I’m not ‘a guy who heard about it on Reddit’ either...maikel
    • I also find funny that you get all cocky about ‘what are your credentials’ when you literally print screened a tweet from a some dude’s wifemaikel
    • ahaha "I work with NASA" that was you wasn't? you thought you would gain credibility here with that :D you added nothing to this conversation so far.sted
    • (DSFC is the deep space food challenge I mentioned earlier)sted
    • I’m sorry Sted. Not sure I see your point, but I’m pretty sure that I can carry on living my life without your endorsement on all things space.maikel
    • look i love The Martian with Matt Damon as much as the next guy but we will all probably be in advanced dementia before humans set foot on Marsjonny_quest_lives
    • The DSFC looks like some.. totally non-serious project for funding.. for things that will never work. There are cast-irons in the promo photos.garbage
    • Ever used one in a kitchen? Lol. Sorry, the true fact is space is not the place. Billionaires are going underground when the shit hits the fan.garbage
    • @garbage 5-10 years you will have some tools that are the result of this project. by then you will be a senile old man and argue with us that UFOs invented it.sted
    • it's not rocket science.MrT
    • lol, I'm fairly certain I'm one of the younger folks around these parts. If I'm senile in 5-10 years, that means I have glioma-induced dementia.garbage
    • And I'm never going to be a spaceman billionaire. Sorry, we figured out MREs decades ago. It's a fun contest, but you aren't changing the world.garbage
    • Hooked on phonics.palimpsest
  • Gardener14

  • BusterBoy15

    Honestly, some of the most amazing footage I've ever seen. When you think that's coming from Mars...

    • Was coming here to post this.lemmy_k
    • this is amazing! Was also headed to post it here. 42 mins after BB.uan
    • it’s like you’re skydiving onto Mars... so dopePonyBoy
    • ah yes. lifetime achievementsStoicLevels
    • Video? I don't think I've ever seen video from Mars!!!jagara
    • Truly amazing accomplishment.stoplying
    • i got told, atmosphere is a killer for humans there since thin mars atmosphere can not block the radioactive sun-beams.api
  • grafician10
    • "NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field..."grafician
    • hi res https://stsci-opo.or…grafician
    • and comparison to the old Hubble one: https://twitter.com/…grafician
    • Ooooh...to see a universe in a grain of sandNonEntity
    • quote has a "so far" at the end.sted
    • The international NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe so far.sted
    • If you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arms length, that is the part of the universe that you're seeing. Just one little speck of the universehotroddy
    • Amazing how we are able to look back in time billions of years at ancient light so far away.monospaced
    • Absolutely beautiful and mind blowing._niko
    • I wonder what trump's reaction to this would be? does he comprehend our place in the universe?_niko
    • we’re not aloneprophetone
    • JJ Abrams wet dreamRamanisky2
    • Spent a few hours looking at that image, there's no way we're alone, it's only logicalgrafician
    • Its amazing that they had lensflares billions of (light) years agowoowahesque
    • And He-Man is the master of this.jagara
    • when i vape..neverscared
  • BusterBoy14

    I seriously couldn't be less interested in these narcissist tools going for a joyride to the edge of space for a couple of minutes. Big deal.

    Get back to me when they go into low earth orbit for a few days...

    • This.grafician
    • What if it blows up? You might miss outGuyFawkes
    • or when they strap Musk into another Tesla and launch him into deep space :)_niko
    • I'll wait for the replay...BusterBoy
    • https://twitter.com/…neverscared
    • Space walk or it doesn’t count.monNom
    • I'm mostly surprised they're actually doing it. I wouldn't step foot on a spaceship if I had their net worth.timeless
    • I guess my question is - would u risk it all if you were in their position?timeless
  • Ramanisky29

    Photographer @AJamesMcCarthy

    This 4k photo of the Horsehead Nebula is the sum of 40 hours of photographs captured from my backyard in Arizona. The bright blue star in the upper left quadrant is Alnitak, the leftmost star in Orion's belt.

    • 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
  • _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
  • lemmy_k7

    • how is this the first manned flight since whenever exactly ? How are astronauts getting into the space station right now then?srhadden
    • I think they were going on Russian rockets.lemmy_k
    • since NASA decommissioned the space shuttlehotroddy
    • Lol when I heard them say Bob and Doug are heading to space I almost spit out my Molson's_niko
    • ETA 1 hour "GO FOR LAUNCH!" confirmedgrafician
    • Take off you hoser!fooler
    • how can they not check the weather in advance?zaq
    • dick move Weather! grrrgrafician
    • +1 I get my space news from QBNhotroddy
    • But climate change is real!!!!!Hayoth
    • ^ about the only thing he said that's not bat shit crazypango
    • https://www.youtube.…pablo28
    • Hayomookutopian
    • lol @ _niko
      https://external-pre…
      spot13
  • Bluejam8

    'Dare mighty things': hidden message found on Nasa Mars rover parachute
    https://www.theguardian.com/scie…

    • ha! I was *literally* just rewatching the footage and wondering at the logic of the coloured panels - I figured it was so they could track things post hocNairn
    • WTF?Ianbolton
    • @nairn Ya, I was thinking the same, some kind of tracking thingGnash
    • and why not? quite right that the superboffins plant an easter egg or twohans_glib
    • lolsted
    • I wondered what the pattern meant when I watched it too. I thought maybe it was to tell it it was folded right.fooler
    • "The hidden secret message"...accidenta... leaked to the media.utopian
    • but it's complete bullshit, why did they omit all the outer rings, and select inner rings? they saw dare mighty things on the wall and jammed a square peg into_niko
    • a circle to sort of make it work_niko
    • ok wait, i see it reads in sequence like a spiral, starting from the inside out, nevermind :)_niko
    • how much to place an ad on the next one?uan
    • "Hi Mom"ok_not_ok
    • I must've watched this descent video like five times today. Well done, America.Nairn
    • nerdsdbloc
  • prophetone9

    Scientists have picked up a radio signal 'heartbeat' billions of light-years away

    https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1…

    • Just some spinning Quasar or the likes.NBQ00
    • mayyybeprophetone
    • ohhh. I just watched this movie with my 10 year old daughter. It blew her mind.bogue
    • Great movieRamanisky2
    • Then let her read the book, it's even more mind-blowingsrhadden
    • One of my all-time favourite movies. I've never thought to read the book... *adds to [long] listNairn
    • Saw it again today after 20 years. Thank you so much, awesome movie.Wordsworth
  • whatthefunk10

    "It's really hard to not look at the universe in a new light and not just have a moment that is deeply personal," he said. "It's an emotional moment when you see nature suddenly releasing some of its secrets. and I would like you to imagine and look forward to that."

    https://arstechnica.com/science/…

    https://webb.nasa.gov/content/we…

    • 12 days...monospaced
    • Pretty quick considering it took a while before they got Hubble capturing clear images.aliastime
    • Excitingmonospaced
    • Fingers crossed Xutopian
    • They saw “Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion bright as magnesium”_niko
    • God damn it niko, beat me to it.garbage
    • :)_niko
    • excited about thisssssea_sea
  • Ramanisky29


  • hans_glib5

    Women will colonise Venus, men will never get to Mars. That is, scientists said yesterday, the logical conclusion of research showing that frozen sperm can survive the weightlessness of space.

    They argued that the study, which involved repeatedly exposing semen to zero gravity and then checking for signs of degradation, showed there was no need to waste rocket fuel on men when colonising the cosmos. Instead humanity’s future, it seems, is an interplanetary matriarchy.

    Science fiction writers, and even Nasa itself, have long mooted the idea of taking women-only crews on extended space missions. In 2017 Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, said that Nasa had gone so far as to produce a paper arguing that single-sex crews were best for cohesion and that women were preferable because they were more likely to co-operate.

    The real advantage, however, comes when they reach their destination, especially if it is in a distant solar system. Then, the chief limit on the speed at which a space colony could expand is not men but women.

    While a man can reproduce essentially indefinitely, a woman can make a baby only every nine months. This means that it makes sense to have more women than men. It makes even more sense, from both a logistics and genetics perspective, to replace the men entirely and simply take a selection of sperm.

    Montserrat Boada, from the Dexeus women’s health centre in Barcelona, said that this was feasible. “It’s not unreasonable to start thinking about the possibility of reproduction beyond the Earth,” she said.

    She and her colleagues, who presented their study at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Vienna, sent frozen sperm samples on eight parabolic flights, in which a plane simulates zero gravity by repeatedly flying in a steep arc. When compared with samples left on the runway, they found there was no significant difference in motility or quality. They said that the work “opens the possibility of safely transporting male gametes to space and . . . creating a human sperm bank outside Earth”.

    Allan Pacey, a professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, said that there was nothing wrong in principle with a future in which males were restricted to providing semen samples to service intrepid all-female voyages.

    “If we ever get to the stage of wanting to populate other planets, then I think the idea of sending sperm into space along with female astronauts is a great idea,” he said.

    However, he wanted more evidence than that of the parabolic flights before entrusting a distant colony’s genetic future to an ice cube of sperm.

    “I can image a similar level of weightlessness might already be being experienced by men spending an evening on the rides at the Blackpool pleasure beach,” he said. “If we really want to prove that sperm function can survive in space then we really need to put a sperm bank on the International Space Station and keep some sperm up there for a few years.”

    • article in today's paperhans_glib
    • My mom held a manager position in a railroad company, and was responsible for 12 other women in an all-women-team. She is the most anti-feminist person alivedrgs
    • She won't even read books written by female authors. NASA should have a talk with my momdrgs
    • men have always been disposable.inteliboy
    • i lived with 5 women. that was not a cohesive and cooperative year.Gnash
    • my mother was a top construction engineer in our city, everywhere she went people listened because of her power and because she was a woman...pr2
    • ...and she's the first one that will tell you that construction engineering isn't for women because... you can't wear high heels.pr2
    • Not any more.....https://cha...Morning_star
    • https://charnwoodfoo…Morning_star
    • Radiation from space will wreak havok on the spermcannonball1978
    • True dat.deadsperm
    • @cannonball, and the eggsmonospaced
    • yeah but who will kill the space spiders and open jars? ;)monospaced
    • Also, it's not a logical conclusion because fathers are needed, and mission value isn't determined by portability of reproductive systems.cannonball1978
    • It's fine, we'll get small-scale fusion powering radiation-negating magnetic fields in water-rich media in less time it takes than for this to become relevantNairn
    • I think it's a great thought exercise.
      Our descendents might be somewhat gender-neutral females, able to conceive, but imbued with male characteristics
      Nairn
    • The future is lesbians, people.Nairn
    • OMG. This is what the movie version of Contact, starring Jodie Foster, was trying to tell us!Nairn
    • https://ih0.redbubbl…Nairn
    • Bhawahaha... yeah right, it gets to minus 195 degrees F last night on mars.... those dildos aren't going nice to hug at night ladies...shapesalad
  • PonyBoy12

  • DRIFTMONKEY9

    • to scale? where?
      moon to small or earth to big.
      that photon takes way longer than 1.2 seconds surface to surface
      uan
    • Where is Flash? Perfect for this kind of infoOBBTKN
    • stupid preloader, not workingsted
    • pongPonyBoy
    • That is exactly 1.25 seconds on my endmonospaced
    • you are right, my perception was totally off. 30 pings took around 37seconds, gives exactly 1.23. need to recalibrate my timeruan
    • scale looks right as well, uan?set
  • DRIFTMONKEY8

    The magnetic field around M87’s supermassive black tweaks the orientation of light waves emitted from the hot, glowing accretion disk (orange) around the black hole. Superimposed as lines on the disk, this signature reveals information about the powerful magnetic field surrounding the black hole.

  • Bluejam9

    "Finnish astrophotographer, JP Metsavainio, took on the daunting task of creating a mosaic of the Milky Way back in 2009. It took him twelve years to get the whole picture which is around 100,000 pixels wide and has 234 individual mosaic panels stitched together."

    https://www.businessinsider.in/s…

  • Ramanisky211

    “I used a 12” telescope and photographed this part of the sky for weeks to reveal the California Nebula in extreme detail. Menkhib, an insanely hot star seen at the top of the pic, sculpts incredible structures within the gas with its powerful solar wind.”

    - Andrew McCarthy

    Damn that’s gorgeous