DShomshak Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Read in the news this morning: James Webb Space Telescope reached its Lagrange Point destination and successfully entered its intended orbit. So far, the mission has gone so well, with so few problems require course adjustments, that the Webb has enough fuel left over to extend its mission another 10 years. Assuming nothing goes wrong with the next step: adjusting the focus. Dean Shomshak L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Deeean! Enough with the jinxing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Hey, just repeating what the news story said...😇 The JWST project manager said he's amazed it's gone so smoothly so far, but there are still plenty of things that could go wrong. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 the main thing the James Webb telescope has to do now is cool down. This is what is going to take months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 Fun video of...something(s) fun to think of wtf it might be..:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 a small comet fragment vaporizing in the solar atmosphere is my guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 12 hours ago, dmjalund said: a small comet fragment vaporizing in the solar atmosphere is my guess Sounds likely. The odd image of something passing by the station is got me stumped. I hope there are more angles of observation, I'd like to know WTF that is...:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2022 DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2022 A Chinese space tug just grappled a dead satellite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted February 21, 2022 Report Share Posted February 21, 2022 On 2/18/2022 at 8:23 PM, tkdguy said: A Chinese space tug just grappled a dead satellite. Nice try, fake news guy. No-one uses the grappling rules. pinecone and Chris Goodwin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2022 4 hours ago, Lawnmower Boy said: Nice try, fake news guy. No-one uses the grappling rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 Writing abstracts to scientific papers in the form of haiku has become a thing. March, 2022 Scientific American offers a selection from the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference of March 15-19, 2021. Here's my favorite: "Detailed Chloride Mapping in Terra Sirenum, Mars" Oceans lons since past Dry, cracked ground, no trace remains But the taste of salt. -- E. M. Harrington, B. B. Bultel, A. M. Krzesinska and S. Werner Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 30, 2022 Report Share Posted March 30, 2022 Pluto has giant ice volcanoes that could hint at the possibility of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 31, 2022 Report Share Posted March 31, 2022 Heard on the radio today: Hubble found a gravitational lens powerful enough (from a whole cluster of galaxies) and fortuitously placed to provide the image of a single star estimated 12.9 billion light-years away -- from less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Whole galaxies have been imaged at greater distance, but this is apparently the first image of a single star at such a range. Estimated 50x Sun's mass, so of course very bright. Astronomers plan to study it intensively with the James Webb, looking for differences from modern stars. Maybe the Webb will get lucky and find a gravitational lens powerful enough to image the hand holding a galaxy at the start of time... No, that's (probably) just the DC Universe. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/record-broken-hubble-spots-farthest-star-ever-seen DShomshak and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 COLLEGE PARK, MD—In what is being hailed as the first empirical evidence in support of a hypothesis that has gained popularity in recent years, top scientists speculated Friday that the universe may indeed be a simulation controlled by an unseen entity after the words “trial version expired” appeared in the sky. “When we can look overhead and see what appears to be an error message from a computer operating system, it certainly lends new credence to the argument that we’re living in an artificial reality,” said University of Maryland physicist Harold M. Cramer, adding that from what he and his colleagues could glean from the airborne phenomenon, human consciousness would be terminated in five days if no further action was taken. “Though it’s possible we are witnessing an optical illusion caused by some kind of atmospheric distortion, the request for a verification code that keeps popping up suggests that our reality may indeed have a specific, singular subscriber, and that this entity must upgrade to a premium subscription in order to avoid any interruption to our experience of consciousness. We can only hope this cosmic account holder can guide us though the two-factor authentication process so that our simulacrum of life remains operational.” At press time, a team of leading cosmologists announced it had successfully renewed the free trial period for another 14 billion years by simply signing up again with a different email address. https://www.theonion.com/scientists-speculate-universe-may-be-simulation-after-1848673336 DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 16 hours ago, Ragitsu said: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/record-broken-hubble-spots-farthest-star-ever-seen Earendel is Old English for "dawn star," but it was chosen because astronomers were inspired by Tolkien. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 Both my geek natures are delightedly elated. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 2 hours ago, tkdguy said: Earendel is Old English for "dawn star," but it was chosen because astronomers were inspired by Tolkien. I joked elsewhere that the Tolkien estate would eventually win a legal battle and thus own Earendel/Earendil. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted April 2, 2022 Report Share Posted April 2, 2022 On 3/30/2022 at 10:24 PM, DShomshak said: Heard on the radio today: Hubble found a gravitational lens powerful enough (from a whole cluster of galaxies) and fortuitously placed to provide the image of a single star estimated 12.9 billion light-years away -- from less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Whole galaxies have been imaged at greater distance, but this is apparently the first image of a single star at such a range. Estimated 50x Sun's mass, so of course very bright. Astronomers plan to study it intensively with the James Webb, looking for differences from modern stars. Maybe the Webb will get lucky and find a gravitational lens powerful enough to image the hand holding a galaxy at the start of time... No, that's (probably) just the DC Universe. Dean Shomshak It's nestled in the palm, with only one finger raised this time,...:) DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 3, 2022 Report Share Posted April 3, 2022 On 3/31/2022 at 1:24 AM, DShomshak said: Maybe the Webb will get lucky and find a gravitational lens powerful enough to image the hand holding a galaxy at the start of time... No, that's (probably) just the DC Universe. Dean Shomshak The result of trying to see that has never been good for us. Just ask Krona. 4 hours ago, pinecone said: It's nestled in the palm, with only one finger raised this time,...:) pinecone and tkdguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 4, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2022 Planetary alignments: We're a bit late for the first two, but the best part is coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted April 18, 2022 Report Share Posted April 18, 2022 Not really "News" yet, but the w-2 went well, and the standard model is in peril. Needs to be verified though...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 More info here: https://www.space.com/moon-venus-jupiter-display-april-2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted April 27, 2022 Report Share Posted April 27, 2022 2 hours ago, tkdguy said: More info here: https://www.space.com/moon-venus-jupiter-display-april-2022 Juno will get jealous tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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