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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 98,876
    In Photos: See NASA Juno’s Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Jupiter
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,897
    Nasa's Parker Solar Probe is due to pass within 3.8 million miles of the Sun today.  Someone on the radio said that it might not sound that close, but if the Sun was a metre away this probe is passing just 4 cm from it.

    Surfing the Corona the Parker Probe will break the human object record as it reaches 430,000 mph.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/science/nasa-parker-solar-probe-sun.html 

  • Arthur_Trudgill
    Arthur_Trudgill Posts: 552
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    Nasa's Parker Solar Probe is due to pass within 3.8 million miles of the Sun today.  Someone on the radio said that it might not sound that close, but if the Sun was a metre away this probe is passing just 4 cm from it.

    Surfing the Corona the Parker Probe will break the human object record as it reaches 430,000 mph.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/science/nasa-parker-solar-probe-sun.html 

    According one website, time will be 0.75 seconds slower over 1,000 hours on the probe relative to earth.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,897
    I see the Indians became the fourth nation to carry out a successful space docking mission with the satellites Target and Chaser.

    A pivotal achievement in attaining the skills required to build their planned space station.

    https://youtu.be/5wxN82aKzUQ
  • Gammon
    Gammon Posts: 343
    Seeing me read this thread is the most conflicted she's ever been.

    She always teases me about reading this forum but she's also an astronomer and she's intrigued by people discussing it in a football forum.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,753
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzl9dz5rdo.amp

    First vertical shuttle launch licence means UK (well, Germans in the UK) will soon be launching rockets into space.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,606
    Six planets in alignment at the moment. Worth a look over the next few weeks. Maybe not tonight though, don't know about anywhere else but it's cloudy where I am at the mo.

    https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planetary-alignment-2025

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,606
    Interstellar comet coming closer. But, no, despite the BBC's clickbait web address for this story, it will not hit Earth or Mars.

    https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/will-3-i-atlas-hit-earth-or-mars
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,587
    Stig said:
    Interstellar comet coming closer. But, no, despite the BBC's clickbait web address for this story, it will not hit Earth or Mars.

    https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/will-3-i-atlas-hit-earth-or-mars
    Awe shame.

    We could do with a reset!


  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,282
    edited February 9
    The Moonwalkers at Lightroom Kings X

    Went today, really enjoyed it. It's on till the end of April 26.

    Covered from the first Moon landing up until this coming Artemis Launch(hopefully) in March this year. Relatively short film/doc 50mins but the imagery was stunning and quite emotional.

    It's really astonishing what's been achieved by the brilliance of man, overshadowed by the complete stupidity of men that we see running our nations.

    Frightening

    https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/the-moonwalkers/?tx_inline_iframe=/date-selection&tx_sessionDataId=f5738c07-042d-4102-8931-ecfedc5bb04f

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  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,577
    As it stands, Artemis II launch is due to happen today at 6.24pm ET (11:24pm BST).

    This mission will send humans further into space than ever before - 253,000 miles from earth, and it's the first time since 1972 that humans will have left lower Earth orbit.

    It's partly preperation for Artemis IV,     the historic crewed mission scheduled for 2028 that will finally place human footprints back on the lunar surface.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/01/nasa-rocket-moon-launch-artemis-ii
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,988
    edited April 1
    More info on tracking Artemis II here:
    https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/artemis-2/track-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-in-real-time/

    I’m hoping it’s as good, if not better, as the James Webb telescope tracking!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,442
    I predict it gets cancelled just before launch 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,587
    MrOneLung said:
    I predict it gets cancelled just before launch 
    There's a fair chance.

    Love this sort of stuff, old enough to vaguely remember grainy tv images of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder.

    With technology now, the images will be amazing, IF those clouds get out of the way first!
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,897
    A Boeing 747 generates 275,000 pounds of thrust on take off.  Artemis II generates 8.8 million pounds at lift off. 

    If I was sitting atop of that I'd need a brown space suit.  
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,621
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    A Boeing 747 generates 275,000 pounds of thrust on take off.  Artemis II generates 8.8 million pounds at lift off. 

    If I was sitting atop of that I'd need a brown space suit.  
    If you were sitting atop it you'd be a brown space suit. Very, very briefly. 
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,894
    I was four when Apollo 11 landed and started watching from Apollo 15 - I was mesmerised! Have been waiting for this for 53 years.

    To me space exploration is one of the pinnacles of what we can achieve as a species and I’ve always found it inspiring. We are on the threshold of extraordinary things. I just hope the Mango Mussolini doesn’t say anything deranged!

    I have a couple of scopes to  - an old Meade 125 ETX and a Celestron Nexstar 8 haven’t used them in a while however, although they are safely stowed. I might have to get out in the garden with my 15 x 70 bins.

  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,986
    Had to switch off the build up on Sky News. The woman anchoring the programme would struggle commenting on an episode of button moon!
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,894
    Wow!!
  • Bournesnr
    Bournesnr Posts: 315
    What a waste of money 

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  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,894
    edited April 1
    Bournesnr said:
    What a waste of money 
    What a narrow, uniformed, lazy comment. 
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,438
    Bournesnr said:
    What a waste of money 

    I get why you think that way and maybe its a national vanity project on a huge scale to some but as a race we are inquisitive beings and throughout our history we humans have sort to do things that many would feel pointless. NASA employ thousands of people so may be just the fact it enables peoples livelihoods is money well spent.
    I visited the Kennedy Space Center a few years back, there was a mock up of a shuttle with a viewing ramp at its side. At the end of of each section on the ramp was information charts about products, materials and technology that NASA have given free directly traceable to their research.
  • fattmatt
    fattmatt Posts: 642
    Did anyone see the "Charlton Athletic" zooming up the screen on the comments on NASA YouTube just before launch? 

    I thought I'd get our name out there to the World. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 16,214
    sillav nitram said:
    The Moonwalkers at Lightroom Kings X

    Went today, really enjoyed it. It's on till the end of April 26.

    Covered from the first Moon landing up until this coming Artemis Launch(hopefully) in March this year. Relatively short film/doc 50mins but the imagery was stunning and quite emotional.

    It's really astonishing what's been achieved by the brilliance of man, overshadowed by the complete stupidity of men that we see running our nations.

    Frightening

    https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/the-moonwalkers/?tx_inline_iframe=/date-selection&tx_sessionDataId=f5738c07-042d-4102-8931-ecfedc5bb04f
    We here at Chateau AA really enjoyed it. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 16,214
    Bournesnr said:
    What a waste of money 
    If it upsets a few flat earthers, fans of the discworld excepted, it’s money well spent.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 14,283
    AddicksAddict said:
    Bournesnr said:
    What a waste of money 
    If it upsets a few flat earthers, fans of the discworld excepted, it’s money well spent.
    They are all out in force on the take off videos, asking why there's no live feed from inside the cabin.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,708
    For some reason i felt very excited watching that launch yesterday. That said I was a bit nervous, having watched the 86 Challenger launch on youtube minutes before.

    But there is something compelling about man expanding his horizons; and a sort of nostaliga for a time i wasn't even alive for. It must have felt like science fiction in the 60s.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,454
    shine166 said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Bournesnr said:
    What a waste of money 
    If it upsets a few flat earthers, fans of the discworld excepted, it’s money well spent.
    They are all out in force on the take off videos, asking why there's no live feed from inside the cabin.
    The best is that the rocket isn’t going straight up because it can’t exit the firmament 
  • CharltonManor1966
    CharltonManor1966 Posts: 464
    I love all this - just wish I had paid attention in physics when at school.
    I was 10 when the moon landing happened in 69.
    Serious question.......
    If as everyone believes the universe is expanding.........into what is it expanding? Nothing? Blank space? any boundaries?
    Simple answers only please for a simple man with a simple but inquisitive mind...




  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,438
    CharltonManor1966 said:
    I love all this - just wish I had paid attention in physics when at school.
    I was 10 when the moon landing happened in 69.
    Serious question.......
    If as everyone believes the universe is expanding.........into what is it expanding? Nothing? Blank space? any boundaries?
    Simple answers only please for a simple man with a simple but inquisitive mind...




    I can't even begin to get my head around questions like that, to my mind nothing can exist to infinite distance or keep expanding indefinitely, I haven't a clue. The proportions of our bit of the universe are so huge I don't the average human cannot appreciate the scale. The fact that light takes billions of years to cross the universe is a hard concept to understand the distance involved. 
    I think the flat earthers have the right idea, don't look too hard and ignore the science. 

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