The Space Thread

[Nebraska]

^^^

 

[ManjuShri]

3 hours until Falcon heavy launch. Chance it might be delayed til tomorrow. 80% chance of favourable weather. 5-10% failure chance according to Musk.

 

[marf]

It's a glazed donut. Some how I always knew

Edited April 10, 2019 by marf

[misc]

 

The Event Horizon Telescope are announcing a "groundbreaking result" next week on Wednesday. Could be the first ever image of a black hole.

 

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298155&org=NSF&from=news

Here's the high def image. Truly an incredible feat.

[Ivan Ooze]

looks sexy

[misc]

Some info about the black hole to put in perspective just how impressive this is:

 

- It's the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Messier 87 galaxy

 

- It's 55 million light years away from earth

 

- It's mass is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun

 

- The event horizon is 40 billion km across. For reference, the distance from the Sun to Neptune, the outer most planet in our Solar System, is 4.5 billion km

 

 

Just completely insane scales all round, and we've just gone and taken a snap of it. Also rumors are circulating that an image of Sagittarius A, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, may be soon to follow.

[ManjuShri]

Size comparison

 

 

[YEK]

*imagines getting sucked up by said black hole while posting on wattem*

 

Goodbye world...

[Ivan Ooze]

come back pluto, we're sorry

[Roo]

Haha badass scale

 

"Voyager 1, you now need four decades to reach minimum safe distance"

[ManjuShri]

Live stream - Beresheet lands on the moon

 

[ManjuShri]

Edited April 11, 2019 by ManjuShri

[auxien]

Live stream - Beresheet lands on the moon

 

 

title of that hasn't aged well 

 

 

 

[ManjuShri]

 

[marf]

so if you observed something like a space ship fall into a black hole. They would experience it in a normal time frame, but because the gravity is so intense It would take a thousand years for observers to watch the ship go over the event horizon. I think . Not sure

[kakapo]

They (as in the light from them) would get red shifted to nothing over an arbitrarily(infinitely?) long time.  You wouldn't actually be able to see anything pass over the event horizon.  

[jules]

That hurts my brain to think about

[ambermonk]

On 5/8/2019 at 9:14 PM, ManjuShri said:

 

So if we encounter Sectoids on an exoplanet, then that technically makes us the aliens.

Also, NASA officially hinting at a lunar colony in as soon as five years

 

[Rubin Farr]

Submit your name to NASA to be included with the 2020 Mars Rover:

https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020/

[chronical]

On 4/11/2019 at 1:39 AM, yekker said:

*imagines getting sucked up by said black hole while posting on wattem*

 

Goodbye world...

See you space cowboy..

[YangYing]

1 hour ago, Rubin Farr said:

Submit your name to NASA to be included with the 2020 Mars Rover:

https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020/

"ayy lmao"

Edited May 22, 2019 by MIXL2

[may be rude]

 

[Rubin Farr]

 

[ManjuShri]

 

[ManjuShri]

Asteroid mining

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/apis-asteroid-provided-in-situ-supplies-100mt-of-water-from-a-single-falcon-9/