The Space Thread

[brian trageskin]

meh 

https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images

[brian trageskin]

the cosmos looks kinda cheesy actually.

disappointing.

[Wunderbar]

2 hours ago, brian trageskin said:

the cosmos looks kinda cheesy actually.

disappointing.

nice bait.

[YEK]

 

 

[thefxbip]

Those new photos are fucking LUSH imo.

Had goosebumps when i first saw them. And still do.

Edited July 13, 2022 by thefxbip

[MaartenVC]

This is truly a monumental achievement for science and humanity.



Here's a link to the 4 new JWST images with some more info
 

[thefxbip]

 

[MaartenVC]

About the 5 images:

About JWST in general:

 

[chim]

Historic.

[Rubin Farr]

[MaartenVC]

New European Vega-C rocket successfully launched.
ESA’s new Vega-C rocket has completed its inaugural flight, placing main payload LARES-2 – a scientific mission of the Italian Space Agency ASI – into its planned orbit. Six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia flew as secondary payloads. The launch caps a multi-year effort by ESA, prime contractor Avio and industrial partners in 13 ESA member states to build on the heritage of its predecessor, Vega.

Maybe not as cool as spacex reusable launch systems but still quite important for European launch capabilities, especially now that Russian rockets have become unavailable because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Most missions with the Russian Space Agency have been cancelled or suspended, including the ExoMars mission.)

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega/Vega-C_successfully_completes_inaugural_flight
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/07/vega-c-debut-launch/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(rocket)

[prdctvsm]

Take a tour through the James Webb Space Telescope images  

[Rubin Farr]

Jupiter & Europa from JWST

[may be rude]

mars spagghetti

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/nasa-mars-rover-spots-spaghetti-like-object/

[EdamAnchorman]

Well looks like the Italians have made it to Mars, there goes the neighborhood!  

[chim]

His Noodly Appendage was there..

[J3FF3R00]

Yo
NASA is ready, rover down, camera’s steady 
There's debris on the surface already, mars spaghetti

[thefxbip]

Attack of the Martian Spaghetti Beings: The Final Sauce The Movie when ?

[Rubin Farr]

Axel Spaghetti 

[MaartenVC]

Some more short vids explaining the recent images of JWST.
 

 

 

[Rubin Farr]

Pluto by the New Horizons team 

[Rubin Farr]

 

[Nebraska]

Quote

Russia on Tuesday announced it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project after 2024, signaling an end of an era in one of the last remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States.

Russia’s newly appointed head of space agency Roscosmos announced the decision in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, saying that the agency will instead focus on building its own orbital station.

“We will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made,” the space agency chief Yuri Borisov said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/26/russia-withdraw-space-station/

[prdctvsm]

[ManjuShri]

Parts of the moon have stable temperatures fit for humans, researchers find

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/30/1114709619/moon-research-habitation-stable-temperatures

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Although much of the moon's surface fluctuates from temperatures as high as 260 degrees during the day to as low as 280 degrees below zero at night, researchers say these stable spots could transform the future of lunar exploration and long-term habitation.
The shadowed areas of these pits could also offer protection from harmful elements, such as solar radiation, cosmic rays and micrometeorites.