Space Stuff and the Such.

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[Scottie]

If only it was available in a higher resolution!

[wobblysauce]

Scotty, what about looking further out there..

Figure 4: The Orion Trapezium is a cluster of young stars still in the process of forming. The top inset image shows MagAO’s photo of the “mini-cluster” of young stars in the Theta 1 Ori B group (B1-B4; Top Inset image). There is now clear evidence of relative motion of these stars around B1. The lowest mass member (B4) will likely be ejected in the future. The middle inset photo shows the highest resolution astronomical photo of the Theta 1 Ori C1 C2 pair, and the bottom insert shows the LV 1 binary young star pair shaped by the wind from Theta 1 Ori C (in the visible light of hydrogen gas (at 656 nm). Photo Credit: Laird Close and Ya-Lin Wu, University of Arizona. The Background image is a previous HST Orion Trapezium Cluster visible image (NASA, C.R. O’Dell and S.K. Wong, Rice University).

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NASA to test frickin' laser communications link with new lunar mission
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DIY Space Suit Dimensioning for a DIY Capsule Seat

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Space Suit Session Day 1

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Getting Suited Up – Space Suit Session Day 02

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Donning the DIY Suit – Space Suit Session Day 03

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Seating and Egress Testing – Space Suit Session Day 04


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[Big Kev]

The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.

Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving in the space between the stars.

Launched in 1977, Voyager was sent initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going.

Today, the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from home.

This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth.

[Exar Kun]

That's pretty awesome but also shows just how far beyond our reach true interstellar travel is.

[wobblysauce]

That we are.


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It's Official! Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System












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[wobblysauce]

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[r8response]

Solar Eclipse from the I.S.S.

[Big Kev]

I don't think that's a real picture. Not one single one anyway.

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[r8response]

Reddit lied to me



Edit: Only just realised something.... Take a closer look at the moon

[petey]

[wobblysauce]

Done a quick Goggle.. first result.

Eclipse
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Found the Sub for it and the center of the moon forensics.
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How to Assemble a Space Station
A visual timeline of ISS assembly highlights
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Concept

Now



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[Big Kev]

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[wobblysauce]

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China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon

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China’s Chang’e-3 and Jade Rabbit duo land on the Moon






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[Big Kev]

[Exar Kun]

Great pic. The mind just finds it hard to take things in on such scales, however.

[Duke]

My mind is boggled...

[Exar Kun]

And four objects beyond Neptune?

[wobblysauce]

Yep the Dwarf Planets, Pluto, Haumea, Makemate, and Eris.





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Just looking though some older stuff, and came across this.

Plasma Rocket Could Travel to Mars in 39 Days
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[Big Kev]

New image of Saturn's north polar hexagon from Cassini:

[wobblysauce]

The sun as seen through different wave-lengths
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Hubble captures amazing photo of a supernova at its brightest

[wobblysauce]

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Fin test.

[Big Kev]

[durbster]

Anyone following the Rosetta mission to put a lander on a comet? It's taken them ten years and the Rosetta satellite is just lining up with the comet right now. The Philae lander is scheduled to harpoon itself to the surface in November.

Absolutely fascinating stuff:
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Here's a few photos from the approach:

[Big Kev]

Yeah it's a very cool mission.
It seems to be a sort of rubber duck shaped rock that's tumbling so I'm not sure how well the lander part will go but good luck to them.