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š¯” š¯”˛š¯”¢š¯”Ø (caek), Friday, 2 October 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

In September, the first confirmed extrasolar object visited our solar system. Ź»Oumuamua is a 230 m Ć— 35 m Ć— 35 m asteroid on a highly inclined hyperbolic orbit which arrived in the Solar System from the direction of Vega with 26.3 km/s relative velocity, accelerated to 87.7 km/s at perihelion inside Mercury's orbit on September 9, 2017, and has departed towards Pegasus, never to return.

Wikipedia: Ź»Oumuamua

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vAcv7JGhQ

Sanpaku, Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link

seven months pass...

taken by one of the two 18 cm small bots on Ryugu:

This is a picture from MINERVA-II1. The color photo was captured by Rover-1A on September 21 around 13:08 JST, immediately after separation from the spacecraft. Hayabusa2 is top and Ryugu's surface is below. The image is blurred because the rover is spinning. #asteroidlanding pic.twitter.com/CeeI5ZjgmM

— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) September 22, 2018

StanM, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link

(pic 2 & 3 are way better, click on this one ^ )

StanM, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link

what are some good astronomy pic accounts on twitter

marcos, Monday, 24 September 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link

I love that those rovers are moving around the asteroid by jumping

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link

Titan dust storm (artist's conception)

http://pasadenanow.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PIA22482_hires.jpg

nickn, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link

I'd also recommend the unmannedspaceflight.com forum
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnszMxtUUAAS_cD.jpg

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link

these all look like me after a few pints

š¯” š¯”˛š¯”¢š¯”Ø (caek), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

hey check out this fuckin' black hole

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3y2S46XkAAwIRl.jpg:large

he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link

pretty cool imo

he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link

Hands up who thinks they have this album somewhere.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link

Seriously cool

jmm, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link

This album, FYI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superunknown

dinnerboat, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link

Check the simulation

There's a brief write-up at @PhysicsWorld here: https://t.co/dqI3RoCjuL with more images. Here's the image seen (left) compared with a simulation (middle) and the simulation blurred to the expected resolution of the telescope (right). (Image via Akiyama et al & ApJL) pic.twitter.com/UqAVdUtndK

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) April 10, 2019

lukas, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

livestream here of Jupiter-Saturn conjunction...this last happened (w/ this visibilty) 800 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0799Kmke-k

early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 December 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

would wear on a t-shirt. (would make a perfect autechre cover also)

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge-m87s-black-hole

koogs, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link


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