Space - the final frontier (Misc.) II

[Elefantman]

56 years ago today (July 16, 1969) Apollo 11 launched, sending the first humans to the moon

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If you want to know how they got the Saturn V heading in the right direction, watch this. Amazing what they could do with such little computer capabilities.

 

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Starship Flight 10:

 

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SpaceX Starlink satellite photobombs orbital view of secret Chinese air base (photo)

"Capturing another satellite like this in an Earth-observation image is extremely rare."

www.space.com

 

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60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

“It’s that level of risk that they were taking. I think that’s what really hit home.”…

arstechnica.com

 

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"I’m proud of this one. I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun. While these have been captured before, never with the details of the sun’s chromosphere, which makes this one the first!"
- Andrew McCarthy

 

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Was the “Wow! Signal” Emitted from 3I/ATLAS?

The “Wow! Signal” was detected on August 15, 1977 as a strong narrowband radio signal by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope…

avi-loeb.medium.com

 

[Elefantman]

Was the “Wow! Signal” Emitted from 3I/ATLAS?

The “Wow! Signal” was detected on August 15, 1977 as a strong narrowband radio signal by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope…

avi-loeb.medium.com

I get the impression no one really knows what this thing is.

At the distance of 600 AU, this corresponds to a source power of 0.5–2 gigawatts

 

[crimsonaudio]

I get the impression no one really knows what this thing is.

I'd bet everything I'll ever own it's just another comet. But it's fun to consider.

 

[Elefantman]

I'd bet everything I'll ever own it's just another comet. But it's fun to consider.

Fact is, they knew about 3I Atlas back in 1985. Here's the proof