Space and stuff

[ste d' indica]

JWST update space cadets, its just under 400 miles from its final HALO orbit. It'll do a final burn and then its journey to L2 is complete:




NASA will be doing a conference at 8pm GMT.

 

[ste d' indica]

 

[ste d' indica]

Fascinating bits and pieces coming out of the conference. Apparently anyone can make a suggestion to NASA/ESA if they want it to look for something to help solve the great mysteries of the universe...

Project: Locate The Arteta Money.

 

[perth_blue]

Fascinating bits and pieces coming out of the conference. Apparently anyone can make a suggestion to NASA/ESA if they want it to look for something to help solve the great mysteries of the universe...

Project: Locate The Arteta Money.

Unable to locate.
DCL's penalty just dinged the lens.

 

[BNJ1878]

Blasts of flashing radio waves coming from nearby object in space

‘That was completely unexpected,’ says astronomer. ‘It was spooky because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Wizard]

I don’t know you @ste d' indica but if you’re British I think you’ll appreciate this

 

[ste d' indica]

I don’t know you @ste d' indica but if you’re British I think you’ll appreciate this

Brilliant!

 

[degsy]

Lagrange points sort of explained..The three collinear Lagrange points (L1, L2, L3) were discovered by Leonhard Euler a few years before Joseph-Louis Lagrange discovered the remaining two in 1772


Lagrange points in the Sun–Earth system (not to scale). A small object at L4 or L5 will hold its relative position. A small object at L1, L2, or L3 will hold its relative position until deflected slightly radially, after which it will diverge from its original position.

(tbh, it could've gone in the Interesting Facts Thread, but it's mentioned in this page)

 

[summerisle]

I'm jealous.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

I'm jealous.

I'd love to be 19 and a half billion* miles away from this planet right now.

*probably completely wrong.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

I'll never tire of watching these landings:

 

[Wizard]

Another big JWST milestone: The first deep, clear image, with galaxies galore

The James Webb Space Telescope has reached a new milestone: “Fine-phasing” calibration is now complete, which means all 18 hexagonal submirrors are acting as a single unit, and are now focused and aimed perfectly at a single spot in one of JWST’s many scientific cameras. This is a critical step...

www.syfy.com

 

[Wizard]

Hubble sees the farthest star in the Universe

Staring at the same spot in the sky for the better part of a day, Hubble Space Telescope — aided by a quirk of gravity that can massively magnify distant objects — may have spotted the most distant star ever seen… by a huge margin. If confirmed, the star is nearly 13 billion light years away...

www.syfy.com

 

[roydo]

Hubble sees the farthest star in the Universe

Staring at the same spot in the sky for the better part of a day, Hubble Space Telescope — aided by a quirk of gravity that can massively magnify distant objects — may have spotted the most distant star ever seen… by a huge margin. If confirmed, the star is nearly 13 billion light years away...

www.syfy.com

So that light is showing what it looked like 13 billion years ago? And its 13 billion years older today?

Fries the bonce does that.

 

[Wizard]

So that light is showing what it looked like 13 billion years ago? And its 13 billion years older today?

Fries the bonce does that.

Yep. Incredible stuff. Hopefully we should get a lot more things like this coming up when the James Webb is fully up and running.