Solar System

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Southern California as Seen From Apollo 7 (on Oct. 12, 1968)

ISS

 

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Space Shuttle Atlantis deploys the Galileo spacecraft, Oct. 18, 1989

 

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[StrayKAT]

A documentary bound to anger some people, but it needs to be out there. If only to be mulled over and refuted..

It's not fringe per se or unfair (gives plenty of air time to big names like Kaku, Krauss, and Max Tegmark), but it questions the Cosmological Principle (but again, not in some fringe, flat earth sort of way).

 

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^ @StrayKAT Video unavailable?

Some cool stuff

 

[StrayKAT]

^ @StrayKAT Video unavailable?

Oh.. weird. Here's another copy.

 

[lexluthermiester]

^ @StrayKAT Video unavailable?

Likely a copyright pull.

 

[StrayKAT]

Likely a copyright pull.

Yeah, very likely. I actually rented it myself, but want everyone to see it any way they can now (everyone interested in cosmology).

 

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[Ahhzz]

Is it bad the first thing I thought of was "Civilization" ?

 

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Is it bad the first thing I thought of was "Civilization" ?

You mean video game? Never played the series. Recommend?

 

[Ahhzz]

You mean video game? Never played the series. Recommend?

Oh, it's a classic, but only if you like that style of game It's a world builder, with minor diplomacy options. As described : "Originally created by legendary game designer Sid Meier, Civilization is a turn-based strategy game in which you attempt to build an empire to stand the test of time. Become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the Stone Age to the Information Age.". The reason I thought of it when you posted all the Alpha Centauri vids was because that was one of the ways you could "win" the game: by being the first to launch a spaceship to Alpha Centauri
As we're off topic a bit, behind the spoiler:

Spoiler

 

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Friday goodness:

Jupiter:

Medusa Nebula. Medusa?! Looks like bird to me

Yay! 500th Anniversary of Humanity's First Circumnavigation of Earth

What We Learned from the Kepler Space Telescope

ISS timelapse

 

[lexluthermiester]

Medusa Nebula. Medusa?! Looks like bird to me

Same here. The ancients needed glasses!

 

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Same here. The ancients needed glasses!

Medusa was originally discovered in 1955 by UCLA astronomer George Abell. So I would say Abell needed better telescope
Isn't it awesome that as technical limitations get broken we get to know Universe better

 

[micropage7]

why i always thinking that there more "rooms" beyond our sight?
there's more to find beyond and this is just a dot from a bigger picture

 

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why i always thinking that there more "rooms" beyond our sight?
there's more to find beyond and this is just a dot from a bigger picture

Because laws of maths and phys totally allow infinite (in size and/or in number) Universes. If that's the case then our local observable 'Universe' is just one of them.
Infinities and hyper dimensions scare the hell out of people because those theories can't be falsified atm but I'm sure sooner or later mankind will find out.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Medusa was originally discovered in 1955 by UCLA astronomer George Abell. So I would say Abell needed better telescope

My comment was a "Stargate" joke.. LOL!

Isn't it awesome that as technical limitations get broken we get to know Universe better

Exactly.

 

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New stuff:

 

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Io Rising

 

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Antares Seen from Washington D.C. Tidal Basin on Nov. 17, 2018.

 

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On ancient Mars, water carved channels and transported sediments to form fans and deltas within lake basins. Examination of spectral data shows that some of these sediments have minerals that indicate chemical alteration by water. Here in Jezero Crater delta, sediments contain clays and carbonates.

@Ahhzz check this out

 

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This Hubble Space Telescope mosaic is of a portion of the immense Coma cluster of > 1000 galaxies, located 300 million ly from Earth. Hubble's incredible sharpness was used to conduct a comprehensive census of the cluster's most diminutive members: a whopping 22426 globular star clusters.