No, that would have been Brahe.
Scientist detect a neutrino fired off from 4.5 billion light years away.
How long will it take to get into its proper orbital alignment and finish testing to start bringing in images you think?
In the third month: From 60 to 90 days after launch we will align the primary mirror segments so that they can work together as a single optical surface. We will also turn on and operate the MIRI. By the end of the third month we will be able to take the first science-quality images. Also by this time, Webb will complete its initial orbit around L2.
In the fourth through the sixth month: At about 85 days after launch we will have completed the optimization of the telescope image in the NIRCam. Over the next month and a half we will optimize the image for the other instruments. We will test and calibrate all of the instrument capabilities by observing representative science targets.
After six months: Webb will begin its science mission and start to conduct routine science operations.
Another looming issue. Itâs launch rocket, the Ariane 5 is scheduled to be retired in 2022.
In space related news, a piece of history demolished.
https://www.clickorlando.com/video/boom-historic-launch-towers-at-cape-canaveral-demolished
Not so much interesting, but sad for the U.S. space program
ââŚNASA is embarrassed and dismayed by the human errors that have snarled its biggest robotic science projectâŚâ
ââŚUnlike the Hubble Space Telescope, the Webb cannot be repaired in space. It will be placed more than four times farther from Earth than the moonâŚâ
ââŚThe U.S. aerospace industry, which is dealing with a wave of retirements, needs to prove to national leaders that it remains as competent as when it put people on the moonâŚâ
Not only are we unable / unwilling to put humans beyond low earth orbit any more [edit- WE donât put humans in LEO anymore, we hitch rides with the Russians], but we canât seem to do it with complicated machines anymore. Will the Mars rovers (which are great) be it for the next several generations?
I see this being cancelled soon, and a huge anchor on anything else meaningful being funded.
Any of you guys getting good looks of the Mars opposition? Closest point to Earth since 2003, and wonât happen again until 2035 or some date like that.
Here in Sydney we can see it with the naked eye very easily at night as a bright red ball. I booked tickets for the Sydney Observatory Monday night, really excited to get a look at it with a real telescope. Fingers crossed it isnât cloudy!
Aye, same over in WA, it has looked amazing for a few weeks when we have clear nights. Took the 5yo out the other night to spot all five of the âvisible with the naked eyeâ planets!
If you have been paying attention, you may have realised that all five planets that you can see with the unaided eye will be visible in the evening sky in the second half of July (Sorry morning people! Youâll have to wait until August for Mercury to return.) Starting in the west-northwest there is Mercury, then Venus, Jupiter overhead, Saturn high in the east then Mars rising low in the east. Itâs not often the planets are bunched together on one half of the sky. Part of the reason is that Jupiter and Saturn are creeping towards their once-in-20-years conjunction in 2020, and Mars just happens to be hanging around nearby!
Yeah last night I had great views of the moon and Mars. And it was cool to clearly see the color of Mars in the way you could.
Itâs about time somebody explored Argentina. Maybe thereâs water there!
-xtien
As we all know, James Webb telescope now delayed until 2021. Hereâs a write-up about its on-going problems.
So I went and was really lucky that it was completely clear that night. I was astonished when the guide pointed out venus, jupiter, saturn, and Mars all in the same sky. I had no idea the others were easily viewable.
Ironically, Mars (which is the reason I went) did not look great through the telescope. Because of a global dust storm you canât make out any details on it. Saturn and jupiter, however, looked incredible. Seeing the rings of saturn and the lines on jupiter (along with 4 of its moons) was a very memorable experience. This is all probably old hat to you guys, but I havenât looked through a good telescope since I was a young teen and had never had a good view of these two planets.
Welcome! yeah It is truly amazing. I suspect this will become as an iconic an image (movie) as the earth from the moon became.
So help me understand, I read the article and the test of relativity was in how the wavelength of the light emitted by the star stretches as it gets closer to the black hole (i.e. redshift). But the video doesnât appear to show this (at least to my eyes)? Seeing the motion of the star was really interesting, but am I correct that the precise motion wasnât related to the test?
As far as I understand it that is correct. However my interest is not on the relativity stuff, its more seeing stars orbit an actual black hole within a human lifetime. Thats just mind bending. I mean I know we have had images of black holes gravitational effects before (like the einstein cross stuff) but to see stars clearly being dragged and flung around by this thing at the center of our galaxy is just incredible and the motion is not projected, its actual images! The speeds these stars are moving at is crazy! As the article says at times the ESA researchers could see these stars changing position in real time. Real time! Thats nuts!
Yeah youâre right, itâs an amazing video. The article said at its closest point it was moving almost 3% of the speed of light, which may not sound impressive but is about 7000 km a second. The Earth only moves about 30 km a second!
Actually, Earth moves about 7000km a second (or whatever, relative to that star at its closest point to the super massive black hole).