What's happening in space (that's interesting)

RichVR · 2020-01-31T01:32:38.232Z

I can’t wait to see that!

gruntled · 2020-01-31T01:57:30.876Z

Don’t wait up - it’s not heading in the right direction

YakAttack · 2020-01-31T03:09:33.042Z

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ab78f308-1297-4d48-afd3-e752319b3a20

gruntled · 2020-01-31T17:09:20.642Z

Can you edit that to make it not autoplay, please?

RichVR · 2020-01-31T17:21:40.458Z

Seconded.

fdsaion · 2020-01-31T18:49:39.347Z

Need to go yell at wumpus for that probably

Clay · 2020-01-31T18:55:22.242Z

I put it in spoiler tags. not sure if it helped.

RichVR · 2020-01-31T19:06:57.637Z

Praise Clay. And, indirectly, Wumpus.

YakAttack · 2020-01-31T21:22:36.165Z

Yeah, I can’t fix the forum software. Sorry.

RichVR · 2020-01-31T23:44:40.113Z

It only seems to happen on videos from getyarn.io.

schurem · 2020-02-02T08:05:43.877Z

Cool vid tho :)

ineffablebob · 2020-02-06T19:55:46.985Z

https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2020/02/01/parker-solar-probe-reports-successful-record-setting-fourth-close-encounter-of-the-sun/

During this perihelion, Parker Solar Probe broke its own records for speed and proximity to the Sun for a human-made object. The spacecraft reached a speed of 244,255 miles per hour (about 393,044 kilometers per hour) as it whipped around the Sun at a distance of 11.6 million miles (about 18.6 million kilometers).

CraigM · 2020-02-06T20:04:44.911Z

Woohoo, 0.03% the speed of light baby!

jpinard · 2020-02-07T06:30:46.912Z

Boeing was purposely deceitful about safety issues? Seems to be a recurring theme.

Ars Technica

Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found

"If it had gone uncorrected it would have led to erroneous thruster firing."

Baconsoda · 2020-02-08T04:47:55.493Z

FRB beats at steady rhythm detected

Can anyone ELI5 on what’s the deal with FRB and how steady beats of FRB can help improving our understanding of the observable universe?

antlers · 2020-02-09T17:55:49.763Z

FRB’s are powerful, short bursts of radio waves. Because they are so short, we know the come from compact astronomical objects like neutron stars or black holes. The leading theory is they represent something akin to the solar flares we get from the sun, except vastly more powerful and occurring on highly magnetized neutron stars.

The periodic FRB they’ve discovered has the kind of period (15 days) associated with closely-orbiting binary stars. We suspect that at least one of these is a neutron star, and that something that’s happening during the orbit is triggering the bursts.

This gives us the opportunity to learn more about the mechanism of FRB’s in general, and potentially a lot more about neutron stars in general.

Baconsoda · 2020-02-09T23:26:49.388Z

Thank you! We already have pictures of a black hole and we still don’t have “Like” button on this forum? What gives??

RichVR · 2020-02-10T00:15:10.356Z

A microscopic black hole destroyed that as it passed on its way to Earth’s core. Keep up man.

Menzo · 2020-02-10T02:42:57.650Z

I’m not sayin it’s aliens, but…

Vice – 7 Feb 20

Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles

Scientists have discovered the first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm, and the mysterious repeating signal is coming from the outskirts of another galaxy.

Woolen_Horde · 2020-02-10T03:08:19.230Z

That headline is a bit misleading. The source isn’t sending them to Earth. It’s sending them to the entire universe.