Comet NeoWise from the ISS. Comet appears at 3:10
I thought I was over comets that weren’t even interstellar visitors, but that was pretty cool.
schurem
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TYVM for posting that, beautiful start to my day, cheers!
orald
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What @schurem said.
Since I bought a new telescope we have had nothing but fog and clouds so this is lovely.
RichVR
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Seems that way doesn’t it? I bring out my telescope when the grass needs rain.
I’d always assumed the dark surface of Ganymede was rocky soil.
They only get one shot at this. It’s basically impossible to repair in space, so they need to get it right.
True, true. I’m just afraid it’ll get cancelled.
This thing will have been in development for twenty five years.
I love NASA, but Jesus. There are probably people working on it that hadn’t even been born when the program began.
They should have hired Boeing. They would have skipped a lot of steps and gotten it into space faster.
25 years ago, Elon had just started Zip2logic when they started working on it.
prolix
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My wife’s uncle worked at Lockheed until last year; some of his work was on the Webb. I kept encouraging him to stay on until they launched it.
I’m glad he retired instead.
Don’t even dude… We want this thing to actually work and not blow up.
Thought this was interesting; apparently there are more supermassive black holes in the sky than we first thought and we’ve been looking right at them.
Built in the US, tested in Dubai, launched in Japan. Gives you some hope for international cooperation.
I thought outer space was haram according to some of their clerics?
Seems kosher enough for the Jews
