Space Contents Archive

The James Webb. From my observatory.

Kind of looks like an alien population owns this 😂 I wish them all the luck it opens. 👍

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Spent Christmas with my wife's family and found her cousins secret collection of Nasa memorabilia.

Do you have fruitcake left over? So did the Apollo 11 astronauts! This fruitcake flew on Apollo 11, but is in our collection because, shockingly, it wasn't actually consumed. https://t.co/Yvn8RL8mQH

On November 2, 2020, the @Space_Station entered its 3rd decade. The 1st decade was the decade of construction. The 2nd was the decade of utilization and research. We've now entered the decade of results. Here’s what we learned over the past year: https://t.co/KfCb3jixJf https://t.co/pqvbJOdibm

JWST Is On Its Way! - https://t.co/mSm7oDDOPj Overview of what has happened so far, via @Nancy_A https://t.co/HHJf0A60xf

Another "Yeah new telescope" post. Managed to get a peek at Jupiter and its moons before trees and cloud/mist.

Christmas-day Sun in H-alpha

This time of year, Orion shines in the east-southeast. His Belt points up toward Aldebaran and the Pleiades and down to where bright Sirius will rise. Orion has a tiny head: 4th-magnitude Lambda Orionis and its two fainter little companions, Phi1 and Phi2. https://t.co/ksxTm5vdBE https://t.co/AGipJzQauC

Humanity and the Optimism of Space Exploration

I've been following the James Webb Space Telescope progress over that past few days and how amazing is it that humanity has achieved something like this? Launched from the tropical rain forests of French Guiana and travelling at 1 mi/s to L2 it's the culmination of a dream from 10,000 years ago as humanity looked up at the Cosmos. The technical expertise required to design and build this thing from physical science to the origami to fold it is incredible. I feel like everything has been building up to this, and we're going to make some significant discoveries in the coming years. I can't wait, I'm so excited. I don't know why everyone everywhere isn't celebrating. The last couple years of COVID and the bad news with climate change has soured my optimism of late. The JWT has lifted my hopes for humanity yet again. As a kid who grew up on Star Trek and science fiction I just wanted to say thank you. Out.

Saturn with its largest moon, Titan. Titan’s surface is sculpted by flowing methane and ethane, which carves river channels and fills great lakes with liquid natural gas. It is the second largest moon in the solar system (after Ganymede) and larger than planet Mercury.

.. and a Happy New Era (of space exploration!)

On this day in 1928, Robert Goddard's Hoopskirt rocket flew 3.2 seconds to a distance of 204.5 ft. It was called "Hoopskirt" because it resembled the ladies’ fashion of the late 19th century. It was Goddard's third flight of a liquid-fuel rocket. https://t.co/TUDsMWLNqT

The Supermodule: A proposed alternative to the pressurized elements of Space Station Freedom [CG]