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Great Exploration Revisited: New Horizons at Pluto and Charon

Six years ago today, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history with the first up-close exploration of the Pluto system – providing breathtaking views and detailed data on Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, revealing the surfaces of these distant, mysterious worlds at the outer reaches of our solar system.

New simulated flights over Pluto and Charon include some of the sharpest images and topographic data that New Horizons gathered during its historic flyby on July 14, 2015. These are the first “movies" of Pluto and Charon made from the highest-resolution image strips taken by the spacecraft as it zipped by at more than 30,000 miles per hour.

Link to the story Also, the story has link to the videos.
 
SpaceX just finished the three day all civilian flight with four people. Completely automated capsule. Splash down in the Atlantic this evening.
 
I've seen enough Michael Bay movies in my life to know that's just going to cause the asteroid to fragment and the bigger pieces to head straight to Earth.
 
yeah this belongs on the fuck you science thread because we're all going to DIE
 
Did they discover the cause of Alzheimers?

https://thehill.com/changing-americ...scientists-say-they-might-have-discovered-the

Researchers in California focused on studying a protein called tau and how it’s linked to brain buildup, a key indicator doctors look for when diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease.

the cause of Alzheimers?

you guessed it:

images
 
https://thedebrief.org/darpa-funded-researchers-accidentally-create-the-worlds-first-warp-bubble/

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09484-z

DARPA FUNDED RESEARCHERS ACCIDENTALLY CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST WARP BUBBLE

Warp drive pioneer and former NASA warp drive specialist Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the successful manifestation of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.” And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft.

“To be clear, our finding is not a warp bubble analog, it is a real, albeit humble and tiny, warp bubble,” White told The Debrief, quickly dispensing with the notion that this is anything other than the creation of an actual, real-world warp bubble. “Hence the significance.”
 
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally been launched. This successor to the Hubble Telescope has been decades in design and construction. It successfully reached orbit this morning.

It was just too late to track Santa's progress last night.

https://news.yahoo.com/james-webb-space-telescope-ready-005042357.html

The launch of the $10bn successor to the Hubble telescope opens a new era in space exploration.


ETA: links to James Webb telescope site and NASA. photo of launch.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1474754154992181249?t=aHKXvTtOArkKgScoVxlBMg&s=09
 
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Boeing Starliner finally made its second unmanned test flight. This time they had the clocks correct and it arrived safely at the International Space Station. If it gets back to earth safely, next trip will carry astronauts.
 
The first image in that link looks like a great place to hide from enemy DRADIS.

I need to dig into what images are enhanced and how so. These can't be the raw imagine from the telescope.
 
Just think that most of us are looking at hyper compressed images on our phones or desktop monitors - the image mosaic derived from the James Webb telescope is 150 million pixels constructed from 1000 images
 
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