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  • audioluvr
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    Van Gogh Lives!
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  • treitz3
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    Blood moon tomorrow night.

    Tom
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  • Jstas
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    I really hate IFLS anymore but this came across my feed this morning and I thought y'all might find it interesting.

    https://www.iflscience.com/unexpected-jwst-observations-hint-we-might-be-inside-a-black-hole-78407?fbclid=IwY2xjawI_30FleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbya8EHfUIrZb2NL1fmnRute-9q4LHIAOFqvXsA9tP6HRN8-G_PSttep2A_aem_oOvZ5uJmlZi_17WbedG8cg
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  • pitdogg2
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    So I guess they were wrong that everything sucked into a black hole gets shredded...
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  • bcwsrt
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    Brian

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  • treitz3
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    I may have missed this (or simply do not recall hearing of this) before but...

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    ...and here I thought hang time off a 110' jump at a quarry was a long hang time! And below, is a lunar halo, formed by air crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

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    Tom
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  • pitdogg2
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    I remember that, crazy funofasitch!
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  • bcwsrt
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    Yeah, me, too. I didn't think it was quite that long ago, though!

    Brian

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  • mhardy6647
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    https://youtu.be/LUfoS-FrATQ?si=qV3ADNVjwnWVoxCU
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  • tonyp063
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  • treitz3
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    Some shots of Jupiter...

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    Tom

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  • billbillw
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    edited May 2025
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    Those look even better than the one I posted back in February. I do wonder how much they are "enhanced." Astrophotography always involves a significant amount of Photoshop work since many of the colors are outside of our visual range.
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  • audioluvr
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    Just a heads up for all you rural folk with no light pollution:supposed to be a high probability of auroras in the US Possibly early morning tonight, More probable early morning Monday like 2am lasting possibly through Tuesday morning.
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    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • txcoastal1
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    World’s most powerful digital camera captures historic first images
    Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-gigapixel camera unveils the universe in unprecedented detail
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    https://www.foxnews.com/tech/worlds-most-powerful-digital-camera-captures-historic-first-images?dicbo=v2-1aOHW7w&intcmp=fn_article_br_ob_more_from

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  • treitz3
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    Useless information you can retain for absolutely no reason...

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    Tom
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    🚨 NASA’s Voyager 1 — 48 Years in Space and Still Not a Full Light-Day Away

    Launched on September 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been traveling through space for 48 years. After traveling over 23 billion km, Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object, still sending faint radio signals from the edge of interstellar space — nearly half a century after launch.

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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,140
    edited November 2025
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    Would love to see the aliens faces when they find Vee-Ger.
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  • mhardy6647
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    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    🚨 NASA’s Voyager 1 — 48 Years in Space and Still Not a Full Light-Day Away

    Launched on September 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been traveling through space for 48 years. After traveling over 23 billion km, Voyager 1 is now the most distant human-made object, still sending faint radio signals from the edge of interstellar space — nearly half a century after launch.

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    It's also moving the fastest of any known, human-made object... if memory serves.
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  • pitdogg2
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    What I find truly amazing is nothing has hit either one of them and destroyed an antenna or splattered the entire platform.
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  • mhardy6647
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    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    What I find truly amazing is nothing has hit either one of them and destroyed an antenna or splattered the entire platform.

    That's a good catch.
    I suppose it may just be a marker for how empty space is, on the average.
    The amount of kinetic energy involved in a collision with even a tiny particle would be fairly bodacious. (as any astrophysicist might put it B))
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  • pitdogg2
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    No doubt Doc! Things traveling tens of thousands MPH have bodacious kinetic energy as you so eloquently put it. 😎
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  • skipshot12
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    Where's the earth shattering KABOOM, there's supposed to.....
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  • agingboomer
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    Shields are holding at 100%, Captain.
    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • mhardy6647
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    skipshot12 wrote: »
    Where's the earth shattering KABOOM, there's supposed to.....

    When I teach about so-called "soft" ionization methods for mass spectrometry of large and rather delicate molecules, I invoke Nobel laureate John Fenn...
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    ... and Marvin.
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    B)
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    UPDATE:
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    On November 13, 2026, Voyager Will Reach One Full Light-Day Away From Earth
    https://www.iflscience.com/on-november-13-2026-voyager-will-reach-one-full-light-day-away-from-earth-81432
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    NASA's Voyager Spacecraft Found A 30,000-50,000 Kelvin "Wall" At The Edge Of Our Solar System
    (about 54,000 to 90,000 degrees Fahrenheit/article from June 2025)
    https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-found-a-30000-50000-kelvin-wall-at-the-edge-of-our-solar-system-79454

    Man's First Attempt:
    As a kid I was amazed by

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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
    Harry / Marietta GA
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  • skipshot12
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    Interesting how temps can be so high that far away from the sun.
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  • treitz3
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    Tom
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  • billbillw
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    Amazing what AI can make these days....
    JK. I'm not one of the doubters. It was awesome to watch the takeoff follow the mission. I'm mad that I forgot to watch the coverage yesterday. By the time I remembered after grilling steaks, they were already out of the capsule and back on the ship.
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  • ken brydson
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