Science is Drokking Fantastic Because...

Definitely Not Mister Pops · 16 July, 2015, 03:05:22 AM

It always bugged me that there were never any pictures of Pluto in textbooks. What does Pluto look like? A deceptively simple question that has finally been answered. Only took 85 years.

The Legendary Shark · 16 July, 2015, 06:07:57 AM

Indeed. I'm getting the same sense of wonder I experienced all those years ago from the Voyager missions. Fantastic!

von Boom · 16 July, 2015, 02:07:25 PM

The New Horizons missions is almost eerily well timed with the release of Armada by Ernest Cline (which I'm reading). I'm loving the photos, [spoiler]but I'm very glad that we didn't find a giant swastika on the surface of Pluto a la the book.[/spoiler]

It's missions like that this that remind us why space exploration and science is not only necessary, but beautiful.

The Legendary Shark · 16 July, 2015, 03:10:43 PM

Free: Download Neil deGrasse Tyson's 6- Lecture Course, The Inexplicable Universe.

The Legendary Shark · 25 July, 2015, 08:12:52 AM

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Bye, bye, Pluto.

Spikes · 26 July, 2015, 11:35:36 AM

What a marvellous image, that. Just superb.

ZenArcade · 26 July, 2015, 01:59:06 PM

My pressiciousss!!Z

The Legendary Shark · 03 August, 2015, 06:35:15 PM

ISS transits the Moon...
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Amateur photographer Dylan O'Donnell
captured this image of the International Space Station passing in front of the moon on June 30.
CREDIT: Dylan O'Donnell

ZenArcade · 03 August, 2015, 06:44:19 PM

We are living in great times in terms of extreme planetary exploration. Simply wonderful. Z

The Legendary Shark · 03 August, 2015, 06:49:17 PM

Indeed. How long before somebody figures out how to capture images (probably fuzzy at first) of extrasolar planets? I hope I live long enough to see that!

ZenArcade · 03 August, 2015, 06:53:48 PM

We can barely resolve pluto even from the hubble scope(and that's above the atmosphere). 5 light hours away. Extra solar planets. Gotta be decades away? Z

Hawkmumbler · 03 August, 2015, 06:54:48 PM

At the rate planetary exploration has excelorated over the last decade alone, you can bet on it.

ZenArcade · 03 August, 2015, 07:00:26 PM

You would need a massive array near the oort cloud to really resolve images. Mind you I'm probably wrong. Z

The Legendary Shark · 03 August, 2015, 07:19:44 PM

Maybe an arrangement of massive lenses millions of miles apart? I don't know. Have to be careful, though, if it's set up wrong we might set fire to Jupiter!

ZenArcade · 03 August, 2015, 07:24:52 PM

A fire upon the deep. Z