Soldato
Have just been watching the Apollo 15 crew deploying the lunar rover. Fascinating stuff and a bit comical when you think of a space program using rope to unfold and remove a rover.
Japan is about to land it's Hyabusa 2 probe on an asteroid and 'harvest' it with a vacuum cleaner (very Spaceballs) and then will fire a projectile into said asteroid to gather more samples.
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190220e_TDPoint/
http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/hayabusa2/
I'm really hoping for a triple landing success this time. Even if not, a double landing and even the sheer spectacle of by far the most powerful rocket currently operating is enough to give me serious hype.
First ever photo of a black hole is being published tomorrow apparently.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592
Not what I was expecting, looks pretty mundane considering it's the most destructive thing to exist in the universe
How many light years is 500 million trillion km's ?
Yeah pretty fascinating to actually see a pic of one but im not surprised. I doubt a lot are. What else could it really look like?
Just goes to show how accurate our knowledge of Physics really is. We just keep confirming was Einstein figured out a century ago.
First ever photo of a black hole is being published tomorrow apparently.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47873592
Not what I was expecting, looks pretty mundane considering it's the most destructive thing to exist in the universe
How many light years is 500 million trillion km's ?