Space and Astronomy Megathread (MERGED)

[zeroapoc]

Possibly. Habitable planets around red dwarfs are easier to spot because of their shorter orbital periods. It may just take longer observations to detect some around sun like stars. I thought we would be hearing about more by this point though.

 

[:eek:]

Strange Blue World: Alien Planet's True Color Revealed, a First

http://www.space.com/21928-alien-planet-blue-color-revealed.html

Nice weather on this planet:

The exoplanet's weather is less than ideal. Its atmosphere is more than 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius) and the planet rains glass sideways in 4,350 mile per hour (7,000 km/h) winds, according to Hubble officials.

Sounds like paradise

 

[Tanin]

Sounds like the Asylum's next movie.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Hubble finds new moon orbiting Neptune

 

[Destructus86]

So...we've never been to it, we've only seen it through a telescope....how do we know it rains glass?

 

[Bim]

Hubble finds new moon orbiting Neptune

It never fails to amaze me that just when we think we know something, a new development comes up and shows that maybe we dont.

 

[Destructus86]

It never fails to amaze me that just when we think we know something, a new development comes up and shows that maybe we dont.

Yeah, I like that...it really shows we don't know nearly as much as we think. It gives me an even greater appreciation for just how complex our universe is. I wish we could get out there and explore it first hand.

 

[:eek:]

Wow! NASA Probes See Earth & Moon from Saturn, Mercury (Photos)

http://www.space.com/22047-earth-moon-photos-from-saturn-mercury.html

This really can make one feel small and insignificant...

 

[Piper Maru]

We really do just live on a pale blue dot.

 

[Breogan]

Wow! NASA Probes See Earth & Moon from Saturn, Mercury (Photos)

http://www.space.com/22047-earth-moon-photos-from-saturn-mercury.html

This really can make one feel small and insignificant...

....more than 20,000 people on Earth waved at Saturn at just the time the photo was taken,....

Man I was like totally blinking in that shot, can we take another one?

 

[Bim]

Wow! NASA Probes See Earth & Moon from Saturn, Mercury (Photos)

http://www.space.com/22047-earth-moon-photos-from-saturn-mercury.html

This really can make one feel small and insignificant...

And to think, we're killing each other in that tiny blue dot. All of our problems are there lol.

 

[:eek:]

3D-Printed Rocket Parts Excel in NASA Tests

http://www.space.com/22119-3d-printed-rocket-part-test.html

 

[:eek:]

Applicants for One-Way Mars Trip to Descend on Washington

http://www.space.com/22225-mars-one-applicants-meeting.html

 

[brezniew]

Universe is a computer simulation nothing else

 

[:eek:]

Newfound Alien Planet Is Smallest World Photographed Around Sun-Like Star

http://www.space.com/22265-small-alien-planet-direct-photo.html

 

[zeroapoc]

Universe is a computer simulation nothing else

Even so, we still have to live here.

 

[:eek:]

Sun Will Flip Its Magnetic Field Soon

http://www.space.com/22271-sun-magnetic-field-flip.html

 

[Bim]

Video of this news ^: ScienceCasts - The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip

[YT]34gNgaME86Y[/YT]

 

[NickNitro]

Currently listening to this

[YT]fDXWW5vX-64[/YT]

 

[Bim]

Currently listening to this

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDXWW5vX-64[/YT]

Cant see anything. You have to just put whatever's after v= in order for the video to embed, not the entire youtube link.

 

[NickNitro]

got it! sorry stupid newb mistake

 

[moviedoors]

So...we've never been to it, we've only seen it through a telescope....how do we know it rains glass?

It doesn't, but it very likely rains diamonds:

http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/is-it-raining-diamonds-on-uranus-neptune/

 

[:eek:]

Engage! Warp Drive Could Become Reality with Quantum-Thruster Physics

http://www.space.com/22430-star-trek-warp-drive-quantum-thrusters.html

 

[Alex_Spider]

http://htwins.net/scale2/

Check out The Scale Of The Universe, an interactive program that lets you scroll through different objects, from the planck scale to the observable universe, all to scale.

Cool stuff!

 

[KevanG]

Just in case you weren't feeling insignificant enough.