The Astronomy Thread

khorum

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ULA is licensing Bezos' BE4 engine to replace their russian-made rocket engines so yeah.
 
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meStevo

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SpaceX stuck another landing and launched TESS tonight.

It will be looking at the 200,000 brightest stars in 85% of the sky for rocky planets, and have this crazy orbit.

 
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Ukerric

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meStevo said:
SpaceX stuck another landing and launched TESS tonight.
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Yea, that was the last of the Falcon 9 Block 4 rockets. There's going to be a few more of the B4 launches, but they'll all be refurbish... sorry, flight proven rockets. Block 5 goes in service on the next launch (May 4th), and that one is supposed to be reusable at least 10 times with fast reuse times (48h?).
 
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Tuco

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Strip-Commentaires-sur-Mars-650-finalenglish.jpg


I see this repeated a lot in basically every sector, especially technology. I'm sure I'm guilty of it too.
 
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Kiroy

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Tuco said:
Strip-Commentaires-sur-Mars-650-finalenglish.jpg


I see this repeated a lot in basically every sector, especially technology. I'm sure I'm guilty of it too.
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Comics are far funnier and the point is far better when 3 panels are used vs 4.
 
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Qhue

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Who here has taken any sort of Astronomy course? What sort of a course was it and how much 'math' was involved?
 
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Moogalak

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wow, when you finally discern the background stars from the foreground particles it blows your mind.
 
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Oldbased

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Qhue said:
Who here has taken any sort of Astronomy course? What sort of a course was it and how much 'math' was involved?
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Never did but I read a Antonio Paris article once about noise and xrays and radiation in space. I figure I am right up there with NASA now in my expertise.
 
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pharmakos

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i took AST 111 once upon a time, as my Freshman lab credit. was a significant amount of math involved, but nothing overly complicated.
 
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