The Astronomy Thread

meStevo · Jul 10, 2015

Yeah, we likely won't see more of Pluto in our lifetimes outside of the observations collected over the next week.

LachiusTZ · Jul 10, 2015

We might:
http://www.gofundme.com/yy7yz3k

Itzena_sl · Jul 10, 2015

Brahma_sl said:
About Pluto mission. Why just a flyby? Why not sync into orbit?

Seriouspost: Go buy Kerbal Space Program and you can find out for yourself that space travel is Hard.

Big Phoenix · Jul 10, 2015

Not hard, just takes enormous amounts of energy unless you are taking advantage of gravity assists.

Picasso3 · Jul 10, 2015

Because fuck pluto

Araxen · Jul 10, 2015

The wobble isn't a lie!

Malakriss · Jul 10, 2015

Inception 2, Pluto is actually Leo's dream kid.

meStevo · Jul 10, 2015

That's an awesome gif.

Alex · Jul 10, 2015

Yeah that's dope. I stared at that for at least a minute in the office today.

VariaVespasa_sl · Jul 11, 2015

Photograper takes a pic of the ISS passing in front of the moon.

Photographer Captures the ISS Flying Across the Face of the Moon

meStevo · Jul 11, 2015

New Horizons' Last Portrait of Pluto's Puzzling Spots | NASA

Cybsled · Jul 11, 2015

Looks like some sort of frost covering

Kedwyn · Jul 11, 2015

I'm really hoping its something super interesting and not just a Ceres moon like body with a little bit of frost.

Furry · Jul 12, 2015

wtf is the little flare to the southwest of pluto. If you look at the other pictures from today, its in them as well.

Big Phoenix · Jul 12, 2015

clearly swamp gas

Picasso3 · Jul 12, 2015

You can't use southwest in space science bitch

khorum · Jul 12, 2015

So like... four points off the starboard bow?

Picasso3 · Jul 12, 2015

Bottom left

Tuco · Jul 12, 2015

LachiusTZ_sl said:
We might:
http://www.gofundme.com/yy7yz3k

That gofundme seems really hmm, useless. SeaShells is one of many hobbyist types building an EMDrive, just she's trying to get outside funding to do it.

Would be interesting if Roger Shawyer published good results of his second generation drive, then made a coherent kickstarter campaign to do something.

LachiusTZ · Jul 13, 2015

Just seems like a better thing to toss 29$ at than pantheon

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