The Astronomy Thread

that's purdy. the diameter of earth is 8000 miles. The moon is 240,000 miles distant.

Can you fit 30 earths edge to edge in the black space on that pic? I think the scale is off.

The orbit may not be at perfect apsis. Or, even enabled to be observed so geometrically, the way you describe, by the camera angle even if it were at apsis.

Yeah, the moon could be further back or closer to the camera than the Earth. C'mon, Iannis.

All true.

Seriously, I was trying to decide if it was a photograph or if it was a rendition.

The moon is further away in that pic. It's not representing 27% of Earth's size very well.

looks like someone forgot to turn the iron off.

poor pluto. not a planet. gets no respect.

Now in color:

Awesome stuff. Best part is the probe will be the gift that keeps on giving and we will get all sorts of new stuff in the coming months

Real color or simulated color?

That website hates my phone.

Cassini Closes in on Enceladus, One Last Time | NASA

Congress will give NASA nearly $20 billion next year

Is there an angle here? Or has congress actually done something decent?

commercial crew program.

Congress is starting to think of NASA as an airline company? I think, even so, they did something fairly decent. They're not funding mars exploratory missions, that money is for a commercial program... but still. By going over in the budget at least they're not taking away from planned science missions.

Abefroman_sl said:

Congress will give NASA nearly $20 billion next year

Is there an angle here? Or has congress actually done something decent?

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Its still fucking peanuts. 20billion is still around 0.6% of the budget, compared to military 17%. spending which is fucking bonkers. Nasa should have at least 1%