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Otterly said:
Ok, my usual space thread stupid question. What does that mean? Rotates in regard to what? Rotates in what? Can you explain what they mean by rotates?
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It is very early research, but from what I get, it rotates propably around where the big bang happened. This would fix the strange Hubble Crisis that got stargazers melting down.

Which means we could likely figure out the center.

However it needs evidence, like if there is a preferred spin. Two studies tried to find one, I think both were Indian, one found a favoures rotation, the other didn't, both had miniscule sample sizes.
 
Welp, Blue Origin pulled it off, a picture-perfect launch, booster landing, and satellite release on The NG-2 flight. It took BE a helluvalot longer then it took SpaceX, but they have made what looks to be a damn fine orbital class rocket, and with their experience in viable life-support capsules look poised to take a good chunk of the human spaceflight market both military and commercial, as well as a growing piece of orbital satellite launches.
 
Otterly said:
Ok I’m dumb, but if the universe is all-that-there-is, then how can it rotate? What is it rotating IN? Like a ball can rotate on its access yes, but if the ball was all there was, rotation loses its meaning, no? Does it mean the things in the universe are rotating wrt the space in it? But of everything in something is rotating, how do you see? You’d need a non rotating wall or shell or skin to see that?
I am too thick for this thread, lol. This is probably physics 101.
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Just go with ICP's solution. There is bliss in ignorance.


Besides, everyone knows the universe is a snow globe sitting on God's desk.
 
Space.com: Private mission to save NASA space telescope will launch in 2026 on a rocket dropped from a plane (archive)
In September, NASA announced that it has chosen Arizona company Katalyst Space Technologies to boost the altitude of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope whose orbit has gotten dangerously low since its November 2004 launch.

Today (Nov. 19), we learned how Katalyst's spacecraft will get off the ground — aboard Pegasus, an air-launched rocket built by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman.

The $500 million Swift observatory was built by Orbital Sciences, a company that in 2014 became Orbital ATK, which was then acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2018. The space telescope has been studying gamma-ray bursts — the most powerful explosions in the universe since the Big Bang — from low Earth orbit (LEO) for two decades.
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Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the total budget of the Swift rescue mission is $30 million, including launch.
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BBC: 'We've never seen this before': The spectacular stereo images of giant galaxies (archive)

If you can cross your eyes, you can look at the stereogram images from the article without any equipment. Should be easier on a smaller screen like a tablet.

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Ars Technica: It’s official: Boeing’s next flight of Starliner will be allowed to carry cargo only (archive)
NASA also said it has reached an agreement with Boeing to modify the Commercial Crew contract, signed in 2014, that called for six crewed flights to the space station following certification of the spacecraft. Now the plan is to fly Starliner-1 carrying cargo, and then up to three additional missions before the space station is retired.
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Ars Technica: China launches an emergency lifeboat to bring three astronauts back to Earth (archive)
An unpiloted Chinese spacecraft launched late Monday and linked up with the country’s Tiangong space station a few hours later, providing a lifeboat for three astronauts stuck in orbit without a safe ride home.
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Ars Technica: Formation of oceans within icy moons could cause the waters to boil (archive)
Nature Astronomy: Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds
 
Ars Technica: NASA finally—and we really do mean it this time—has a full-time leader (archive)
With a final tally of 67 to 30, Wednesday’s Senate confirmation came 377 days after President Trump first nominated Isaacman to serve as NASA administrator. Since that time, Isaacman had to navigate the following issues:
  • Concerns about ties to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, as Isaacman purchased both Dragon flights from the company
  • Pressure from Congress about Isaacman’s willingness to stick to a lunar exploration program, in favor of Mars
  • Past records showing check fraud when Isaacman was in his 20s
  • Questions about whether Isaacman backed the Trump administration’s plans to slash NASA science funding
  • A decision by Trump, in late May, to rescind Isaacman’s nomination due to donations to Democratic candidates
  • After key White House voices built a case for the re-nomination of Isaacman, NASA’s acting chief, Sean Duffy, sought to torpedo this
  • Among Duffy’s actions was leaking Isaacman’s detailed plan to reform NASA, called Project Athena
  • Duffy’s team also encouraged traditional space contractors to kill Isaacman’s re-nomination by branding him as a SpaceX plant
  • After his re-nomination, Isaacman had to defend the 62-page Athena plan to a Congress intent on protecting the status quo
  • At the 11th hour, some Senate Commerce Committee staff members sought to delay Isaacman’s confirmation into 2026.
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Jared Isaacman is finally the leader of NASA.
 
Today's edition of "Damn Nature, you scary".


James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through home galaxy at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'​


That not only makes this the first confirmed runaway supermassive black hole, but this object is also one of the fastest-moving bodies ever detected, rocketing through its home galaxy at 3,000 times the speed of sound at sea level here on Earth. If that isn't astounding enough, the black hole is pushing forward a literal galaxy-sized "bow-shock" of matter in front of it, while simultaneously dragging a 200,000 light-year-long tail behind it, within which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation.


"It boggles the mind!" discovery team leader Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University told Space.com. "The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous. And yet, it was predicted that such escapes should occur!"
 
Space.com: 2 of Earth's rarest lightning phenomena captured simultaneously in once-in-a-lifetime photo (archive)
An elve appears as a vast ghostly red ring that can grow to be 300 miles (480 kilometers) across and last for less than a thousandth of a second, according to NOAA. They form when a powerful lightning strike sends an electromagnetic pulse upward into the ionosphere, causing nitrogen molecules to glow briefly in red light, according to NASA. Their fleeting nature makes them exceptionally difficult to photograph.

Sprites, by contrast, often resemble crimson jellyfish or branching tendrils rising above thunderstorms. They are the most commonly observed type of TLE, but they are still elusive, unpredictable and last only milliseconds.
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GradeAGobbleDeeGook said:
amazing
they only proved these were real a few years ago, im glad to see they got a way better pic
until they were captured they were theoretical due only to how quick it is, nothing could capture it
i think even the first image they captured of it was a fluke
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Same happened with earthquake causing orbs of light with a piezoelectric effect.

Ghosthunters devastated.
 
NASASpaceFlight: Tory Bruno Steps Down as ULA CEO following impressive tenure (archive)
United Launch Alliance (ULA), jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, announced today that President and CEO Tory Bruno has resigned after nearly 12 years at the helm.

Bruno, a veteran aerospace engineer and executive, is departing to pursue another opportunity, according to a statement from ULA Board Chairs Robert Lightfoot (Lockheed Martin) and Kay Sears (Boeing). Bruno has not yet noted what that new opportunity entails.
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Effective immediately, John Elbon has been appointed Interim CEO, with Mark Peller named as the new Chief Operating Officer.
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
NASASpaceFlight: Tory Bruno Steps Down as ULA CEO following impressive tenure (archive)
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Resigned as opposed to retired so he's either jumping ship or got caught doing something "unethical". I can't believe he'd have a conflict with the Board over strategy or performance because I can't imagine ULA's Board cares about those things at all.

So who wants Tory? Blue Origin seems like a good fit but they're already chock full of blue chip Old Space executives, there might not be any room at the top. Joining a startup seems like a step down. There's no way it could be SpaceX, right?
 
Pedophobe said:
caught doing something "unethical".
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I know you're not implying but Tony Bruno doing something unethical enough to hack off ULA is a practical impossibility. Out of everyone in the space biz, I think he has the least concern for anything in life that isn't 'playing with space rockets'.

Anyway, Youtube said 'you like space rockets, go look at these koreans launching a rocket from Brazil.' Wild stream. Really good video but... no commentators. Or countdown clock. I caught one in the corner of the launch room so I had a vague idea at least of the launch time. Chat was insane. Hangul flying by at warp speed and Brazilians talking up Lula and how much they love Korea followed by strings of North Korean flags. It's BRs so you can't tell if they're taking the piss or just stupid.

Anyhow, thing launches and very quickly I go 'huh.' It's... pretty slow off the pad. Hey, maybe it's supposed to be like that, new rocket. Then it's throwing orange chunks out the exhaust. Oh, it's a solid? ...wait no, they said it isn't. Uhoh. Then some fumbled camera switches, a hard closeup of part of the launch pad, another like quarter second camera switch to some red flames, then the launch room with dour Korean faces. Amazing. "Anomaly experienced" was kind of an afterthought and not necessary.
 
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