James Webb Space Telescope (4 Viewers)

[Sailorsaint]

Despite all the negativity around us, we live in an awesome world. I, for one, am optimistic about the future.

Me too, I think we have a better than average chance against any space-nazi-zombies that come our way.

 

[Madmarsha]

Watch: Something Escaped A Black Hole at Nearly the Speed of Light and NASA Recorded It -

A black hole and a companion star are located 10,000 light-years away. When these two cosmic things are united, they form the MAXI J1820 + 070 system.

beyondtheworld.net

 

[efil4stnias]

Watch: Something Escaped A Black Hole at Nearly the Speed of Light and NASA Recorded It -

A black hole and a companion star are located 10,000 light-years away. When these two cosmic things are united, they form the MAXI J1820 + 070 system.

beyondtheworld.net

So it got tired of Matthew McConaughey too eh?

 

[superchuck500]

 

[WhoDatPhan78]

I saw a video the other day about a star that was so big that if it was in the place of our sun, it would take up all of the space in our solar system up to Jupiter's orbit.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Damn. I miss Pluto as a planet. COME BACK!!!

 

[nolaspe]

Of course Uranus is the drunk one rotating vertically, and Jupiter is cranked out on meth spinning so fast (fitting, as there's a Jupiter in FL)...

 

[Crzycjunx76]

Strangely that reminded me of this.

Scale of the Universe 2 - Play Scale of the Universe 2 on CrazyGames

The Scale of the Universe 2 is an educational game in which you are shown the sizes of different things in our universe in relation to other different things. Slide your way into the largest objects that our universe has to offer, or into the smallest things that exist in our known universe...

www.crazygames.com

 

[efil4stnias]

Jupiter is trippin.

 

[Sailorsaint]

TIL: Because it is a gas, the Sun does not rotate like a solid. The Sun actually spins faster at its equator than at its poles.

 

[Tapxe]

 

[superchuck500]

For The First Time, NASA Witnesses Black Hole Giving Birth To Stars

This is the realization astrophysicists have come to after they witnessed one black hole 30 million lightyears away spawning stars in the dwarf starbu

www.thespaceacademy.org

 

[HoustonSaint68]

For The First Time, NASA Witnesses Black Hole Giving Birth To Stars

This is the realization astrophysicists have come to after they witnessed one black hole 30 million lightyears away spawning stars in the dwarf starbu

www.thespaceacademy.org

I’ve had a nice life…everything from here is pretty much gravy. But I’d really love to be around awhile longer to see some of the stuff that comes out of Webb if we’re still getting this kind of cool stuff out of Hubble.

 

[bonnjer]

Almost there....

James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color images will be revealed on July 12th

The first spectroscopic data from the observatory will be released too.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Zztop]

apparently it was the 5th to hit it

Tiny meteoroid bops $10 billion Webb space telescope

A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become fully operational shortly, NASA said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

"After initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements," NASA said. "Thorough analysis and measurements are ongoing."