Very cool
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There is one about 100m long in Flagstaff Az, they said the next solar system is to the 100 m scale would be in Los Angeles
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Had a look at it coming over just now. Clear sky in Melbourne so an excellent view.
It really is amazing to be able to see it so easily.
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Nice bump!
I’ve been at a few BBQ’s over the years when I’ve had an alert giving me a heads up.
Most people are generally blown away by the accuracy of the prediction, at first they kind of don’t believe anything will happen but when it appears it does bring out a childish glee from even the toughest of characters.
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Ithaca, New York state, has long had the equivalent, named after local resident Carl Sagan: it leads you from downtown to the Science Centre.
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I like that story a lot
That would be the most literal example of “heads up” that I could imagine.
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My folks did the coast to coast walk across Britain many years ago and I can remember them showing me photos of the same thing that stretched across many kilometres of the walk.
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Ha; went back to my 2008 photos and the audio by Bill Nye the Science Guy currently available on the website used to be accessible via a phone call.
I guess there were more than a few dumb phones still around then.
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Wow, I’d forgotten how blurry those days were before they invented HD and 4kUHD.
ISS in space, meh.
Prediciton of when it will fly overhead, oooh aaah.
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Russian rocket launches are more spectacular then American ones. Just prettier to look at.
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For those interested
The new space weather hub being set up in Adelaide
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Captain kirk is going to space how cool.
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I like the info about the Parker Solar Probe that’s on its way to the sun. It will approach the suns surface going to within 3.8 million miles away from the sun’s surface!
At that distance the probe will need to withstand temperatures of;
1,377 degrees celcius!
Has anyone got any Australian Research & Space Exploration merchandise?
I have a JAXA hat and tshirt.
That’s all my space merch.
Just read that the DSS Antenna in Canberra is now the sole means of communicating with Voyager 2, after it was offline for more than half of 2020. V2 is now at 128 astronomical units from earth. V1 is 154 AU (14.3 Billion Miles) . 21.5 light hours to signal V1 …
V1 is expected to reach the “Oort cloud” (if it exists) in 300 years, and take 30,000 years to pass through it!! These distances are hard enough to fathom. Then you consider that at 34,000 miles per hour, in 300 thousand years it will pass roughly 1 light year from another star.
Both Voyagers are expected to run out of power in a few years, 2025 at the latest. Which is a great pity, for some reason I’m fascinated by just how far these things make it. Unless they collide with something, they’ll always be the furthest manmade objects in the universe (barring new propulsion tech) as New Horizons (the mission sent to Pluto) has a lower speed and will never catch them.
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NASA should take the lead from all those pissant companies and blame that on covid-19.