Astronomers Confirm Fifth Exoplanet in L 98-59 System
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🎶just in time for WRATH MONTH i've put up a version of the lumpy gay space rock simulator for you all to enjoy
it's based on gravity like movies are sometimes based on real events
https://anatanana.itch.io/lumpy-gay-space-rocks
#godot #gameDev #space #rocks #gay #lumpy #proceduralGeneration #simulation #lowRes
Project Hyperion awards best generational spacecraft concept. Runners-up and honorable mentions also presented. I’m working on Christian sci-fi novel Basilica Obscura about space ark—bioship a la Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood, haves and have-not per Metropolis.
@books @bookstodon @religion #ChristianSciFi #ProfessorK #space #sciencefiction #AmWritingSF #secretscifinetwork #ProjectHyperion #BasilicaObscura
The SETI Institute invites nominations for the 2026 Jill Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth, an international honor recognizing individuals whose ideas, work, or leadership have meaningfully advanced humanity’s efforts to understand life and intelligence in the Universe. Artists, journalists, media, scientists, educators, law & ethics, philosophers, and more – all disciplines are welcome.
Post-perihelion view of 3I/ATLAS deepens understanding of interstellar comets
“Each one of these discoveries is a rehearsal… next time, we’ll be ready to send a spacecraft,” noted Dr. Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute during a presentation about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The first optical image of this comet taken after perihelion, on October 31, 2025, is already a milestone in research on objects that originate from outside our solar system.
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/
#Earth #Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #aurora
It has been a real treat watching a federal agency do something other than torment its latest victim. This is the sort of thing I want my tax dollars used for!
It never gets old seeing what humanity can do with math and science while we continue to battle against our base instincts down here on Earth.
Orion Snaps a Selfie During External Inspection
Orion snapped this high-resolution selfie in space with a camera mounted on one of its solar array wings during a routine external inspection of the spacecraft on the second day into the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA
#Artemis #Artemis2 #Orion #Integrity #OrionIntegrity #spacecraft #NASA #Moon #space #news #selfie
C Trek, open source clone/port thing of Super Star Trek, a text only space sim from the 70s
Available here: https://codeberg.org/red_vampire/c-trek
#startrek #retro #computer #gamedev #space #opensource #roguelike
How do scientists search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
Astronomer Jason Wright joins #SETILive to discuss his new textbook on the science of SETI — from radio signals to technosignatures.
📡 Join us live! TODAY, March 19, at 2:30 pm PDT / 5:30 pm EDT
WATCH HERE: https://youtube.com/live/3n7SUuG-eZo
ICYMI, this week's SETI Live focused on a rocky, tidally locked world with possible lava oceans. Designated K2-141 b, researchers used models to determine how heat moves through the planet’s interior. Watch the full interview: https://youtube.com/live/nYX2sNgvRwI
🛰️ 'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft
｢ The lost spacecraft had been "tumbling" when an ESA team in Spain "saw that some sunlight is actually hitting the solar panels," Aschbacher explained.
They seized the chance, using this small amount of power to re-establish a connection.
The spacecraft's solar panel is now facing the sun, allowing it to charge its batteries ｣
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-miracle-europe-reconnects-lost-spacecraft.html
If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look.
They have identified just under 50 rocky worlds most likely to be habitable out of the more than 6,000 exoplanets discovered so far.
Their research, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, would be useful in a scenario portrayed in the newly released Hollywood blockbuster Project Hail Mary.
Wow, they sewed the Apollo spacesuits with TREADLE SEWING MACHINES
MIT Press: The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA
"...Key to these demands were NASA’s painstaking engineering standards, which pushed the very limits of the equipment and seamstresses’ own techniques. The tolerances allowed — less than a 64th of an inch in only one direction from the seam — meant that yard after yard of fabric was sewn to an accuracy smaller than the sewing needle’s eye. To achieve such precision, many women used a modified treadle that, instead of starting and stopping a Singer sewing machine’s operation, fired one stitch per footfall through the multiple layers of a suit’s surface. ..."
h/t @wtrmt
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring.
Soaring metal is flight and nest together…
—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/
Even before beginning formal science operations, the remarkable Rubin Observatory has already discovered 12,700 new asteroids.
It found 11,000 asteroids in just 6 weeks during an "optimization" shakedown.
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2608/ #space #science #technology
You know there's something wrong with US politics when NASA is forced to communicate in Imperial measurements.
"Orion’s main engine provides up to 6,000 pounds of thrust, enough to accelerate a car from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds. At the time of the burn, Orion’s mass was 58,000 pounds and burned approximately 1,000 pounds of fuel during the firing."
#PPOD: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed “Ubajara” on April 30, 2023. This site is where Curiosity made the discovery of siderite, a mineral that may help explain the fate of the planet’s thicker ancient atmosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Good to see some push-back on the completely unhinged plan to deploy 'sunlight on demand' reflective satellites (which would allow for companies to flood 5-6 square km of land at night with sunlight), and also Musk's plan to launch 1M AI workload satellites.
Four international scientific societies spanning 2500 members warn these projects could further disrupt human & animal sleep patterns, & cause havoc to oceanic & terrestrial ecosystems.
By Sunday afternoon, the Artemis II crew had traveled 218,012 miles from Earth. That means the spacecraft was a mere 60,000 miles from the Moon, with a lunar flyby set for Monday, April 6. The crew will get as close at 4,000 miles from the lunar surface as they swing around the far side, becoming the first humans to see it from that perspective (at least as far as we know 🤔). More cool stuff from Yahoo News:
Astronaut Chris Williams managed to capture this cool image of the Artemis II exhaust plume from the ISS.
Original: https://flic.kr/p/2s5xGkc
Credit: NASA/Chris Williams
The Astronauts are hugging, they are so happy to be the furthest away from Donald Trump humans have ever been!
«Everyone is in this picture»
Indeed, the whole of humanity, including the 4.
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