Soviet-style Orion Bomber with gigantic multi-stage hypergolic-fueled booster
#lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship #projectorion
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Alienating. #grickledoodle #rejection #alien #facehugger #horror #cartoon #space #art #drawing #funny #humor
July 20, 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of Viking 1, the first spacecraft to successfully land and operate on the surface of Mars. Viking carried the first experiments designed to search directly for signs of life on another planet, sparking scientific debates that continue today. Its discoveries helped launch modern astrobiology by reshaping how scientists think about life in extreme environments.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/news/50-years-after-viking-1/
🔭 Could we detect technology on a distant exoplanet?
SETI Institute scientist Dr. Chenoa Tremblay led one of the most sensitive radio searches yet for technosignatures from K2-18b. While no artificial signals were found, the team's new techniques will help make future SETI searches even more powerful.
Learn more: https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-just-scanned-one-planet-for-alien-signals-12206326
Dr. Simon George is a bioinorganic chemist who studies how living organisms use metals such as iron, nickel, copper, and molybdenum to power essential biological processes. His research explores how metal-containing proteins and enzymes work, how they evolved, and what they can reveal about the origins of life on Earth.
One for the record books 🏅
Our Very Large Telescope Interferometer has discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy. Named S301, it orbits Sagittarius A* — the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way — reaching speeds of 25 000 kilometres per second, over 8% the speed of light.
📷 ESO/GRAVITY collaboration
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Made these last night
HD 171872 (near Vega) & NGC 6503(Lost-In-Space)
All photos and full res here:
The conclusion of a century-long quest 😲
Our VLT obtained firm evidence that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the Orion constellation and one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone!
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📷 ESO/M. Montargès et al. Background: N. Rissinger (skysurvey.org)
THE AWFUL STUFF SHOUTS.
THE GOOD STUFF CREATES THE FUTURE. 💎
I went looking around the internet this morning for things happening in the world that are actually fantastic. Not catastrophe. Not outrage. Not another reason to be frightened before breakfast.
AND LOOK WHAT HUMANS ARE UP TO.
China is preparing to send its Chang’e-7 mission toward the Moon’s south pole, where it will search for water ice.
WATER. ON THE MOON.
Finding it could matter enormously for future exploration because water can support life and can also be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen for fuel.
Meanwhile, researchers in Adelaide are developing water-based zinc-iodine batteries, a different kind of energy storage aimed at making large-scale renewable power safer, more stable and more practical. As we produce more electricity from sun and wind, storing that energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing becomes one of the great practical problems of the future.
AND THEN THERE IS THE HUMAN BRAIN.
Scientists are testing cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease that aim to replace some of the dopamine-producing brain cells the disease destroys. Not merely managing symptoms, but asking whether damaged function can actually be restored.
Researchers are also taking skin cells from children with a rare form of childhood dementia, turning them into brain-like cells in the laboratory, watching the disease unfold, and testing existing medicines against it. Several drugs have already improved the health of those cells in laboratory studies.
That is not a cure, but the very fact that we can now take a skin cell, turn it into something resembling a brain cell and ask, “WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS?” would have sounded like science fiction not very long ago.
The same peculiar little ape that loses its glasses while they are sitting on its head is searching for water on the Moon, inventing better ways to store sunlight and trying to repair the human brain. Yes, we still burn things, break things, frighten one another and behave like complete idiots. But that is not the whole story.
THE AWFUL STUFF SHOUTS.
It dominates our attention because disaster demands attention. The good stuff often looks like somebody quietly going to work in the morning: a scientist, an engineer, a surgeon, a researcher looking at a damaged brain cell and wondering whether it can be fixed.
And perhaps that is the lesson.
If we keep staring at the pointing finger, we may never notice the Moon.
Every day, alongside all the stupidity, wars and destruction, human beings are quietly learning, repairing, inventing and creating the future.
Perhaps hope is not something we have to manufacture. Perhaps sometimes we only have to notice what is already happening. The future is being built quietly while the headlines are shouting about something else entirely.
And frankly, I find that rather wonderful.
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#GoodNews #Science #Innovation #Humanity #Hope #Future #Space #Medicine
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Let's take a moment to appreciate the Parker Solar Probe
Currently it's by FAR the fastest human made object ever, with an incredible 635,000 kilometers per hour, the peak velocity is roughly 0.064% the speed of light
- Around Earth in about 4 minutes
- To the moon in about 36 minutes
Made these last night! More photos and full resolution (+download) here
Despite discovering more than 6000 exoplanets, actually taking a picture of one remains a challenge.
That challenge was the focus of a recent SETI Live conversation, where host Dr. Franck Marchis spoke with SETI Institute senior scientist Dr. Margaret Turnbull about NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the revolutionary coronagraph instrument she helps lead.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/news/hide-the-star/
A discarded #SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the #moon
The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon Wednesday, carving out a crater & sending up a plume of dust & rubble.
#Space tracking expert Bill Gray predicts an impact of 5,400 mph—7X the speed of sound—near Einstein Crater.
While scientists are not too concerned about this particular piece of #SpaceJunk, it highlights the growing threat as more & more items cram into orbit.
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-rocket-moon-crash-512c4dd708b4cda1160d30b764f9fdb5
A chance discovery in the solar eclipse videos: This is flight “BOX192,” an AeroLogic/DHL Boeing 777-F flying from Leipzig to Nottingham at an altitude of 36,000 ft, between Wesel and Xanten (Germany), in 49 km distance.
#solareclipse2026 #eclipse2026 #eclipse #astronomy #aviation #boeing777 #dhl #aerologic #space #mywork
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Post-Perseids Sunrise At Raisting Earth Station (2026)
(Pictures from between 5-6AM this morning... I still need to process the meteor shower images from the hour before, but not holding my breath...)
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, #kindle
A collection of 171 #books for you to read free on #KU. My book is DRM-free.
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Tomorrow the next tarot card will be released 
Featuring - Page of Swords 💫
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Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact.
📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al.
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What stops a solar eruption from escaping the Sun? ☀️
On the next #SETILive, Dr. Becca Robinson talks with Dr. Kathy Reeves about new research on a solar eruption that rose—then collapsed—and the magnetic forces that stopped it.
📅 Aug. 20 | 2:30 pm PDT
🔴 https://youtube.com/live/N214VE49Lf0
In der neuen Folge erzählt Karl von Baumringen, die Ungeheuerliches enthalten: Den Hinweis auf Ereignisse, die viele Jahrhunderte zurückliegen. Irgendwas muss die Atmosphäre mit geladenen Teilchen bombardiert haben - viel stärker, als alles, was wir kennen:
➡️ https://astrogeo.de/kosmische-spuren-in-uralten-baeumen-was-sind-miyake-ereignisse/
Für diese Miyake-Ereignisse gibt es keine eindeutigen historischen Aufzeichnungen. Aber würde sich eines wiederholen, wären die Folgen dramatisch.
📸 : CC0 Gabriel Jimenez / Unsplash
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🌊 Neptune's tiny inner moons may be fragments of much larger worlds.
JWST found hydrated minerals on their surfaces — materials that require liquid water interacting with rock. But these small, frozen moons couldn't have produced them themselves.
The evidence points to an ancient system of larger moons, potentially shattered after Triton arrived.
🔗 https://www.seti.org/news/what-happened-to-neptunes-moons/