The world is indeed becoming like a really bad bad dark comedy.

I suggest they take a shit from there to see how it lands on Earth. They are already shitting all over the planet anyway...

At the same time:

Yeah....not much can be said...

#nasa #space #spacex #billionairs #capitalism

It’s official: NASA calls on Crew Dragon to rescue the Starliner astronauts | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/its-official-nasa-calls-on-crew-dragon-to-rescue-the-starliner-astronauts/

#space #Nasa

It’s official: NASA calls on Crew Dragon to rescue the Starliner astronauts

"I would say the White Sands testing did give us a surprise."

^{Ars Technica}

WOW! It Wasn’t Aliens After All!

#science #space #arecibo #radioastronomy #thewowsignal #hackaday
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👨‍🚀🚀 3... 2... 1... Liftoff!

Last night, Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, #Ariane6, successfully made its inaugural flight.

Ariane 6 can launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits for applications such as Earth observation, telecommunication, meteorology, science and navigation.

It is a key step towards secure and autonomous 🇪🇺 access to #space.

Congratulations to the teams at European Space Agency, National Centre for Space Studies, Arianespace on this success!

📷© ESA

ESA accelerates the race towards clean energy from space

ESA accelerates the race towards clean energy from space

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
posted by pod_feeder_v2

♲ Amy Rae Hill - 2023-04-06 18:42:39 GMT

It’s been a while! Here’s what I’ve been up to:
#art #ceramics #space

Still some hope. Also a chance for some robotic gallows humor, I suppose. The robots did deploy, even though the craft landed basically upside down.

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade | Mashable • https://mashable.com/article/japan-moon-landing-recent-images

#space #moon #mission #japan

via Diaspora* Publisher -

So Long and Thanks for All the Flights: Ingenuity Permanently Grounded After 72 Flights

#news #space #ingenuity #mars #perseverance #hackaday
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Ooh, look I read another paper. Hurrah !

This one is about an incredibly, superlatively faint galaxy discovered back in 2018 that I'd forgotten about completely. Here the authors use Hubble observations to rule out an old stellar population - it only has young stars. This most likely means it's a tidal dwarf, having just recently formed due to tidal interactions but not likely to last long.

#Science
#Astronomy
#Space
#Galaxies

https://llittlephysicists.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-faintest-galaxy-is-getting-even.html

For this year's gingerbread I made... the VLA!

#gingerbread #astronomy #radioastronomy #space

The "USS Western Morals" warship captured while departing Red City, just few days before her sudden disappearance.
While the incident is still under investigation, feel free to reply with your own theory about what happened.

Quick digital color over this one before ending the day.
#scifiart #spaceship #space #spacefiction

In this sturning image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Omega Nebula (M17) resembles the fury of a raging sea, showing a bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen gas and small amounts of other elements such as oxygen and sulfur. The nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, is a hotbed of newly born stars residing 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The wavelike patterns of gas have been sculpted and illuminated by a torrent of ultraviolet radiation from the young massive stars, which lie outside the picture to the upper left. The ultraviolet radiation is carving and heating the surfaces of cold hydrogen gas clouds. The warmed surfaces glow orange and red in this photograph. The green represents an even hotter gas that masks background structures. Various gases represented with color are: sulfur, represented in red; hydrogen, green; and oxygen blue.