Level1SpaceTechs (astronomy)

Dude.

Thats like a perfect hexagon.

@HEXcellerate will be happy to see hexagons in the wild.

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Not really, the corners are rounded, but Saturn's hexagon is still a very cool cosmic phenomenon.

Came across these and thought them worth sharing

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http://sci.esa.int/gaia/59004-two-million-stars-on-the-move/

Now we just need a 4K and 8K version. :smiley:

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http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/206507

Did do this Antarctica comparison thing for my friend who was claiming things and that comparison kinda kinda fits what this topic is about.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170411090157.htm

New cold spot but visually boring.

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Space Surfing

Meme Bait:)

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Propeller in the Ring
"Uh boss we never even thought of shooting video out there"

oh wow

I can't believe someone blew up Alderaan.

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Makes me wonder if anything from us could be seen from that dot.

I did follow Pluto updates and think it was 3 weeks before, month most when it started to get larger and before that it was that same dot. :smiley:

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:sob:

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Meteor Shower
Will actually have to go outside to view :slight_smile:
Make a great date idea also


And a cool landslide on Ceres from the Dawn mission

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Now this is exciting!


It has been a while.

90 bar means multiply 14.7 by 90 to get the pressure in psi

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wow, that would be impressive as hell.

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I visit this site now and then.

We've got a really big rock swinging around the Sun.

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Asteroid 2014 JO25 passing in front of a star.
Captured on a Celeston 14 telescope.

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A nice image of asteroid from Arecibo at 8 minutes.

Who hacks a free astronomy site....

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Venus is drop dead boring in an amature telescope but kinda easy to find, no star-hopping required.
But this is really really cool:)



Looks like my skin through a microscope in another 30 years:)

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https://phys.org/news/2017-05-scientists-giant-perseus-galaxy-cluster.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter

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