Re: Night Sky : Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:46 pm  

Low in the west at sunset all week, Jupiter and Venus heading for each other. Closest on 30th, when they will appear to be almost touching. That should create a busy night on the 999 switchboards

Re: Night Sky : Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:16 pm  

Guy finds Russian space shuttles in abandoned Khazak facility. http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2015/0 ... prise.html

Guy finds Russian space shuttles in abandoned Khazak facility. http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2015/0 ... prise.html

Re: Night Sky : Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:51 am  

New Horizons will fly by Pluto around 1pm Tuesday 14 July - although probably the images won't be beamed back until 15th.

Here's the view from 3.7 million miles (July 8th)

Re: Night Sky : Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:11 am  

What does the surface of a comet look like from a height of 9 metres? Astonishing images from the Philae lander riding along on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as it closes in on the Sun. And here is an animation of the Philae lander's view as it closed in to land on the comet: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images ... to_a_comet

What does the surface of a comet look like from a height of 9 metres? Astonishing images from the Philae lander riding along on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as it closes in on the Sun. And here is an animation of the Philae lander's view as it closed in to land on the comet: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images ... to_a_comet

Re: Night Sky : Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:22 pm  

OK i get that the world has become massively dumbed down, and I get that social media has instantly provided a voice for nutters, befuddled and fanatics, but what i don't get is how easily even dumbed down folk swallow the bullshit. On 28 September a total eclipse of the moon will occur, not a rare evnt, but lovely and interesting to watch. Er, that's it. Except on FB, Twitter, YT etc there is a tide of morons posting apocalyptic shoite about Armageddon, raptures, end times, and most idiotic of all a huge asteroid. Apart from the religious nutjobs, I assume that everyone else starts these things as a wind-up. But it has even reached the stage where sober organisations such as NASA are asked to respond with debunks of this arrant nonsense. (To which the standard response is "well they would say that")

I mean, how many times in recent years have the nutters and shysters predicted apocalypses and similar. Doesn't this make the penny drop even through the thickest, densest skull? FFS.

What on earth is the matter with people?

Re: Night Sky : Sat Sep 26, 2015 6:03 pm  

Life on Mars?

"NASA will detail a major science finding from the agency's ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

"The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website."

Re: Night Sky : Sun Sep 27, 2015 7:11 pm  

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkasprak/sci ... uto-photos

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkasprak/sci ... uto-photos

Re: Night Sky : Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:40 pm  

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... =og.shares

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... =og.shares

Re: Night Sky : Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:50 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

OK i get that the world has become massively dumbed down, and I get that social media has instantly provided a voice for nutters, befuddled and fanatics, but what i don't get is how easily even dumbed down folk swallow the bullshit. On 28 September a total eclipse of the moon will occur, not a rare evnt, but lovely and interesting to watch. Er, that's it. Except on FB, Twitter, YT etc there is a tide of morons posting apocalyptic shoite about Armageddon, raptures, end times, and most idiotic of all a huge asteroid. Apart from the religious nutjobs, I assume that everyone else starts these things as a wind-up. But it has even reached the stage where sober organisations such as NASA are asked to respond with debunks of this arrant nonsense. (To which the standard response is "well they would say that")

I mean, how many times in recent years have the nutters and shysters predicted apocalypses and similar. Doesn't this make the penny drop even through the thickest, densest skull? FFS.

What on earth is the matter with people?

Count yourself lucky, we've got a flat earth loony blocking our boards up at the moment. One of those conspiracy nuts who will believe anything as long as it's not the boring truth...

Re: Night Sky : Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:07 pm  

Crackabongo.

How old do you think the Earth is?