::facepalm::

CNN just claimed a 25 year old company that started in 2006 caught a rocket returning to Earth with a helicopter. And had a video at the top of the article about Astra...


Congratulations Mr Beck, you crazy crazy bastard!

Aww spit.
But : ZKHEV

The Herald - reaching Stuff levels of awesome...

There...


and back



Technically off Mahia and an east coast I suppose.

Nothing more exciting than space rockets. Fingers crossed for Neutron.

This gives me the spooks a little, the difference scale between M87 and the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way:

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2208-eht-mwe/

Building Blocks of Life Were Found on an Asteroid in Space For The Very First Time

...making me think of Life the movie

Large Hadron Collider is starting back up this month:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/s...eptoquark.html

Wonder if they will make some mini black holes this time... or even detect god? LOL.

Capstone is back online and talking to the deep space network!

I wonder if they get the $2 back now they have topped up the pre-pay card?

That's good news!

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv

Strap yourself in!

Also on NASA's youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5...b_channel=NASA

That hold music will be the death of me.

It's on!

Here we go!

I wonder what the Press are like at those other places...

That whole presentation did not go as I thought it would. I don't know what I was expecting, but that wasn't it. Still a cool image, and would love to get a high res copy to check out.

Nasa dropped one on Reddit - high-ish. Lots of gravity distortion from what I can tell. Of course, it's colourised.

Almost broke Reddit!

Errp - Booster 7 has more pieces than before...

This is Hubble's shot of the same patch of sky for reference.

That briefing today was just the PR stint of it all. There's a few days ahead with more science-y briefings and more images.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...-images-reveal

I'm guessing that anything with a 6-point lens flare is a star and in the Milky Way, and anything without is an entire galaxy and distant?

Yeah - makes me wonder if they composited some of the visible alignment data with the main sensor.

I have a countdown of ~4h40m on Insta right now. I think I'll stay up, see what it's about.

I think this is my favourite one so far, but they're all gorgeous:

I've had a James Webb boner for about 36 hours now.

JWST vs Hubble:
https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/

Don't get me wrong, still ❤ Hubble, but damn, that's an upgrade.

I'd be able to tell if that website didn't suck

Looking forward to getting some new desktop backgrounds with these...

credit: @vonbitchpants

Cheers buddy.

I really like spotting all the extra galaxies that you can see in the new image.

Uh-oh, sounds like that meteoroid impact was worse than first thought.

JW - just stop, you are being too awesome!
 

Sounds like the reports were true - briefly, last August, the fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore achieved ignition, producing enough energy to be self-sustaining.

https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-fus...fornia-1733238

Apparently the boffins haven't been able to repeat it since, so they're trying to work out what they did right that time.

But still. Epic.

We could really, really use viable fusion right about now.

TBH I think molten salt is alot more realistic in the short term.
I'm glad to see the US DOE has dug it back up again, as I have been a proponent for thorium molten salt reactors for ages.

I wish our patriotic virtual signalling wasn't so backward with the "oh no nuclear" bullshit, perhaps we might have had a chance to be a world leader/first in safe nuclear tech by now - same way NZ is often a leader or pilot for new tech due to our size vs being a relatively modern nation tech wise.

Oh, don't get me wrong - NIF's stuff is awesome though :)