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ELT has passed the 50% completion point! Progress :) ELT atop Cerro Armazones in Chile The dome will be around 80 meters high and weigh 6100 metric tons when it is finished. ELT's tertiary mirror, M3, is four meters in diameter and weighs in at a whopping three metric tons. Here, the M3...

They can't land it, but they said they will do as much science as possible for the remainder of the mission.

Happy New Year! Can a rocket make the Moon ripple? No, but it can make a background moon appear wavy. The rocket, in this case, was a SpaceX Falcon Heavy that blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center last week. In the featured launch picture, the rocket's exhaust plume glows beyond its...

I was away and didn't see the launch. However, it's interesting to me that the X-37 has been launched on Falcon 9's in the past iirc...so why now on Falcon Heavy? Wondering if the added more secret stuff on it.

CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt...I remember way back in the day, I boarded the USS Coronado from that same dock for a week around San Clemente Island for helicopter flight ops. I was part of the helicopter squadron assigned to that short detachment as part of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron, HC-1...

Fantastic information as usual @AJS

What does the largest moon in the Solar System look like? Jupiter's moon Ganymede, larger than even Mercury and Pluto, has an icy surface speckled with bright young craters overlying a mixture of older, darker, more cratered terrain laced with grooves and ridges. The cause of the grooved terrain...

As I said yesterday, the weather is getting progressively worse as the week goes on. Windy conditions until next Tuesday or Wednesday :(

Does that doc have a weblink? I don't do Facebook.

It's been pretty windy here the past few days...too windy too launch I think...sucks cuz last night was super clear, would've been epic. Weather is only going to get worse till the end of the weekend :(

Bummer, both scrubbed tonight, but possible Falcon Heavy and Falcon 9 launch Tuesday.

I'm not but a co-worker is and she promised to take pics fpr me.

Wow, I am honored that my pic is still the last pic posted here for over 24 hours, thank you, I am humbled....another angle...I just took this pic 2 minutes ago, lol.

Haven't posted in a while...badder is from AYR, so is the flower in the jar on the far right by the oil diffuser...they've consistently had the best deals...my nightly setup.

What I'm doing right this second...

Euclid Space Telescope Euclid is named after the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria, who lived around 300 BC and founded the subject of geometry. As the density of matter and energy is linked to the geometry of the universe, the mission was named in his honor. Mission objectives Euclid...

Euclid This incredible snapshot from Euclid is a revolution for astronomy. The image shows 1000 galaxies belonging to the Perseus Cluster, and more than 100 000 additional galaxies further away in the background, each containing up to hundreds of billions of stars. Many of these faint galaxies...

I will do a post on EUCLID soon...it's amazing what it can do with the resolution it has.

Lol, we don't have ANY of those around here :(

Oh, I don't think I would get something like that, mainly because I want to control what dosage I'm getting. I don't want to depend on a chip making that decision and this is coming from an IT guy, lol. Sorry I misunderstood.