I just saw the moon

florduh

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You can't really see stars in LA. Too much light pollution. So I took advantage of all the power outages when I was in Floriduh, got really high, and started star watching.

I used an app on my phone to tell me what each star was and how far away they were. 30 light years? God damn, I'm seeing light from when I was a kid! Then I found this fucker:

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Deneb. In the constellation Cygnus. When observing Deneb, the photons hitting my eyes started travelling 2,620 years ago. These were moldy, Roman Empire ass photons! This freaked me out and I stared at it until my neck hurt.

Deneb is so bright because it's a dying supergiant, having burnt through all of its hydrogen. It's due to go nova in a few million years.

This whole night was very entertaining. With enough weed and clear skies, you don't really need TV :shrug:
 

cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
Prada and US based startup Axiom Space have unveiled the space suit astronauts will be wearing when they return to the Moon after half a century.

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It's funny that a luxury clothing designer is a principle player in spacesuit technology. I mean, if they were creating Olympic uniforms, that would make perfect sense, but this is science, not fashion or beauty. I was in the fashion industry for many years and I dealt with manufacturers quite a lot, but I can't really fathom how their general expertise would lend itself to this task other than the ability to take a design and make it work for different sizes and body types. We're not talking a huge number of suits here, so these are much more likely to be made by hand than to be "manufactured".
I guess they intend them to be modular. So, not fully customized, I guess, but still...

Who's gonna make the helmet, Hasbro?
 
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florduh

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Maybe I should have said it's a partnership between Axiom Space and Prada instead.


I'm sure the most important parts of the design was done by the space company. Here's what Prada has to say for their contribution:

Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility said, “Going beyond our limits is one of the company’s values that perfectly reflects the spirit of the Prada brand and my parents’ vision. I’m very proud of the result we’re showing today, which is just the first step in a long-term collaboration with Axiom Space. We’ve shared our expertise on high-performance materials, features, and sewing techniques, and we learned a lot. I’m sure we’ll continue to explore new challenges, broaden our horizons, and build new scenarios together.”

Sounds like the Italians are just really good at sewing :shrug:

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Never heard of Axoim before but their big project is making a Space Station:


Axiom is an American company but they sure like working with Italians. I'm surprised their fuckin space suit didn't look like this:

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CrazyDiamond

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Enhancing what @CANtalk started...a 21MB image and pan video

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young star cluster NGC 602. This image includes data from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) and MIRI (Mid-InfraRed Instrument).
The local environment of this cluster is a close analogue of what existed in the early Universe, with very low abundances of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. The existence of dark clouds of dense dust and the fact that the cluster is rich in ionized gas also suggest the presence of ongoing star formation processes. This cluster provides a valuable opportunity to examine star formation scenarios under dramatically different conditions from those in the solar neighborhood.

 

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