Yeah it makes me excited because it's a reminder that we're in the frontier days, just starting to explore what's out there, and only currently focusing our telescopes on the most obvious likely planets, those with a steady and repeating orbit, which means they are short duration like this. Over time we'll broaden our search more and likely find many planets that are smaller and longer orbits, more earth like. So much exploring ahead!

Technically Venus goes through years faster than days (less than a Venus day per Venus year).

I know you're referencing Earth days when talking about the planet in the article, but it has days too!

If it was directly, we'd all be dead.

Damn! A three day year for that planet? That's so close to the sun.

Alexa, what is statistical analysis?

Isn’t the traditional thinking that some FRB’s are correlated with magnetars? I just dove into this the other day and that was the impression I came away with, of course nothing being fully conclusive.

I gather not all FRB’s have the same characteristics nor are they suitably explained by the same phenomena?

There's a few possibilities. Initial state is certainly one possibility; another would be a near-miss with another object that resulted in the ejection of a larger amount of lighter elements due to the short term increase in energy in the localized system, and another is that the proximity to the star and constant barrage of solar wind has driven off part of the outermost layers.

We'll probably find out more with additional study. No matter what, it's interesting stuff!

I live in a constant state of nihilism, you're so indifferent to the universe's scope that one cannot simply assume there's a purpose or a "mission". We are just a probability that materialized... The atom soup was just right enough for this to develop. We'll exist, do our thing, stop existing, and the universe won't even skip a beat (I don't think we won't even have been/will be around for enough time for a universe beat to even occur).

If our observations and science are even infinitesimally correct, I believe it to be a win, because IMHO there's A LOT that we are simply unable to observe/study/comprehend. What even is existence and reality itself? Existential SMBH.

No one suggested its always daylight in space. However its almost always daylight when/where we take photos because all black doesnt make good copy.

Let’s not forget that the incidence of MMOD has been increased because of human activity. Due to the increased launch frequency and some orbital collisions, there are way more bolts and nuts loose in orbit than 50 years ago. It’s a big topic nowadays in the space community.

>titanium-rich slag

Please don't call my mother that.

Well we did have many thousands move here in a few years for FBI, various other government agencies that dont say what they do, they love it. Not to mention that USSC will be nowhere near the largest player in their own field here.

Thats the point im getting at. Everyone else is already here, them being in Colorado is a waste of resources long term. Engineers LOVE Huntsville because of CRP and RA, you can get a different job in 2 days working on damn near anything you want to work on. Its cheap, good neighborhoods, and plenty of work. Colorado has... good weather, pretty mountains, and better traffic.

Look up Cummings Research Park. Colorado is not the place to be, with or without NORAD or proximity to deep space radar.

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Yet after 40+ years they seek gains in Huntsville, just like everybody else. Location of your workforce doesn't matter, its about proximity to the firms you interact with 24/7. Next door is better than being many states away. People already do fuckloads of work for USSC here.

I have been to CS, been on base, family has served and been on contractor side. It doesn't compare to CRP and RA.

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Pretty sure they are still there

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That is an interesting article. Thank you for posting it. I wonder if the higher portion of heavy elements means that solar system was created from material that has been through more star creation and death cycles than the material of our solar system.

I mean, he could, but with no radiation shielding they would be bombarded by radiation probably eventually knocking the electronics out (have no clue on the time-frame). Additionally, if they happen to be on the bright side at any time and being black, a melt would be in order, so they'd also have to be repainted. This one is my speculation, but, probably the radiation shielding in the ISS would prevent the remotes from communicating with the cameras.

If all those issues are resolved, great pictures, barring that, just don't have lights inside the cupola and you're golden IMO!

Yeah, he did.

"This is what 7 minutes of exposure looks like" implies a single exposure.

If you exposed for 7 minutes without compositing you'd have star trails or your landscape would be a blur. Op composited two exposures together.

IE, H.G. Wells, the time machine.

Akshuallyyyyyyy... You gotta think about the portion of the "sky" that the Earth itself blocks, so basically 1/2 of them at any given time.

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That's just investor money. I'm not sure if it includes the support by ESA and DLR they have gotten so far. Also they apparently already have their first few flights fully booked and more customers interested.

We shouldn't compare this to those companies a few years ago riding the SPAC hype and raising 800mil Dollar with a cool PowerPoint presentation and no hardware and now threatened to be delisted.

Raising 155mil Euro in the current economy actually isn't too bad.

I'm more worried about their future business model. Launch alone doesn't make you much money. And especially for small launch there aren't that many launches to go around as people hoped and claimed a few years ago. Nobody is going to buy 30 small launches for their constellation when 1-2 big ones do the same. Even Rocketlab makes most of their money in producing satellite components. Launch is just an option you can book in that package. SpaceX has Starlink which will probably soon dwarf their revenue from launch and they also try selling their Starlink satellite bus and ion thrusters.

I think one of them will do fine, but i doubt we will have Orbex, Isar and RFA plus a few others i probably forgot around in 10 years time.