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The Space Thread
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Nasa's Parker Solar Probe is due to pass within 3.8 million miles of the Sun today. Someone on the radio said that it might not sound that close, but if the Sun was a metre away this probe is passing just 4 cm from it.
Surfing the Corona the Parker Probe will break the human object record as it reaches 430,000 mph.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/science/nasa-parker-solar-probe-sun.html
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According one website, time will be 0.75 seconds slower over 1,000 hours on the probe relative to earth.Raith_C_Chattonell said:Nasa's Parker Solar Probe is due to pass within 3.8 million miles of the Sun today. Someone on the radio said that it might not sound that close, but if the Sun was a metre away this probe is passing just 4 cm from it.
Surfing the Corona the Parker Probe will break the human object record as it reaches 430,000 mph.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/science/nasa-parker-solar-probe-sun.html0 -
I see the Indians became the fourth nation to carry out a successful space docking mission with the satellites Target and Chaser.
A pivotal achievement in attaining the skills required to build their planned space station.
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Seeing me read this thread is the most conflicted she's ever been.
She always teases me about reading this forum but she's also an astronomer and she's intrigued by people discussing it in a football forum.0 -
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzl9dz5rdo.amp
First vertical shuttle launch licence means UK (well, Germans in the UK) will soon be launching rockets into space.0 -
Six planets in alignment at the moment. Worth a look over the next few weeks. Maybe not tonight though, don't know about anywhere else but it's cloudy where I am at the mo.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planetary-alignment-2025
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Interstellar comet coming closer. But, no, despite the BBC's clickbait web address for this story, it will not hit Earth or Mars.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/will-3-i-atlas-hit-earth-or-mars
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Awe shame.Stig said:Interstellar comet coming closer. But, no, despite the BBC's clickbait web address for this story, it will not hit Earth or Mars.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/will-3-i-atlas-hit-earth-or-mars
We could do with a reset!
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