#NASA on The Commons

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STS-31 on Approach

Low angle view of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it approaches for landing on a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base to complete a highly successful five-day mission. It was a long awaited Earth orbital flight during which the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was deployed in orbit. Discovery's wheels came to a complete stop at 6:51:00 a.m. (PDT), April 29, 1990. The landing gear was deployed just moments after this frame was exposed. Inside the spacecraft for STS-31 were astronauts Loren J. Shriver, Charles F. Bolden, Bruce McCandless II, Kathryn D. Sullivan and Steven A. Hawley.

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NASA on The Commons

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NASA on The Commons

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NASA on The Commons

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NASA on The Commons

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Solid Rocket Motor Testing By NASA on The Commons https://flic.kr/p/2qWKEwK

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Stingray Nebula

“Archival data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the nebula Hen 3-1357, nicknamed the Stingray nebula, has faded precipitously over just the past two decades. Witnessing such a swift rate of change in a planetary nebula is exceedingly rare, say researchers. These images captured by Hubble in 1996 (left), when compared to Hubble images taken in 2016 (right), show a nebula that has drastically dimmed in brightness and changed shape. Bright blue shells of gas near the centre of the nebula have all but disappeared, and the wavy edges that earned this nebula its aquatic-themed name are virtually gone. The young nebula no longer pops against the black velvet background of the distant Universe.” - via Wikimedia Commons

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I was talking to an idiot and I need validation.

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Spiral from the side by European Space Agency Via Flickr: What kind of astronomical object is this? It doesn’t look quite like the kinds of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters or galaxy clusters which Hubble normally brings us images of. In fact, this is a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043 — we just happen to be seeing it directly from the side! Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that are seen edge-on. From this point of view, we see the galaxy’s disc as a sharp line through space, overlain with a prominent dust lane. This dust is spread across the spiral arms of UGC 10043, but it looks very thick and cloudy when viewed from the side. You can even see the lights of some active star-forming regions in the arms, shining out from behind the dust. Strikingly, we can also see that the centre of the galaxy sports a glowing, almost egg-shaped ‘bulge’, rising far above and below the disc. All spiral galaxies have a bulge like this one as part of their structure, containing stars that orbit the galactic centre on paths above and below the whirling disc; it’s a feature that isn’t normally obvious in pictures of galaxies. The unusually large size of this bulge compared to the galaxy’s disc is possibly thanks to UGC 10043 siphoning material from a nearby dwarf galaxy. This may also be why the disc is warped, bending up at one end and down at the other. Like most of the full-colour Hubble images released by ESA/Hubble, this image is a composite, made up of several individual snapshots taken by Hubble at different times and capturing different wavelengths of light. You can see the exact images used in the sidebar on this page. A notable aspect of this image is that the two sets of Hubble data used were collected 23 years apart, in 2000 and 2023! Hubble’s longevity doesn’t just afford us the ability to produce new and better images of old targets; it also provides a long-term archive of data which only becomes more and more useful to astronomers. [Image Description: A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disc looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disc in the centre most of the way out to the ends, and the disc glows around that. In the centre a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disc. The tips of the disc are a bit bent. The background is black and mostly empty.] Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel; CC BY 4.0

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hey hi hello the writing juice still eludes me but this very specific and niche bobnix thought has been rattling in my brain for months so here's a needs-a-spit-and-polish first draft

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Experiment_M092_Lower_Body_Negative_Pressure.jpg

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Listen

I'm willing to listen to nearly every single conspiracy theory a person may have.

Comes from being schizotypal and also my very young cousin is on the spectrum, and I'm the only one who ever indulges him. I think it's fascinating how people can take things and connect dots that don't exist, yet can still make a compelling case for it. I genuinely mean that. How our brains work is awesome.

But the one thing...the one theory I'm always gonna look at you in disgust for even believing that shit is if you believe Space is fake.

SPACE

THE GALAXY

This beautiful fucking shit

FAKE

I ain't talking moon landing didn't happen.

I mean, the stuff up there ain't real and NASA is a front to cover up war crimes.

Thank the gods my cousin doesn't think that. I'd have to disown his ass.

And thank the gods I delved deeper into this person's page on tiktok cuz I was really enjoying their takes on things. Especially Antarctica. Love me some good conspiracy tea on Antarctica. But she lost me at her space deep fake bullshit nonsense.

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It's a shame Armageddon came out the same year, was about a similar thing and sucked ass, cause Deep Impact was a really really good movie about being human and especially the relationships between parents and children that made me genuinely cry at least thrice.

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NASA on The Commons

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NASA on The Commons

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Lucy Spacecraft Launch By NASA on The Commons https://flic.kr/p/2qo58ay