Anyone for an astronomy thread?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Yup. There's more detail on the link.

[Sits]

Is that a closeup of the sun?

[Nocturnal Submission]

I'm a bit surprised that no-one posted a link to this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53429054

[Nocturnal Submission]

I’d love to get out and see Neowise but it’s been continually fucking cloudy for weeks.
Friday night is looking possible.

When would it be visible?

[Incandenza]

Thinking of driving out away from the city to try to see it tomorrow night as well. It's been clear, just hard to see it around me with how low it is on the horizon, and all of the light.

[hobbes]

I’d love to get out and see Neowise but it’s been continually fucking cloudy for weeks.
Friday night is looking possible.

[Guy Profumo]

Turns out the moon is a mere stripling at 85 million years younger than thought:


https://www.space.com/moon-85-millio...

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/matthewbailyes/status/1282422182476492804

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

AAAAAARGH The fallen Angel is on the other side of the hill, and he's going to be so fucking pissed off.

[ursus arctos]

Imagine seeing this

https://twitter.com/mizuho73700856/status/1281166848164151296

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

You can see why comets freaked the fuck out of everyone. That's amazing.

[Guy Profumo]

https://twitter.com/Ely_Cathedral/status/1281960747803828226

Superb!

[Nocturnal Submission]

What a terrific photo.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/Ely_Cathedral/status/1281960747803828226

[Guy Profumo]

Any excitement for this comet then?

[Sits]

Venus was really bright when something woke me at 4:50 this morning.

[hobbes]

No worries. I just love conjunction for some reason.
Years ago there was a conjunction that lasted for months between Jupiter and Venus and for 3 or 4 days a month the moon too. I'd see it as I crossed the millennium bridge on the walk home. That was spectacular.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Thanks hobbes, I was wondering what that bright thing above the moon was when I was out and about just now. I didn't notice Saturn, but I didn't look particularly carefully.

[hobbes]

If you look due south tonight, you'll see a full moon. Just above it, the very bright star is Jupiter. If you imagine a point halfway between the two then look about 3 moon diameters to the left, that's Saturn.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I think Gliese (number) is a generic name given to about 1000 stars close to us but not visible to the naked eye (and so not named by pre-telescope astronomers).

[Ginger Yellow]

That's a very confusing subhead until you read a long way down the article. What's DNA doing on expolanets and how did they recover it?

[Diable Rouge]

https://twitter.com/ScienceSpinning/status/1276519666282901504

Not the first time exoplanets have been discovered orbiting Gliese.

[Snake Plissken]

I was referring to Falcon doing launches for $60m and it previously costing $400m. With each launch developing the capability to do this, where the rivals can't even get off the ground.

SLS is costing $2bn a year and delivering nothing.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

They’ve also reduced the cost of launches by 80%.

So the Two something billion dollars Space X got for this and three more launches was 80% less than the Russians had been getting? No wonder Putin can afford to treat Trump to all those, ahem, "hostesses".

[Diable Rouge]

NASA is, but not SpaceX.