Anyone here know any good sites (with pictures not just text) that deal with future deep space exploration (not science fiction though)??
The best images are typically from the Hubble Telescope. This site gives you access to a bunch of amazing images. Go to the “Gallery” and there’s a bunch of choices categorized for you.
Regarding Wonder Showzen, I don’t have the DVDs, I downloaded the torrent, and noticed that if I played the episodes in VLC Player they were normal, but if I played them in Media Player then they had the commentary. Found it on the Michio Kaku one, too. About shit myself when he introduced himself. Crazy.
This is about as deep as it gets: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
Chandra’s (X-Ray) and Spitzer’s (IR) sites also have amazing pics.
Some of the pics listed are composite images of all three remaining Great Observatories’ data.
What’s the use by date on Hubble anyway?
As in - when do they have to replace it by and what are they going to replace it with?
That Voyager probe has been going since 1977, is travelling at 60,000 kms an hour and is only now on the boundary of what is considered our ‘solar system’. Pretty amazing.
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Interesting question. I have no idea. They send missions out there from time to time to do servicing or upgrades on it (one fairly recent one boosted it 100x more powerful).
For a similar reference, though, Mir lasted only about 15 years, so we’ll see how long they can push the Hubble for.
hubble was supposed to be decommissioned 3 or 4 years ago because of it’s age and it had needed repair work… but somehow funds were granted and a team went up to fix it… I don’t know anymore specifics than that.
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Wonder Showzen.
I’ve never heard of this show
Michio Kaku
This dude is on every astronomy show I watch… didn’t know his name though… he seems full of himself.
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I wish I could tell you how many times I’ve watched these videos but, honestly, I can’t count that high.
The 5th and final HST (Hubble) servicing mission was in 2009. I have a graphic of the improved imaging from each of its upgrades in one of my slide shows. It is amazing the improvements that it has received. The last HST servicing mission was canceled after STS-107 (Columbia) went down over TX, but was reinstated by demand of the public - yes, the demand of the public! The public claims HST as their own. JWST was set to replace HST and IXO was set to replace Chandra, but Congress has mothballed JWST due to it being over budget, and IXO is just a concept at this point in time. If the public wants it, they are going to have to demand it to get it refunded. They won’t listen to me, but they may listen to all of you. BTW, HST holds the record for the most graduate papers written. My own graduate paper was Orbiter/HST related.
Just for Mooney, given you probably know more than anyone else on this; what’s your opinion on the current attempts to detect gravitational waves?
The interferometers seem like a massive waste of money when weighed up against the advantages of the timed network pulsar arrays.
I just can’t understand the reason for such massive investment when we’ve got the latter which seems to be the far more sensitive and useful option.
Peligro, you’ve got to show me those doc’s sometime down the track. I had no idea you were into this sort of thing.
Baby steps and independent confirmation using the scientific method?
Take a look at the universe’s microwave signature and how it has improved resolution over time with various techniques/instruments. Additionally, the discovery of pulsars, who discovered them first and with what and who published their paper back to back with the original discoverer’s paper.