The Night Sky

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Super Moon Tonight 11PMEST

The Next Full Moon Is a "Supermoon" Pink Moon – NASA Solar System Exploration

 

[Roccus7]

Dang moon is so bright it over saturated the photo!!

 

[Roccus7]

Ever wonder what happens when a star gets too close to a Black Hole? Seems that the astrophysicists think it doesn't get swallowed, but gets torn apart and then slowly devoured...



Explanation: What happens if a star gets too close to a black hole? The black hole can rip it apart -- but how? It's not the high gravitational attraction itself that's the problem -- it's the difference in gravitational pull across the star that creates the destruction. In the featured animated video illustrating this disintegration, you first see a star approaching the black hole. Increasing in orbital speed, the star's outer atmosphere is ripped away during closest approach. Much of the star's atmosphere disperses into deep space, but some continues to orbit the black hole and forms an accretion disk. The animation then takes you into the accretion disk while looking toward the black hole. Including the strange visual effects of gravitational lensing, you can even see the far side of the disk. Finally, you look along one of the jets being expelled along the spin axis. Theoretical models indicate that these jets not only expel energetic gas, but create energetic neutrinos -- one of which may have been seen recently on Earth.

 

[wader]

China launches first module of permanent space station as Beijing aims to become major space power by 2030

China on Thursday launched the core module for its first permanent space station as the country pursues its ambitious space programme. The Tianhe, or “Heavenly Harmony” module, blasted into space on the Long March-5B Y2 rocket from Hainan, an island in southern China, according to state media...

www.yahoo.com

 

[jpd]

Could be very interesting or very unlucky....depending on where you live.....

Huge rocket looks set for uncontrolled reentry following Chinese space station launch

Huge rocket looks set for uncontrolled reentry following Chinese space station launch

spacenews.com

 

[wader]

Could be very interesting or very unlucky....depending on where you live.....

Huge rocket looks set for uncontrolled reentry following Chinese space station launch

Huge rocket looks set for uncontrolled reentry following Chinese space station launch

spacenews.com

what goes up.............

 

[wader]

States across the eastern US could catch sight of a NASA Wallops rocket launch Friday

With a window scheduled for 7:58 p.m. Friday, the Black Brant XII rocket will launch from Virginia's NASA Wallops Flight Facility.

www.yahoo.com

Oddly colored ‘spherical clouds’ expected off East Coast on Sunday, NASA warns

Experts predict a spike in UFO reports.

www.yahoo.com

I'll be watching from my front porch.

 

[wader]

rescheduled for 8:02 tonight................

NASA Wallops Rocket Launch Visible in Eastern United States - NASA

UPDATE 5/15: The launch of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload has been postponed to no earlier than 8:04 p.m. EDT, Sunday,

www.nasa.gov

Live coverage from Wallops available here beginning at 7:40

 

[jpd]

Way too cloudy up here..as always

 

[wader]

Way too cloudy up here..as always

clear skies from my front porch

 

[wader]

gettin' ready to move out to the front porch to watch the launch

 

[Chevy1]

gettin' ready to move out to the front porch to watch the launch

Did you see it, too cloudy here

 

[wader]

Did you see it, too cloudy here

delayed (again) until tonight @ 8

 

[wader]

well it looks like it's ready to go - finally

NASA-TV Wallops

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

video.ibm.com

 

[dsedy]

within the next 45 minutes

NASA Wallops Rocket Launch Visible in Eastern United States - NASA

UPDATE 5/15: The launch of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket carrying the KiNET-X payload has been postponed to no earlier than 8:04 p.m. EDT, Sunday,

www.nasa.gov

 

[dsedy]

NASA-TV Wallops

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

video.ibm.com

Live video stream

 

[wader]

NASA-TV Wallops

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

video.ibm.com

Live video stream

they're still trying to lunch this?

It's been a week of scrubbed launches - takes off about 25 miles northeast of me

 

[dsedy]

Yes just saw it on a feed. looks like earliest is 8:03

 

[wader]

Yes just saw it on a feed. looks like earliest is 8:03

I can see it from my front porch.

 

[wader]

10 minutes & counting = maybe tonight?