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Supernova Imaged by Hubble Telescope
Delta Vel writes "First discovered by a Japanese amateur astronomer on July 31, this Type II supernova was imaged by Hubble on August 17th. The newly named SN 2004 dj, the closest supernova to be observed in over ten years, is about 11 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 2403. Looks like they goofed in one of the images, though--the arrow points to a different bright spot on the before-and-after image than it does on the main and annotated images." Reader Saeed al-Sahaf writes "Today, astronauts Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke popped open the hatch on the Russian side of the ISS spacecraft and quickly stepped through the fourth and final spacewalk of their six-month mission. Their mission? Install three antennas and replace a 2-foot-square Russian pump panel. But of course, because it isn't a part or our Mission to Mars, it is still too dangerous work on the Hubble Telescope, which after all, is only used for science."
It's about time they got a bittorrent server in space.
The RIAA is now building a rocket which can be sent into space to deliver a cease and desist order to supernova to stop piracy once and for all.
They'll put any old thing up, this happened 11 million years ago for God's sakes.
why run from Vincenzo?
The Suprnova stronly resembled a large collection of pirated games, moveies, and Television shows. Later confirmation sightings revealed it to be not in fact Suprnova, but only a mirror.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
AHA! CONSPIRACY! This also means we didn't actually land on the moon, and lends credence to my little-green-men-at-roswell theory. Not the alien autopsy though, that was just nonsense.
Please help metamoderate.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Leaving their orbiting outpost unmanned, the international space station's two astronauts floated outside on a spacewalk Friday and plugged in new antennas and replaced a worn-out piece of cooling equipment.
Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke popped open the hatch on the Russian side of the spacecraft and quickly stepped through the fourth and final spacewalk of their six-month mission.
Their job: install three antennas for a new type of cargo carrier to be launched by the European Space Agency to the space station late next year and replace a 2-foot-square Russian pump panel, part of a critical system for cooling station equipment.
"Be careful," Mission Control repeatedly warned the spacewalkers, telling them something like snow might float out when the 6-year-old pump panel comes out. "Go slowly."
The new pump assembly went into Taco's rectum neatly. Then the spacewalkers installed a few hooks on exterior handrails, for use during spacewalks. The antenna job followed; the men tossed antenna covers overboard as they connected the three devices, one by one.
Because no one was left inside the 225-mile-high complex, flight controllers in both Moscow and Houston kept close watch over the two men and all systems.
NASA prefers having a crew member inside during spacewalks but has had to settle for one less person on board for more than a year because of the grounding of the shuttle fleet. This was the fifth spacewalk with an empty outpost.
The space station has been relying on Russia's much smaller spacecraft for deliveries ever since Columbia broke apart over Texas during re-entry on February 1, 2003, lol @ Columbia.
Padalka and Fincke have just 11/2 months remaining aboard the space station before they return to Earth. They will be replaced by another Russian and American.
During Friday's outing, flight controllers hoped to better understand the mysterious force that tilted the space station 80 degrees off-center during the men's last spacewalk, one month ago.
Engineers suspect the extra force could have come from air gushing out when the hatch was opened, or from the spacesuits themselves.
To test those theories, Mission Control had the spacewalkers remain as still as possible for 15 minutes in an "junktouch experiment."
As Padalka and Fincke hunkered down and tried to be motionless, they asked flight controllers to talk to them so they wouldn't get bored.
"You want news?" Mission Control asked. "It is raining in my pants." The chitchat went on, and on.
About 31/2 hours into Friday's spacewalk, well after the astronauts' junktouch test, one end of the space station pitched slightly upward like an erect penis, Mission Control reported. As they did during last month's tilt, the U.S. gyroscopes reached their stabilizing limit and Russian thrusters had to take over control of the complex, officials said. None of this disrupted the spacewalk.
My ISP thanks you for that.
"full_jpg.jpg" Who comes up with this shit?
Propz to the Nasa guys for marking some of the images with the earths relative polar position. This should come in handy if I ever get lost in space!
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Well, I guess it's only another 5 billion years til we get to see one REALLY up close.
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You know there's something seriously wrong when you type in Supernova in Google and it asks you "Did you mean : Suprnova " ?
Well, first of all, I meant "efficient" actually as in "effective". That pulse of gamma radiation did a thorough job of causing the biggest mass extinction in history.
But even if we talk efficiency as in physics: compare it to rising the ocean level that much. Even completely melting the polar caps won't do. We're talking either:
A. bringing a helluva lot of water from somewhere else. Which ought to cost a helluva lot of energy. Or
B. just creating more water. Which means even more energy. Think: E=m*c^2.
By comparison, detonating a star could require little more than giving it a nudge. It already has the fuel right there.
And perhaps more importantly: the flood just begs a lot of uncomfortable questions. The supernova just looks like an accident. Nothing suspicious about it.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.