Artwork by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with Caroline Fox at symmetrymagazine.org
below the weak scale, everything is so intensely quantum-mechanical that it doesn't really make sense to talk about length at all anymore. Instead, we talk about energy ... You want to talk about Planck units? Because we can talk about Planck units. Well, fantabulous timewaster can, at any rate, and it's a beautiful thing.
Community member doctornemo is back at it again with a fantastic and fascinating post that covers humanityโs exploration of space. Click the link and travel inside for wealth of information to pour over!
Venus' lower clouds, via planetary.org
doctornemo posted a great roundup of true adventures in space, July-August 2024.
Cropped image by Josh Dury
The Perseid meteor shower is back and SPrintF posted about a particularly beautiful image of it!
When you're parked about a million miles from Earth, just observing the planet, there's not a lot going on. But as pointed out in a post by Tell Me No Lies, sometimes you do get Mooned.
Ok NASA, you've sent people into space, landed on the Moon, launched science redefining telescopes, so what's next on your agenda? As Wobbuffet's post points out, creating a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) system is the agency's latest accomplishment.
Let's check in on humanity's solar system exploration before 2024 kicks in: doctornemo has made a fantastic post about the current state of developments in space, including asteroid bits, fast spaceships, JuMBOs, a space battle, and a space cat video .
Apollo 8 Reentry by NASA Goddard Photo and Video (cc by)
Community member 'automatronic' made a great comment about Artemis 1's fiery re-entry to Earth. It's an amazing recounting of a fantastic engineering feat by NASA!
Hubble Marks 30 Years in Space With Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth by NASA Goddard Photo and Video (cc by)
Doctornemo has a fantastic post about what's been going on in the past month of humanity's exploration of space!
Gone by M.P.N.texan (cc by-nc)
I'm a Certified Professional Organizer ... Mefi member The Wrong Kind of Cheese again comes to our aid with great, specific advice, this time in a question about dealing with the unneeded, unused, yet still emotionally meaningful items that sometimes overwhelm our storage areas ... and our feelings.
Pancake Crescent Moon with Earthshine by Dawn Sunrise (cc by-nc-nd)
What would be the logistics of making pancakes on the moon? freethefeet needs to know.
NASA photo of Jupiter moons
doctornemo boldly goes where ... well, it turns out almost everyone has gone before, with an impressive roundup of current space busyness and business in orbit, moon news, ambling among the astroids, snack time with a black hole, and what's stirring re Mars and Jupiter. ๐๐๐๐ฐ๐ซ
โจ As someone who's spent the better part of the last decade working on the camera, NIRCam, that took the picture...tomorrow's images are going to be even more gorgeous, let me tell you. – RubixsQube, speaking in the James Webb Space Telescope first images thread. (!!)
Hands in the sky by ohhhbetty (cc by)
In Ask Metafilter, I'm writing a short story where the main character uses a signed language that developed on a space station: A very interesting question and some great answers on signal's request for cultural and linguistic introduction to signed languages for background.
Discworld by CarbonNYC [in SF!] (cc by)
Black hole time! PhysicsMatt answers why the accretion disk is a disk rather than a sphere, and RedOrGreen explains a bit about interferometry (and other stuff) in the Mefi thread on the reveal of the first black hole image.
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