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Latest Posts by cozy-airlessness - Page 8
MAZEL THE FUCK TOV.
The first all-woman spacewalk
Today the first ever spacewalk consisting of entirely women occured!
Here are the two women who were a part of this EVA.
Christina Koch
Age 40
Two Bachelor of Science degrees, Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
Jessica Meir
Age 42
PhD in Marine Biology, Master of Space Studies
It is standard procedure for spacewalks to consist of more than one person. That way if something bad happens to one astronaut, the other can be there to help immediately.
Previous spacewalks were either a single male in the early days, multiple males, or a mix of men and women. Today the first ever all-woman spacewalk took place with two women going outside the International Space Station.
NASA has stated "The all-woman spacewalk wasn't something we purposefully planned, though. It was bound to happen eventually because of the increasing number of female astronauts. Koch's and Meir's 2013 class of astronaut candidates was 50 percent women.
"Spacewalk assignments are always made on the basis of which astronauts are best prepared to accomplish the tasks at hand under the conditions at the time. Spacewalks are not easy; astronauts typically describe them as the most physically challenging thing they do."
The mission lasted about 6 hours and was to replace a battery on the exterior of the station that failed to activate after prior testing (most spacewalks have objectives this boring).
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, another female NASA astronaut, remarked "Hopefully this will now be considered normal"
This is a good day for women I think :>
Holding out for the first all non-binary spacewalk
The spacecraft Rosetta made this incredible picture during a Mars flyby!
Watch how the dust moves in the 1/6th gravity
Space history
It’s a hobby of mine to listen to and watch archives from the Apollo era.
There’s many places where you can just browse transcripts and video archives, but I’d recommend https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ and https://apollo17.org.
Watching some of the videos from that time is eerie, because these people are so distant and isolated on this dark surface, illuminated by an inclined sun.
Apollo 17 Lunar module docking after trans-lunar injection (1972)
Retired Space Shuttle Endeavour joined with the SCA, flying over Los Angeles (2012)
(Copyright Stephen Confer)
Gemini and Agena.
There are only 2 genders
Please people thee are only two genders…. I can’t believe that Tumblr is allowed to exist and make up all these ridiculous identities and not have all its users in mental health facilities.
The plane of the Moon's orbit is offset from Earth's equator, so the Moon dances north and south throughout her orbit!
The Moon moves in loops and dances around the Earth, but our eyes are too slow to see them.
28 days of exposure
The Long Gas Tail of Spiral Galaxy D100 : Why is there long red streak attached to this galaxy? The streak is made mostly of glowing hydrogen that has been systematically stripped away as the galaxy moved through the ambient hot gas in a cluster of galaxies. Specifically, the galaxy is spiral galaxy D100, and cluster is the Coma Cluster of galaxies. The red path connects to the center of D100 because the outer gas, gravitationally held less strongly, has already been stripped away by ram pressure. The extended gas tail is about 200,000 light-years long, contains about 400,000 times the mass of our Sun, and stars are forming within it. Galaxy D99, visible to D100’s lower left, appears red because it glows primarily from the light of old red stars – young blue stars can no longer form because D99 has been stripped of its star-forming gas. The featured false-color picture is a digitally enhanced composite of images from Earth-orbiting Hubble and the ground-based Subaru telescope. Studying remarkable systems like this bolsters our understanding of how galaxies evolve in clusters. via NASA
sun gf & moon gf ☀️🌙
Messier Star Chart
by ltg.art
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The Milky Way Deconstructed
A color shot of the asteroid Ryugu’s surface. © MASCOT/DLR/JAXA
Another picture of Saturn (3200x1800, CG)
Taken with Space Engine 0.990.37.1720
Space looks very different to how film and television might show. Lots of sci-fi shows or movies portray the stars and galaxy behind a planet, and while it can look pretty, it also is very unrealistic. Stars are very dim. The galaxy is even dimmer. Anybody that lives in a light-pollluted area knows these things. Sunlight, and the light from it that shines onto the planets, is very very bright. This is why you can’t see stars during the day time. You can turn the exposure of your camera up to see both the planet and the stars, but then the planet becomes blindingly bright, and you get lots of camera glare.
Images taken using Space Engine 0.990.37.1720
Unrelated spiritual stuff below
This post probably sounds like nitpicking, and I guess it is. I’m not sure if I like the spirit of space being tampered with just to make things look better in a blockbuster movie. I believe the darkness and quietness is what contains the energy of space, and that feature of it is sacred. Space to me is an ocean, and filling space with clouds/nebulae and planets in a fictional setting feels a lot like completely filling the oceans with seaweed and sand. Planets are extremely far apart, and that is a blessing, as otherwise they would collide with each other. I don’t really have any personal grudges on people that exaggerate space for visual or story related reasons, I think it’s more of a cultural issue, and one that will be resolved over enough time as life on Earth begins to wander into space.