Goodness. When I was a kid, Jupiter had 12 moons, Saturn had 9, and there were 9 planets. Now it's apparently 79, 62, and 8. It's getting hard to keep up.12 new moons for jupiter discovered. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/17/astronomers-discover-12-new-moons-orbiting-jupiter
Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45822845
"A capsule carrying the two crew members of a Russian Soyuz rocket that malfunctioned on lift-off has landed safely in Kazakhstan.
Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are reported to be "in good condition", both Nasa and Russian media said.
Search and rescue teams are now en route to the landing site.
The rocket had taken off for the International Space Station (ISS) when it suffered a problem with its booster.
The crew had to return in "ballistic descent mode", Nasa tweeted, which it explained was "a sharper angle of landing compared to normal".
Scott Manly looks closely at video showing the cause of the accident.Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45822845
"A capsule carrying the two crew members of a Russian Soyuz rocket that malfunctioned on lift-off has landed safely in Kazakhstan.
Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are reported to be "in good condition", both Nasa and Russian media said.
Search and rescue teams are now en route to the landing site.
The rocket had taken off for the International Space Station (ISS) when it suffered a problem with its booster.
The crew had to return in "ballistic descent mode", Nasa tweeted, which it explained was "a sharper angle of landing compared to normal".
360 deg video from Curiosity.
A good one. There are a few of these around; the detail on them is amazing.
Dave
You've seen the pictures, now listen to the sounds!
oyager 2 has now entered interstellar space.
Carl Sagan soars in the starry skies.
Nasa probe survives distant flyby http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46729898
Currently downloading data at a rate of 841.00 b/sec
Very handy site for seeing what the NASA Deep Space Network is communicating with https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
Principal Investigator Alan Stern paid tribute to the skill of his team in acquiring the image as New Horizons flew past the object, reaching 3,500km from its surface at closest approach.
The probe had to target Ultima very precisely to be sure of getting it centre-frame in the view of the cameras and other instruments onboard.
"[Ultima's] only really the size of something like Washington DC, and it's about as reflective as garden variety dirt, and it's illuminated by a Sun that's 1,900 times fainter than it is outside on a sunny day here on the Earth. We were basically chasing it down in the dark at 32,000mph (51,000km/h) and all that had to happen just right," the SwRI scientist said.
Ultima is the larger body, Thule is the smaller one.
If Ultima Thulians are anything like us Earthlings, the Ultimans hate the Thulians.
So far no sign of any space Nazis.China have landed a probe on the far side of the moon.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/03/china-probe-change-4-land-far-side-moon-basin-crater
out of sight?
So far no sign of any space Nazis.