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SpaceX and other space stuff
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Fascinating if you have a couple minutes. Remote “relaxed” galaxy cluster detected.
Since you're in Tejas, you should plan to see a SpaceX Starship launch from Boca Chica. Hopefully there'll be one in a month or so.
Somebody in there is going to be sweating bullets until October... 
"About a week ago, operators of the Voyager 2 spacecraft sent a series of commands that inadvertently caused the distant probe to point its antenna slightly away from Earth. As a result, NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet."
NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft
"About a week ago, operators of the Voyager 2 spacecraft sent a series of commands that inadvertently caused the distant probe to point its antenna slightly away from Earth. As a result, NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet."
NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft
Somebody in there is going to be sweating bullets until October...
"About a week ago, operators of the Voyager 2 spacecraft sent a series of commands that inadvertently caused the distant probe to point its antenna slightly away from Earth. As a result, NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet."
NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft
Seems to be a recurring theme...
Space Station Loses Contact with NASA Mission Control
Hey hey! Voyager 2 is back in touch! 
Link Removed, NASA said all is now well once again with Voyager 2. NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, was able to send a "shout" command to Voyager instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself into a proper position to facilitate communication with Earth.
It took 18.5 hours for the signal to reach the spacecraft, which is now 19.9 billion kilometers away from Earth. Finally, after a total of 37 hours, a signal returned from the probe. Shortly after midnight on Friday morning, at 12:29 am ET, Voyager 2 started streaming back science and telemetry data.
Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool
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Link Removed, NASA said all is now well once again with Voyager 2. NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, was able to send a "shout" command to Voyager instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself into a proper position to facilitate communication with Earth.
It took 18.5 hours for the signal to reach the spacecraft, which is now 19.9 billion kilometers away from Earth. Finally, after a total of 37 hours, a signal returned from the probe. Shortly after midnight on Friday morning, at 12:29 am ET, Voyager 2 started streaming back science and telemetry data.
Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool
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didn’t want to make a thread about this so…
Does anybody know why the moon is still visible?
Took this Friday at 8am.
Does anybody know why the moon is still visible?
Took this Friday at 8am.
Because its reflecting the sun.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/why-ca...-the-day-we-asked-a-nasa-scientist-episode-19
Along those lines, I was able to see the planet Jupiter in broad daylight. The news ran a thing about that happening and it would last for a few weeks. This was over 10 years ago.
Hard as heck to find initially, 'cause it's just a dot in a large bright blue sky. But, once found, I marked a place under a tree in the yard and used an overhead branch to point it's location at a specific time of day (which shifted slightly each day).
I'd check it about every day, sometimes multiple time a day. After maybe a week, I lost interest in the little dot LOL.
If anyone's interested in spotting Jupiter, right now is a good time (scroll down to item 5, Jupiter).:
When is Jupiter at quadrature next? Pretty soon, it happens on August 6-7, 2023. And count your lucky stars, the moon will be about 3 degrees from Jupiter on August 8, 2023.
Top 10 space objects to see during the day
That looks like somebody needs to clean the schmutz off the camera lens.
For what little it's worth, I saw Jupiter today in daylight. That's only because I saw its position relative to the moon while walking the dogs before sunrise. Was about 3 moon-diameters away. Anyway, dogs took me for another walk about 10am, sunny clear sky, and I could just barely see it.
Just kinda neat, but I'm done with looking for it now LOL.
Hmm...a valid point. Especially after considering that pic of the creepy eye of Jupiter taken in 2014.But is it done looking for you???
A New View of Jupiter Reveals A Creepy 'Eye'
