The Space Stuff thread

Borg 386 said:

Supermoon 2017: When and How to See December This Weekend

Thanks Borg I will look for this tonight :)

Voyager! Anyone besides me remember when these took off? Amazing to me how far they have gone and that they both still work.

"Imagine you had a car sitting in storage since 1980, and suddenly you needed to start it up. Now imagine that it revs up like a charm as soon as you turn the key.
That’s the scenario NASA is using as a comparison for this week’s startup of a thruster system that’s been sitting dormant on the Voyager 1 probe for 37 years.
One important difference: Voyager’s key had to be turned by remote control from a distance of 13.1 billion miles."

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/nasa-t...37-years-work/

670,200,000 miles/hr and 13.1 billion miles away=

13,100,000,000 miles away divided by 670,200,000 miles per hour = 19.5 hours


The speed of light is fast, but space is HUGE.

2017's best meteor shower to peak Wednesday night as Geminids dazzle onlookers

From the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 13, into the morning of Thursday, Dec. 14, onlookers will see an abundance of meteors streak across the sky, as long as the weather cooperates.


“The Geminids are expected to be the most active meteor shower of 2017 and often are bright and intensely colored,” AccuWeather Astronomy Blogger Dave Samuhel said.

This year will be a particularly good year since the peak of the shower falls just days before the new moon, meaning there will be little natural light pollution.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...okers/70003516

Its not outer space but it is neat.