πŸŒŸπŸš€βœ¨ Space Exploration 🌍⭐🌜

This β€˜Large and Unstable’ Sunspot Just Slammed Earth With Its Strongest Flare Yet

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A Game-Changing Telescope Is About to Reveal Its First Images. Here’s How to Watch

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Remembering when NASA stuck a Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747

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Although each failed launch costs a few million dollars, the lessons learned are worth even more.

I don’t know, Musk insists on doing things this way, but there comes a point where the lessons you’re learning are ones you could have figured out another way or worse already should have known. For instance a few rockets ago one of the lessons was β€œbuild the flame trenches everyone says you need to, instead of rushing things for a 4/20 joke”. Maybe the real problem is a narcissistic idiot who refuses to learn.

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It has 3,200 megapixels (67 times more than an iPhone 16 Pro camera), making it so high-resolution that it could capture a golf ball on the Moon and would require 400 Ultra HD TV screens to show a single image.

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China Is Close To Being Able To Refuel Satellites On-Orbit (And Maybe Already Has)

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Oh, here is a soda for @RAvery

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Human remains and space weed:
https://martiangrow.com/
They want to grow cannabis on Mars.
The list of FAQs on their homepage does include β€œWho’s funding this?” - but doesn’t give an answer.

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From a Futurama episode:

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