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DiscussionWeek of August 27, 2017 'All Space Questions' thread (self.space)

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Shepard Smith's Eclipse Coverage Was Fantastic (youtube.com)

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Made a video about combustion cycles, turbopumps, ... Enjoy! (youtu.be)

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Astronomers detected first X-rays from thermonuclear supernova (futurity.org)

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NASA's New Space Telescope Is in Harvey's Path - The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)

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Half-shell heroes: Rocket fairings protect satellites from the thermal, acoustic and aerodynamic stresses of launch to space. Europe's fairings are now lighter, faster to produce and less costly thanks to a manufacturing process adopted by RUAG Space in Switzerland through a partnership with ESA. (esa.int)

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Tabby's Star may be explained by a ringed gas giant. (universetoday.com)

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not the highestThis is what the highest point in the path of totality looked like to the naked eye. Borah Peak, Idaho 12,500 feet (i.redd.it)

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NASA's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet (nasa.gov)

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I created a composite of ~45 partial phases of the eclipse leading into totality. (i.redd.it)

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While everyone pointed their cameras at the sun, I filmed everything else. Here's my amateur video of what Totality felt like in the Painted Hills of Oregon. [02:19] (youtu.be)

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DiscussionStellarHub, our first starbase simulator/management game, has launched (self.space)

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I caught the Milky Way above Mont Blanc last weekend. Exif is in the comments! (i.redd.it)

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The shadow of the eclipse from the International Space Station (i.imgur.com)

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Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia's Z machine: Small cracks in basic theories (eurekalert.org)

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Halley's Comet, 1910 (i.redd.it)

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This is how the surrounding looked like during totality. Included a graph in which you can see a temperature drop of 6 degrees Celsius during the eclipse. (youtube.com)

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New Stunning Images and Videos of Saturn from Cassini (youtu.be)

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Astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers of cosmology (eurekalert.org)

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Time lapse video that I took in southwestern Idaho during the eclipse (v.redd.it)

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Watch as NASA's Cassini Speeds Past Saturn's Rings in This Awesome View (space.com)

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NASA Awards $400,000 to Top Teams at Second Phase of 3D-Printing Competition (nasa.gov)

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Screenshot of the 360° video taken by our high altitude balloon flying over the Wyoming mountains during the eclipse (i.redd.it)

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Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere (eso.org)

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A video of the James Webb telescope deployment sequence (youtu.be)

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Johns Hopkins APL’s ‘Dragonfly’ Dual-Quadcopter Aims to Explore Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon (jhuapl.edu)

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