Space stuff (NASA, UKSA, CSA, ESA, etc)

During a teleconference on Wednesday morning, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development Jim Free gave the potential dates for the launch of the Artemis 1 mission: Aug. 29, Sept. 2 and Sept. 5, 2022.

No launch window times were given.

Free stressed that these dates are “launch attempts” and admitted that NASA was not sure about those liftoff dates due to a repair of a hydrogen leak. (MyNews13)
 
I was hoping to have a second picture yesterday, but the sky was too bright and I wasn't able to get a good video to picture conversion.

That being said it was pretty amazing, historic even. The last time the Space Coast had two launches on the same day was 56 years ago.
 
The Northern Lights may be visible in the mainland U.S. this week due to a strong geomagnetic storm, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
But the storm could push the aurora lights farther south Thursday and Friday, and if weather conditions permit, could be seen in regions of Pennsylvania, Iowa and Oregon. (NPR)
 
Webb is certainly going to rewrite a lot of what we (think we) know about the Universe, in a hugely fundamental way:


The speculation is that: "...according to Big Bang theory, the most distant galaxies in the JWST images are seen as they were only 400-500 million years after the origin of the universe. Yet already some of the galaxies have shown stellar populations that are over a billion years old. Since nothing could have originated before the Big Bang, the existence of these galaxies [suggests] that the Big Bang did not occur..."
Or, in other words, the observations don't line up with our current understanding of the BB. Curious, indeed.

--Patrick
 
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Webb is certainly going to rewrite a lot of what we (think we) know about the Universe, in a hugely fundamental way:


The speculation is that: "...according to Big Bang theory, the most distant galaxies in the JWST images are seen as they were only 400-500 million years after the origin of the universe. Yet already some of the galaxies have shown stellar populations that are over a billion years old. Since nothing could have originated before the Big Bang, the existence of these galaxies [suggests] that the Big Bang did not occur..."
Or, in other words, the observations don't line up with our current understanding of the BB. Curious, indeed.

--Patrick
Whoa, so does that mean the universe might be even older than originally theorized? That's...huge.

Of course, creationists will be like "Fake news! It's only a few thousand years old!"
 
This is the only part of the future I'm looking forward to right now. All the JWT stuff is fucking incredible.
 
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