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Lastly (for this thread), @CNES is working with French Armed Forces by conceiving systems to provide Optical imagery, Elint, secure telecomunications and space situational awareness to help maintain peace and safety.
📷CNES/Mira Productions/PAROT Rémy, 2018
Hi. This is @Astro_Radifah. Three years back, astronomers spotted the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded or "spaghettified" after approaching too close to a massive black hole.
Can we just stop for a minute and notice that scientists are literally bits of the universe studying itself?
🤯🤯🤯
A precursor to the @ISS_Research, the Shuttle-Mir missions sought to gain experience with longer duration spaceflights. The information from these flights proved to be instrumental in planning for the international cooperation and coordination necessary for the assembly of ISS
I’ve always struggled to visualise how the Apollo crew transferred from the CM to the LM. These graphics show why the instrumentation panel was cutaway.
Source: Fine Art America
2 cartoons depict different scenarios for Apollo crews flying to the Moon.
Left: fully automated, sit and observe.
Right: fully manual.
The reality was somewhere in between.
Competition time.
@artycosmos painted this piece to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. Each crewed mission is depicted somewhere. Can you spot them all??
Drop your B&W art, any medium
Anything greyscale space compels me
Asteroid Lutetia / Daphnis' gravity waves / Scrubbed launch / Haulani, Ceres https://t.co/jkaRkirGG2