Here in Florida we just have a regular black sky. Very very slight hint of dark pink but I wouldn't notice it if I wasn't looking for it. But then turn on night mode camera and it picks this up. It looks nothing like this lol
Took that one an hour ago. To the visible eye could only see a little red and the outline of the blob due to lights from the parking lot to my left.
Had to drive away from the city but picked up the pink hue on my phone all the way down in Fort Myers.
We didn't get the pink sky tonight, but I was just chilling and floating on my back in the poop tonight and looked up and saw this.
You can now follow it to the North Star. Just find the Big Dipper. The two stars on the end of the Dipper's "cup" point the way to Polaris, which is the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper, or the tail of the little bear in the constellation Ursa Minor. Locate Polaris using the two "pointer stars" on the end of the Big Dipper's cup.
Yea I'm not much of an space guy. I just happened to look up and it was so obvious I was like wait that's the big Dipper right? My wife is a space nerd and went on a 20 minute lecturing and showed me the north star.
Orion is too easy because of the belt and the bow. I like pointing out Pleiades. People often think it’s the Little Dipper when looking at it.
After completing a series of tests and carefully considering the options, NASA announced Tuesday work is underway to transition its Hubble Space Telescope to operate using only one gyroscope (gyro). While the telescope went into safe mode May 24, where it now remains until work is complete, this change will enable Hubble to continue exploring the secrets of the universe through this decade and into the next, with the majority of its observations unaffected. Of the six gyros currently on the spacecraft, three remain active. They measure the telescope’s slew rates and are part of the system that determines and controls the direction the telescope is pointed. Over the past six months, one particular gyro has increasingly returned faulty readings, causing the spacecraft to enter safe mode multiple times and suspending science observations while the telescope awaits new instructions from the ground. This one gyro is experiencing “saturation,” where it indicates the maximum slew rate value possible regardless of how quickly the spacecraft is slewing. Although the team has repeatedly been able to reset the gyro’s electronics to return normal readings, the results have only been temporary before the problem reappears as it did again in late May.
It's going to be heartbreaking when they finally have to shut it down and de orbit it. I don't think there's any way to bring it back either with the Shuttle shut down.
That was incredible. Had video of the soft landing for the booster, got to watch the plasma eat through the fin and had video all the way down to splashdown of the ship. Just amazing
Hard to argue with that. We had peak broadcast today with Kate and Jessie on the call. Lighting up the marshmallow with the Starship torch was a nice touch