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Hi guys, how have you been?
I've been so busy lately.. making a portfolio website and looking for an internship and stuff. Haven't really had the time to organize my photos or to take pictures
I also went to Dusseldorf with some friends. It was super fun ^^ We went to the K21 museum! Tomás Saraceno made a huge installation 25 metres above the ground. And visitors could walk in through his artwork. It is really scary when you see the ground 25 metres below you, but it's worth it!
I really like the big silver ball. You can see reflections in it~
People's Republic of Catland Orbital Network
The war is going on on all continents! Where there is no direct clashes, special forces forces covertly operate. The oceans of the planet are teeming with warships. Armadas of warplanes filled the sky. How do we manage it all? How do we understand what's going on? Who is a friend? Who is the enemy? Where's that damn B11 gone again?
Catland's Air Force deployed an orbiting satellite constellation. It includes spacecraft created on a single platform: "Cat's Ear" communications satellite, "Cat's Eye" multispectral optical reconnaissance satellite and "Light of Terrus" special satellite of the Holy Inquisition.
In addition to the tasks of reconnaissance, communications and destruction, all devices are aimed at finding and destroying the notorious "Damocles" station in order to end the strife between nations and put an end to the horrors of war with one precise strike of the "Light of Terrus".
This build for LEGO wargame DA4. If you are interested, head over to this group and leave a comment to let the organizers know you are interested...
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops confirmed the existence of four warm exoplanets orbiting four stars in our Milky Way. These exoplanets have sizes between Earth and Neptune and orbit their stars closer than Mercury our Sun.
These so-called mini-Neptunes are unlike any planet in our Solar System and provide a ‘missing link’ between Earth-like and Neptune-like planets that is not yet understood. Mini-Neptunes are among the most common types of exoplanets known, and astronomers are starting to find more and more orbiting bright stars.
Mini-Neptunes are mysterious objects. They are smaller, cooler, and more difficult to find than the so-called hot Jupiter exoplanets which have been found in abundance. While hot Jupiters orbit their star in a matter of hours to days and typically have surface temperatures of more than 1000 °C, warm mini-Neptunes take longer to orbit their host stars and have cooler surface temperatures of only around 300 °C.
The first sign of the existence of these four new exoplanets was found by the NASA TESS mission. However, this spacecraft only looked for 27 days at each star. A hint to a transit – the dimming of light as a planet passes in front of its star from our viewpoint – was spotted for each star. During its extended mission, TESS revisited these stars and the same transit was seen again, implying the existence of planets.
Scientists calculated the most likely orbital periods and pointed Cheops at the same stars at the time they expected the planets to transit. During this hit-or-miss procedure Cheops was able to measure a transit for each of the exoplanets, confirming their existence, discovering their true orbital periods and taking the next step in their characterisation.
The four newly discovered planets have orbits between 21 and 53 days around four different stars. Their discovery is essential because it brings our sample of known exoplanets closer to the longer orbits that we find in our own Solar System.
One of the outstanding questions about mini-Neptunes is what they are made of. Astronomers predict that they have an iron-rocky core with thick outer layers of lighter material. Different theories predict different outer layers: Do they have deep oceans of liquid water, a puffy hydrogen and helium atmosphere or an atmosphere of pure water vapour?
Discovering the composition of mini-Neptunes is important to understand the formation history of this type of planet. Water-rich mini-Neptunes probably formed far out in the icy regions of their planetary system before migrating inwards, while combinations of rock and gas would tell us that these planets stayed in the same place as they formed.
The new Cheops measurements helped determine the radius of the four exoplanets, while their mass could be determined using observations from ground-based telescopes. Combining the mass and radius of a planet gives an estimate of its overall density.
The density can only give a first estimate of the mass of the iron-rocky core. While this new information about the density is an important step forward in understanding mini-Neptunes, it does not contain enough information to offer a conclusion for the outer layers.
The four newly confirmed exoplanets orbit bright stars, which make them the perfect candidates for a follow-up visit by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope or ESA’s future Ariel mission. These spectroscopic missions could discover what their atmospheres contain and provide a definitive answer to the composition of their outer layers.
A full characterisation is needed to understand how these bodies formed. Knowing the composition of these planets will tell us by what mechanism they formed in early planetary systems. This in turn helps us better understand the origins and evolution of our own Solar System.
The results were published in four papers: ‘Refined parameters of the HD 22946 planetary system and the true orbital period of the planet d’ by Z. Garai et al. is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
‘Two Warm Neptunes transiting HIP 9618 revealed by TESS & Cheops’ by H. P. Osborn et al. is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
‘TESS and CHEOPS Discover Two Warm Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Bright K-dwarf HD15906’ by A. Tuson et al. is published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
‘TOI-5678 b: a 48-day transiting Neptune-mass planet characterized with CHEOPS and HARPS’ by S. Ulmer-Moll et al. is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Credits: ESA (Acknowledgement: work performed by ATG under contract for ESA), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. An ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, Solar Orbiter will look at some of the never-before-seen regions of the Sun, such as the poles, and attempt to shed more light on the origins of solar wind, which can knock out power grids on the ground and disrupt operations of satellites orbiting the Earth. The spacecraft will take advantage of the gravitational pull of Venus to adjust its orbit to obtain unprecedented views of the solar surface.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
A digital art creation, consisting of five layers, at varying opacities. No photographic input.
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I feel like the entrance fee is rather to pay for getting underneath the Orbit rather than on the top of it
Like Satellites circling around a planet...Stamens of a withering Japanese Anemone.
Verblühende Anemone
St. Eusebius Church, Arnhem, The Netherlands.
These fabulous lights are called "Macchina della Luce" and are, of course, Italian, by Catellani & Smith.
The artwork visible in the center is called: Electric Dub Station (Orbital Ignition) by Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic (2018).
I overdubbed the original image to make it look more orbital using GIMP.
www.sonsbeek20-24.org/en/artist-list/antonio-jose-guzman-...
Poznan, Poland
Sometimes, not often, I feel a bit overwhelmed by all of the color here.....so monochrome it is!
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This is Orbit.
It is wonderful.
It may not look wonderful, but then first impressions can be misleading and it’s what’s inside that counts. Or something. Not that he has much inside.
Anyway, this is a crazy rollercoaster-esque structure built within the Olympic park and offering a view over the surrounding area, including a little bit into the stadium itself. It’s meant to be a legacy build, which means now that the Olympics are over this should remain as a viewing platform/work of art for the foreseeable future. It’ll still cost £15 to get up it, I’m sure.
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Da Bearz Orbital Network. It features 3 different classes of satellites:
(1) Communication (top satellite)
(2) Spy (lower right, nicknamed "Eye of Belichick")
(3) Hunter-Killer (lower left, nicknamed "Danimal")
All satellites are equipped with 4 pairs of maneuvering thrusters and some type of weapon system (see the individual satellite photos for more details.
Low Planet Orbit
Planet Impero
Interplanetary Travel
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Class 378 unit number 213 is caught crossing the River Lea in some evening sunshine passing the Arcelor Mittal Orbit and West Hams Stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. She was working the 1829 Clapham to Stratford which travels across the North London Line which is very much different from the days when I last crossed it from Richmond to Broad Street on an old Class 501.
New Instrument to Detect Exoplanets Around Near Double Star
View into our cosmic neighborhood: So far it is unclear whether the near binary system Alpha Centauri has planets. To clarify this, astronomers are currently conducting a 100-hour search for exoplanets around the two stars a good four light years away. A specially developed instrument at the Very Large Telescope in Chile will make the nearby exoplanets visible for the first time - if they exist.
The Sun is not the only star in our immediate environment that possesses planets - on the contrary. Within a radius of a few light years, there are several stars and brown dwarfs that are orbited by planets, including Barnard's star, a pair of brown dwarfs and the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. This Red Dwarf, only four light years away, even has an Earth-like planet in its habitable zone - and thus a potentially life-friendly world.
I took a lot of shots of the Orbit when we went to the Paralympics so I've had to resist the urge to upload them in bulk!
Tomorrow’s orbit today? This image shows how a large solar sail-equipped satellite could partly offset Earth’s and the Sun’s gravity with the slight but steady pressure of sunlight to hover above the Arctic or Antarctic, enabling continuous coverage of high-latitude regions for climate observation or regional communication services.
“Standard space missions employ conventional elliptical ‘Keplerian’ orbits,” comments Colin McInnes, Professor of Engineering Science at the UK’s University of Glasgow.
“However, our VisionSpace project has been investigating novel families of orbits and space systems across a broad range of sizes that could make use of additional factors such as solar radiation pressure, air drag or gravitational interactions.
“The space systems range from microscale applications such as satellite swarms and dust clouds, to mesoscale large deployable space webs and solar sails, all the way up to macroscale solutions such as asteroid capture
VisionSpace was a five-year project ending in 2014 to research space system engineering across the extremes of size, funded by the European Research Council.
Prof. McInnes, who oversaw the project while at the University of Strathclyde, was recently invited to ESA’s ESTEC technical centre by the Agency’s Advanced Concepts Team to highlight the project’s findings.
The ACT is tasked with peering beyond the horizon of current space projects. Further information on ESA's activities concerning Earth's polar regions can be found on the ESA Space for Earth website.
Credits: ESA/Hubble/Jeannette Heiligers
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Welcome to 🌴The Orbit Oasis🌴. Explore the island alone, with friends or perhaps a lover. Or meet new people and hangout.
Just enjoy this tropical place and dream......❤️
Features:
* Ruckus Sex Shower
* Ruckus Let's Smash Couch
* Ruckus Do The Things Bed
* K.R. Engineering Game System
* Nerenzo Furnitures
Team Oasis :)
Upon entering orbit, the shuttle appears to be suspended above the earth when in actuality, it is traveling at speeds around 17,500 mph.
En janvier 1997, Bertrand Piccard tente son premier tour du monde en ballon sans escale, à bord du Breitling Orbiter 1, tentative qui se solde par un échec après 6 heures de vol seulement, à la suite de fuites de kérosène dans la cabine.
Bertrand refait une tentative avec le Breitling Orbiter 3. Succès total : il est le premier à avoir fait un tour du monde sans escale en mars 1999, battant un record de durée de vol avec 477 heures et 47 minutes pour 45 755 km.
In January, 1997, Bertrand Piccard tries his first world tour in balloon without stopover, aboard Breitling Orbiter 1, attempt which fails after 6 hours of flight only, following flights leaks of fuel in the cabin.
Bertrand redoes an attempt with Breitling Orbiter 3. Total success: he is the first one to have made a world tour without stopover on March 21st, 1999, beating a time record of flight with 477 hours and 47 minutes for 45 755 km.