Space stuff thread

chefduane said:

... as I did with my dad. He was a Captain USAAF flew P-51 (B's then D's) fighter escort for B-17 bombing raids over the Channel into Germany.

So he probably flew over where I was born (born after the war of course) and Tim my son has actually built radio control aircraft for some years now and one was a P-51 Though these days being married has cramped his style if you know what I mean because building them these days is VERY expensive.

Those and the Spitfire both beautiful aircraft and we used to go to a place called Temora out here to watch the old war birds fly - and there is nothing like hearing that Merlin V12 roaring past eh?

Yep I agree Roy that place at Temora I mentioned they have a restored Spitty and they do low passes at the shows and the sound is just something else even though they do not do it at full throttle because of not wanting to damage the plane in any way but still that V12

Even some of the radial engined ones sound so stunning too and once saw a Meteor and it was just the ducks guts as my son would say LOL!!

This is the place we like to go when we can Temora Aviation Museum :: Temora Aviation Museum Aviation Newsletter

NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System

NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Details of these findings are embargoed by the journal Nature until 1 p.m.

Limited seating is available in the NASA TV studio for media who would like to attend in person at the agency’s Headquarters at 300 E Street SW in Washington. Media unable to attend in person may ask questions by telephone. To attend in person or participate by phone, media must send an email with their name, affiliation and telephone number to Dwayne Brown at dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov by noon Feb. 22.

Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.

The briefing participants are:

· Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington

· Michael Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium

· Sean Carey, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, California

· Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore

· Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

A Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) about exoplanets will be held following the briefing at 3 p.m. with scientists available to answer questions in English and Spanish.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and updated scheduling information, visit:

NASA Television | NASA

For more information on exoplanets, visit:

Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System

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Felicia Chou / Sean Potter
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726 / 202-358-1536
felicia.chou@nasa.gov / sean.potter@nasa.gov

Elizabeth Landau
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-6425
elizabeth.landau@jpl.nasa.gov

NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System | NASA

Now I have been looking for a program for a long time that shows the solar system in motion and I can only find views of it at rest as it were so does anyone know of such a program please?

I also had a wallpaper on my android devices that showed a view of the Earth in real time and the view was of Australia as viewed from an overhead satellite so does anyone have any idea of where I can find that wallpaper?

Not exactly programs, and perhaps not what you seek, but...

Solar System Visualizer

The Orbit Simulator

A Guy

A Guy said:

Not exactly programs, and perhaps not what you seek, but...

Solar System Visualizer

The Orbit Simulator

A Guy

Thanks Bill I will have a look - need something to look forward to as they have just told me I shall probably be in hospital for another four weeks

Sorry to hear that John

A Guy

A Guy said:

Sorry to hear that John

A Guy

Ah well it happens when you are bit too gung ho without thinking about your age and it isn't like it was when one was forty odd. Advice is mate make sure you take care with what you do and how you do it as you get older because a broken leg at my age is no darn fun.