Hayabusa Spacecraft Reentry

Youtube ^ | 13 June, 2010 | NASA

[Errant]

A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations had a front row seat to observe the Hayabusa spacecraft's fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere.

The team was aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory, packed with cameras and other imaging instruments, to capture the high-speed re-entry over an unpopulated area of central Australia on June 13, 2010.

The Japanese spacecraft has been on a seven-year journey to return a sample of the asteroid Itokawa.

[Errant]

Link to Video

[Telepathic Intruder]

Aerobraking is the funnest part of space travel.

[Errant]

Aerobraking is the funnest part of space travel.

MIB are looking for you!

[Telepathic Intruder]

Actually the funnest part is the space battles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzpM5vhC9U

[Errant]

A Real Death Star Blasting a Nearby Galaxy!

A composite image (top) shows a never-before-seen spectacle: a "Death Star" galaxy blasting a nearby neighbor with a powerful jet from a supermassive black hole.

The image combines x-ray data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (purple), optical and ultraviolet data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red and orange), and radio emission data from the Very Large Array and MERLIN array (blue).

An artist's illustration (bottom) shows another view of the spectacle.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Yes I’ve heard of references to that. THX by the way.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Supermassive black hole accretion jets can be a bummer if they’re aimed right at you.

[mdmathis6]

Space seems to offer countless ways to be killed out there the more we observe it!

[Waverunner]

No, the gelatinous mass emerging from the cracked space canister going on a rampage and eating everything in it's path is the most funny part.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The blob may have been just trying to communicate with us by converting hydrocarbons into green slime or something, who knows?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Sorry, I meant you. Oh well.

[Vaquero]

PING Hayabusa capsule recovery begins

[SunkenCiv]

• Asteroid Probe to Light Up Sky Over Australia

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[Errant]

Supermassive black hole accretion jets can be a bummer if they’re aimed right at you.

And we think we have problems...

Enjoy every day!

[Telepathic Intruder]

By the way, about this...

I think the picture shows more realism than the artist's impression. You can't see the gamma-ray beam actually coming from the first galaxy's black hole, only the spot where it lights up the other galaxy, and a sort of smoke-plume (glowing in radio-waves) flying out as a result. Pretty much what you'd see if you shot something with a high-power laser/particle beam. It's a good picture, showing a lot of space-destruction.

[Errant]

Agree and there is a much better image of this somewhere out there.

I have to wonder if other worlds and lives are being consumed...