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Moon tonight:

Falcon Heavy launch in t-minus 50 minutes

https://youtu.be/Tk338VXcb24

Not long
Much excite

That was very exciting

Absolutely incredible, a real milestone... Watching those boosters land simultaneously was fantastic...

That was the moon landing moment of this generation, so far.

This is a video of the booster landings from alternative viewpoint

https://mobile.twitter.com/Advil/status/960983292731445255

So the centre core didn't make it back onto the drone ship?

It made it back, just a bit too quickly by the sound of it.

Hopefully there’s still a drone ship.

Livestream from a car in space.
Not every day you get to type that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

Been watching that, what a bloody great day!!

That was quite something.

Just caught up on space ex, watching the two boosters touch down in sync....wow.

Any know what the expected cost savings are going to be?

Landing boosters is cool and everything but the money shot is going to be the money saved.

Cost of launching similar sized payloads currently costs $200m. FH does it for $90m.

Also, a rocket engine that has landed in salt water is basically scrap metal.

Watch full screen with the volume cranked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_kfM-BmVzQ

stepped out of my front door 2 mornings ago and the very first thing i saw was a shooting star

pretty big, long tail traversing west to east-ish

I still have about 35 back issues of All About Space magazine that need to go somewhere. Running out of shelf space. Any suggestions? Was thinking of a donation to a school or cafe. Had to cancel my subscription.

that dump of gaia data in the last week or so showing a map of the universe, star movements speeds and distances

amazing, saw it on the sky at night this week

It's incredible stuff, amazing time to be alive...

A little closer to home, I've just discovered the Nasa Astronomy Picture of the Day page. There goes my afternoon.

(Link to bigger image)

I love that website. A real go to for astroimages.

It's cousin Hubble Site: http://hubblesite.org/ is well worth your time as well.

I found a script somewhere to set the APOD to my background. Works well most days but sometimes you get a diagram or something horrid.