CosmoQuest

As of today, there have been 100 launches this year w/ 6 failures. We use Rocketlaunch.live to keep track. There are also 9 toilets in space. Tracking them is one of our raison d'être. Follow us for random space stats and more! (Image: Artemis II launch via NASAHQ)

No Boom yesterday. Boom today? There's been many (sonic) boom with Starship launches. Flight 12 may be launching later today. If they do, we'll go live on Twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX once prop loading is started. This could be as early as 6:15pm Boston / 3:15pm Credit: SpaceX

As astronomers, our lives are dedicated to both the ephemeral and the eternal. And humans mean nothing to the universe (and everything to us). patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/as-they-…

If we got those 614 free members to subscribe at $1/month, we could be ad-free everywhere! ...which means we'd need to come up with new and exciting things to offer at that tier but damn, that would be a great problem to have. Please inconvenience us in this way.

Just between me and all you beautiful people in my phone, I would LOVE to ditch those automated ads on our publicly available podcasts because they're a pain in the ass to edit around. But that's how we're currently covering our software licenses.

Hey so we currently have 234 paid & 614 free members on our patreon and if every single free member subscribed at our $1/month tier it would solve most of our budget issues! patreon.com/cosmoquestx

Need Moon Joy? Check out @hankgreen's brainchild, a database of Artemis II photos that puts all the images from NASA's multiple Flickr accounts and websites in one web interface. This is a brilliant act of metadata & Moon Joy. We're grateful it exists. artemistimeline.com

This May the Forth, we'd like to remind you to always check your units.

After ~3min of growth & physics, our universe was just H, He, & trace Li & Be. And it stayed that way for hundreds of millions of years. Texas researchers are now mapping leftover H gas around galaxies in the early universe. Patrons get early access patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/early-ga…

Plot Twist: dark matter could decay into light; light that allows clouds of hydrogen to collapse straight into black holes — which do not emit light but really can consume it. Patrons get early access: patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/light-fr…

NASA OIG continues to have "thoughts" about the consequences of fixed price contracts for innovation. oig.nasa.gov/audits/nasas-a…

@DrTannhaeuser @NASAScience_ It is done! We've added every spec of a boulder we could find to the list of things the tutorial knows about. You may still find something we missed, but it will be harder! For science, we have 6+ people look at each image because it's hard to spot everything sometimes (often).

I don't want to sound pedantic, but there are so many rocks I'd like to mark on the tutorial that are rejected. What's wrong with those at the center, above the five I've marked? They cast a clear shadow and their colour suggests they are anorthosite clasts. I'd like to help, but we can't seem to agree on what constitutes a rock.

The Artemis II crew has safely returned to Earth. Now it’s your turn to make a splash. 🌊 April is Citizen Science Month, and you’re invited to help NASA make real discoveries. Here’s how: go.nasa.gov/4ceK0pg

@DrTannhaeuser @NASAScience_ Hi Michael - We were keeping things way too central on the tutorial while we were building steam early on. I'll (@starstryder here) add all the rest to the tutorial's data table in the next 24 hours, and then let you know when they're there.

@TNoonchest770 What is this?

Got Earth? Scientists are starting to catalogue other worlds that just might be able to support life as we know it! patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/in-searc…

We've got no words, just (good!) feels, when it comes to Artemis II. And this is just the beginning.

@ichitera2 Only for your dignity

@cosmoquestX 修復したとのことです。 トイレの事故は死活問題ですね…

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

BREAKING: The toilet on NASA’s latest Artemis Moon mission spacecraft is malfunctioning.

Update on the toilet They can use it for poop, but they have to use Collapsible Contingency Urinals (CCUs) for urine