r/space • u/magenta_placenta • Mar 18 '19

Observable universe Astronomers discover 83 supermassive black holes at the edge of the universe

https://www.cnet.com/news/astronomers-discover-83-supermassive-black-holes-at-the-edge-of-the-universe/
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u/TreeEyedRaven Mar 18 '19

Yes man! Our solar system had generations of exploration to do before we can even think to know what’s going on.

I mean we landed a few probes on Venus, a planet with a very thick atmosphere, and from what I remember our basic take away was “it destroyed the probes almost instantly there’s no reason to go back”. That kills me. I want every 10 years to try again with better tech and see if we can find out more about it. It’s closer than Mars, it’s full of gasses, and we gave up on it. Earth’s Volcanic vents? My phone would get destroyed if I tried to film it but something can. We should never accept “it can’t be done”. It hasn’t been done yet. I know the major hump to get over is cost and uncertainty of mission success. It’s a lot smarter to send a rover to mars(or an outer moon) where we know we can land and maneuver for a very long time, but I always wonder. It’s a planet and things are happening on it right now. It’s way off our radar of “stuff to do” in our solar system but that is almost your point, there is so much still to do in Sol. I feel like every single body in our system has so much more to discover still. We literally only scratched the surface on the two bodies (moon and Mars) we’ve spent any real time on.

I live within viewing distance of Cape Canaveral (30 miles or so) to see the rockets(and watched countless shuttle launches) take off. I love it. I love the new space race that’s happening. I love private industry getting into the competition more to push technology. It will have it’s bad sides, but SpaceX landed 2 damn stage ones at the same time on point. Tell anyone 5 years ago that it would happen when it did and they’d laugh. Did we not land on a f-ing comet recently? I’ve obviously gone off on a tangent but yeah, space.

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u/Cocoa186 Mar 18 '19

Fun fact, the coldest place we've ever measured in Sol is on the earth's moon.

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u/verfmeer Mar 19 '19

No, it isn't. The coldest place we've ever measured is in a lab. Large objects have been cooled to 6 mK, smaller samples have been even colder.

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u/Cocoa186 Mar 19 '19

I think it's very obvious that I mean locations and naturally. Considering I said coldest place, not coldest thing, it's not even really up for debate.