After all these years I finally found a high quality scan of this decade old magazine. In addition to this dated SpaceX MCT article that I really love, there's some real gems in here that I'm going to make a thread of 🧵

The history of light in the Universe is written in the EBL (extragalactic background light): science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… From it, we can read the history of star formation but also estimate that 4 x 10^84 photons were produced across all time. astronomy.com/science/how-ma…

The International Mercury Explorer returns to Earth. This is my design for a crewed Mercury exploration vessel in the 2100s, based on the astrology sign for the planet. The front habitation ring spins, and the arms are massive EM generators to protect the crew from radiation.

Banded Iron Formation caused by glaciation closing or opening up the oceans to atmospheric oxygen lines up with astrodynamic cycles, implying that orbital forcing plays a role and may have helped multicellular life survive Snowball Earth: nature.com/articles/s4146…

"Tokamak": concept art of a fusion-driven spaceship with plenty of radiators for 'Infinite Lagrange'. #space #art by Yishu 5. artstation.com/artwork/Ped3QB

The method also produces 10 neurons from a single skin cell!

Recall the boats, stop the spin, fold in the habs and prepare for burn! A short animated scene featuring the 'CSV Forthright' from The Sojourn audio drama (The Sojourn Audio Drama ): youtu.be/eRvPXkdAypw

If an atomic nucleus has too many neutrons for its size, they will start leaking out from it. That's why it's called the neutron drip line: cerncourier.com/a/the-drip-lin…

A team of astronomers using the powerful ALMA Observatory📡 observatory has made a groundbreaking discovery: for the first time, clear molecular activity has been detected in comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein), the largest Oort Cloud comet ever observed, spanning nearly 140 km

The Jet-Shuttle: This would be the booster stage for an early vertical take-off/horizontal landing concept of the Space Shuttle. It has 8 rocket engines in the rear and four turbofans to fly back to a runway for reuse: flickr.com/photos/apollo4…

Ship 36 experiences a RUD at Massey's during testing prior to Starship Flight 10. Seen in slow motion. Continue to watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=WKwWcl… 📸: NSF - NASASpaceflight.com

Covert art for 'The Dark Forest', second book of the Three Body Problem series, featuring the "Doomsday Battle" between a fleet of human ships and a physics-warping droplet covered in invulnerable materials. #space #art by Ricky Ho. artstation.com/artwork/0l81vE

How much thrust do various submarines and ships generate? A Virginia class submarine has 30 MW pumpjet driving it to 56 km/h (12.8 m/s). Force = Power/Velocity = 2.34 MN For comparison: Ohio-class: 2 MN Arleigh Burke DDG: 5 MN Typhoon-class: 5.3 MN Nimitz CV: 11.7 MN

NOIRLab image of the week Lights of the Night Show at Gemini North Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard noirlab.edu/public/images/… NOIRLab

Star Birds is now among the Top 100 most wishlisted games on Steam. ✨ Thank you for being part of this journey. We can't wait to show you where we're going next. 💖 With much love and gratitude – your birds at Toukana & kurzgesagt

Official video from Landspace of today's static fire test of its Zhuque-3 first stage at Jiuquan.

The F-35B, rendered in detail to highlight its VTOL systems. #art by Grifforge. artstation.com/artwork/K3gymx

Zoom climbs off the runway by the Boeing 777-9 and 737-10 at the Paris Air Show: youtu.be/y0fQVN0YjXY

Details of Titan's surface uncovered by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem: flickr.com/photos/valerie… They're named after various mythologies, including Aztec, Norse, Buddhist and New Guinean figures.

A powerful pulsed laser can ablate the surface of an asteroid and create a burst of hot plasma that reveals its composition to a spectroscopic telescope. Depending on the pulse energy of this 'remote sampling' method, even subsurface composition can be investigated.