<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="4">Hi all,</font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> I know it has been a while…I start these so many times….many are already back in school while others still have some time…it all goes so fast…the time in Brazil was simply amazing…when I am asked what is your favorite presentation, I always say..the last one….my favorite country…is always the one I’m in…enjoying being home, especially in the summer in Florida…most people complain it is too hot but I love it…</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Everything is moving along with the Space Program…Artemus II is in the VAB as NASA prepares for the second launch…now scheduled to launch September 2025, it has been delayed and it seems very optimistic it will keep that date…</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">It had been relatively quite here….Space X had been launching Rockets every week, sometimes twice a week, sometimes twice a day…it was awesome :-) but they had a mishap on 11 July which shut down the launches…they recently were cleared to launch so it should be back to an amazing opportunity to see launches…</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; 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caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space-collapse: preserve;"><font size="4"></font></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><h3 class="entry-title mh-posts-large-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.3; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/08/24/nasa-rules-out-bringing-astronauts-home-on-boeings-starliner/" title="NASA rules out bringing astronauts home on Boeing’s Starliner" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">NASA rules out bringing astronauts home on Boeing’s Starliner</a></h3></div><div><font size="4">Boeing’s Starliner Capsule is still at the ISS…for those of you following…the Starliner mission is a commercial crew capsule which was supposed to take astronauts to low earth orbit, similar to Space X Dragon…it had many issues and was delayed many years…it launched in 5 June for a 10 day mission to check the reliability of the capsule….I was at the launch, it was amazing…but software and thruster issues are preventing it from returning… NASA is to planning return astronauts</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#1b1b1b" face="-apple-system-font" size="4"> Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will remain on the ISS with a possible return in February 2025 on a Space X Dragon Capsule…the Starliner might attempt a return without the crew….everything is still under review but does create interesting issues…I don’t know a lot about how long it can stay in space but I have heard there are batteries which have to stay charged… possibly </font></span><font color="#1b1b1b" face="-apple-system-font" size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">it may come back unmanned the end of September.</span></font></div><div><font color="#1b1b1b" face="-apple-system-font" size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><br></span></font></div><div><div><div data-reader-unique-id="24" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 13.5px;"><div data-reader-unique-id="25" style="max-width: 100%;"><figure data-reader-unique-id="131" style="margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68-320-80.jpg" alt="Boeing Starliner in front of an aurora during thruster testing on June 15, 2024. The picture was taken from a SpaceX Dragon docked at the International Space Station." srcset="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68-320-80.jpg 320w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68-480-80.jpg 480w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68-650-80.jpg 650w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68-970-80.jpg 970w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68-1200-80.jpg 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)" loading="lazy" data-original-mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68.jpg" data-pin-media="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qcdoypiEdyKRiHKc6WdT68.jpg" data-reader-unique-id="132" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto;" data-unique-identifier=""></figure><p></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" data-reader-unique-id="30" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.8em; width: 647.546875px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65); font-family: -apple-system-font;"><font size="4"><span data-reader-unique-id="31" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.25em;">Boeing's Starliner in front of an aurora during thruster testing on June 15, 2024. The picture was taken from</span>)<span data-reader-unique-id="31" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"> a SpaceX Dragon docked at the International Space Station. </span><span itemprop="copyrightHolder" data-reader-unique-id="32" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.25em;">(Image credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick</span></font></figcaption></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><font color="#1b1b1b" face="-apple-system-font" size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1b1b1b" size="5"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><br></span></font></div><div><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="line-height: 1.2141em; hyphens: manual; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="5">What happens if you throw a star at a black hole? Things get messy</font></h1></div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8-320-80.png" alt="A orange swirl at the heart of a purple cloud of gas" srcset="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8-320-80.png 320w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8-480-80.png 480w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8-650-80.png 650w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8-970-80.png 970w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8-1024-80.png 1024w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8-1200-80.png 1200w" sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)" loading="lazy" data-original-mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8.png" data-pin-media="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/w82E6sV75TLosxfbwDCHW8.png" data-reader-unique-id="23" data-unique-identifier=""></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Daniel Price (2024))</span></div><div><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">"What happens when you throw a star at a black hole?" It's not a question we can physically answer here on Earth. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">Thankfully, actual <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html" data-hl-processed="none" data-custom-tracking-id="1206167261107400347" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-google-interstitial="false" data-label="black holes" data-reader-unique-id="8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;">black holes</a> and stars can't be smashed together in the lab! However, scientists can use advanced supercomputer modeling to simulate a black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in a so-called "<a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/black-holes-tidal-disruption-events-spaghettifying-stars" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/black-holes-tidal-disruption-events-spaghettifying-stars" data-hl-processed="none" data-custom-tracking-id="9934368398976739963" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-google-interstitial="false" data-label="tidal disruption event" data-reader-unique-id="9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;">tidal disruption event</a>" or "TDE." Doing just that, a team of researchers led by Danel Price from Monash University has discovered that the answer to our opening question is "things get messy." </p><p data-reader-unique-id="10" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">"Black holes are not able to eat all that much," Price told Space.com. "So much like myself, after a bad curry, a lot doesn't go down the black hole, and most of it comes back in the form of <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/13650-nasa-wise-space-telescope-black-hole-burps.html" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/13650-nasa-wise-space-telescope-black-hole-burps.html" data-hl-processed="none" data-custom-tracking-id="3712082005927909788" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-google-interstitial="false" data-label="violent outflows" data-reader-unique-id="11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;">violent outflows</a>. We observe this in tidal disruption events — strong outflows, relatively low and constant temperature material, and large emitting distances.”</p><p data-reader-unique-id="28" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">If this isn't stomach-churning enough, much like a Saturday night misadventure involving alcohol and a dodgy bhuna, black holes wake up surrounded by the regurgitated remains of their meals in a structure called an "Eddington envelope."</p><p data-reader-unique-id="31" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;">"We found that during the disruption, the black hole gets smothered by material. This is new." Price explained. "It's an old idea that this should happen, but we were able to show <em data-reader-unique-id="32" style="max-width: 100%;">how</em> it happens by simulating the gas dynamics."</p><p data-reader-unique-id="34" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><strong data-reader-unique-id="35" style="max-width: 100%;">Related: </strong><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.space.com/black-hole-tde-at2023vto" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.space.com/black-hole-tde-at2023vto" data-hl-processed="none" data-custom-tracking-id="1047542072701473396" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-google-interstitial="false" data-label="Massive star's gory 'death by black hole' is the biggest and brightest event of its kind" data-reader-unique-id="36" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;">Massive star's gory 'death by black hole' is the biggest and brightest event of its kind</a></p></div><div><font color="#1b1b1b" face="-apple-system-font" size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><br></span></font></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSvCCigydsCicNctPY?format=multipart" style="font-weight: bold; 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That's definitely enough of a challenge on its own, but picture doing so while the rover hangs perilously beneath a hovering sky crane, connected by just a handful of clothesline-like nylon cables.</div><span style="font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span class="mobile_wrap" style="font-weight: 400; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Full Story: </b><a target="_blank" class="mobile_wrap" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSwiCigydsCicNXmlC?format=multipart" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197); white-space: normal; text-decoration: none;">Space</a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> (8/22)</span></span><span style="font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 8px;"> </span></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSvCCigydsCicNctPY?format=multipart" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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display: block;">Catastrophic collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not happen after all, new study hints</a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqeiCKojllDDbKsjCigydsBWcNtfGy?format=multipart" style="color: rgb(0, 57, 82); font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><img src="cid:A2C51E9E-C097-4A3E-8381-D2ACC10E0170" height="320" border="0" alt="Catastrophic collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may not happen after all, new study hints.jpeg" class="scale_full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; max-width: 570px;"></a></div><font size="4"><div class="name-100" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 25px; display: inline !important;">Astronomers have long predicted that a collision between our galaxy and nearby Andromeda could be inevitable, but new calculations suggest this may be an over exaggeration. </div><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSvCCigydsCicNctPY?format=multipart" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: inline !important;"></a><p data-reader-unique-id="2" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); display: inline !important;"><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSvCCigydsCicNctPY?format=multipart" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: inline !important;">The </a><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.livescience.com/tag/milky-way" data-auto-tag-linker="true" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.livescience.com/tag/milky-way" data-hl-processed="none" data-custom-tracking-id="3482899481317327734" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-google-interstitial="false" data-label="Milky Way" data-reader-unique-id="3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;">Milky Way</a> has a 50-50 chance of colliding with a nearby galaxy in the next 10 billion years, a new study finds.</p></font><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="4">Yet while those odds appear daunting, the new finding suggests the catastrophic collision is far less likely than previously thought.</font></p><p data-reader-unique-id="8" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="4">Located roughly 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda (M31) galaxy is approaching our <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.livescience.com/milky-way.html" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.livescience.com/milky-way.html" data-hl-processed="none" data-custom-tracking-id="1271683780592007821" data-hawk-tracked="hawklinks" data-google-interstitial="false" data-label="Milky Way" data-reader-unique-id="9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;"><u data-reader-unique-id="10" style="max-width: 100%;">Milky Way</u></a> at a speed of 68 miles per second (110 kilometers per second). Because of this astronomers have long predicted that the two galaxies will inevitably become locked in a fatal dance sometime in the next several billion years — spiraling into each other and merging to form a new galaxy.</font></p><p data-reader-unique-id="8" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="4"><br></font></p><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; hyphens: manual; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font;">'Final parsec problem' that makes supermassive black holes impossible to explain could finally have a solution</h1><div><img src="cid:DCD154BE-AAF7-4CFD-855E-4EAF6BB8C586" height="328.575" border="0" alt="'Final parsec problem' that makes supermassive black holes impossible to explain could finally have a solution.jpeg" class="scale_full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 600px;"></div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font><div style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> <a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSwACigydsCicNxaRv" title="Email" style="color: rgb(1, 100, 161); font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><img src="cid:7FF35A3A-6A2D-48CE-B9D0-74BB3D149CD8" height="17" border="0" align="top" alt="Email.png" style="max-width: 17px;"></a></div></a><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSvCCigydsCicNctPY?format=multipart" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A new study helps solve the "final parsec problem" that has made supermassive black hole formation impossible to explain, pointing to a strange form of dark matter as the key. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">Scientists have been modeling how supermassive</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> </span><a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/black-holes" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/black-holes" data-reader-unique-id="3" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;"><u data-reader-unique-id="4" style="max-width: 100%;">black holes</u></a><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">form when two smaller black holes merge. But in their simulations, most pairs of massive black holes get stuck orbiting each other indefinitely. Now, scientists may have finally found a solution to this "final parsec problem" — and it may also help uncover the identity of one of the universe's most mysterious components.</span></font></a><p data-reader-unique-id="6" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="4">Lurking at the heart of most ordinary galaxies is a supermassive black hole (SMBH), like the one <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.livescience.com/65196-black-hole-event-horizon-image.html" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.livescience.com/65196-black-hole-event-horizon-image.html" data-reader-unique-id="7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;"><u data-reader-unique-id="8" style="max-width: 100%;">imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope</u></a> collaboration in the galaxy M87. That one is about 6.5 billion times the mass of the sun, but it wasn't always so big. Astronomers think SMBHs start out much smaller and grow into behemoths through repeated mergers with other black holes.</font></p><p data-reader-unique-id="11" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="4">Evidence for those colliding giants came in 2023, when scientists with the International Pulsar Timing Array collaboration <a data-analytics-id="inline-link" href="https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/the-universe-is-rippling-with-a-faint-gravitational-wave-background-created-by-colliding-black-holes-huge-international-study-suggests" data-before-rewrite-localise="https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/the-universe-is-rippling-with-a-faint-gravitational-wave-background-created-by-colliding-black-holes-huge-international-study-suggests" data-reader-unique-id="12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;"><u data-reader-unique-id="13" style="max-width: 100%;">announced they had found a background "hum" of gravitational waves</u></a> — ripples in the fabric of space-time released during mergers of extremely massive objects. Astronomers think this background is produced by distant pairs of massive black holes as they send space "ringing" with the gravitational echo of their faraway collisions.</font></p><p data-reader-unique-id="11" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p data-reader-unique-id="11" style="max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><font size="4"><br></font></p><a target="_blank" href="https://r.smartbrief.com/resp/sqrQCKojllDDcSvCCigydsCicNctPY?format=multipart" style="color: rgb(49, 103, 197); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 26px; display: block;"><span style="font-weight: 400; caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 8px;"><br></span></a></div></div></div></body></html>