Why this thread? Well there's no muslims in space!
In all seriousness though:
SpaceX just managed to land a first stage rocket back to earth:
For anyone wondering what the real significance of this historic event is:
Rockets cost about 50-100 Million dollars
Propellant costs about 200,000 - 1 Million dollars
It currently costs about 2,500 dollar per pound of payload into LEO (Lower Earth Orbit) and SpaceX is the cheapest on the block
If you can reuse the rockets, this price can probably be brought down to one tenth of that (250 dollar per pound) which makes access to space tremendously cheap
As another topic, astrophotography is like porn to me.
A pic of a newborn star emmiting two jets in Herbig Haro 24 (Milky Way), taken from Hubble:
Soul Nebula, a picture taken over 18 nights and 108 hours:
Once you hear how much effort goes into making one of these pictures, you really start to appreciate it. I even considered getting a reflecting telescope myself (those are the wider ones meant for more deep space observation), but since reflecting telescopes depend much more on light than refracting, and I live in the capital city which is polluted with light... rip dream
