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Credit & Copyright: Jordan Sirokie
Explanation:
Birds
don't fly this high.
Airplanes don't go this fast.
The Statue of Liberty
weighs less.
No species other than
human can even comprehend
what
is going on,
nor could any human just a millennium ago.
The launch of a
rocket bound for space is an event that
inspires awe and challenges description.
Pictured here, a
SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket
lifted off from
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
earlier this month carrying the
Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
(IXPE).
IXPE
is scheduled to observe high-energy objects such as
neutron stars, black holes, and the
centers of distant galaxies
to better determine the
physics and
geometries
that create and control them.
From a standing start, the 300,000+ kilogram
rocket ship lifted
IXPE up to circle the
Earth, where the
outside air is too thin to breathe.
Rockets bound for space are now
launched from somewhere on Earth
every few days.
Launch Update:
James Webb Space Telescope
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