Discoveries using the telescopes on Mauna Kea

[dan_c]

I woke up to this on my phone today.  It's pretty exciting, all of the reasons I read that it could be life making the phosphine and some of the cautionary don't get your hopes up until we see 'em responses.  It looks like we will have wait until the 30's to get probes to the clouds.

Rocket Lab seems to have a plan to get to Venus in a few years... this was an interesting article from last month sort of teasing the info we got today:  https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-private...-2023.html

And here is an sort of an updated version since the news got out: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54151861

Of course by the end of the day the buzz is wearing off with the weight of all the other news.  I saw this from Stephen Colbert:



Sad.