Deep Space Exploration Society - DSES- Haswell CO

08/20/2026

I wonder how long it would take to make this spacecraft? It would be like living on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Not hard to imagine.

08/19/2026

If you have kids interested in ham radio, here is an example of a 10 year old getting their amateur radio licence. My girls got theirs at 8 years old.

Congratulations to 10-year-old Reynaldo Mangual, KM7HFU, on earning his Technician class amateur radio license! 🎙️📻

To celebrate his achievement, the Maricopa Amateur Radio Association surprised Reynaldo with a complete HF/VHF/UHF radio station and a restored WWII-era telegraph key to help him start exploring Morse code. Reynaldo also officially joined ARRL as our newest young member!

Know a young person interested in amateur radio? Full-time students aged 21 and under can join ARRL with a FREE Student Membership!

👉 Learn more and sign up today: www.arrl.org/student

08/19/2026

It seems just recently radio started in the late 19th century/early 20th century. Because it takes a long time at the speed of light for our radio signals to move across the Milky Way, no one really knows we are here.

It's just a matter of time before other worlds discover our tiny galaxy.

Humanity’s Signals Have Barely Reached the Galaxy

Humanity has been transmitting radio signals for only about a century—a tiny fraction of cosmic history. Although these signals travel at the speed of light, they have so far reached only a relatively small region surrounding Earth.

The Milky Way spans roughly 100,000 light-years, meaning our earliest technological signals have traveled only about 100 light-years outward. Most of the galaxy has therefore never had the opportunity to receive evidence of modern human civilization.

There is another challenge: many ordinary radio and television broadcasts become extremely faint as they spread through space. Eventually, they can be difficult to distinguish from the natural background noise of the universe.

If intelligent civilizations exist elsewhere in the Milky Way, many may still have no way of knowing that technological life has emerged on Earth. On the enormous scale of our galaxy, humanity has only just begun to announce its presence.

08/19/2026

In our very backyard, only 1400 light years away, is a cool Galactic sculpture the Wolf’s Cave.

The darkness is actually matter formed by gravity.

🐺🌌 Somewhere in the northern Milky Way, a wolf appears to be hiding inside the darkness.

The Wolf’s Cave Nebula lies about 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus.

But there is no solid cave here.

It is a vast, cold region of interstellar dust and gas, with dense clouds blocking the light of stars behind them. At its edge, VdB 152, a faint reflection nebula, glows blue as starlight scatters through the surrounding dust. 🔵✨

And the strange part?

What looks like an empty darkness is actually matter.

A cosmic veil, sculpted by gravity, radiation and turbulence, stretching across the Milky Way.

From Earth, it looks like a cave.

Perhaps the universe simply knows how to hide things in plain sight. 🐺🌑

08/15/2026

Gravity lenses can make this appear larger. Amazing how gravity affects space-time and light. Knowing how gravity affects these allows us to see objects we would not see, like this gravity arc in space by the James Webb telescope.

🌌 Webb Found a Cosmic Arc

Something strange was hiding in Webb's public data.

Astronomer Homer Dávila Gutiérrez searched 54 JWST/NIRCam fields and examined 1,591 candidates before one object stood out: A1, a remarkably stretched gravitational arc in galaxy cluster MACS J0308.9+2645. 🔭

A1 is about 3.9 arcseconds long, with an astonishing 6.5:1 axis ratio. Its six-band JWST photometry gives a photometric redshift of z ≈ 4.4, with a 99% probability of being beyond z = 3.

If confirmed, its light began its journey when the Universe was only about 1.4 billion years old. 🌌⏳

And gravity makes the view even stranger.

The massive foreground cluster bends the distant object's light, producing the arc and potentially magnifying it by roughly 7×. 🌀

A1 was also absent from existing cluster catalogues and major astronomical databases.

But there is a final chapter still waiting to be written: spectroscopic observations are needed to confirm its redshift and nature.

Sometimes Webb doesn't simply show us a distant galaxy.

It shows us where gravity has bent the evidence. ✨

🔬 Research: Homer Dávila Gutiérrez, “Discovery of a gravitational arc candidate at photometric redshift 4.4 in MACS J0308.9+2645 from a catalogue-based search of JWST imaging” / arXiv

08/07/2026

Titan has another up coming visitor called Dragonfly - a NASA lander with wings that will allow it to move around the methane lakes on the surface and not land in them we hope. It's 6 year trip to Titan will start in 2028 and DSES will be following it’s signal into deep space.

🌌 One moon quietly decided where humanity's farthest traveler would spend eternity. 🚀✨

In November 1980, Voyager 1 skimmed past Titan, Saturn's largest moon, at about 6,500 km (4,000 miles) above its cloud tops. That single flyby wasn't just for science. Titan's gravity subtly bent Voyager's path, redirecting it out of the plane of the Solar System instead of onward to Uranus and Neptune. 🌕🌀

The reward? Titan revealed a thick nitrogen atmosphere, something no other moon was known to possess at the time. The price? Voyager 1 gave up the grand tour of the outer planets forever. Since then, it has been climbing above the Solar System's planetary plane, traveling at nearly 17 km/s (38,000 mph / 61,000 km/h), and in 2012 became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. 🌠

Sometimes, history doesn't turn because of a planet... it turns because of a moon. 💛

08/06/2026

Ham radio operator volunteers support our community and care about our neighbors and strengthens our communities.

08/05/2026

Gravity started at the beginning at the big bang. It was all part of the other basic forces and then broke away from them all on its own as the universe cooled slightly.

Energy bends time and space and gravity was active from the very beginning and continues today to form stars and galaxies.

If gravity was slightly weaker or stronger, our universe would have never formed. Pretty cool.

🌠 One wrong number.

That's all it could have taken.

If gravity were just a little stronger, the Universe could have collapsed before galaxies ever had the chance to grow. 🕳️

If gravity were just a little weaker, matter might have spread too thin for stars and planets to ever form. 🌌

Change the balance between the strong nuclear force and electromagnetism, and atoms themselves may never have held together. ⚛️

Instead, reality exists on a razor's edge of possibility.

Coincidence... hidden laws... a multiverse... or the greatest mystery in modern physics? 👁️✨