Voyager 2

"When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first — and, so far, only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/mining-old-data-from-nasas-voyager-2-solves-several-uranus-mysteries/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

FRB

"Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers on a chase to uncover their origins."

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/mighty-radio-bursts-linked-to-massive-galaxies?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Astronaut taken to hospital

"NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical issue after returning from a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton, the space agency said Friday."

https://ksltv.com/701402/nasa-astronaut-remains-in-the-hospital-after-returning-from-space/

V404 Cygni

"In this system, called V404 Cygni, the black hole is consuming a small star that is spiraling in very close and fast while a newfound third star circles the black hole from much farther away."

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/first-black-hole-in-a-triple-star-system-found?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Hera

"Hera is a planetary defence mission under development at the European Space Agency (ESA) - launching in October 2024."

https://www.heramission.space/

First Space Balloon

"Sir Richard Branson has signed on to be the co-pilot of Space Perspective’s first space balloon flight sometime next year, which could be the the 74-year-old billionaire adventurer’s eighth Guinness World Record."

https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/richard-branson-space-perspective-balloon-flight-1235958767/

Solar Storms

"The danger of a major solar storm is now at its highest in over a decade."https://www.planetary.org/articles/should-you-be-worried-about-solar-storms