National Aeronautics and Space Administrion
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Voyager 2
Saturday, November 9, 2024
FRB
Friday, November 8, 2024
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/
Sunday, October 27, 2024
V404 Cygni
Thursday, October 24, 2024
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/
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Solar Storms
ESA Jupiter’s Icy Moon Explorer
"ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments."
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice
Friday, October 18, 2024
Euclid
Quasars
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Meteorites hit
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Jupiter's icy moon
"A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral,
Florida."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1482xzrge1o
Monday, October 14, 2024
Great Red Spot Variation
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Hera
Coronal Mass Ejection
"Scientists with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Group (SWPC) said that a cloud of charged solar material, called a coronal mass ejection, slammed into Earth around midday, triggering a "severe" geomagnetic storm that could impact power grids and GPS and radio communications systems, as well as amplify aurora displays in regions that typically don't see them."
https://www.space.com/extreme-solar-storm-affects-auroras-power-grids-october-2024?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Friday, October 11, 2024
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/first-greenhouse-gas-plumes-detected-with-nasa-designed-instrument/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=Latest20241010
Monday, October 7, 2024
JWST detected Carbon dioxide
"Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon."
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-pluto-icy-moon-charon?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Solar Flare
Saturday, October 5, 2024
TESS
Friday, September 27, 2024
Entanglement
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Universe
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Pacific Nations
"In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-analysis-shows-irreversible-sea-level-rise-for-pacific-islands/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=climatechange20240925
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
One Dimensional Gas
"A team of physicists have created a one-dimensional gas out of light, studying the strange properties of this strange state of matter."
https://www.iflscience.com/physicists-turn-light-into-a-one-dimensional-gas-with-incredibly-strange-properties-75963?utm_source=The+IFLScience+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e5de86469f-ICYMI-18-09-24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c13f3c4e60-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&goal=0_3aa1738e2a-e5de86469f-272567312&mc_cid=e5de86469f&mc_eid=561ee916fc
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Astronauts Stranded in space
"Two US astronauts stranded in space for eight months have said it was hard to watch their malfunctioning craft depart the International Space Station without them, but they were happy and trained to "expect the unexpected"."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn1125ne3o?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Stadium Sized Asteroids
Ring of Space Rocks
"Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to chaotic meteorite strikes on our planet's surface, new research suggests."
https://www.livescience.com/space/earth-once-wore-a-saturn-like-ring-study-of-ancient-craters-suggests
Monday, September 16, 2024
Pair of Asteroids
Friday, September 13, 2024
Bowing 737
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Polaris Dawn
Polaris
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
JWT New Galaxies
Hubble Discovery
Monday, September 9, 2024
Next Trip to Moon
Starliner
China's Launch
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Guesswork regarding Moon
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Small Asteroid
"A small asteroid on a collision course with Earth today burned up harmlessly in Earth's atmosphere.
The European Space Agency (ESA) says a 3-foot (1-meter) asteroid struck the atmosphere and burned up harmlessly on Wednesday (Sept. 4) around 12:46 p.m. ET (1646 GMT) above the western Pacific Ocean near Luzon Island in the Philippines. "
https://www.space.com/asteroid-earth-impact-september-2024-rw1?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4EA75E20-1AEE-49D3-9409-39182C8C23E1&utm_source=SmartBrief
Copernicus
"This initiative is headed by the European Commission (EC) in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA)."
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Introducing_Copernicus#:~:text=Copernicus%20is%20the%20Earth%20observation,change%20and%20ensure%20civil%20security.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Stargazers
"Stargazers in Salisbury, UK, were treated to a magical sight as the Perseid meteor shower, seen each year when Earth passes through debris left by the comet Swift–Tuttle, rained shooting stars over the prehistoric monoliths at Stonehenge."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-02781-z/index.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
UAE
"The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency is moving forward on a one-after-another mission to the main asteroid belt.
The probe will conduct high-speed flybys of six asteroids, completing the spectacular sojourn with a rendezvous and orbiting of a seventh mini-world — and then deploy a small lander onto that final space rock destination."
https://www.space.com/uae-asteroid-belt-mission-progress-2028-launch?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4EA75E20-1AEE-49D3-9409-39182C8C23E1&utm_source=SmartBrief
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Mars Perseverance
Solar Sail
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Nuclear Strikes
Butch Wilmore
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Event Horizon Telescope
Dark Matter
Deep Purple Telescope
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Mars sized planet
"Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized celestial body slammed into our home planet."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/our-moon-was-likely-covered-in-a-magma-ocean-long-ago-and-new-data-from-indias-lunar-rover-supports-that-theory-180984963/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&spMailingID=50118209&spUserID=MTQzNjUzNTAxNTQ5OAS2&spJobID=2762942663&spReportId=Mjc2Mjk0MjY2MwS2
Monday, August 26, 2024
SpaceX
First piece of ISS
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Backyard World
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Starliner
Friday, August 23, 2024
Theia
Chandrayaan-3
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Magnetosphere
NASA Telescope
Juice
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Juno Developments
Friday, August 16, 2024
Solar Eclipse History
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Nasa astronauts
Stars to Sand Ratio
Snapple Real Fact #1440: There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Spacecraft
Swift Tuttle
Perseids
M Dwarf Stars
"Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected two new super-Earth exoplanets orbiting nearby M-dwarf stars."
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-astronomers-super-earths-orbiting-nearby.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Thursday, August 8, 2024
ISS
"The two astronauts who went up to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing's Starliner may have to come home on a different spacecraft, NASA officials said during a press conference Wednesday."
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/nasa-boeings-starliner-astronauts-home-spacecraft/story?id=112647562
Monday, August 5, 2024
Meteor zipping through Space
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Moon
Geometric Storms
Canadian Robotic Arm
Friday, August 2, 2024
NASA 1958
NASA beginning
Sky Watchers August 19
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Mars Landing
Monday, July 29, 2024
Falcon 9
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Mega Constellation
Exoplanet models
Deep Space Network
Starlink
New Comet
Asteroid Sample
STEVE
Jim Free
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Stars in The Sky
Friday, July 26, 2024
Chiron
Starliner
Thursday, July 25, 2024
NASA vein
Centaurus
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
James Webb
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Centaurus
Northern Lights
Telescopes
Titan
Warren Hoburg
Low Earth Orbit
Monday, July 22, 2024
Permanent spot on Jupiter
Gyroscope on Hubble
Objectives of James Webb Telescope
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Days getting longer
Mars Colony
Lethal Stars
Atmosphere
Star Explosion
NASA Damages
VRO
National Science Foundation
Odyssey Spacecraft
NEOWISE
Asteroid Impacts
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Binary Asteroids
James Webb Telescope
Protostellar Outflow
James Webb Telescope
National Moon Day
Chrystal's on Mars
Friday, July 19, 2024
2014 Space Race
Spaceflight Changes
Jupiter's Spot
Thursday, July 18, 2024
LRO
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Cave on Moon
Young Galaxies
Humble Neutrino
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Space X
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Axiom Mission
Mission to Mars
Unexpected Structures
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Europe's New Rocket
Galactic Managerie
"This menagerie includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. Somehow, these different galaxies have crossed paths to create an exceptionally crowded and eclectic galaxy sampler."
https://esahubble.org/news/heic2205/?lang
FAA
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Supermassive Blackholes
"Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large galaxies, or relatively lightweight, with a mass of under 100 times that of the Sun. Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are scarce, however, and are considered rare "missing links" in black hole evolution."
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-finds-strong-evidence-for-intermediate-mass-black-hole-in-omega-centauri/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Milky Way
"This summer, you can gaze at the Milky Way without the need for a telescope, but you may have to drive a bit to get a good view."
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/science/4754364-milky-way-see-without-telescope-july-august/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Ariane 6
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
NASA volunteers
Ejected Boulders
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Chapea
Friday, July 5, 2024
SpaceX
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have mapped scorching pavement in Phoenix where contact with skin — from a fall, for example — can cause serious burns."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ecostress-maps-burn-risk-across-phoenix-streets?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=Latest20240702
Monday, July 1, 2024
Sunday, June 30, 2024
NATIONAL METEOR WATCH DAY
Saturday, June 29, 2024
2 Close Calls
Close call
"Tomorrow, Earth will have a relatively close encounter with one of the largest known space rocks in the potentially hazardous asteroid class. It is known as 2011 UL21 and it is classed as a "planet-killer" in size."
https://www.iflscience.com/planet-killer-asteroid-to-safely-fly-by-earth-tomorrow-74826
VRO
ISS
"The International Space Station has been around for a long time."
https://www.planetary.org/articles/how-nasa-plans-to-deorbit-the-international-space-station
Friday, June 28, 2024
NASA and SpaceX
"NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station to a fiery end when the time comes."
https://www.space.com/nasa-spacex-international-space-station-deorbit-vehicle
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
SHERLOC
"The SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has analyzed a rock target with its spectrometer and camera for the first time since encountering an issue this past January. The instrument plays a key role in the mission’s search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed on June 17 that the instrument succeeded in collecting data."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/detective-work-enables-perseverance-team-to-revive-sherloc-instrument?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=percy20240626
Monday, June 24, 2024
NASA aircraft over Baltimore and Philadelphia and more
Observatory in Mediterranean
Neutrinos
"Of all the elementary particles in the universe, neutrinos may be the strangest."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-are-neutrinos-and-how-can-we-measure-their-mass/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Friday, June 21, 2024
James Webb NIRCAM
"For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam)."
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/first-of-its-kind-detection-made-in-striking-new-webb-image/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Brightening Galaxy
Monday, June 17, 2024
Water Cycle
Voyager
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Dryness of Venus
Furthest Journey so far
Did you know?
"October 22, 2038: After a journey of over a billion miles to the outer solar system, the Centaurus spacecraft is on final approach. Dead ahead lies Chiron, a mini-planet orbiting between Uranus and Neptune."
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "Mission to Centaurs" pp. 16-23
ST Discovery
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Planets History
"Scientists scour the Earth and the sky for clues to our planet’s climate history. Powerful and sustained volcanic eruptions can alter the climate for long periods of time, and the Sun’s output can shift Earth’s climate over millions of years."
https://www.universetoday.com/167340/was-earths-climate-affected-by-interstellar-clouds/
James Webb Space Telescope
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Voyager 1
Black Hole Material
Future
"Humanity's future may involve getting to a planet other than Earth ‒ but first people will have to survive the journey."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/06/11/why-space-travel-ages-people/74052057007/
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Black Hole Growth
Cosmos
"Deep inside a black hole, the cosmos gets twisted beyond comprehension. Here, at some infinitesimal point of infinite density, the fabric of the universe gets so ludicrously warped that Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which describes how mass bends space-time, ceases to make sense. At the singularity, our understanding falls apart."
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26234950-400-what-naked-singularities-are-revealing-about-quantum-space-time//?utm_source=nssub-acq&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nssub%20acq_29-feb-clicks-offer_e4_A-tri_120624&utm_content=A&utm_term=NSSUB_Prospects_E-A-P_click-date_since%2029%20Feb
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Martian Mountains
Water on Mars
"An international team of planetary scientists has detected patches of water frost sitting atop the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, which are not only the tallest volcanic mountains on the Red Planet but in the entire solar system."
https://www.brown.edu/news/2024-06-10/mars-frost?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Monday, June 10, 2024
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams
"NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are safely in orbit on the first crewed flight test aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft bound for the International Space Station."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/liftoff-nasa-astronauts-pilot-first-starliner-crewed-test-to-station/
ACDM model
Did you know?
"If either the direct-collapse or super-Eddington scenario is correct, there is no need to tinker with the ACDM cosmological model. And Hennawi points out that it's not necessarily an either/or proposition. Both direct collapse and super-Eddington accretion could have been operating in the early universe, he say, Natarajan agrees."
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Eddington Rate
Did you know?
"Magnetic fields thus determine how efficiently a gram of matter radiates light as it spirals towards a black hole. A magnetic field with twist and turns will gum up the flow, causing it to heat up and emit powerful radiation that could stem the infall of material. But, says Natarajan, if the magnetic field takes a direct path and neatly threads an accretion disk, simulations suggest it can whisk material to the black hole, feeding it much faster than the Eddington rate."
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
James Webb Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope
Did you know?
"At some level the abundance is what you really want and need, but the important thing is that we'll have a lot more understanding of this when we can make these kinds of measurements for hundreds of objects, that's really what JWST will allow us to do."
Hennawi
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Olympus Mons
Starship Super Heavy Flight
Radio signals
SpaceX
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Magellian and Gemini Telescopes
Did you know?
"Using the Magellian and Gemini telescopes, they have measured the amount of light from several redshift-7 quasars by observing how their radiation has ionized the inter-galactic gas between the quasar and us."
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Planets Age
1679 Dutch Researchers
"In 1679, Dutch explorers reached Australia and observed the first black swan known to Western civilization."
https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/black-swans-from-mars/
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Very Long BaseLine Arrey
"Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Long Baseline Array (LBA), astronomers have observed a black hole low-mass X-ray binary known as Swift J1727.8-1613. As a result, they found that the system hosts a highly extended and bright relativistic jet. The finding was detailed in a paper published May 20 on the pre-print server arXiv."
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-ray-binary-swift-j17278-large.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Friday, May 31, 2024
Black Hole Stars
"Stars near the center of our galaxy are acting kind of weird. Dark matter may be the explanation."
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-dark-galaxy-innermost-stars-immortal.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Eddington Limit
Did you know?
"Even if a black hole can pull matter faster than the Eddington limit, that increased accretion should produce powerful winds and outflows that drives materials away, choking off further growth. In other words if episodes of super-Eddington accretion do occur they are presumably in duration, setting yet another limit on how fast black hole can grow.
Because of these natural limits, astronomers find it difficult to explain how a black hole starting off with 100 to 200 solar masses can accrete enough material in only a few hundred million years to grow into the billion-solar-mass behemoth powering the quasars J1342 and J1007. For that, we need to seed black holes with much higher intial masses. But how are they born?"
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Cosmic Pulsars
"The sweeping beams of cosmic lighthouses called pulsars are much more energetic than previously thought, calling into question the bulbs that power them."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vela-exploded-star-highest-energy-pulsar
Rocket Lab
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Astronauts to Moon
"NASA is getting ready to send astronauts to explore more of the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and the agency has selected SpaceX to continue development of the first commercial human lander that will safely carry the next two American astronauts to the lunar surface."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/as-artemis-moves-forward-nasa-picks-spacex-to-land-next-americans-on-moon/
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Ripples in Space
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Mars Helicopter
"The 52nd flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is now in the official mission logbook as a success."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-phones-home?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=ingenuity20230630
Avi Leob Alien Technology
Euclid
"A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the universe’s expansion is speeding up."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-roman-and-esas-euclid-will-team-up-to-investigate-dark-energy
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Reflective Planet
"Astronomers have discovered the most reflective planet outside the solar system ever seen."
https://www.space.com/exoplanet-largest-mirror-metal-clouds
Mars Mission
Jupiter
"Among the planets in our solar system, Jupiter is the eldest and largest, and it often appears as the second brightest in the night sky after Venus."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-seven-most-amazing-discoveries-weve-made-by-exploring-jupiter-180984352/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&spMailingID=49781215&spUserID=MTQzNjUzNTAxNTQ5OAS2&spJobID=2702464001&spReportId=MjcwMjQ2NDAwMQS2
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Stunning Picture
Monday, May 20, 2024
Blue Origin
"Blue Origin carried out its first crewed launch since 2022 on May 19th, sending six space tourists into space for a brief period of weightlessness."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/19/24160127/blue-origin-ns-25-new-shepard-6th-crewed-launch
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Webb
"The first anniversary image from NASA’s Webb is of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/webb-celebrates-first-year-of-science-with-close-up-on-birth-of-sun-like-stars
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Psyche
Warp Drive
"Central to science fiction, and Star Trek in particular, is the ability to travel the galaxy at speeds far faster than light via a fictional technology called a “warp drive.” What is that, and will we ever have one?"
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/star-trek-warp-drive-possible/
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Ancient River
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Stars
Cotton Candy Earth
Monday, May 13, 2024
Mysteries in Astrophysics
"One of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics today is that the forces in galaxies do not seem to add up."
https://theconversation.com/is-dark-matters-main-rival-theory-dead-theres-bad-news-from-the-cassini-spacecraft-and-other-recent-tests-228826?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Sunday, May 12, 2024
September 2023
"What are some skywatching highlights in September 2023?"
https://scitechdaily.com/dont-miss-venus-harvest-moon-and-zodiacal-light/#google_vignette
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Olbers’ paradox
Unis
“[The king] Unis seizes the sky and splits its iron.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-hieroglyphic-texts-reveal-that-ancient-egyptians-knew-meteorites-came-from-the-sky-180983039/
Sun
Friday, May 10, 2024
Atlas 5
"An Atlas 5 rocket carrying astronauts for the first time was fueled for blastoff Monday night to boost Boeing's long-delayed Starliner crew ferry ship into orbit for its first piloted test flight."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-starliner-launch-space-station-crew/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Black holes
Planet Making
Monday, May 6, 2024
Ediacaran Period
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Mars Quake
National Astronaut Day
NATIONAL ASTRONAUT DAY
"National Astronaut Day on May 5th each year celebrates Astronauts as true heroes."
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-astronaut-day-may-5?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9734380&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&email=yeremiah%40aol.com
Saturday, May 4, 2024
New Satellite
China Robot
James Webb Telescope
"James Webb continues to shed new light on the early universe."
https://interestingengineering.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-captures-the-second-most-distant-galaxy-ever
Friday, May 3, 2024
NATIONAL SPACE DAY
"National Space Day dedicates the first Friday in May to the extraordinary achievements, benefits, and opportunities in the exploration and use of space."
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-space-day-first-friday-in-may?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9714622&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&email=yeremiah%40aol.com
Mediterranean Eclipse
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Solar System Future
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Pulsar Problem
"The Milky Way has a missing pulsar problem in its core."
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-neutron-stars-capturing-primordial-black.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter#google_vignette
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Exoplanet Crises
Ultra Massive Black Hole
James Webb Telescope
"The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula."
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Monday, April 29, 2024
Rocket Lab
WASP 107B
"A team of European astronomers, co-led by researchers from the Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, used recent observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of the nearby exoplanet WASP-107b."
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-jwst-vapor-sulfur-dioxide-sand.html
Sunday, April 28, 2024
The Moon
"The moon has long captured our imaginations. It’s embedded deep in mythology around the world, and even became the first calendar for many ancient people. "
https://www.interestingfacts.com/moon-facts/YnBu6lm3LQAHz-mm?liu=f990a22b8f045d09d1eb29acc743f7c5&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2130667792
Leonid Meteor Shower
"Your best entertainment value this weekend is the dazzling Leonid meteor shower."
https://lifehacker.com/science/leonid-showers-viewing
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Second SpaceX flight
"The second test flight for SpaceX’s Starship rocket has now been given the all clear by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23873201/spacex-starship-faa-approval-super-heavy-launch-test-date
Leonid meteor shower
"Every November, there’s a fantastic event for bringing people together: that’s right, the Leonid meteor shower."
https://gizmodo.com/how-best-witness-leonid-meteor-shower-weekend-1851031284?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-11-17
Friday, April 26, 2024
Hubble
CAS
"The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01223-0?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Solar System
"Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of their wires around a bright-orange painted sun."
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-are-solar-systems-born/
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Google and NASA partership
"As part of the long-standing partnership between NASA and Google, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture and artist Yiyun Kang to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater resources titled “A Passage of Water.”"
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/googles-a-passage-of-water-brings-nasas-water-data-to-life
Monday, April 22, 2024
2023 Space Missions
"The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India's Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/space-missions-launch-2024-artemis-clipper-viper-moon-mars/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email
Earth's Magnetic Field
JUNO
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Io, Jupiter's moon
"There are new, high-quality images of Jupiter's moon, Io, thanks to the nearest flyby of the celestial body by a spacecraft in decades."
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/31/1222345665/take-a-look-at-these-astonishing-new-images-of-jupiters-volcanic-moon-io
Friday, April 19, 2024
Mars Helicopter
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Meteor Shower
"A week after that stunning total solar eclipse, the Lyrid meteor shower is about to give sky-gazers plenty of reasons to once again look toward the cosmos."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/15/lyrid-meteor-shower-2024-peak/73325033007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
US Space Agency
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
ULA
"The United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched its new Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral on Monday at 2:18AM ET, carrying a US-made Moon lander with NASA science and research payloads onboard."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24029705/nasa-peregrine-mission-one-moon-lander-vulcan-centaur-rocket-launch
Friday, April 12, 2024
Astrobotic
"Astrobotic, the team behind the Peregrine spacecraft, is urgently working to extract any possible value from its failing mission."
https://gizmodo.com/race-against-time-astrobotic-peregrine-moon-mission-1851151921?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-01-09
Thursday, April 11, 2024
NISAR
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
2024 Space Age
"The year 2024 could be the dawn of a new Space Age, full of landing attempts on the moon and successive rocket launches."
https://mashable.com/article/2024-solar-eclipse-meteor-showers-rocket-launches-more?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lightspeed&zdee=gAAAAABlMXKb0IDZ-GNdjEnXeY0t1_atRL5n2JMUni0onFr5rXMHMAtj71qQ8edr6XOfkvzeygD3zcUETeWKQhfHCMmJF0PQ3Grb1DT9YTXtnYOjIpHc_VE%3D
Eclipse
"It’s almost time in Pennsylvania for the Monday, April 8 total solar eclipse."
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/across-pa/pa-solar-eclipse-when-look-weather-forecast-totality-path?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert&user_email=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&user_email_md5=ecc4eb5a460f31b456c54514153c0893&lctg=65ba9c0c44c464247206b03b#google_vignette
Monday, April 8, 2024
Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse
"A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting the moon's shadow on Earth."
https://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/what-is-a-solar-eclipse
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Robotic Lander
"The first U.S.-based robotic lander in over a half-century lost its shot at the moon just mere hours into flight."
https://mashable.com/article/moon-mission-nasa-astrobotic-failure?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lightspeed&zdee=gAAAAABlMXKb0IDZ-GNdjEnXeY0t1_atRL5n2JMUni0onFr5rXMHMAtj71qQ8edr6XOfkvzeygD3zcUETeWKQhfHCMmJF0PQ3Grb1DT9YTXtnYOjIpHc_VE%3D
Star Explosion
Lockheed Martin
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Spaceborne Testbed
"The spaceborne testbed demonstrated the ability to beam power wirelessly in space; it measured the efficiency, durability, and function of a variety of different types of solar cells in space; and gave a real-world trial of the design of a lightweight deployable structure to deliver and hold the aforementioned solar cells and power transmitters."
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/space-solar-power-project-ends-first-in-space-mission-with-successes-and-lessons?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Friday, April 5, 2024
Big Bang Supermassive Cloud
Perseverance Mars Rover
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Direct Collapse Black Hole
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Curiosity Rover
"NASA’s Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for all from the Red Planet’s surface. Billions of years ago, Mars was much wetter and probably warmer than it is today."
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9569/nasas-curiosity-searches-for-new-clues-about-mars-ancient-water/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Black Holes
Did you know?
"What if some black holes in the early universe were able to accrete matter at super-Eddington rates for prolonged periods of time? In this scenario, a black hole starting off with a few hundred solar masses could have bulked up relatively quickly into a billion solar mass behemoth."
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
Saturday, March 30, 2024
When they were founded
Plane Trip to Pluto
Stunning Picture
Friday, March 29, 2024
Earths Size
"One million Earths could fit inside the Sun – and the Sun is considered an average-size star."
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Event Horizon Image
Monday, March 25, 2024
Sounds of Sun
NATIONAL NEAR MISS DAY
First Views of Sun
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Russia's Module
"Russia’s Nauka module sprung a leak on Monday in the latest incident of faulty hardware on board the International Space Station (ISS)."
https://gizmodo.com/iss-coolant-leak-russian-hardware-nauka-module-1850914299
Monday, March 11, 2024
Eclipse
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Water on Mars
Walks in Space
"You wouldn’t be able to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they have no solid surface!"
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/
Startalk
NASA mission MIT
Beginning of Operation
UFO office
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Internet on The Moon
UFO investigation
Identification of Arabic and Hebrew Inscriptions
James Webb Telescope
"Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have spotted a ‘dead’ galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such galaxy ever observed."
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-spot-oldest-dead-galaxy-yet-observed?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Friday, March 8, 2024
Star Light
"Space looks black because some stars haven't been around long enough for their light to reach us."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/things-never-knew-space-facts-2018-4%3famp
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
James Webb Telescope
"The James Webb Space Telescope's new infrared images have revealed never-before-seen cosmic details."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/things-never-knew-space-facts-2018-4%3famp
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Space begins
Atmospheric Rivers
"A series of atmospheric rivers drenched California in February, with record amounts of rainfall and hurricane-force winds sweeping across parts of the state."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/swot-satellite-catches-coastal-flooding-during-california-storms?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=swot20240305
Monday, March 4, 2024
Empty Space
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
China National Space Administration
Sunday, February 25, 2024
The sky is not the Limit
"The sky’s the limit? Not for Jeff Koons. There aren’t any galleries or museums on the moon (yet) but extraterrestrial dilettantes are in luck. If all goes to plan, there will soon be some contemporary art."
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/koons-on-the-moon-2433813
Newly Discovered Quasar
The Kuiper Belt
"The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies extending far beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is home to Pluto and Arrokoth. Both worlds were visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft."
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt/
News about Space
"For anybody already jaded by the news and joking about a trip to outer space to avoid it all, Nasa might just have you covered."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/20/year-mars-simulation-volunteers-nasa?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Image from Hubble Space Telescope
Sunday, February 11, 2024
NASA Beginning
Thursday, February 8, 2024
NASA awards
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Neil Armstrong
"Neil Armstrong was one week late submitting his application to NASA. His friend Dick Day slipped the application into the pile so that it wouldn't look like it was late."
https://www.softschools.com/facts/space/nasa_facts/3197/