"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
"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
"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
"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
"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.
"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
"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
"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
Snapple Real Fact #1440: There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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
"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/
"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/
"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
"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
"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/
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
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
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
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
"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/
"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
"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
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
"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
"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/
"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
"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
"Astronomers have discovered the most reflective planet outside the solar system ever seen."
https://www.space.com/exoplanet-largest-mirror-metal-clouds
"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
"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
"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
"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/
"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
"What are some skywatching highlights in September 2023?"
https://scitechdaily.com/dont-miss-venus-harvest-moon-and-zodiacal-light/#google_vignette
“[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/
"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
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Your best entertainment value this weekend is the dazzling Leonid meteor shower."
https://lifehacker.com/science/leonid-showers-viewing
"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
"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
"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
"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/
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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
"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/
"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
"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/
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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/
"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
"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/
"Scientists may soon uncover new insights about some of the most mysterious phenomena in our universe with the help of the newly launched Euclid mission. Built and managed by the European Space Agency, Euclid will use a suite of instruments developed, in part, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore the curious nature of dark energy and dark matter along with their role in the expansion and acceleration of our universe."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2023/7/24/exploring-the-mystery-of-our-expanding-universe/
"America's plan to send its first lander to the Moon since 1972 has ended prematurely after the private owner and operator of the robotic Peregrine spacecraft announced that a massive propellant leak has made a lunar landing impossible."
https://newatlas.com/space/us-peregrine-lunar-landing-mission-scrubbed/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=c146a366ad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_10_10_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-c146a366ad-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
"In quantum mechanics, it is impossible to know both exactly where you are and exactly where you are going."
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2409067-quantum-physicists-just-got-more-certain-about-quantum-uncertainty/?utm_source=nsqp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nsqp_020124&utm_term=Newsletter%20NSQP_Lost%20in%20Space%20Time
