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

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

Euclid

"ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to study why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/snippet-of-euclid-missions-cosmic-atlas-released-by-esa/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=euclid20241015

Quasars

"A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center."

https://news.mit.edu/2024/astronomers-detect-ancient-lonely-quasars-murky-origins-1017?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Meteorites hit

"The Earth has been constantly hit by meteorites in its long life time, but scientists only now working out where they came from have found surprising results."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/earth-meteorite-asteroid/

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

Great Red Spot Variation

"New observations of the Great Red Spot (GRS), Jupiter’s enormous storm, have revealed that it is less stable than previously thought."https://www.iflscience.com/watch-jupiters-great-red-spot-wobbling-like-jelly-and-we-do-not-know-why-76322?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Hera

"The Hera mission is a follow-on operation, which will examine Didymos and it moon, Dimorphos, after the latter was struck by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft."

https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/10/07/live-coverage-esas-hera-mission-to-launch-on-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral/

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

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

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

Solar Flare

"A huge solar flare, the largest since 2017, has been spotted erupting from the Sun’s surface."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy437gnp28zo

TESS

"Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have spotted a record-breaking triple-star system so tightly bound that it could fit comfortably between the sun and its closest planet, Mercury."

https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-record-breaking-three-star-system-tightly-packed?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=All%20Push%20Subscribers