Friday, December 26, 2025

Skywatching next year

"Ready for another amazing year of skywatching?"https://www.universetoday.com/articles/top-astronomical-events-to-watch-for-in-2026

Titan

"The best spacecraft images of 3I/ATLAS, maybe Titan doesn’t have a liquid ocean, planetesimals crashing in a nearby star system, and the first superkilonova."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/space-bites-one-146728225

Most Rocket Scientist

"Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don’t have to do it."https://www.universetoday.com/articles/before-we-build-on-the-moon-we-have-to-master-the-commute

Cosmic Map

"Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-spherex-observatory-completes-first-cosmic-map-like-no-other/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Monday, December 22, 2025

Wheelchair in Space

"The flight took place on Saturday morning, when a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule lifted off from the company’s launch site near Van Horn, Texas."https://interestingengineering.com/space/first-wheelchair-user-to-reach-space?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Galaxy Collision

"Our galaxy will collide with Andromeda Galaxy in about 5 billion years. Some astronomers refer to our two galaxy as a binary system of giant spirals."https://space-facts.com/galaxies/milky-way/

Elements of Milky Way

"The stars, gas and dust of the Milky Way all orbit the centre at a rate of about 220 kilometres per second. This constant rate for all stars at different distances from the core implies the existence of a shell of dark matter surrounding our galaxy."https://space-facts.com/galaxies/milky-way/