"NASA’s EMIT mission has created the first comprehensive maps of the world’s mineral dust-source regions, providing precise locations of 10 key minerals based on how they reflect and absorb light. "
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-sensor-produces-first-global-maps-of-surface-minerals-in-arid-regions
"Astronaut Frank Rubio may feel vindicated after produce that went missing on his watch was finally found aboard the International Space Station."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/18/how-iss-tomato-looks-eight-months-lost-nasa-space-station/71957382007/
"NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on a roll. In the eight weeks since it left Earth on Oct. 13, the orbiter has performed one successful operation after another, powering on scientific instruments, streaming data toward home, and setting a deep-space record with its electric thrusters."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-psyche-delivers-first-images-and-other-data
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"A DCBH would outweigh the total mass of stars in its small host galexy by up to 50 times, Natarajan says, creating bizarre objects known as an obese black hole galexy."
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
"Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-nasa-captured-asteroid-dust-to-find-the-origins-of-life-180983274/
"For the first time in space, scientists have produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-cold-atom-lab-sets-stage-for-quantum-chemistry-in-space
"In July of this year, an asteroid roughly 30 to 60 meters across passed Earth to within one-quarter of the distance to the moon."
https://mashable.com/article/james-webb-space-telescope-crab-nebula
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"DCBHs could have formed with as much as a million solar masses. Such as a massive black hole would have quicky merged with the nearby galexy, where it could have bulked up very rapidly on stars and gas. Natarjan and Lodato originally intendedthis model to explain ultra-massive blackholes."
Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23
"A new species of mite, Paraschizogynium Hedwig, has been described and named after the owl Hedwig from the Harry Potter franchise."
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/what-you-might-have-missed-hedwig-lives-on-potter-bendy-barnacles-palaeobionics-and-icy-moons/
"Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-finds-jupiters-winds-penetrate-in-cylindrical-layers?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=juno20231109
"Supermassive blackholes sucking galactic gas towards their centre end up throwing most of it away, Japanese researchers have found in research they describe as “monumental.”"
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/world-first-observation-of-lightyear-scale-black-hole-gas-flows/?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=43a878af00-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-43a878af00-181027409&mc_cid=43a878af00&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52
"On July 4, 2023, the Perseverance Rover celebrated its 842nd Martian day on Mars. As the red sky above began to grow dark, the adventurous robot turned its left navigation camera to the hazy horizon."
https://www.sciencealert.com/perseverance-captures-a-beautifully-strange-blue-sunset-on-mars
"Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space agency said Thursday."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-telescope-reveals-new-planets-kepler/
"A restroom with an out-of-this-world view could be the surprise highlight for travelers adventuring with space tourism start-up Space Perspective."
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/space-toilet-space-perspective-scn/index.html
"In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine."
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-x-ray-telescopes-reveal-the-bones-of-a-ghostly-cosmic-hand/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
"The NASA-funded Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) project released its fourth and most recent map of where on Mars we might find, as you might expect, subsurface water ice."
https://www.space.com/map-water-ice-mars-nasa-astronauts
"On Saturday morning, October 14, an annular solar eclipse will cross the skies of the Southwestern United States, allowing viewers to see a dazzling “ring of fire” surround the shadowy new moon."
"Gravitational Lensing, Clusters of Galaxies as Astrophysical Laboratories, Black Hole Physics, Binary Black Holes, Issues in Galaxy Formation, History & Philosophy of Science."
"It was a long slog. But NASA's Curiosity rover did it."
https://mashable.com/article/mars-nasa-curiosity-rover-image
"After spending an American record-breaking 371 days in space, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio safely landed on Earth with his crewmates Wednesday."
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/record-setting-nasa-astronaut-crewmates-return-from-space-mission
"About 40 light years away, a system of seven Earth-sized planets orbit a star that is much cooler and smaller than our sun— the exoplanetary system called TRAPPIST-1."
https://www.popsci.com/science/jwst-trappist-atmosphere-spectroscopy/
"A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago — is expected to slam into Earth's atmosphere at a blistering 27,650 mph on Sunday."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-asteroid-samples-bennu-land-on-earth-sunday/
"For the first time, fossilized remains of ancient human relatives have gone to the edge of outer space — and scientists are not happy about it."
"U.S. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman on Sept. 6 unveiled a new mission statement for the service — in an effort to more clearly communicate what the Space Force does and why it was created."
https://spacenews.com/space-force-rewrites-mission-statement/
"NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an early yet tantalizing piece of evidence that an exoplanet some 120 light years away could be covered in a massive ocean — that's possibly harboring life."
https://futurism.com/the-byte/james-webb-possible-signs-life-distant-planet
"This week is perfect for moon-gazing. Most people assume that the best time to watch our satellite is when it’s full, but it’s actually far more pleasing sight—in my view—when it’s a delicate crescent."
"The lander, dubbed the "moon sniper", is expected to attempt a Moon landing in February if all goes well."
"The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4m telescope, located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, will provide the optical imaging for targeting for 2/3 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) footprint, covering both the North Galactic Cap region at Dec ≤ 32° and the South Galactic Cap region at Dec ≤ 34°. Due to the combination of large field of view and high sensitivity from 400-1000 nm, DECam is an efficient option for obtaining photometry in the g�, r�, and z� bands."
https://www.legacysurvey.org/decamls/
"Mars is rotating more quickly than it used to, according to data that NASA’s InSight lander collected on the red planet."
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/14/world/mars-rotation-insight-nasa-scn/index.html
The Federal Aviation Administration is now reviewing a mishap investigation report submitted by SpaceX regarding the company's April test flight of its giant Starship rocket, a spokesperson for the regulatory agency said Tuesday."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/let-the-review-begin-spacex-takes-another-step-toward-launching-starship-again/
"While the ongoing quest to detect life on Mars continues, NASA's plan to retrieve samples from the planet is set to conclude in the early next decade."
"The longest timelapse video of an exoplanet has been created by a physicist at Northwestern University in the US."
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/exoplanet-timelapse/
"Just after 8 p.m. EST on Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists lifted off aboard a SpaceX rocket. Organized and funded by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the Inspiration4 mission touts itself as “the first all-civilian mission to orbit” and represents a new type of space tourism."
https://theconversation.com/spacex-inspiration4-mission-sent-4-people-with-minimal-training-into-orbit-and-brought-space-tourism-closer-to-reality-167611
"Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope has sent back its first photos, showing an array of stars and galaxies, after arriving on the far side of the Earth in late July."
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/euclids-first-photos/
"A University of Hawai’i astronomer argues tethering a sun shield to an asteroid would reduce the required mass of the climate geoengineering structure for blocking solar radiation."
"Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar body gatecrashing a gathering of hot, young stars."
https://www.space.com/old-star-crashes-party-solar-system-mystery
"Christmas Day for scientists who study asteroids is coming in just two months when a small spacecraft carrying material from a distant rubble pile will land in a Utah desert."
"The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT (8:11 a.m. PDT) Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-to-provide-coverage-for-launch-of-esa-dark-universe-mission
"World UFO Day commemorates two separate dates June 24 and July 2 on the National Day Calendar."
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/world-ufo-day-june-24-and-july-2/
"On Oct. 14, an annular eclipse will cross the western U.S. from Oregon to Texas. Afterward, it will touch nine additional countries: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil."
https://www.astronomy.com/observing/where-and-when-to-see-the-october-2023-annular-eclipse/
"Using data collected by NASA’s Cassini mission, an international team of scientists has discovered phosphorus – an essential chemical element for life – locked inside salt-rich ice grains ejected into space from Enceladus."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-cassini-data-reveals-building-block-for-life-in-enceladus-ocean
