Dark Universe Study

"The two instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images. The results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much more."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/euclid-mission-to-study-dark-universe-takes-first-test-images

Mars Sample

"NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mars-ascent-vehicle-continues-progress-toward-mars-sample-return

Euclid Mission

"The two instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/euclid-mission-to-study-dark-universe-takes-first-test-images

Jupiter 3

"After a two-day delay, SpaceX on Friday night launched Hughes Network Systems' Jupiter 3, a satellite designed to modernize an old-school approach to space-based internet access."

https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/spacex-launches-enormous-satellite-for-faster-rural-broadband/

Regulas

"On Friday, July 28, 2023, soon after sunset, see a strange and wonderful spectacle."

https://www.almanac.com/remarkable-star-regulus

Gravitational Astronomy

"For the first time, an image has revealed large dusty clumps near a young star that astronomers believe could gravitationally collapse to form giant planets."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/image-planet-clump-young-star/

NASA Awards

"A difficult summer for the Starliner program continued this week, with Boeing reporting additional losses on the vehicle's development and NASA saying it's too early to discuss potential launch dates for the crewed spacecraft."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/boeing-has-now-lost-1-1-billion-on-starliner-with-no-crew-flight-in-sight/

Starliner Program

"A difficult summer for the Starliner program continued this week, with Boeing reporting additional losses on the vehicle's development and NASA saying it's too early to discuss potential launch dates for the crewed spacecraft." 

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/boeing-has-now-lost-1-1-billion-on-starliner-with-no-crew-flight-in-sight/

Ancient Steller Body

"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 Astroid

"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."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/christmas-is-coming-for-asteroid-scientists-just-2-months-from-today/

DART updates

"NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos on 27 September 2022, successfully changing its orbit around the larger asteroid Didymos as a result."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/giant-water-strider-intestine-dart/

Avi Leob Expedition

"The former chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department recently returned from an expedition to the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea that dragged a magnetic sled across the seafloor in an attempt to find fragments of what Loeb claims is the first-known interstellar meteor, what he refers to as "IM1.""

https://www.space.com/interstellar-meteor-avi-loeb-expedition

SpaceX Falcon rocket

"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 15 Starlink satellites toward orbit early Thursday (July 20) and came back down for a landing on a ship at sea."

https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-6-15?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=90EBAFDC-46DA-4DB8-98C6-7021D1079EB5&utm_source=SmartBrief

Space Age Recording

"A truly historic Space Age recording is up for auction as the personal copy of the master tapes belonging to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan for the crafting of the Golden Record that flew on Voyager 1 and 2 goes on the block at Sotheby's."

https://newatlas.com/space/carl-sagans-personal-golden-record-tapes-auction/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d25a527445-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_21_12_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-d25a527445-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

LIGO/VIRGO

"We’ve become familiar with LIGO/VIRGO’s detections of colliding black holes and neutron stars that create gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space-time. "

https://www.universetoday.com/162188/after-decades-of-observations-astronomers-have-finally-sensed-the-pervasive-background-hum-of-merging-supermassive-black-holes/

Solar Activity

"A recent uptick in solar activity and its effects on infrastructure on and around Earth has raised concern about how the upcoming solar maximum will affect technology."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/solar-maximum-explainer-part-1/

Brown Dwarf Star

"A brown dwarf star analysed by astronomers at the University of Sydney is the coldest known to emit radio waves."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/coldest-brown-dwarf-star-radio-waves/

James Webb Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has accomplished some amazing things during its first year of operations! 

https://www.universetoday.com/162237/james-webb-is-a-go-for-cycle-2-observations/#google_vignette

Indian Space Research Organisation

"The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) LVM3 launch rocket blasted off from the country’s main spaceport in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh on Friday afternoon, leaving behind a plume of smoke and fire."

https://www.dawn.com/news/1764702

ESA and SpaceX

"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

Venus Cloud

"Three years ago astronomers announced they had found the molecule phosphine in the clouds of Venus." 

https://www.iflscience.com/exclusive-more-phosphine-has-been-detected-even-deeper-in-venuss-atmosphere-69704

Space Shuttle Endeavor

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-space-shuttle-endeavour-stand-tall-once-more-1850611153

Ghost Particles

"Deep under the ice at the South Pole sits a telescope which captures neither light nor radio waves, but ghost particles."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/icecube-scientists-snap-first-neutrino-image-of-the-milky-way/

WORLD UFO DAY

"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/