Once in a Blue Moon

"A “Once in a Blue Moon” happens on Wednesday night, August 30. The Moon will not actually be the color blue, so don’t be disappointed."

https://www.almanac.com/what-blue-moon

Monster Black Hole

Did you know?

"In 2017, astronomers started finding monster black holes in the very early universe. Containing roughly a billion times the mass of our Sun, these Black Holes were surrounded by disks of infalling matter shining so intensely that we can detect them across immense stretches of space and time."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021"How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" by Robert Naeye p. 17

First Supermassive Blackholes

Did you know?

"The first supermassive Black Holes pose a cosmic mystery; they got to big to fast

Astronomy Magazine March  2021

"How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" by Robert Naeye p. 17

Colossal Sunpot

"A team of experts from NASA has recently spotted a colossal sunspot, predicted to expand and shift until it directly faces Earth in the coming week."

https://www.earth.com/news/giant-sunspot-may-soon-disrupt-earths-power-grids/

Chandrayaan-3

"India successfully landed on the moon on Wednesday. The Chandrayaan-3 mission was a success."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/chandrayaan-3-watch-indias-attempt-to-make-history-tonight/

Voyager 2

"NASA lost contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft—the second-most distant object ever built by humans and flung into space—nearly two weeks ago due to an errant command sent to the probe."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/voyager-2-phones-home-and-says-everything-is-cool/

Fourth Dimension

"The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematicians-guided-tour-through-high-dimensions-20210913/

Superconductor

"In late July, a couple of startling papers appeared on the arXiv, a repository of pre-peer-review manuscripts on topics in physics and astronomy."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/whats-going-on-with-the-reports-of-a-room-temperature-superconductor/

Astrobee

"Astrobee is a free flying robot designed to work on the International Space Station. It can navigate around the ISS autonomously, and will perform useful tasks for the astronauts."

https://robotsguide.com/robots/astrobee

Demon Particle

"A “demon” particle that has been haunting physicists for nearly 70 years has been found in an experiment by American researchers."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/demon-particle-found/

Magnetars

"Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. "

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/magnetars-nzs-largest-fault-stopping-ovarian-cancer-and-more/

Mars Rover Life

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/mars-rover-life.html

Longest Timelapse Video

"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/

SpaceX rocket

"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

Saturn

"In our culture of publicity and hard sell, it’s tempting to exaggerate. But one planet never disappoints: Saturn."

https://www.almanac.com/saturn-closest-earth-and-brightest-august-2023

Plans to turn Asteroid into Space Station

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-unveils-a-bold-plan-to-turn-an-asteroid-into-a-space-station

Voyager 2

"After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away."

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-voyager-spacecraft-regains-contact-addc3ad28f1d6bec03210b587f69663d

Erendel

"Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe Earendel, the most distant star ever detected."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/world/webb-telescope-earendel-distant-star-scn/index.html

NASA opening businesses on Moon

"If NASA has its way, it will send astronauts back to the moon by the end of the decade, making them the first humans to walk on the lunar surface in over half a century."

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-helping-private-companies-build-business-moon-make-lunar-billions-2023-6

Deep Space Pictures

"A question mark in deep space has been spotted inside pictures captured by the James Webb Space Telescope."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cosmic-question-mark-spotted-in-deep-space-by-webb-telescope/

Unpiloted Cargo Ship

"An unpiloted Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship carrying four tons of supplies and equipment caught up with the International Space Station early Friday to wrap up a smooth two-and-a-half-day rendezvous."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cygnus-cargo-ship-delivers-supplies-and-pizza-kit-to-the-international-space-station/

Space Fireworks

"Ready for some fireworks? Astronomer Bob Berman reports that the famous spectacle of the summer Perseid meteor shower has begun—and will keep intensifying until its peak Saturday night, August 12, a day later than usual."

https://www.almanac.com/content/perseid-meteor-shower

Supermassive Black Holes

"Astronomers at Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology have developed a new look at how galaxies and their central supermassive black holes co-evolve."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/black-hole-galaxies-evolve/

First Photos

"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/

Hawaii Astronomers

"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."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/astronomer-wants-to-lasso-a-sun-shade-to-an-asteroid-to-tackle-climate/

Amazing Astronouts

Amazing Astronouts

The crew the Apollo and Gemini missions were astounding, they were a mix of astronauts as well as cosmonauts. The flight operations were extremely complex as they orbited Mercury, Venus and Mars. Their were a whole lot of trainings that had to be done beforehand, but it was well worth the time and aggravation of the pilots. These rigorous projects were a physical miracle to attest to human stamina as well as endurance because they were the first of their kind to orbit Mercury, Venus and Mars.#BeNoteWorthy#piccadillyinc

Young Stars

"To find the pair of young stars, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes in the image until you hit the centre: the stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disc of gas and dust that feeds their growth as they continue to gain mass."

https://esawebb.org/news/weic2319/?lang

TESS

"By analyzing the long-term, high-cadence continuous photometry from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have investigated UU Columbae and Swift J0939.7-3224—two intermediate polars."

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-intermediate-polars-astronomers.html

SpaceX plans

"You've probably heard about SpaceX's plans to use its giant new Starship vehicle to land people on the Moon and Mars, send numerous Starlink satellites or large telescopes into space, or perhaps even serve as a high-speed point-to-point terrestrial transport for equipment or people."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/could-spacex-turn-starship-into-a-space-station/