2 Planets testing aircraft design

"For the first time in history, two planets have been home to testing future aircraft designs." 

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-uses-two-worlds-to-test-future-mars-helicopter-designs?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=Latest20231122-helicopter

Pictures of Asteroid

"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/

Quantum Gas

"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

Juno Probe

"The space agency's distant Juno probe, orbiting Jupiter hundreds of millions of miles away, has been swooping progressively closer to the Jovian moon Io — the most volcanically active world in our solar system."

https://mashable.com/article/nasa-io-images-juno?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

60 Meter Asteroid

"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

Solar Masses of DCBH

Did you know?

"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

New Species of Mite

"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/

Robotic Cargo

"SpaceX's 29th robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station successfully  lifted off on Thursday (Nov. 9)."

https://www.space.com/spacex-crs-29-iss-cargo-mission-launch

Galexy Cluster

"Yes, it’s technically only November. But that doesn’t mean astronomers can’t start getting in the spirit of the holiday season!"

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/christmas-tree-galaxy-cluster/

Sun Peak

"The sun will reach the peak of its current activity cycle in 2024, one year earlier than previous estimates, according to experts at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)."

https://www.space.com/solar-maximum-expected-2024-new-predictions-suggest

Jupiter’s Atmospheric winds

"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

Crab Nebula

"NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus."

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/the-crab-nebula-seen-in-new-light-by-nasas-webb/

Supermassive Blackhole

"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

Perseverance Rover

"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

New System of Seven Planets

"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 a View

"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

Aerial archaeology Early Days

"Back in the early days of aerial archaeology, a French Jesuit priest named Antoine Poidebard flew a biplane over the northern Fertile Crescent to conduct one of the first aerial surveys. "

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/i-spy-with-my-cold-war-satellite-eye-nearly-400-roman-forts-in-the-middle-east/

X rays uses

"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