New Satellite

"A new satellite image shows a seemingly vast portion of the United States shrouded in an expansive dark splotch."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/satellite-image-moon-shadow-over-us-solar-eclipse-nasa/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

China Robot

"Researchers in China have developed a robot chemist powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that might be able to extract oxygen from water on Mars."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03522-4

James Webb Telescope

"James Webb continues to shed new light on the early universe."

https://interestingengineering.com/science/james-webb-space-telescope-captures-the-second-most-distant-galaxy-ever

National Space Day

"National Space Day dedicates the first Friday in May to the extraordinary achievements, benefits, and opportunities in the exploration and use of space."

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-space-day-first-friday-in-may?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9714622&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&email=yeremiah%40aol.com

Solar System future

"Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and the past of another – our own solar system."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/webb-follows-neon-signs-toward-new-thinking-on-planet-formation

Pulsar Problem

"The Milky Way has a missing pulsar problem in its core."

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-neutron-stars-capturing-primordial-black.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter#google_vignette

Exoplanet Crises

"Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers find evidence of a possible cause: The cores of these planets are pushing away their atmospheres from the inside out."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-data-reveals-possible-reason-some-exoplanets-are-shrinking

Ultra Massive Black Hole

Did you know?

"The Ultra massive black holes offers a promising solution to the timing problem for the redshift-7.5 quasars by creating seeds massive enough to quickly grow into quasars in a short time."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

James Webb Telescope

"The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula."

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_captures_iconic_Horsehead_Nebula_in_unprecedented_detail?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Rocket Lab

"NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, May 22, 2024, for the first of two launches of the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission to study heat loss to space in Earth’s polar regions."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/launch-date-set-for-nasas-prefire-mission-to-study-polar-energy-loss?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=prefire20240429

WASP 107B

"A team of European astronomers, co-led by researchers from the Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, used recent observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of the nearby exoplanet WASP-107b."

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-jwst-vapor-sulfur-dioxide-sand.html

The Moon

"The moon has long captured our imaginations. It’s embedded deep in mythology around the world, and even became the first calendar for many ancient people. "

https://www.interestingfacts.com/moon-facts/YnBu6lm3LQAHz-mm?liu=f990a22b8f045d09d1eb29acc743f7c5&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2130667792

Leonid Meteor Shower

"Your best entertainment value this weekend is the dazzling Leonid meteor shower."

https://lifehacker.com/science/leonid-showers-viewing

Second SpaceX Flight

"The second test flight for SpaceX’s Starship rocket has now been given the all clear by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23873201/spacex-starship-faa-approval-super-heavy-launch-test-date

Leonid meteor shower

"Every November, there’s a fantastic event for bringing people together: that’s right, the Leonid meteor shower."

https://gizmodo.com/how-best-witness-leonid-meteor-shower-weekend-1851031284?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-11-17

Hubble

"The Hubble Space Telescope just ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world’s mass."

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-hubble-telescope-size-of-exoplanet-ltt-1445ac-1851031858

CAS

"The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01223-0?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Solar System

"Many of us remember those school-room models of our Solar System, with tiny wooden planets rotating at the ends of their wires around a bright-orange painted sun."

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-are-solar-systems-born/

Google and NASA partnership

"As part of the long-standing partnership between NASA and Google, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture and artist Yiyun Kang to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater resources titled “A Passage of Water.”"

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/googles-a-passage-of-water-brings-nasas-water-data-to-life

2023 Space Missions

"The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India's Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/space-missions-launch-2024-artemis-clipper-viper-moon-mars/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

Earth's Magnetic Field

"Earth’s magnetic field serves as a protective barrier against cosmic radiation from space. But this shield isn’t always as stable as it appears."

https://interestingengineering.com/space/earths-magnetic-poles-flipped-some-41000-years-ago-heres-how?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Juno

"NASA's Juno spacecraft recently swooped by the most powerful volcano in our solar system, on the most volcanic world known to exist."

https://mashable.com/article/nasa-io-video-volcano?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Io

"There are new, high-quality images of Jupiter's moon, Io, thanks to the nearest flyby of the celestial body by a spacecraft in decades."

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/31/1222345665/take-a-look-at-these-astonishing-new-images-of-jupiters-volcanic-moon-io

Mars Helicopter

"Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Tuesday, April 16, to monitor a transmission from the history-making helicopter."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-team-says-goodbye-for-now?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=Latest20240416-Ingenuity

Meteor Shower

"A week after that stunning total solar eclipse, the Lyrid meteor shower is about to give sky-gazers plenty of reasons to once again look toward the cosmos."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/15/lyrid-meteor-shower-2024-peak/73325033007/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

US Space Agency

"The US space agency says the current mission design can't return the samples before 2040 on the existing funds and the more realistic $11bn (£9bn) needed to make it happen is not sustainable."

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68819153?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

ULA

"The United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched its new Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral on Monday at 2:18AM ET, carrying a US-made Moon lander with NASA science and research payloads onboard."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24029705/nasa-peregrine-mission-one-moon-lander-vulcan-centaur-rocket-launch

Astrobotic

"Astrobotic, the team behind the Peregrine spacecraft, is urgently working to extract any possible value from its failing mission."

https://gizmodo.com/race-against-time-astrobotic-peregrine-moon-mission-1851151921?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-01-09

NISAR

"NISAR, the soon-to-launch radar satellite from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will measure some key Earth vital signs, from the health of wetlands to ground deformation by volcanoes to the dynamics of land and sea ice."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/this-us-indian-satellite-will-monitor-earths-changing-frozen-regions?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=nisar20240110

2024 Space Age

"The year 2024 could be the dawn of a new Space Age, full of landing attempts on the moon and successive rocket launches."

https://mashable.com/article/2024-solar-eclipse-meteor-showers-rocket-launches-more?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lightspeed&zdee=gAAAAABlMXKb0IDZ-GNdjEnXeY0t1_atRL5n2JMUni0onFr5rXMHMAtj71qQ8edr6XOfkvzeygD3zcUETeWKQhfHCMmJF0PQ3Grb1DT9YTXtnYOjIpHc_VE%3D

Eclipse

"It’s almost time in Pennsylvania for the Monday, April 8 total solar eclipse."

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/across-pa/pa-solar-eclipse-when-look-weather-forecast-totality-path?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert&user_email=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&user_email_md5=ecc4eb5a460f31b456c54514153c0893&lctg=65ba9c0c44c464247206b03b#google_vignette

Solar Eclipse

"The solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 will bring some solar system worlds into view."

https://mashable.com/article/solar-eclipse-2024-planets?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lightspeed&zdee=gAAAAABlMXKb0IDZ-GNdjEnXeY0t1_atRL5n2JMUni0onFr5rXMHMAtj71qQ8edr6XOfkvzeygD3zcUETeWKQhfHCMmJF0PQ3Grb1DT9YTXtnYOjIpHc_VE%3D

Solar Eclipse

"A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting the moon's shadow on Earth."

https://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/what-is-a-solar-eclipse

Robotic Lander

"The first U.S.-based robotic lander in over a half-century lost its shot at the moon just mere hours into flight."

https://mashable.com/article/moon-mission-nasa-astrobotic-failure?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lightspeed&zdee=gAAAAABlMXKb0IDZ-GNdjEnXeY0t1_atRL5n2JMUni0onFr5rXMHMAtj71qQ8edr6XOfkvzeygD3zcUETeWKQhfHCMmJF0PQ3Grb1DT9YTXtnYOjIpHc_VE%3D

Star Explosion

"Around 3,000 years ago, a star 15 times bigger than our sun exploded. Now, scientists are watching it blast valuable elements into space."

https://mashable.com/article/nasa-star-explosion-xrism?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lightspeed&zdee=gAAAAABlMXKb0IDZ-GNdjEnXeY0t1_atRL5n2JMUni0onFr5rXMHMAtj71qQ8edr6XOfkvzeygD3zcUETeWKQhfHCMmJF0PQ3Grb1DT9YTXtnYOjIpHc_VE%3D

Lockheed Martin

"NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to gather data that could revolutionize air travel, paving the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound."

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-nasa-lockheed-martin-reveal-quiet.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter#google_vignette

Spaceborne testbed

"The spaceborne testbed demonstrated the ability to beam power wirelessly in space; it measured the efficiency, durability, and function of a variety of different types of solar cells in space; and gave a real-world trial of the design of a lightweight deployable structure to deliver and hold the aforementioned solar cells and power transmitters."

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/space-solar-power-project-ends-first-in-space-mission-with-successes-and-lessons?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Big Bang Supermassive Cloud

Did you know?

"These black holes plow through the dense gas within their host galaxy, it creates a dynamical friction, or drag, that causes them to rapidly migrate towards the galaxies center. There, they can merge to form a single black hole with 10,000 to 100,000 solar masses. This process progresses extremely quickly taking just 50 to 100 million years. After that, the researchers said in a press release, the central black hole will grow quickly: "In light of this theory, we can state that 800 million years after the Big Bang, supermassive could already populate the cosmos."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Perseverance Mars Rover

"Analysis by instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate that the latest rock core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps as part of an ancient Martian beach."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/rock-sampled-by-nasas-perseverance-embodies-why-rover-came-to-mars?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=perseverance20240403

Direct Collapse Black Hole

Did you know?

"The conditions that you need are pretty stringent to make direct-collapse black holes. Luckily, these monster black holes are very rare, so you can accommodate what is seen so far, easily, without a problem."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

Curiosity Rover

"NASA’s Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for all from the Red Planet’s surface. Billions of years ago, Mars was much wetter and probably warmer than it is today."

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9569/nasas-curiosity-searches-for-new-clues-about-mars-ancient-water/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Black Holes

Did you know?

"What if some black holes in the early universe were able to accrete matter at super-Eddington rates for prolonged periods of time? In this scenario, a black hole starting off with a few hundred solar masses could have bulked up relatively quickly into a billion solar mass behemoth."

Astronomy Magazine March 2021 "How to Grow a Giant Black Hole" pp. 16-23

When They were founded

"NASA and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare founded the Learning Channel (TLC) in 1972."

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Plane to Pluto

"If you could fly a plane to Pluto, the trip would take more than 800 years!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Stunning Picture

"Astronomers captured this stunning 1.3-gigapixel image of the Vela supernova remnant — the remains of a star that exploded more than 10,000 years ago — using the telescope-mounted Dark Energy Camera (DECam) at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Images taken through several DECam filters, each of which allows through distinct wavelengths of light, were combined to produce the bright colours."

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-00941-9/index.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Earths Size

"One million Earths could fit inside the Sun – and the Sun is considered an average-size star."

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Event Horizon Image

"A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)."

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-edge-milky-way%E2%80%99s-central-black-hole?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Sounds of Sun

Snapple Real Fact #1723: If we could hear the Sun, it would create a deep, constant roar.

National Near Miss Day

From a national view, each day many of us face a near miss here and there. March 23rd commemorates the day the entire Earth faced a near miss when a massive asteroid (4581 Asclepius) nearly hit us in 1989."https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-near-miss-day-march-23?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9308462&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&lctg=188476845

First Views of Sun

"A spacecraft that gave us our first multiple-perspective view of the Sun is set to fly by Earth for the first time since launching 17 years ago."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/after-17-years-a-spacecraft-makes-its-first-visit-home-having-made-history/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=14-08-2023

Russia's Module

"Russia’s Nauka module sprung a leak on Monday in the latest incident of faulty hardware on board the International Space Station (ISS)."

https://gizmodo.com/iss-coolant-leak-russian-hardware-nauka-module-1850914299

Eclipse

"When is the next eclipse of the Sun? And when is the next eclipse of the Moon? Here is the your Eclipse Calendar for 2023 and 2024 for both solar eclipses and lunar eclipses."

https://www.almanac.com/eclipses

Astronauts to Orbit the Moon

"A few years before Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin would make lunar history—Lovell as one of the first astronauts to orbit the moon in 1968 and Aldrin as the second man to walk on it in 1969—the two Americans sat together inside the Gemini 12 cockpit some 200 miles above Earth." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-history-of-total-solar-eclipses-seen-by-astronauts-from-outer-space-180983909/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&spMailingID=49545967&spUserID=MTQzNjUzNTAxNTQ5OAS2&spJobID=2661217920&spReportId=MjY2MTIxNzkyMAS2

Water on Mars

"For years it was believed that Earth was the only planet in our solar system with liquid water. More recently, NASA revealed its strongest evidence yet that there is intermittent running water on Mars, too!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Walks in Space

"You wouldn’t be able to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they have no solid surface!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

StarTalk

"Neil deGrasse Tyson’s media network, StarTalk, in partnership with Jellysmack, is launching its first-ever live linear channel on Pluto TV."

https://deadline.com/2024/02/neil-degrasse-tyson-startalk-channel-pluto-tv-1235812783/amp/

NASA mission MIT

"If all goes well, a NASA mission with extensive connections to MIT will soon be headed to a metal world."

https://news.mit.edu/2023/psyche-journey-ancient-asteroid-begins-1011

Beginning of operation

"NASA began to operate in 1958, one year after Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviets. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite in the world."

https://www.softschools.com/facts/space/nasa_facts/3197/

UFO office

"The Pentagon's UFO office is developing sensor kits to help it collect data in real time on unidentified objects in the sky or in space."

https://www.space.com/pentagon-ufo-uap-office-aaro-sensors-anomalies-orbit

Internet In Space

"After several delays and some minor hurricane damage, NASA successfully launched the Artemis 1 mission and jump-started its program to return to the moon. Despite some issues with a fuel leak, NASA was able to fix the problem in time, allowing the new Space Launch System rocket to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday, November 16."

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/8/27/23323463/artemis-1-moon-orion-sls-nasa-kennedy-space-center-florida

UFO Investigation

"A wide-ranging Pentagon review of decades of U.S. government investigations into UFO sightings has found no evidence that any of the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin and also found no evidence that the U.S. government or private companies have ever possessed extraterrestrial technology that has been secretly reverse-engineered."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ufos-storage-findings-alien-technology-exhaustive-pentagon-review/story?id=107899910

Identification of Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions

"The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world."

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-rare-eleventh-century-astrolabe-discovery.html#google_vignette

James Webb Telescope

"Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have spotted a ‘dead’ galaxy when the universe was just 700 million years old, the oldest such galaxy ever observed."

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-spot-oldest-dead-galaxy-yet-observed?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Star Light

"Space looks black because some stars haven't been around long enough for their light to reach us."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/things-never-knew-space-facts-2018-4%3famp

James Webb Telescope

"The James Webb Space Telescope's new infrared images have revealed never-before-seen cosmic details."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/things-never-knew-space-facts-2018-4%3famp

Space Begin

"Space does not begin at a specific altitude above the Earth, but the Kármán line at 100 km is a commonly used definition."

https://space-facts.com/

Atmospheric Rivers

"A series of atmospheric rivers drenched California in February, with record amounts of rainfall and hurricane-force winds sweeping across parts of the state."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/swot-satellite-catches-coastal-flooding-during-california-storms?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=swot20240305

Empty Space

"The space between galaxies is not completely empty but has an average of one atom per cubic meter."

https://space-facts.com/

China National Space Administration

"The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been actively striving to enhance the technological capabilities of the Chang'e 8 mission through extensive collaboration."

https://interestingengineering.com/science/china-plans-robot-builder-for-moon?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

The Sky's not the Limit

"The sky’s the limit? Not for Jeff Koons. There aren’t any galleries or museums on the moon (yet) but extraterrestrial dilettantes are in luck. If all goes to plan, there will soon be some contemporary art."

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/koons-on-the-moon-2433813

Newly Discovered Quasar

"A newly discovered quasar is a real record-breaker. Not only is it the brightest quasar ever seen, but it's also the brightest astronomical object in general ever seen."

https://www.space.com/brightest-quasar-ever-powered-black-hole-solar-mass-accretion-disk

The Kuiper Belt

"The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies extending far beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is home to Pluto and Arrokoth. Both worlds were visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft."

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt/

News about Space

"For anybody already jaded by the news and joking about a trip to outer space to avoid it all, Nasa might just have you covered."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/20/year-mars-simulation-volunteers-nasa?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

Image from Hubble Space Telescope

"This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and activity."

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-a-massive-star-forming/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

NASA beginnings

"Since 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has brought the mysteries of the cosmos down to Earth, inspiring millions across the world to set their eyes on the final frontier."

https://discover.join1440.com/topics/nasa?pinned-resource=60-years-in-space-a-timeline-of-nasa&utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hub-general

1972 series of Satellites

"In 1972 a series of satellites were launched into space. Their purpose was to photograph the earth's surface from outer space."

https://www.softschools.com/facts/space/nasa_facts/3197/

NASA Awards

"NASA has awarded $3.7 million to 11 teams to support new collaborations between the agency and United States institutions not historically part of the agency’s research enterprise."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-awards-inaugural-grants-to-support-emerging-research-institutions?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasajpl&utm_content=nasaawards20240208

Neil Armstrong

"Neil Armstrong was one week late submitting his application to NASA. His friend Dick Day slipped the application into the pile so that it wouldn't look like it was late."

https://www.softschools.com/facts/space/nasa_facts/3197/

Space Junk

"Space junk is any human-made object orbiting Earth that no longer serves a useful purpose. Scientists estimate there are about 500,000 pieces of space junk today, including fragments from rockets and satellites, and everyday items like spanners dropped during construction of the International Space Station!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

National Create a Vacuum Day

"National Create A Vacuum Day on February 4th explores spaces void of matter."

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-create-a-vacuum-day-february-4?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8875778&hashed_email=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&lctg=188476845

Mars Creations

"As Earth’s closest planetary neighbor at an average of 140 million miles away, Mars has stirred human imagination for centuries, from speculations it hosts alien species to whether it could ever become humanity’s refuge from a dying Earth."

https://discover.join1440.com/topics/mars?pinned-resource=humans-to-mars-nasa&utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hub-general

Mars Mission

"As Earth’s closest planetary neighbor at an average of 140 million miles away, Mars has stirred human imagination for centuries, from speculations it hosts alien species to whether it could ever become humanity’s refuge from a dying Earth."

https://discover.join1440.com/topics/mars?pinned-resource=humans-to-mars-nasa&utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hub-general

Vesta

"The highest mountain known to man is on an asteroid called Vesta. Measuring a whopping 22km in height, it is three times as tall as Mount Everest!"

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/ten-facts-about-space/

Insights of Mysterious phenomena

"Scientists may soon uncover new insights about some of the most mysterious phenomena in our universe with the help of the newly launched Euclid mission. Built and managed by the European Space Agency, Euclid will use a suite of instruments developed, in part, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore the curious nature of dark energy and dark matter along with their role in the expansion and acceleration of our universe."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2023/7/24/exploring-the-mystery-of-our-expanding-universe/

SLIM JAXO

"Japan's SLIM lunar lander is back online and transmitting data."

https://newatlas.com/space/japans-slim-moon-lander-sunshine-charge-battery/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d15421a8f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_30_11_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-d15421a8f1-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

Humanity has spent centuries mapping

"Earth’s features – and we frequently repeat the process by using more advanced instruments. When we combine the data, we get a more complete understanding of our planet."

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-105?

Completely Unkown Objects

"“Astronomers discover a completely unknown object floating around in space” is a common news theme, but it’s fun every time."

https://newatlas.com/space/old-smokers-unknown-star/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d15421a8f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_30_11_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-d15421a8f1-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

James Webb Discovery

https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/discoveries/all-james-webb-telescope-discoveries

Egg Shaped Galaxies

"NASA has shared an image of a pair of galaxies that look like a penguin and its egg millions of light-years from Earth."

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/19/nasa-shares-image-of-penguin-and-egg-shaped-galaxy/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

"NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned."

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

Expanding Universe

"To astronomers, the wavelength of light a galaxy emits is longer the faster the galaxy is moving away from us."

https://www.astronomy.com/science/why-is-the-universe-expanding-faster-than-predicted-a-cosmologist-explains-what-we-know/

Slim

"Japan successfully became the fifth nation to land on the moon on Friday (Jan. 19), when the country's robotic Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) successfully descended to the lunar surface at 10:20 a.m. EST (or 12:20 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20 in Japan)."

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/japans-slim-lander-reaches-lunar-surface-but-it-may-be-dead-within-hours

Robotic Smart Lander

"Japan successfully became the fifth nation to land on the moon on Friday (Jan. 19), when the country's robotic Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) successfully descended to the lunar surface at 10:20 a.m. EST (or 12:20 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20 in Japan)."

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/japans-slim-lander-reaches-lunar-surface-but-it-may-be-dead-within-hours

Radio Telescope in Australia

"The most sensitive image ever of a globular cluster – and the deepest, most detailed radio image ever produced by an Australian radio telescope – has thrown up a surprise."

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/most-sensitive-glubular-cluster/?utm_source=Cosmos+Magazine&utm_campaign=d73f6ea898-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-d73f6ea898-181027409&mc_cid=d73f6ea898&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52

Sunrises

Snapple Real Fact #1694: Astronauts at the International Space Station see 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.

Artemis Missions

"NASA announced today that its next two crewed Artemis missions to the Moon have been set back at least a year."

https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-delays-next-two-artemis-missions-by-a-year/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=c146a366ad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_10_10_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-c146a366ad-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

NASAs Plan

"America's plan to send its first lander to the Moon since 1972 has ended prematurely after the private owner and operator of the robotic Peregrine spacecraft announced that a massive propellant leak has made a lunar landing impossible."

https://newatlas.com/space/us-peregrine-lunar-landing-mission-scrubbed/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=c146a366ad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_10_10_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-c146a366ad-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

SpaceX

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/01/05/SpaceX-NLRB-structure-Constitution/9921704471292/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Neptune

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-images-reveal-neptune-uranus.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Quantum Mechanics

"In quantum mechanics, it is impossible to know both exactly where you are and exactly where you are going."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2409067-quantum-physicists-just-got-more-certain-about-quantum-uncertainty/?utm_source=nsqp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nsqp_020124&utm_term=Newsletter%20NSQP_Lost%20in%20Space%20Time