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