Honeycomb-like textures

"NASA officials say they’re gobsmacked by new images from the Curiosity Mars rover that show stretches of Red Planet terrain covered in honeycomb-like textures."

https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/mars-honeycomb-polygon-surface/

Soviet Probe

"On 7 October 1959, a Soviet probe the size of a small water heater swung around the back of the Moon, opened a camera port on its sunlit side, and began photographing a hemisphere no human had ever seen."https://spacedaily.com/sd-in-1959-the-soviet-luna-3-probe-swung-around-the-far-side-of-the-moon-and-took-29-grainy-photographs-that-humans-had-never-seen-before-then-developed-the-film-onboard-in-a-tiny-automated-darkroom-a/

Radio Telescope

"On the night of August 15, 1977, a radio telescope the size of several football fields sat in a field outside Delaware, Ohio, listening to the sky."https://spacedaily.com/sd-in-1977-a-radio-telescope-in-ohio-called-big-ear-picked-up-a-72-second-signal-so-strong-and-so-cleanly-from-the-direction-of-sagittarius-that-the-astronomer-on-duty-circled-it-in-red-ink-and-wrote/

Satellite company

"A beleaguered satellite company on the verge of bankruptcy a year ago has become the Fortune 500’s latest success story in shareholder returns: its stock price soared 430% since the beginning of last year, including nearly 375% in 2025 alone."https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/dying-satellite-company-sold-spectrum-155332532.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=YW5kcm9pZC1hcHA6Ly9jb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuZ29vZ2xlcXVpY2tzZWFyY2hib3gv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAYmjzVXSavVZyEB8ZiWLI-LIomQskSCx7Kkpd8Gp4Ut2WFo69Mo2WhTNIvEVztmvNcKYA5OkONn2S_aMQRH62X8EGwA6cibuz1Jg2Gxz9ypDgpnyK3f7sDR2LeIRic69oUIdhSIqgSchZSM50dfAdxfFFbn2ls8iPXohYOKo_au

Complete the following sentence and then keep writing: "My first___"

My first flight in space was awesome. I boarded the spaceship with my friends. We took a long nap and when we awoke we were on Mars. It was breathtaking all the wonders we got to see. We stayed in a fully furnished Mars Bed and Breakfast for the low cost of $200 a month.

#BeNoteWorthy

#piccadillyinc

SLS Rocket

"Following NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully splashing down on Earth, engineers started diving into detailed analysis of data to assess how key systems and subsystems on the Orion spacecraft, SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and systems at the launch pad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida performed."https://www.nasa.gov/missions/nasa-on-track-for-future-missions-with-initial-artemis-ii-assessments/

Pluto Day

"Every year on February 18, we celebrate the date the dwarf planet Pluto was discovered."https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/february/pluto-day-february-18?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=16933944&hashed_email=90b5e25581634376972953552bab634b31f7675f&email=yeremiah%40aol.com

End of Universe

"Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time."

https://theconversation.com/how-will-the-universe-end-269678?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

James Webb Discovery

"Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame,” which recognizes the 25 groundbreaking inventions of the past quarter century that have had the most global impact, since TIME began its annual Best Inventions list in 2000."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-webb-curiosity-named-in-times-best-inventions-hall-of-fame/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=tech20251215

Two Maneuverable Probes

"NASA is planning to send two maneuverable probes to lunar orbit in order to learn how spacecraft are affected by the complex gravitational environment near the moon."

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/nasa-is-sending-2-probes-to-the-moon-to-test-complex-three-body-orbits

Exosatellite CD-35 2722

"A possible “exosatellite” has been discovered 73 light years away. Bizarrely, it is roughly the size of Jupiter and orbiting a failed star called a brown dwarf, which in turn is orbiting the red dwarf star CD-35 2722."

https://physicsworld.com/a/discovery-of-giant-exosatellite-challenges-our-notion-of-what-makes-a-moon/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Discovery of New Worlds

 

"Since the discovery of the first world beyond the solar system in the 1990s, astronomers have become adept at spotting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets."

https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/astronomers-may-have-discovered-the-1st-moon-outside-of-our-solar-system-or-is-it-something-weirder

NATIONAL MOON DAY

"National Moon Day on July 20 commemorates the day man first walked on the moon in 1969."

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations/national-moon-day-july-20

Beta Pictoris

"Beta Pictoris (β Pictoris) is located about 63 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pictor."

https://www.sci.news/astronomy/third-planet-beta-pictoris-system-14920.html#google_vignette

SpaceX and Artemis III

"NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to deliver laser communications capabilities for its Artemis III mission using Starlink, which could give Earthbound viewers a better view of the ship-to-ship transfer in LEO set for 2027."

https://payloadspace.com/nasa-selects-starlink-for-artemis-iii-mission/

Why do Spiral Galaxies have two arms?

"For generations, astronomers have been puzzled by a deceptively simple question: Why do some spiral galaxies have two arms while others have many?"https://news.etsu.edu/articles/why-do-galaxies-have-spirals

Artemis 2 Documentary

"As our planet revels in the recent achievements of this spring’s Artemis 2 mission and its four astronaut crew members, a new four-part PBS documentary series takes a scrutinizing look at space exploration and its inherent perils and promises."

https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-movies-shows/once-upon-a-time-in-space-how-to-watch-pbss-out-of-this-world-astronaut-documentary

New SpaceX Rocket

"On the same day that SpaceX could launch its massive Starship rocket from Texas, Elon Musk's spaceflight company may also launch its Falcon 9 rocket in California."

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/california/2026/07/16/spacex-rocket-launch-today-vandenberg/90926420007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z118885p119850l003850c119850e008000v118885&gca-ft=53&gca-ds=sophi

White Dwarf Surveys

"Astronomers have performed detailed surveys of the local neighborhood of stars for decades, but white dwarfs like these have been notoriously hard to find."

https://www.sci.news/astronomy/four-white-dwarfs-solar-neighborhood-14915.html#google_vignette

Speed of Light

 

"Imagine you were traveling at the speed of light, racing alongside a single photon, the fastest possible thing in the universe. What would you see?"

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/whats-it-like-to-travel-near-the-speed-of-light-part-1-the-broken-view