V404 Cygni

"In this system, called V404 Cygni, the black hole is consuming a small star that is spiraling in very close and fast while a newfound third star circles the black hole from much farther away."

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/first-black-hole-in-a-triple-star-system-found?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Hera

"Hera is a planetary defence mission under development at the European Space Agency (ESA) - launching in October 2024."

https://www.heramission.space/

First Space Balloon

"Sir Richard Branson has signed on to be the co-pilot of Space Perspective’s first space balloon flight sometime next year, which could be the the 74-year-old billionaire adventurer’s eighth Guinness World Record."

https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/richard-branson-space-perspective-balloon-flight-1235958767/

Solar Storms

"The danger of a major solar storm is now at its highest in over a decade."

https://www.planetary.org/articles/should-you-be-worried-about-solar-storms

Jupiter’s Icy Moon Explorer

"ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments."

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice

Euclid

"ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to study why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/snippet-of-euclid-missions-cosmic-atlas-released-by-esa/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=euclid20241015

Quasar

"A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center."https://news.mit.edu/2024/astronomers-detect-ancient-lonely-quasars-murky-origins-1017?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter