Solar Panels for Outer Space

"A new study suggests that solar panels in space could meet up to 80 percent of Europe’s renewable energy needs by 2050."https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/09/could-space-based-solar-panels-power-europes-clean-energy-future/

Blind Spots of Telescopes

"Even the world’s most powerful telescopes have their blind spots."

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/11/hidden-planet-emerges-from-the-glare?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=space

Swift Reentry

"NASA expects its Swift space telescope to re-enter Earth's atmosphere early Wednesday, ending over two decades of Swift's monitoring of sudden, powerful events in space."https://mashable.com/science/how-to-track-nasa-swift-space-telescope

Studying GRBs

"Originally designed as a satellite dedicated to studying GRBs — gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos — Swift also monitors active galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, studies stars undergoing X-ray flares, nova outbursts, and supernova explosions, observes comets and asteroids in our own solar system, and conducts long-term observations of a variety of objects."https://science.nasa.gov/mission/swift/science/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Aging NASA Telescope

"An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower."

https://apnews.com/article/swift-observatory-nasa-telescope-e890935df7f468048594286566a96357?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Cosmic Mysterious

"NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just revealed a mystery in our cosmic neighborhood."https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-uncovers-case-of-missing-oxygen-in-nearby-dwarf-galaxies/

Voyager 1

"NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully completed a months-long effort to stretch the spacecraft’s diminishing power supply."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-conserves-power-resolves-brief-communications-pause/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=latest-voyager-20261029