Sunday, June 21, 2026

Explosive beams

"Explosive beams of energy crisscross through rainbow-colored space in a scene that evokes a cinematic sci-fi battle."https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-finds-a-cosmic-cloud-of-creation-buried-in-the-sword-of-orion-space-photo-of-the-week

Ghost Particles



"Astronomers have traced a high-energy "ghost particle" back to Shadow Blaster, a star-forming galaxy located 11 billion light-years away."


https://www.space.com/science/particle-physics/scientists-trace-high-energy-ghost-particle-to-the-shadow-blaster-galaxy

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Terzen 5

"Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how galaxies like our own form and evolve over time."https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-hubble-reveal-history-of-relic-of-milky-ways-formation/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202624

Chandra Steller Explosion

"The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population of supernova remnants, or the debris from these explosions, showing dramatic changes in their brightness. The new results were presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, California, and published in The Astrophysical Journal."https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasas-chandra-finds-unexpected-fireworks-in-aftermath-of-stellar-explosions/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202624

Atlas Survey

"On the morning of 1 July 2025, the ATLAS survey telescope at Río Hurtado in Chile detected an unusual moving point of light against the background stars."


https://spacedaily.com/d-the-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-discovered-on-july-1-2025-by-a-survey-telescope-in-chile-is-now-believed-by-astronomers-at-oxford-to-be-roughly-7-billion-years-old-meaning-it-was-already/

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Earth orbit Mars

"Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars align in a particular geometric configuration that allows spacecraft to travel between them with the lowest possible fuel expenditure."


https://spacedaily.com/d-five-uncrewed-starship-rockets-are-projected-to-launch-toward-mars-during-the-brief-window-in-late-2026-when-the-two-planets-align-for-the-closest-possible-journey-and-depending-on-whether-t/

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Astronauts to Join Artemis



"NASA on Tuesday revealed the four astronauts who will join the next Artemis mission — a key, two-week flight that will aim to test out various technologies considered vital to putting astronauts back on the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years."


https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/science/artemis-3-crew-announcement?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4