 | | Created for znamenski.spacecom@blogger.com | Web Version | | | |   | | (Anadolu/Getty Images) | Happy Friday, Space Fans! Welcome to your daily dose of space and we're starting off today with our top story: SpaceX's launch of four Crew-12 astronauts for NASA to restore the International Space Station back to full strength after last month's medical evacuation. They arrive on Feb. 14. You can check out amazing video and images of the launch, but that's not all that's up in space today. We'll also revisit the Viking probe's search for life on Mars, explain NASA's weird Artemis 2 moon launch windows and more. And don't forget to read to the end to see what happened today in space history! Keep looking up! Tariq Malik Editor in Chief, Space.com | | |   | | Created in Canva Pro (Created in Canva Pro) | While SpaceX's Crew-12 lit up the pre-dawn sky, there's another sky sight we'd love to see, but it may be something for only penguins: A ring of fire solar eclipse on Feb. 17 over Antarctica. Here's where it will be, in case you live at the bottom of the world. | | |  | | (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) | One question we've received a bit has been why NASA's Artemis 2 can't launch to the moon more than just during a few days each month. We wondered, too, and it all has to due with orbital mechanics. Here's what we found. | | |  | | (Robert Lea (created with Canva)) | Okay, this story is a weird one. We've written a lot about Sagittarius A*, the ginormous black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Some scientists now suspect it might something entirely different - dark matter. Here's why. | | |  | | (NASA/JPL-Caltech) | Looking a bit closer to home, the question of whether NASA's two Viking landers found life on Mars or not continues to spawn debate. Now, some scientists think they may have the answer... | | | | Our space photo of the day for Feb. 13 is something we won't see very often, a NASA moon rocket on the launch pad at the same time as a private SpaceX Falcon 9. See how Artemis 2 got its SpaceX visitor here! | |  | | (ESA - S. Corvaja, 2012) | We'll end today's space news with our daily look back on this day in space history. Today, we're looking back to Feb. 13, 2012, when the European launch firm Arianespace launched its first-ever Vega rocket. Watch how it went here. | | | | Stay up-to-date on all things space science, news, and entertainment by subscribing to our newsletters. | |  | | | | | | | Future US LLC © | | Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 | | | | |
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