| |    | | (Ted ALJIBE / AFP via Getty Images) | Hello, Space Fans! We're starting off today with an eerie sight, the blood red moon from this morning's total lunar eclipse. These images are great, but we'll have more to come this week. If you missed the eclipse, we're sorry (we were clouded out, too), but we'll get another chance on New Year's Eve 2028-2029!
And that's not all! You have a chance to see 4 planets in the sky, we wonder if it's legal to own Apollo moon rocks and how fast is the universe really expanding? Read on to find out! | | | Space Quiz! What is driving the universe's expansion? | Find the answer HERE! | |   | | (Steven Robinson Pictures via Getty Images) | I know we had a planet parade last week, but you can still see four bright planets in the night sky now. Here's where to look (and exactly which planets you can see)! | | |  | | (NAS) | A recent report from the National Academies has singled out the search for life as the big target for Mars, but will it be humans or robots that make the discovery? On This Week In Space, Space.com's Tariq Malik and the National Space Society's Rod Pyle got the skinny from Pascal Lee. | | | Another big question for human spaceflight, is it legal to own moon rocks? We took a look at some rocky lessons we learned from the Apollo era. | | |  | | (NASA) | Rocks on Mars and the moon may be cool, but what about the end of the universe? The question of what's driving the universe's expansion is a big one and now scientists think they've got an idea of what's happening. | | |  | | (ESA/Blue Skies Space) | Cosmic discoveries are great, but you do need some advanced tech to make them and one company is breaking new ground with the world's first commercial space telescope. Here's how it works. | | |  | | (Arrowhead Game Studios / Sony) | Helldivers 2 is celebrating its 2nd birthday and developers Arrowhead Game Studios have revealed the stats on our efforts to deliver freedom across the galaxy over the past 365 days. You have a lot of friendly fire to explain. | | |  | | (NAOJ) | For today's space photo, we bring you NGC 941, a spiral galaxy 55 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). It's a bit of a mashup, somewhere between barred and unbarred. Here's how the photo was made. | |  | | (NASA) | For today's glimpse of space history, we're traveling back to March 3, 1969, when NASA's Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of lunar module. Here's how it happened.
And that's about it for today's daily update from space. Thanks for reading, Space Fans, and we'll see you tomorrow!
Keep looking up!
Tariq Malik
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