Europe's Mars orbiter relays data from Chinese rover back to Earth | The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight! Here's how to watch online. | Blue Origin launches Michael Strahan and crew of 5 on record-setting suborbital spaceflight
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China's Zhurong rover on Mars was designed only to communicate with its companion orbiter, Tianwen 1, but now it's phoning home via a European spacecraft.
Blue Origin successfully launched Strahan as part of the company's first six-person crew into space on Saturday (Dec. 11), and in the process, set six new space records.
"I want to go back," Michael Strahan, 50, said, and joked that the spaceflight's forces of gravity gave him a preview of how he will look in his old age.
The telescope captured UGC 11537, a galaxy 230 million light-years away in the constellation Aquila; the galaxy sits at almost 10 times the distance to the spectacular Andromeda Galaxy (M31) that is just barely visible by the naked eye in Earth's sky.
Comet Leonard, the brightest comet of the year, made its closest approach to Earth today (Dec. 12) and should be visible through binoculars and telescopes, weather permitting.
