Huge Tonga underwater volcano eruption captured in stunning satellite video
Huge Tonga underwater volcano eruption captured in stunning satellite video | You can watch SpaceX launch more than four dozen Starlink internet satellites tonight. Here's how. | Image of the day: Weather satellite views of Tonga eruption
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In what will be SpaceX's third flight of 2022, the company is set to loft 49 Starlink satellites into space on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for 7:26 p.m. EST (0026 Jan. 18 GMT).
Three weather satellites captured the massive underwater volcanic eruption that tore apart the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai island in the South Pacific Ocean on Saturday (Jan. 15). See their views here.
Dylan Taylor is a "space angel," an investor in NewSpace, and in December he reached a new career high - literally. He flew aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital spacecraft on its NS-19 mission.
Shri. Somanath assumed the helm of the agency on Friday (Jan. 14) as ISRO works to help the Gaganyaan human spaceflight program recover from setbacks in part induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A group of astronomers and citizen scientists has uncovered a hidden planet the size of Jupiter in a distant solar system, and they should get the chance to see it again soon.
(Karen Teramura/University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy)
Astronomers have spotted three new exoplanets orbiting dangerously close to their parent stars, on the brink of extinction. "These planets are in such extreme places that actually less than 10 years ago, no one thought that they actually existed," said Samuel Grunblatt, lead author of the study.
The first full moon of 2022 rises tonight (Jan. 17) alongside the Martin Luther King holiday in the United States and you can expect a dazzling (if chilly) view of Earth's neighbor, weather permitting.
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