Jupiter is a whirling world in stunning footage from Juno probe | Russia launches new Progress 81 cargo ship to International Space Station | Monster black holes may have murdered their host galaxies in the early universe
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Hang on tight as you watch this new footage of Jupiter.
This sped-up view shows the perspective of NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew just 2,050 miles (3,300 kilometers) above the gas giant's cloud tops on April 9. This was Juno's 41st flyby above the radiation-spewing planet, during which the spacecraft soared at a top speed of 131,000 mph (210,000 km/h) relative to Jupiter.
"Citizen scientist Andrea Luck created this animated sequence using raw JunoCam image data," NASA officials wrote this week.
Russia launched a new robotic cargo mission to the International Space Station early Friday (June 3) on the country's first resupply mission to the orbiting lab since it invaded Ukraine earlier this year.
The uncrewed Progress 81 freighter launched into a clear, blue afternoon sky atop a Russian-built Soyuz rocket at 5:32 a.m. EDT (0932 GMT) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhsta. It arrived just under four hours later.
While there is plenty of indirect evidence that feedback from black holes can suppress star formation, astronomers are still awaiting conclusive observations of this process occurring and are working to understand how it happens.
Now, a research team has shown that galaxies in the early universe that have stopped forming stars possess central black holes that are more active than those in galaxies that are still forming stars.
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Blue Origin will launch its next space tourist mission on the New Shepard rocket on June 3, 2022 to carry six passengers on a suborbital spaceflight from West Texas.
The mission, called NS-21, will launch at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Blue Origin's Launch Site One near Van Horn, Texas.
The U.S. Space Force aims to make sure its gallant Guardians are turned out in high style with impeccable grooming standards to match their impressive official outfits and insignias. But now you can keep your hand and neck tattoos.
Without explicit direction from Earth, the Perseverance rover zapped two rock targets with its SuperCam instrument on Sol 442 (May 18) to learn more about their elemental compositions, mission scientists said in an update Tuesday about the Mars mission.
"Normally, when the rover team picks the targets, the observations are not made until the following day," Roger Wiens, principal investigator of SuperCam and a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in a statement(opens in new tab). "If Perseverance picks its own targets, it can shoot them right after a drive.
An asteroid up to three times larger than a blue whale will zoom past Earth on Monday at more than 16,000 mph (26,000 km/h), according to NASA.
The asteroid, named 2021 GT2, is predicted to safely miss our planet by more than 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) - or roughly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.
NASA announced a "sole source modification" to its contract with SpaceX, which operates the only American system currently carrying NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The expected value of the modified contract was not disclosed in an agency blog post Wednesday (June 1).
The five-flight purchase adds on to a $3.5 billion contract awarded to SpaceX in February for three additional astronaut missions with its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule: Crew-7, Crew-8 and Crew-9. NASA said at the time that it may order more flights from SpaceX.
Avid video gamers hunting for immersive diversions in the galaxy far, far away were rewarded with a first look at the long-anticipated and forever delayed "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor" game during last week's geeky gala known as Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California.
A sneak peek at this direct sequel to "Jedi: Fallen Order(opens in new tab)," one of our picks for the best Star Wars games ever, was presented inside the Anaheim Convention Center to the delight of thousands of "Star Wars" gamers that offered up intriguing story details for the upcoming video game.
