Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct 4th-ever all-female spacewalk today

Watch NASA astronauts on 4th-ever all-female spacewalk | Space Quiz! What is the largest moon in our solar system? | Astronaut Kellie Gerardi wants broader access to space
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November 1, 2023
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The Launchpad
Watch NASA astronauts on 4th-ever all-female spacewalk
(NASA/ESA–T. Pesquet)
Two NASA astronauts will conduct the fourth all-female spacewalk of all time on Wednesday (Nov. 1), and you can watch the action live.
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Space Quiz! What is the largest moon in our solar system?
Learn the answer here!
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Astronaut Kellie Gerardi wants broader access to space
(Image courtesy of Kellie Gerardi)
She works as mission operations lead for Palantir Technologies and as a payload specialist and bioastronautics researcher for the IIAS. She's also an author, a mom, a social media STEM influencer with a resume of qualifications too long to list and followers who number well over half a million - and she's headed to space tomorrow.
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Space Deal of the Day
Get a free Lego Galileo Galilei set with purchases over $130
Lego Ideas
The Lego set itself is a fantastically fun and very good-looking tribute to the legendary astronomer. It features a minifigure of the man himself, as well as a buildable telescope, a desk, a rotating heliocentric model, experiments, a nameplate and more.
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Skywatching
Night sky, October 2021: What you can see this month
(Future)
Find out what's up in your night sky during November 2023 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.
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Spaceflight
Could people reproduce in space?
(Shutterstock)
Researchers have successfully grown mouse embryos aboard the ISS for the first time. This represents "the first-ever study that shows mammals may be able to thrive in space." This new mouse embryo study is a big deal because it suggests humans can reproduce in space someday.
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Science & Astronomy
'Bones' of cosmic hand revealed in NASA X-ray telescope
(NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt)
The "ghostly hand" - formally known as MSH 15-52 - was created by the the death of a massive star. This catastrophic event, called a supernova explosion, left behind a fast-spinning, superdense stellar corpse known as a pulsar.
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SpaceX
FAA wraps up safety review of SpaceX's Starship rocket
(SpaceX)
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Oct. 31 that it has wrapped up its Starship safety review, which assesses the risks that a launch might pose to public health and property. However, there's still another regulatory box to check before SpaceX can get a license for the next Starship liftoff.
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Search for Life
Juno probe detects organic compounds on Ganymede
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kalleheikki Kannisto)
Nearby Jupiter has such a strong magnetic field that organic compounds and salts on the surface of Jovian moons would have a hard time surviving. However, the region around Ganymede's equator appears to be sufficiently shielded from the electrons and heavy ions that emanate from Jupiter's magnetic field to sustain these compounds.
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Entertainment
New trailer for 'Doctor Who' 60th-anniversary specials
(Disney+)
As we prepare to turn the calendar to the holiday month of November, Disney+ is taking full advantage of its recent "Doctor Who" streaming rights acquisition. The platform is releasing new details about when the anniversary programs can be watched and has also unveiled a new trailer that features the Celestial Toymaker and lots of timey wimey wonder.
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