Geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights for New Year | India launches ambitious space docking test flight | Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at 100
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We could be in for a New Year's aurora treat with northern lights potentially visible deep into mid-latitudes tonight and tomorrow (Dec. 30 to Dec. 31). Due to an incoming solar storm, also known as a coronal mass ejection, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm warning for Dec. 31.
India successfully launched twin satellites on the country's first-ever space docking test flight on Monday, a mission that aims to demonstrate a key technology the country will need to build its own space station and return moon samples to Earth.
The longest-lived president in United States' history, Jimmy Carter's voice will continue to extend "into the cosmos" beyond his death at 100. Carter, who died on Sunday (Dec. 29) at his home in Plains, Georgia, recorded the country's official message that was launched in 1977 and now travels beyond our solar system on the Voyager Golden Record. He addressed his remarks to whatever civilization or species might come across the twin probes in the future: "We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours."
SpaceX is preparing to launch its last mission of the year. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink broadband internet satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, is poised to lift off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday (Dec. 31). The one-hour launch window opens at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT).
Tucked away in the constellation Coma Berenices just 105 light-years from Earth, the star HD 110067 is a hidden gem of the Milky Way. This parent star has guided its litter of six exoplanets to orbit in a cosmic waltz, locked in rhythmic timing by gravitational forces.
SpaceX has begun counting down to the New Year, with the launch of the first of three rockets planned to close out 2024. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of the company's Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday
In living things, structures are built from simple, repeatable patterns. These often come in the form of a disorganized lattice. Large structures, like bones or coral, emerge from repeated rounds of growth of a fundamental pattern that builds off of itself in a haphazard way. Now, researchers have designed a flexible material that could pave the way for the development of adaptable space structures.
