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Happy Weekend, space fans!
The Artemis 2 astronauts saw some strange flashes on the far side of the moon, a Mars rock held a NASA rover hostage, and auroras delight over this weekend.
And keep your eyes peeled as information comes out from the recent release of UAP files from the U.S. Government.
Check out what's big in space this week below!
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SpaceX just took a big step toward its next Starship test flight, firing up all 33 engines of the vehicle's Super Heavy on the pad in Texas. Don't miss the awesome video here.
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NASA, working with the Space Force, plans to launch a space weather mission later this month to study a strange "ring current" surrounding our planet. But IS a "ring current" anyway?
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The latest aurora forecast for tonight helps you make sure you're in the right place at the right time to see the northern lights.
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A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover's wheels while driving on Mars. I'm sure the warranty still covers what we're seeing here.
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It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm. Here's how scientists figured it out.
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A rock nicknamed "Atacama" just gave the Mars Curiosity rover a headache. Imagine getting your hand stuck while you're at work. Now, imagine you're a robot on Mars. Yeah, it was that.
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For our photo of the day, we still have NASA's moon mission on our mind. What you're seeing here is NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft as it rests following its flight around the moon. The capsule still looks pretty charred from the return to Earth. Here's what this photo can teach us for future moon flights.
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And that's it for our space update today! Thanks for sticking with me to the end of this week.
Stay tuned as China's next launch to the Tiangong space station has been pushed to this weekend, SpaceX has a Starship launch next week, and we hear that the Devil Wears Prada 2 might have some surprising space references?
Keep looking up!
Chelsea Gohd
Content Manager, Space.com.
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