Monday, August 21, 2023

Russia's Luna-25 lunar lander has crashed into the moon

Russia's Luna-25 lunar lander has crashed into the moon | Space quiz! When was the last time NASA landed humans on the moon? | India's Chandrayaan-3 snaps close-up photos of moon
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August 21, 2023
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The Launchpad
Russia's Luna-25 lunar lander has crashed into the moon
(Roscosmos)
The loss of Luna-25 could be a major blow to Russia's moon plans, and its effort to develop a permanent crewed base on the moon with China.
Full Story: Space (8/20) 
Space quiz! When was the last time NASA landed humans on the moon?
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Spaceflight
India's Chandrayaan-3 snaps close-up photos of moon
(ISRO)
India's Chandrayaan-3 probe has captured more amazing imagery of the moon ahead of its historic touchdown try, which is just a few days away.
Full Story: Space (8/18) 
Science & Astronomy
We still don't know what dark matter is, but it's not this...
(NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University))
Scientists are certain that dark matter exists - as all our universe's normal matter simply can't account for the way galaxies are kind of held together - they don't know what it is.
Full Story: Space (8/21) 
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SpaceX
SpaceX shows off newly modified Starship Super Heavy
(SpaceX)
SpaceX has added some new hardware to its latest Starship rocket prototype, which is being prepped for a test flight in the near future.
Full Story: Space (8/18) 
Technology
NASA flew a spy plane into storms to study gamma-rays
(NASA/Carla Thomas)
Data from the flights could "help scientists see when storms are strengthening and provide extra lead time of information to keep the public safe from the threat of lightning,"
Full Story: Space (8/20) 
Search for Life
Lunar Trailblazer ready to hunt for water on the moon
(Lockheed Martin)
The satellite will hunt for water on the moon's surface and attempt to map its abundance and distribution.
Full Story: Space (8/20) 
Telescopes & Binoculars
Celestron EclipSmart 12x50mm porro solar binoculars
(Jamie Carter)
If you're ready for a close encounter with the sun's surface these solar binoculars are hard to beat, though they're best used sitting down or with a tripod.
Full Story: Space (8/20) 
Star Wars
Who is Grand Admiral Thrawn?
(Lucasfilm)
Thrawn's strongest belief was that one must know their enemy in order to achieve victory in war. As such, he spent much of his time studying and understanding the art, philosophy, and culture of his opponents.
Full Story: Space (8/21) 
 
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Friday, August 18, 2023

NASA rolls Artemis 2 mobile launch tower to pad for tests

NASA rolls Artemis 2 mobile launch tower to pad for tests | Neptune's clouds have vanished - the sun may be to blame | Space quiz! How tall is NASA's Mobile Launch Platform?
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The Launchpad
NASA rolls Artemis 2 mobile launch tower to pad for tests
(NASA/Chad Siwik)
The tower connects to NASA's Space Launch System megarocket (SLS), which is set to launch a crew of four astronauts around the moon on its next mission.
Full Story: Space (8/18) 
Neptune's clouds have vanished - the sun may be to blame
(NASA)
It would appear that the azure world's clouds have all but disappeared.
Full Story: Space (8/17) 
Space quiz! How tall is NASA's Mobile Launch Platform?
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Skywatching
Perseid meteor shown brilliantly in this reader photo gallery
(Nick Boris)
This year's Perseid meteor shower has amazed star gazers around the globe, and Space.com readers have grabbed their cameras to capture the cosmic phenomenon in all its magnificence.
Full Story: Space (8/17) 
Spaceflight
Russia's Luna-25 lander snaps 1st photo of moon's surface
(Roscosmos via Telegram)
The Luna-25 lander has snapped its first detailed photo of the moon's surface, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced Aug. 17, in a Telegram post.
Full Story: Space (8/17) 
Science & Astronomy
Seeds from heavy black holes found in the early universe
(NASA)
These so-called seeds could help explain how some supermassive black holes with masses equivalent to millions, or even billions, times that of the sun could have grown quickly enough to exist less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
Full Story: Space (8/18) 
SpaceX
Hurricane Hilary delays Starlink launch to next week
(SpaceX)
The mission was originally supposed to occur on Thursday (Aug. 17), when it would have been the second leg of a Starlink doubleheader.
Full Story: Space (8/17) 
Entertainment
'The Space Between' is an interstellar cosmos cruise
(Boom! Studios)
It's an absorbing, generation-spanning epic concerning the lives of valiant human voyagers inside an interstellar colony ship zooming toward a suitable exoplanet.
Full Story: Space (8/17) 
 
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