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Amazon has dropped the Star Wars: Black Series Luke Skywalker Force FX Elite Lightsaber to its lowest-ever price in this Prime Day deal. It's now available for $127.04 exclusively for Prime members, reduced from its usual $149.99 Amazon price. We've tested this Luke Skywalker Force FX Elite model, and with a score of four and a half stars out of five, it's worthy of a place in our best lightsabers guide.
Prime Day in October is known as Big Deal Days and the sales event is now in full swing. We've spotted numerous top deals on Celestron telescopes and binoculars and you can find the pick of the bunch below. Celestron is renowned for quality and reliability so it's no shock that they make some of the best telescopes and best binoculars, their models are also behind some of the best telescope deals and binoculars deals. Fortunately, with the deals highlighted in this guide, you won't have to break the bank on your next bit of astronomy gear.
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NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick has given us dramatic, Dragon's-eye views of Hurricane Milton churning its way toward landfall. Dominick posted a timelapse video on X (formerly Twitter) today, showing Hurricane Milton through the window of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour, which is docked to the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA's troubled Mars sample-return program may have a new lifeline, in the form of a proposal from private space company Rocket Lab to help save the mission.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is arriving at its projected pinnacle of brightness, followed by a transition into the evening sky. Currently, it displays the classic look for a bright comet, flaunting a starlike head and a prominent tail. As we crossed over from September into October, a consensus of observations reported on the Comet Observations Database (COBS) placed the comet somewhere between first and second magnitude.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted the earliest powerful "galaxy-size" wind blowing from a feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar. The powerful wind is pushing gas and dust from its galaxy at incredible speeds, supressing star birth in its host galaxy.
SpaceX is preparing to launch the fifth flight of its Starship megarocket as soon as Oct. 13, despite repeated statements from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the flight test would likely have to wait until November.
This year, World Space Week, celebrated globally from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10, is centered on how space technology has proactively enhanced our understanding and management of Earth's climate. For example, numerous Earth-observation satellites closely monitor greenhouse gas emissions and other climate indicators, such as extreme weather, deforestation, drought, sea level changes and coastal degradation. This data allows climate scientists to respond more effectively to natural crises. But there are many less obvious examples of the crossover between space science and climate science.
In less than seven decades, humanity went from having no active flight technology to walking on the moon. It took only a little over a century to get from the first basic computer to a pocket-size device that enables widespread access to nearly the entire body of human knowledge within seconds. Based on that technological trajectory, there is a persistent assumption that our technological capacities are unbounded.
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NASA and SpaceX originally targeted Monday morning (Oct. 7) for the departure of the Crew-8 mission from the International Space Station. However, Crew-8 is scheduled to splash down off the coast of Florida, a region presently under threat from Milton, which intensified into a Category 5 hurricane on Monday before weakening slightly to a Category 4 storm on Tuesday. So, the undocking date has been pushed back several times, most recently to Sunday (Oct. 13).
In the heart of the Gulf of Mexico, a new hurricane is brewing. Hurricane Milton, now having intensified into a Category 5 storm, was caught in incredible space-based imagery from spacecraft such as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GOES-East satellite.
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gained a more detailed picture of the turbulent "pancakes" of gas and dust surrounding young stars, feeding them and facilitating their growth before birthing planets.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid-inspecting mission, shows a gorgeous blue Earth hanging in space beside the nozzle of the Falcon 9's upper-stage Merlin engine. Earth looks smaller than it typically does in such launch photos, because it's quite far away from the camera: The upper stage was heading toward interplanetary transfer orbit, where it ended up deploying Hera successfully about 76 minutes after liftoff.
World Space Week this year, which runs between Oct. 4 and Oct. 10,is celebrating how space technology is aiding us in our fight against climate change on Earth - but sometimes it pays to also look outward at what technology can offer us as we expand into space to harness the energy and the worlds that lie out there.
