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Trump picks billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA | Space Quiz! What's an unusual feature of "super puff" planets? | NASA to provide Artemis program update today: Watch live. Created for znamenski.spacecom@blogger.com |  Web Version December 5, 2024 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad Trump picks billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA (Space.com / Josh Dinner) A billionaire tech entrepreneur and private astronaut is Donald Trump's choice for the next NASA chief. The president-elect announced via social media today (Dec. 4) that he has picked Jared Isaacman, the founder and CEO of payment-processing company Shift4 Payments, for the job of NASA administrator. Isaacman has spaceflight experience: He has funded and commanded two groundbreaking private missions to Earth orbit, both of which flew with SpaceX hardware. Full Story: Space (12/4)  Space Quiz! What's an unusual feature of "super puff" planets? Learn the answer here! Low mass and low density High mass and high density Low mass and high density High mass and low density NASA to provide Artemis program update today: Watch live. (Space.com / Josh Dinner) NASA is about to speak out about its plan to return astronauts to the moon. Top space agency officials will hold a press conference Thursday to give a public update on the state of NASA's Artemis program. The briefing will begin at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) and stream live on the NASA+ streaming service and in the window above. The update comes at a time of transition for the U.S. government, as well as NASA, after President-elect Donald Trump announced yesterday his nomination of American billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as his choice for NASA's next chief. Full Story: Space (12/4)  Tackle your credit card debt with 0% interest until 2026 If you have outstanding credit card debt, getting a new 0% intro APR credit card could help ease the pressure while you pay down your balances. Our credit card experts identified top credit cards that are perfect for anyone looking to pay down debt and not add to it! Click through to see what all the hype is about. Find out more ADVERTISEMENT Skywatching Asteroid the size of 3 million elephants zooms past Earth (European Space Agency) Earth got a relatively close shave this morning (Dec. 4), as a sizable space rock zipped by just 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) away. The asteroid, called 2020 XR, made its closest approach today at approximately 12:26 a.m. EST (0526 GMT), passing just under six times the distance between Earth and the moon. Full Story: Space (12/4)  Spaceflight Watch Vega-C rocket launch today on 1st flight since 2022 (European Space Agency) For the first time since the launch vehicle's catastrophic mission failure in 2022, Europe's Vega-C rocket is poised to return to flight Thursday (Dec. 5), after a delay. The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite today, lifting off from Kourou, French Guiana, during an instantaneous launch window on Dec. 5, at 4:20 p.m. EST (2120 GMT, 22:20 CET -- local time). The mission was supposed to fly on Wednesday (Dec. 4), but a mechanical issue with the launch gantry nixed that attempt. Full Story: Space (12/4)  Science & Astronomy JWST discovers exoplanet in triple 'super puff' star system (Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a fourth world in a strange system of ultralight "super puff" planets. The new extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" was discovered around the sun-like star Kepler-51, located around 2,615 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan). Remarkably, the new world, designated Kepler-51e, isn't just the fourth exoplanet found orbiting this star; all these other worlds are cotton-candy-like planets. That means this could be a whole system of some of the lightest planets ever discovered. Full Story: Space (12/4)  SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch Sirius XM satellite this morning (Space.com / Josh Dinner) Stay tuned, SiriusXM radio listeners, your program is about to get a signal boost. SpaceX is poised to launch the SXM-9 satellite Thursday morning (Dec. 5), for SiriusXM satellite radio. The payload is the tenth spacecraft launched for SiriusXM, and the third of the company's satellites to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to orbit. A 90-minute launch window for the SXM-9 mission opens at 11:10 a.m. ET (1610 GMT), lifting off from Launch Complex-39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida. Full Story: Space (12/5)  Technology Astronomers raced to track the smallest asteroid ever seen (Teddy Kareta/courtesy of Lowell Observatory) Astronomer Teddy Kareta had spent countless nights over the years observing various objects across our solar system using Arizona's Lowell Discovery Telescope, or LDT. On Nov. 19, 2022, he set his alarm to ring shortly before midnight, in preparation for what he presumed would be a quiet observing night - and woke up to missed calls and messages from his boss. Those pings, he recalled, "more or less could be summarized as, 'Dude, you gotta get on the telescope right now! What are you doing? Pick up!'" Full Story: Space (12/5)  Star Trek Exclusive look at 'Star Trek' illustrated story anthology (Titan Publishing) Originating from the pages of "Star Trek Explorer" magazine, a premium publication that sadly delivers its final issue in December after a three-decade run, comes a brand new hardback collection of imaginative "Star Trek" fiction written by an eclectic crew of all-star science fiction authors paired with acclaimed illustrators. "A Year To The Day I Saw Myself Die and Other Stories" beams into the holiday gift-giving season on Dec. 10 from London-based Titan Books as a 96-page edition containing 14 fully illustrated "Star Trek"-themed short stories collected for the first time and we've got an exclusive excerpt to share with fans. 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Europe's Vega-C rocket launching today - 1st since 2022 | Space Quiz! Which of these types of black holes are theorized to have been created during the Big Bang? | Will the ISS's 2031 death dive cause pollution problems? Created for znamenski.spacecom@blogger.com |  Web Version December 4, 2024 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad Europe's Vega-C rocket launching today - 1st since 2022 (European Space Agency) For the first time since the launch vehicle's catastrophic mission failure in 2022, Europe's Vega-C rocket is poised to return to flight today. The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite today, lifting off from Kourou, French Guiana, during an instantaneous launch window Dec. 4, at 4:20 p.m. EST (2120 GMT, 22:20 CET - local time). This will be the third mission for ESA's medium-lift rocket, and its first launch since a failure in the vehicle's second stage led to the complete loss of its last payload in October 2022. You can watch the launch live here courtesy of ESA. Full Story: Space (12/4)  Space Quiz! Which of these types of black holes are theorized to have been created during the Big Bang? Learn the answer here! Supermassive Black Holes Stellar Black Holes Intermediate-mass Black Holes Primordial Black Holes Will the ISS's 2031 death dive cause pollution problems? (NASA Johnson) Sustaining International Space Station (ISS) operations through 2030 may be somewhat touch-and-go, prior to its planned 2031 "safe, controlled deorbit" into remote ocean territory. And some people are starting to question just how safe that suicide dive will be, as it could end up polluting Earth's air and water. 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(Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Scientists have suggested that tiny primordial black holes with the power to hollow out planets could be passing through everyday materials here on earth - rocks, glass, metal, and maybe even you or your cat. These minuscule black holes created during the Big Bang have thus far remained hypothetical by evading detection. Now, two University at Buffalo scientists are urging researchers to expand their horizons in this hunt. Full Story: Space (12/3)  SpaceX SpaceX Falcon 9 launches on record-breaking 24th flight (SpaceX) SpaceX has just set a new rocket-reuse record. One of the company's Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday (Dec. 4) at 5:13 a.m. EST (1013 GMT). The mission delivered 24 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). It was the 24th launch for this Falcon 9's first stage, according to a SpaceX mission description. That will top the old mark of 23 flights, which is held by three different boosters. Full Story: Space (12/3)  Technology Scientists reveal image of a single photon for 1st time ever (Ben Yuen and Angela Demetriadou) Researchers in Birmingham have created the first image of a photon, a lemon-shaped particle of light emitted from the surface of a nanoparticle. The theory that made this image possible, reported Nov. 14 in the journal Physical Review Letters, enables scientists to calculate and understand various properties of these quantum particles - which could open up a range of new possibilities across fields such as quantum computing, photovoltaic devices and artificial photosynthesis. Full Story: Space (12/3)  Entertainment 'Galaxy Quest' 25th anniversary Blu-ray release (Paramount) Every so often, cosmic tumblers align and the cinematic gods bless us with a movie that encapsulates everything we love about the science fiction genre, liberally injected with generous doses of heart, humor, heroics, and high adventure. Let's rewind the clock back to Christmas Day in 1999 when that jewel was the Dean Parisot-directed sci-fi spoof, "Galaxy Quest," which celebrates its milestone 25th anniversary this yuletide season with a sparkling new 4K UHD Blu-ray and Limited-Edition Steelbook home video release on Dec. 3 from Paramount. Full Story: Space (12/3)    Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036