Kenna here with the latest headlines in the world of space news and science.
The big story happened in the early hours this morning, as the private Axiom-4 successfully launched from from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading to the International Space Station. Ax-4 is carrying the first ever-people from India, Hungary and Poland on its voyage, making the launch a mission of many "firsts."
Other stories include an update on the private ispace moon lander's crash, finding the origins for mysterious double hot Jupiter exoplanets, and the many celestial things you can watch in the night skies for June. We've got it all here.
SpaceX's newest Dragon spacecraft launched on its debut mission this morning (June 25), sending the four-person Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS)
Four prominent celestial objects -- the moon, a bright planet and two bright stars -- will come together to form a "celestial quadruple play" in the night sky this week.
The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface.
It's Kenna again with your daily dose of all things space news and science.
There were a couple of big announcements yesterday, the biggest being the first images released from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. If you missed our livestream, don't worry, we've got lots of follow up stories that include, in my very unbiased opinion, some of the prettiest images of space we've ever seen. The Rubin Observatory's technology allows it to scan the skies 10-100 times faster than other observatories, meaning that these images are the beginning of something really big for astronomy.
The European Space Agency's Biomass satellite revealed its first images of Earth from space yesterday, using its radar technology to scan jungles, deserts and glaciers around the world.
Moral of the story: If you're looking for a new phone or laptop background, this is your moment to grab something really cool!
We also saw SpaceX carry human remains and DNA up into low orbit, along with a new launch date for SpaceX's private Ax-4 mission and a proposed theory that our cosmos actually formed inside a black hole. There's all that and more right here.
A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed inside a colossal black hole residing in a larger, parent universe.
