See the moon meet up with Mercury, Venus and Mars in the early morning sky on Jan. 9 (www.space.com)
If sky is clear. raining slush here atm.
Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test (www.space.com)
Project Kuiper: Amazon’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink passes ‘crucial’ test::Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to connect more than 3,000 satellites in a mesh network that blankets Earth, just cleared a final hurdle needed to launch next year.
Finding life on Saturn's moon Enceladus might be easier than we thought (www.space.com)
Cosmic nuclear fission seen for 1st time in 'incredibly profound' discovery (www.space.com)
‘incredibly profound’, not my favorite site. tg for ad blocking. natural fission
The Milky Way's stunning spiral structure appears to be an anomaly. But why? (www.space.com)
speaking of clickbait, Google news dredges this site up often enough I get fewer popups because I probably already have cookies set. plus the Dreaded mini video player. Right click->Incognito is the only way I can see an article due to script blocking. In the process of moving from Chrome back to Firefox after 10 years. Next PC...
US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft (www.space.com)
US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft::The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded $33.7 million to Lockheed Martin to advance the development of space nuclear propulsion and power tech.
NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away (www.space.com)
NASA’s interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away::A few updates to the two Voyager spacecraft should extend the space explorers’ lives so they can continue adventuring in the cosmos.
Evidence for 'Planet 9' may actually show our theory of gravity is incomplete (www.space.com)
may
Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to 'unsolvable' 3-body problem (www.space.com)
“But they’re only useful if they’re stable” ai not all bad
Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to 'unsolvable' 3-body problem (www.space.com)
Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to ‘unsolvable’ 3-body problem::Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky, but a new study may reveal 12,000 new solutions.
Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests (www.space.com)
Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests::Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets, a new study finds.
Watch NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe approach Earth tonight with free telescope livestream (www.space.com)
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
NASA's UFO study team to announce results Sept. 14 (www.space.com)
OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe heads toward Earth for Sept. 24 sample delivery (www.space.com)
'Star Trek' Day 2023 arrives this week to celebrate 'The Original Series' 1966 launch (www.space.com)
Space.com poses the debate-provoking question whether SNW S2 overdid the gimmicks (www.space.com)
An interesting, deliberately thought provoking 🤔 question for a lazy long weekend Sunday morning…...
India launches Aditya-L1 solar observatory, its 1st-ever sun probe (www.space.com)
Fresh off its success at the moon, India is now headed for the sun....
NASA moon orbiter spots crash site of Russia's failed Luna-25 lander (photos) (www.space.com)
The final resting place of Russia’s failed Luna-25 lunar lander has apparently been found....
Quantum 'yin-yang' shows two photons being entangled in real-time (www.space.com)
Quantum ‘yin-yang’ shows two photons being entangled in real-time::The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.
James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail (www.space.com)
James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail::The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula in vibrant green and purple, presenting one of the most well-known objects in astronomy like never before.
Perseverance Mars rover spies big sunspot rotating toward Earth (photos) (www.space.com)
Perseverance Mars rover spies big sunspot rotating toward Earth (photos)::NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has captured photos of a big sunspot, which should rotate into view for those of us on Earth in the coming days.
See 1st photos of the moon's south pole by India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander (www.space.com)
US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites (www.space.com)
US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites::The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations’ satellites and the ground stations that support them.