The Winter Hexagon hosts the Moon. Then Castor and Pollux nail the Moon. Then the Little and Big Dog stars arc gracefully away from it. Meanwhile in early dawn, Mercury, Venus and Mars continue as a triangle low in the southeast. The post This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 11 – 19 appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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Space Station Science Highlights: Week of February 7, 2022
Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of Feb. 7 that included a study of how crew members use objects and places in the space station, using ultrasound to manipulate objects in microgravity, and testing technology that could lead to autonomous robots that perform a variety of tasks o
Read MoreSolar Tsunami Hit Earth 9,200 Years Ago
Scientists examining ancient ice cores have found radioactive evidence of an extreme solar storm that took place in 7,176 BCE. The post Solar Tsunami Hit Earth 9,200 Years Ago appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreHubble Views a Cosmic Interaction
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top).
Read MoreJoin the NG CRS-17 Virtual NASA Social to Experience the Cargo Launch from Wallops
Social media users are invited to register to take part in another global virtual NASA Social for the next Northrop Grumman cargo delivery to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch at 12:40 p.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
Read MoreThe History of Rockets
The principles of rocketry were first tested more than 2,000 years ago, but it’s only been within the past 70 years or so that we have built rockets to explore space. Today, rockets routinely loft spacecraft off Earth, sending satellites to low-Earth orbit or cargo to the International Space Station. And with the commercial space industry booming, astronauts now regularly travel to and from the orbiting lab, carrying scientific experiments with them. New developments have even seen reusable rockets become common, landing back on Earth autonomously, ready to be used…
Read More‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Star Wars spinoff series premieres May 25 on Disney Plus
Robust quarterly financials and greater-than-anticipated streaming subscribers weren’t the only major highlights of Disney’s earnings report and follow-up call on Wednesday (Feb. 9), as new details about the eagerly awaited live-action “Obi-Wan Kenobi” spinoff series on Disney Plus were revealed. Disney CEO Bob Chapek unveiled official news that the premiere date of May 25 is penciled in for the original show chronicling the Jedi master’s years in exile on Tatooine watching over Luke Skywalker and hiding out from Jedi hunters, 10 years after the events depicted in 2005’s “Star Wars:…
Read MoreNASA Awards Mission Operations Center Support Contract
NASA has awarded the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) Mission Operations Center Support contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Dulles, Virginia.
Read MoreNew Sun Missions to Help NASA Better Understand Earth-Sun Environment
NASA has selected two science missions – the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm – to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the Sun, the Sun-Earth connection, and the constantly changing space environment.
Read MoreAstra rocket suffers catastrophic failure in 1st Florida launch, 4 satellites lost
Astra failed to deliver four satellites to orbit as planned today (Feb. 10) in the company’s first-ever orbital launch from the contiguous United States. The California startup’s 43-foot-tall (13 meters) Launch Vehicle 0008 (LV0008) launched the ELaNa 41 mission from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today, rising off the pad at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT). The two-stage LV0008 performed well initially, soaring high into the Florida skies. But something appeared to go wrong about 3 minutes into flight, just after the rocket’s first and second stages separated. Footage…
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