The best Lego space sets don’t have to be huge rockets or NASA-licensed properties. Sometimes, the more low-key, obscure builds are the best. One of my favorites is the Lego Ideas Tales of the Space Age, which is currently 30% off in Amazon’s Black Friday sale. This set, which features four different dioramas that can be stood on a shelf or wall-mounted, should be $49.99, but it’s currently just $34.99. I’ve been collecting Lego for a decade and have been writing about it here on Space as well as That…
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Unusual black hole light bursts puzzle astronomers: ‘We are finding a lot of weird stuff’
Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light. These bright emissions, which appear to peak on a regular cycle, may be caused by the black hole duo disrupting a massive gas cloud — a phenomenon researchers say is the first of its kind to be detected. The cosmic behemoths reside at the center of a galaxy named 2MASX J21240027+3409114, located roughly 1 billion light-years away in the northern constellation Cygnus. These black holes complete an orbit once…
Read MoreSpaceX’s Starship will fly Lunar Outpost’s rover to the moon
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket just added another moon mission to its docket. Colorado company Lunar Outpost announced today (Nov. 21) that it has chosen Starship to launch its new moon rover, known as Eagle, and land the wheeled vehicle on the lunar surface. The news comes two days after the 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship flew for the sixth time ever, on a suborbital test flight from Texas that achieved all of its main objectives. “Having experienced the recent groundbreaking Starship test flight firsthand, we’re confident that SpaceX is advancing the most…
Read MoreHubble Captures an Edge-On Spiral with Curve Appeal
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