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All the Rockets and All the Rocks

Jul 14, 2022 | Asteroids, Daily Space, ESA, Exoplanets, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, OSIRIS-REx, Rocket Lab, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Soyuz, Space China, Space History, SpaceX, Starlink, Vega

With the release of JWST’s first science images behind us, we now catch up on all the rocket launches of the past few days. Meanwhile, Bennu continues to be a favorite research topic and is the subject of three new papers released this week. Plus, pulsar-orbiting planets, and this week in rocket history, we look back at GEOTAIL.

Infrared Telescope Balloon Mission Gets Mini-JWST Mirror

Jul 7, 2022 | Astrobiology, Daily Space, Earth, Fast Radio Bursts, JWST, Our Solar System, Physics, Quantum, Science, Space History, Spacecraft

While waiting for the launch and commissioning of JWST, engineers designed an infrared telescope with a 2.5-meter mirror that will fly onboard a large research balloon to nearly 40 kilometers in altitude. Plus, fast radio bursts, robotic ammonites, and this week in rocket history we look back at Telstar-1.

Climate Change: African Lakes Sequestering Carbon Dioxide

Jun 30, 2022 | Asteroids, Climate Change, Daily Space, Moon, Rocket Lab, Rockets, Space History, Spacecraft, Volcanoes

Today we look at a trio of climate change stories, which are mostly bad news, although one study has discovered that African lakes are doing more sequestering of greenhouse gases than emissions. Plus, the CAPSTONE launch, meteorite crystals, and this week in rocket history, a mission that launched… but failed.

Bennu’s Boulders Act as Body Armor

Jun 23, 2022 | AAS, Artemis, Asteroids, Climate Change, Earth, Galaxies, Pluto & Charon, Rockets, Space History, Star Forming Region

An analysis of the craters on Bennu’s surface provides evidence that the rubble pile asteroid is protected from smaller impacts by the boulders scattered on the surface. Plus, the SLS Wet Dress Rehearsal, dwarf galaxies around M81, and this week in rocket history, we look back at the X-15 hypersonic plane.

Rogue Black Hole Possibly Found in Milky Way

Jun 16, 2022 | Black Holes (Stellar), Crewed Space, Daily Space, Exoplanets, Moon, Random Space Fact, Rovers, Space China, Space History, Spacecraft, Stars, Venus

After six years of Hubble Space Telescope observations and the hypothesis that millions of black holes exist in the Milky Way, scientists have finally found direct evidence for the existence of one such black hole. Plus, planetary formation, a wandering star, and this week in rocket history, we look back at China’s first crewed space station docking.

Quasars Help Pinpoint the End of Reionization Epoch

Jun 9, 2022 | Cosmology, Daily Space, Earth, Galaxies, JWST, Mars, Space History, Spacecraft, Venus

Using the radiation signatures of quasars, scientists have determined when the era of reionization ended in our universe – about 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. Plus, an update on NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, new Hubble and Chandra images, and This Week in Rocket History is the TIROS-5 weather satellite.