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Closer Look: Commercial Lunar Payload Services
The shadow of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander on the Moon. Space exploration is at a weird point in its development. Some tasks, like launching small and medium-sized satellites to low earth orbit are now as routine as overnight shipping. At the same time,...
Venus Volcanism is Erupting in the Literature
Another big topic of discussion at LPSC seemed to be Venus. I say "seemed" because I’m sure the actual big topic of discussion was proposed budget cuts, which could be as much as 50%, but there was no definitive information on budget cuts, so that is more a big topic...
Flood of Mars Science from Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Artist's depiction of MARS missions (Image credit: NASA) During the week of March 10, the Planetary Science community gathered in The Woodlands, Texas, a suburb of Houston - and also in Zoom - as we watched dozens and dozens of presentations on everything from...
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Closer Look: Mars Occupies the Science Journals
Talk of Mars has been seeping into just about every area of media, as rumors swirl that NASA’s current plans to return humans to the Moon will be replaced with plans to fly directly to Mars. Given that we can’t currently keep people alive on Mars, I’m really hoping...
Europa Clipper Joins in on the Star Observing
It doesn’t take a lot of telescope to make the number of visible stars radically increase, in it turns out even the Europa clipper, with its several centimeter star tracker cameras, has been regularly making its own observations. The Clipper launched October 14,...
One Star Cluster, 80 Million Pixels
Nebula encasing RCW 38 (credit:ESO/VVVX survey) Our modern, highly efficient cameras and massive telescopes allow us to not only do massive surveys, they also allow us to see specific objects in previously unimagined detail. The 4-m Visible and Infrared Survey...
DESI Takes Census of Black Holes in More Than One Million Galaxies
Artist's illustration depicting a dwarf galaxy that hosts an active galactic nucleus (credit: NOIRLab) Back when I started astronomy in the 1990s, folks joked that a sample of 6 was big enough to do statistics. In those early days of digital cameras and multi-meter...
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Suni Williams Breaks Women’s Spacewalk Record
NASA astronaut Suni Williams conducts spacewalk The US Human presence in space is supposed to be flying back and forth form the ISS on a combo of SpaceX and Boeing crew capsules. Unfortunately, was undermined by it’s own failures to deliver on time and a myriad of...
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