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Blog
Field Geology at Mars’s Equator Points to Ancient Megaflood
Field geologists have analyzed data taken from Curiosity at Gale Crater and determined that a megaflood occurred in ancient Martian history.
Comet 2019 LD2 (ATLAS) Found to Be Actively Transitioning
Observers using the ATLAS telescopes found Comet 2019 LD2 last year, and it is in the process of transitioning from a Centaur into a Jupiter Family comet, a process we have never witnessed before.
SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites on 100th Falcon 9 flight
The 100th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket took place at 02:13 UTC on November 25th from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
China launches mission to bring back material from the Moon
On Monday, November 23rd at 20:30 UTC, a Long March 6 sent Chang’e 5 on its way to the Moon.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite in Earth Orbit, Mission Begins to Map Sea Levels
On November 21st at 17:17 UTC, a SpaceX Falcon 9 took off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, an ocean-mapping satellite.
Rocket Lab Launches 16th Mission, Completes Booster Recovery
On November 16th at 02:20 UTC, Rocket Lab made its sixteenth Electron launch from the Mahia Peninsula on the North Island in New Zealand.
Worlds Will Align Christmas Week for Spectacular Heavenly Sight
On December 21st, Jupiter and Saturn will gather together on the sky, and hang just a few arcminutes apart. This means that through even most telescopes, both worlds will appear in a single field of view.
VLA Sky Survey Reveals Newborn Jets in Distant Galaxies
The new Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) catalog of radio galaxies is allowing astronomers to see galactic jets turning on.
“Fossil Galaxy” Discovered Buried Deep Within the Milky Way
The APOGEE spectrograph, which the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) used to measure the metalicities of more than half a million stars, has determined there is a blob of stars down in the heart of our galaxy that is all made of roughly the same material and shares related orbits.
