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.
Hubble Catches Possible “Shadow Play” of Disk Around Black Hole
Artist Judy Schmidt used her 2020 to be part of a pretty awesome study of the galaxy IC 5063.
Vega flight VV17 failure: Arianespace and ESA appoint an independent Inquiry Commission
Our last launch of the week was an Arianespace Vega rocket on Tuesday, November 17 at 1:52 UTC.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Arrive at Space Station
On November 16th at 00:27 UTC, a SpaceX Crew Dragon named Resilience took off from LC 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
NRO launches national security payload from Cape Canaveral
On Friday, November 13th at 22:32 UTC, a much-delayed United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket took off from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Changsan B rocket successfully launched Tiantong-1 02
China launched a Long March 3B on Thursday, November 12 at 15:54 UTC carrying the Tiantong 2 mission from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China.
NASA and SpaceX Complete Certification of First Human-Rated Commercial Space System
We are pleased to announce that SpaceX has received the first certification of a Human-Rated Commercial Space System, in time for this weekend’s Crew-1 launch to the International Space Station.
Hundreds of Copies of Newton’s Principia Found in New Census
The groundbreaking science book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or Newton’s Principia, was first published in 1687.
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