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Spaceflight Now

Rocket Lab’s Electron launcher placed a small Swedish atmospheric research satellite into an on-target polar orbit Friday, but an attempt to recover a booster stage with a helicopter was aborted after a brief telemetry loss from the rocket on descent.

Space.com

A spiral galaxy adorns “Berenice’s Hair” in a striking telescope photo. Although Charles Messier famously developed a catalog of celestial bodies in the 18th century that includes this galaxy, known formally as NGC 4254, NASA writes that another French …

Space.com

TimeandDate.com livestream; Lowell Observatory webcast; Virtual Telescope Project webcast; Griffith Observatory livestream; How lunar eclipses occur. On …

CNET

Gaia BH1 is dormant, 10 times more massive than our sun and located about 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus (the serpent-bearer). The team behind the discovery says it’s three times closer to Earth than the previous winner, a black hole …

CNET

A blood moon is coming on Tuesday to wrap up “eclipse season.” ‘Tis the season for heavenly bodies to blush. Eric Mack headshot.

U.S. News & World Report

Known as a blood moon, it will appear a reddish-orange from the light of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises. At the peak of the eclipse, the moon will be 242740 miles (390,653 kilometers) away, according to NASA scientists. Binoculars and telescopes will enhance …

mlive.com

Skygazers may want to set their alarms for an early wake-up this week for the chance to see the November full moon turn red during a rare total lunar eclipse — the last such eclipse until 2025. The astronomical event will occur in the wee hours of …

Duluth News Tribune

Observers in the Central Time Zone (CST) will see the moon’s first brush with Earth’s dark, inner shadow at 3:09 a.m., the start of the partial eclipse. At 4:16 a.m. it’s completely inside the shadow and totality begins. The moon pokes its head back out …

EurekAlert

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, in collaboration with colleagues from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet), have published seven draft genomes for Nordic hare species.

SciTechDaily

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are scaling up the production of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT). This incredible material could revolutionize diverse commercial products …