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A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, with the Israeli EROS C3 satellite. Credit: SpaceX. SpaceX launched its 61st and final mission of 2022 Thursday night from California, placing an Israeli Earth-imaging satellite …

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NASA has inquired about using a SpaceX Dragon capsule to bring astronauts home from the International Space Station (ISS) following a recent leak aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, a NASA blog post has stated. On Dec. 15, 2022, the Soyuz spacecraft MS-22 …

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SpaceX is off to a flying start in the new year. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into a brilliant blue sky this morning (Jan. 3) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying 114 satellites to orbit — the second-most spacecraft ever …

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However, the shower is notoriously hard to observe due to its brief peak of six hours and January’s often inclement weather in the Northern Hemisphere. A bright, nearly full moon will make the Quadrantids even less visible this year.

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Some black hole collisions may occur in densely packed, “carnival-like” star clusters, scientists have discovered. The finding hints at what binary black hole systems looked like before the black holes merged and what may trigger such violent events.

The New York Times

NASA got its giant Space Launch System off the ground for the first time in 2022, lighting up the night in Florida with an incredible stream of flame as it carried the Artemis I mission toward the moon.

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Former NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew on the first test of the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died at the age of 90. Cunningham’s death on Tuesday (Jan. 3) was confirmed by his family. “We would like to express our immense pride …

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Samples returned from the moon by a Chinese mission have been found to contain exotic igneous rock types associated with material ejected by tremendous impacts. The exotic “clasts” were found in samples of lunar …

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The image was created by Webb bringing to bear its cutting edge NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) payloads on II ZW 96 and details how the shape of both galaxies are being distorted by their respective gravitational …

EarthSky

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of sand dunes covered by frost just after the 2022 winter solstice for Mars’ northern hemisphere (July 21, 2022 by earthly calendars). The frost on Mars is a mixture of carbon dioxide (dry) ice and water …