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Virgin Orbit receives $17 million bid from Stratolaunch for carrier plane and related aircraft assets
Virgin Orbit has received a $17 million bid for its aircraft assets from the hypersonic flight company Stratolaunch, according to court filings released on Tuesday (May 16).
The Apollo Space Program
The Apollo space missions were a series of manned missions conducted by NASA from 1961 to 1972 with the goal of landing humans on the Moon. The program consisted of several missions, with Apollo 11 being the most famous for successfully achieving the first Moon landing. Here is a summary of the Apollo space missions:
'Avatar: The Way of Water' splashes down on Disney+ and Max in June
20th Century Studios announces June streaming dates for 'Avatar: The Way of Water' on Disney+ and Max.
Astronomers Want to Build the Next Generation Arecibo Telescope
The Arecibo Telescope was an amazing tool for astronomers. Built in the early 1960s, it had a 1,000-foot-wide dish and was capable of both receiving and transmitting radio signals. It did radar mapping of near-Earth asteroids, Venus, and the Moon, discovered water at the polar regions of Mercury, searched for alien civilizations, and even send a radio message from Earth to a globular cluster 25,000 light years away. So when it collapsed in 2020, many astronomers wondered if it could be rebuilt.
The Largest Explosion Ever Seen in the Universe
Throughout recorded history, humans have looked up at the night sky and witnessed the major astronomical events known as a “supernova.” The name, still used by astronomers, referred to the belief that these bursts of light in the “firmament” signaled the birth of a “new star.” With the birth of telescopes and modern astronomy, we have since learned that supernovae are what occur at the end of a star’s lifecycle. At this point, when a star has exhausted its hydrogen and helium fuel, it experiences gravitational collapse at its center.
Saudi Arabia's 1st female astronaut hopes kids follow in her footsteps
Rayyanah Barnawi, who will become the first Saudi woman in space when the private Ax-2 mission launches on Sunday (May 21), hopes she's blazing a trail for others to follow.
Rare 'black moon' new moon of May 2023 rises tonight
Tonight (May 19) is the new moon, and it's a rare "black moon," which occurs approximately once every 33 months.
Blue Origin will build NASA's new moon lander for Artemis astronauts
Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander will take astronauts to the lunar surface in 2029, on the Artemis 5 mission. It's the second NASA moon lander for astronauts, after SpaceX's Starship.
Watch this giant sunspot erupt in barrage of powerful solar flares as it turns to face Earth (video)
The sun has released a barrage of solar flares in the past 24 hours. The culprit? A giant sunspot that's slowly rotating to directly face Earth — and it's not alone.
Jammed radar boom on Jupiter-bound JUICE probe finally freed
Artist’s concept of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer with all its antenna deployed. Credit: European Space Agency
After three weeks of intense analysis and troubleshooting, European Space Agency flight controllers have finally succeeded in freeing a jammed 52-foot (16-meter) boom critical to the Jupiter-bound JUICE probe’s ice-penetrating radar instrument.
Watch the moon, Venus and Mars engage in a celestial dance next week
See the moon shine between Venus and Mars next week as the two planets, along with, Pollux and Castor engage in a series of interesting configurations.
Scientists just grew a black hole disk in a lab to better understand how they feed
Scientists have created a rotating disk of plasma in the lab that mimics the accretion disks that surround black holes, gradually feeding them and facilitating their growth.
How to watch Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Billy Batson and his foster siblings have returned in Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Here’s everything you need to know, including where to watch it online.
Live coverage: SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch attempt in California
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A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Voids
At first the sum total of large, orderly structure in the Universe appeared to arrive in two categories. There were the clusters of galaxies – an unoriginal but descriptive name – each a dense ball with anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred galaxies, all bound together by their mutual gravitational embrace. And then there were the field galaxies, lonely wanderers set apart and adrift from the clusters, not bound to anyone but themselves. That was it: the clusters of galaxies, the field galaxies, and the megaparsecs of emptiness that enveloped them all.
Building a Satellite out of Wood? Use Magnolia
Typically when you think of a satellite, you think of a metal box with electronic components inside it. But that is simply because most satellites have been made that way throughout history. There is nothing against using other materials to build satellites. Now, a team of researchers from Japan has completed testing on another type of material that could eventually be used on an actual satellite – magnolia wood.
'Do what scares you:' 3 tips to succeed from Artemis 2 moon astronaut Christina Koch
Astronaut Christina Koch is no stranger to hard work, or success. Here are 3 tips the NASA Artemis 2 mission specialists has for kids hoping to walk on Mars one day.
SpaceX's Ax-2 mission for Axiom Space in photos (gallery)
A new crew of four people is bound for orbit on the Ax-2 mission, which will fly to the International Space Station using SpaceX hardware. See photos of the Ax-2 mission here.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, May 19 – 28
As Venus and Mars move toward each other in the western dusk, Venus brightens and Mars shrinks. Just like they always do. This week the Moon hops over both.
Earth from Space: Oslo, Norway
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Oslo, Norway’s capital and largest city, and host of the 2023 Global Space Conference on Climate Change, taking place on 23–25 May.
