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50% Black Friday discount: Star Wars fans, build your own Grogu with this huge LEGO deal

This LEGO Star Wars The Child figure offers a buildable Baby Yoda and there's 50% off.

Save $150 on the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 102AZ this Black Friday

One of the best budget telescopes has just got even better thanks to a 32% saving in this Black Friday telescope deal

Black Friday: Save 50% off this BlissLights Star Projector

Bring the cosmos to you with this incredible, room-filling BlissLights Sky Lite Evolve Star Projector, $30 off with this Black Friday deal.

'Alien' spherules dredged from the Pacific are probably just industrial pollution, new studies suggest

Last summer, Harvard professor Avi Loeb claimed tiny pellets of iron came from beyond our solar system. But new analyses suggest that they likely originated much closer to home.

See the nearly full moon and Jupiter shine bright together tonight

The 93% full waxing gibbous moon and a bright Jupiter will make a close approach in the night sky tonight.

Ariane 6 hot-fires: the highlights

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Cinq, quatre, trois, deux, un. Allumage Vulcain! This is the moment Ariane 6’s main engine was sparked into life, and the entire main stage of the new rocket and the many parts of the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, practised for the full duration of a launch. Of course, as planned, the test model did not leave the ground.

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Watch live: Launch of EIRSAT-1

Watch the live launch broadcast of Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 on ESA Web TV Channel 2 and ESA YouTube, currently scheduled for 29 November. Coverage of this historic moment is set to begin shortly before 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET) (times to be confirmed). 

Save 23% on the excellent Nikon Prostaff P7 8x42 binoculars this Black Friday

Small but mighty, the Nikon Prostaff P7 8x42 binoculars are a favorite of ours, and they're even better with this Black Friday deal

Lego Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder is 30% off for Black Friday

This is a Lego Star Wars Black Friday deal worth spending your credits on.

Capture the stars this Black Friday: Save $800 on the Nikon Z7 II

Want to shoot the night skies? The Nikon Z7 II is a great all-rounder, excellent for low-light and astrophotography shooting and a steal at $800 off.

Black Friday binocular deal — save $94 on Celestron binos

The Celestron Nature DX 12x56 are now $175 in this Black Friday binocular deal at Amazon — we love them for affordable stargazing.

Save 30% on this groundbreaking Peak Design travel tripod this Black Friday

This Peak Design tripod is one of the best money can buy, and you can currently save $180 on it with this Black Friday deal

'Mateship' or 'Kakirra'? Australia turns to public to name its 1st moon rover

The final four names are "Coolamon," "Kakirra," "Mateship" and "Roo-ver." The public can vote for their favorite through Dec. 1.

Black Friday: Save 30% on the Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 Binocular

With the Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 Binocular on a deep discount this Black Friday, you can peer at deep-sky objects without breaking the bank.

The best beginner Celestron telescope is $100 off for Black Friday

Save $100 on the Celestron NexStar 4SE at Amazon as part of Black Friday.

This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 24 – December 3

This Tuesday the 28th we will see the Moon rise in twilight as far north as it possibly can. Do you know why?

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Earth from Space: Salty lakes

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the colourful waters of two salty lakes in East Africa: Lake Natron in northern Tanzania and Lake Magadi in southern Kenya.

How NASA Keeps Ingenuity Going After More than 50 Flights

More information is always better when it comes to publicly funded space exploration projects. So it’s welcome when a NASA engineer takes time out of the assuredly busy work lives to provide an update on everyone’s favorite helicopter on Mars. Ingenuity has been having a rough few months, and a new article entitled “The Long Wait,” posted by Travis Brown, Chief Engineer on the Ingenuity project, on NASA’s website, provides a good amount of detail as to why.

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The First Color Pictures From Euclid

Many a space enthusiast first became interested in the topic when they saw some astounding picture taken by one of the world’s great telescopes and began to get a sense of scale of the universe. This author personally remembers the first time he saw Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field – arguably the image that has changed his life more than any other. Given the massive size of the universe, there are always more incredible pictures to be taken, and now humanity has a new tool for that task. Euclid, the European Space Agency’s dark matter/energy hunter, has released its first set of images – and they are absolutely mesmerizing.

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There are Ideal Orbits for Space-Based Interferometers

Ever since the telescope was invented in 1608, astronomers have striven for bigger and better telescopes. When it comes to instruments to observe the sky, bigger really is better whether you are observing faint galaxies or planets a larger collector gives higher resolution and brighter images. A paper recently published looks into different kinds of orbits around Earth which support multiple telescope systems known as interferometers at different orbits.

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Save $100 on the Nikon Z5 in this Black Friday mirrorless camera deal

Amazon has slashed $100 off the price of the Nikon Z5, a fantastic full-frame mirrorless camera.


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