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This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 25 – December 4

While the Jupiter-Saturn-Venus line keeps shrinking, all kinds of deep-sky sights, naked-eye to telescopic, show themselves on these moonless evenings.

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“Incident” that Occurred During Loading Pushes the Webb Launch Date to Dec. 22nd

At Europe’s Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana, technicians are busy getting the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ready for launch. The observatory arrived at the facility on Oct. 12th and was placed inside the upper stage of the Ariane 5 rocket that will carry it to space on Nov. 11th. The upper stage was then hoisted high above the core stage and boosters so that a team of engineers could integrate them.

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Mother and Daughter Win Tickets for Suborbital Space Ride With Virgin Galactic

A wellness coach from Antigua and her daughter are getting tickets for a suborbital space trip, thanks to the latest in a line of out-of-this-world sweepstakes going back 20 years. And although not a single spaceflight sweepstakes winner has flown yet, there’s still significant value to such contests, financially and otherwise.

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Space-themed board game Terraforming Mars and its expansion sets are now on sale for Black Friday

Snag up a popular spacefaring game and five of its expansion boards now on sale and get savings as high as 33% this week ahead of Black Friday.

Microsoft's Halo 5: Guardians is a stellar 50% off for Xbox One with this Black Friday deal

Microsoft's Halo 5: Guardians, the prequel to the upcoming Halo Infinite, is 50% off for Black Friday

Save $20 on a Celestron FireCel Plus hand-warmer combo this Black Friday for those cold stargazing nights

Celestron's FireCel Plus hand-warmer/flashlight/charger combo is 39% off right now, saving you over $20 at Amazon for Black Friday.

These 'Star Trek' Black Friday deals are highly logical

Tractor-beam Trekkie merch before it warps away.

This NASA-inspired Apollo board game is now 50% off for Black Friday

This NASA-inspired board game is now 50% off at Target.

Did Cosmic Dust Deliver the Phosphorus Needed for Life?

Without phosphorus, there’s no life. It’s a necessary part of DNA, RNA, and other biological molecules like ATP, which helps cells transport energy. But any phosphorus that was present when Earth formed would’ve been sequestered in the center of the molten planet.

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NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars just snagged its newest rock sample (photos)

Perseverance just snagged its fourth Red Planet sample, drilling another core from an intriguing rock that it sampled a little over a week ago.

This Lego Star Wars Poe Dameron's X-Wing Fighter is 20% off for Black Friday

The spaceship is dropping in price weeks before new "Star Wars" content comes to Disney Plus.

Lego Creator 3-in-1 Space Mining Mech building kit is 20% off for Black Friday

This buildable figure not only mines strange new worlds, but also fights interplanetary battles.

Virgin Galactic announces winner of free trip to suborbital space

Keisha S., a health and energy coach from the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, just won a free trip to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic.

Thanksgiving night sky 2021: 3 planets and more shine on Thursday!

Have a star party and introduce your guests to the night sky to make this year's Thanksgiving stand out.

China boosts Earth-observation abilities with 2 Gaofen satellite launches

China continued its record-breaking year of launches by sending two satellites into orbit in recent days.

Hubble telescope sees a space 'snowman' thousands of light-years away

A new release from the Hubble telescope's vast archive shares an incredible space "snowman" filled with glowing gas.

Black Friday space board game deals: Save up to 66% on space and sci-fi board games

Several retailers are offering Black Friday space board game deals.

Black Friday laptop deal: Save big on Macbook Air and Dell XPS 13 - both ideal of editing your astrophotography snaps

Save $150 on the Macbook Air and $320 on the Dell XPS 13 in the Black Friday sales - two amazing photo editing laptops.

Early Black Friday deal: save over 50% on Celestron's 114AZ-SR telescope

Celestron's beginner-friendly 114AZ-SR model has been reduced to just $84.99.


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