Friday, November 18, 2022

Artemis 1: NASA Sends World’s Most Powerful Rocket to the Moon

11/18/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Artemis 1: NASA sends world's most powerful rocket to the Moon 
NASA/Bill Ingalls

After many delays, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) has successfully launched, sending a crew-rated capsule on its way to lunar orbit.

Saturn's moon Enceladus may be more habitable than we thought
NASA/JPL-Caltech

New research suggests the subsurface soda ocean on Saturn's moon could increase the availability of phosphorus — a key ingredient for life as we know it.

Hubble gazes through a cosmic keyhole
ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO, K. Noll

The foggy nebula around a newborn star features a mysterious void.

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If you could shrink down to the size of an atom, what would you see?
Nivens/Shutterstock

While the quantum world is all around us, experiencing this strange realm is difficult for humans.

6" Percival Lowell Mars Globe 
Ask Astro: Why do colliding spiral galaxies form elliptical galaxies?
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University), K. Noll (STScI), and J. Westphal (Caltech)

Why do two colliding spiral galaxies form an elliptical galaxy rather than one larger spiral galaxy?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
Jürgen Mangelsdorf (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The eclipse's edge
Soumyadeep Mukherjee from Kolkata, India

The shadow of Earth falls across the Moon in this high dynamic range image of the Nov. 7/8 total lunar eclipse. The image combines two stacks of exposures with a 600mm lens: 1/100 of a second at f/6.3 and ISO 800 (24-frame stack) and 10 seconds at f/6.3 and ISO 800 (6-frame stack).

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