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Tomato lost in space for 8 months in orbit found at last

Tomato lost in space for 8 months on ISS found at last | Satellites watch Japan's new volcanic island grow | After 25 years, NASA preps for the end of ISS

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December 7, 2023

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Tomato lost in space for 8 months on ISS found at last

(NASA)

Let's start off with a space story that bears fruit ... literally. Astronauts on the International Space Station have found a tomato that's been lost for eight months, finally solving a mystery spawned by a past crewmember.
"Our good friend Frank Rubio ... has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato, but we can exonerate him," the ISS crew says.

Full Story: Space (12/6)

Satellites watch Japan's new volcanic island grow

(ESA/USGS)

A new image taken from space shows that an island forged in volcanic fire on the Pacific Seas off Japan at the end of Oct. 2023 is still rising from the sea. The new volcanic island, which has been named Niijima - meaning "new island" in Japanese - was imaged by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite on Nov. 27.
The continued growth of the island shows that the underwater volcanic activity that birthed the island off the southern coast of Iwo Jima is continuing.

Full Story: Space (12/6)

After 25 years, NASA preps for the end of ISS

(NASA)

The space station turned 25 years old on Dec. 6, and NASA is preparing for the pioneering outpost's end. The agency just celebrated the milestone mission that docked the first two International Space Station modules in 1998. In the runup to that event, NASA updated its private proposal request to help deorbit the station when it retires in 2030 or so.

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Spaceflight

NASA astronaut will celebrate Hanukkah in space

(NASA)

A NASA astronaut will "light" felt candles to celebrate Hanukkah in space. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli plans to conduct the traditional lighting of the menorah in felt, given that the agency and International Space Station wisely have restrictions against using fire aboard a spacecraft. The lighting will be done during Hanukkah, the Jewish festival which begins at sundown local time on Dec. 7.

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India sets sights on a moon base by 2047

(ISRO)

India is setting long-term goals that could see the country establish its own moon base before 2050. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S. Somanath set out a provisional, integrated roadmap for exploring the moon in a Nov. 28 talk at a symposium organized by the Indian Society of Geomatics and the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. The plan would build on India's recent lunar achievements and progress in human spaceflight ambitions.

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Science & Astronomy

'Extragalactic' intruder may lurk near Milky Way's black hole

(Miyagi University of Education/ NAOJ)

Astronomers may have discovered an extragalactic intruder among stars that orbit the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A* or Sgr A*. The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach our galaxy's monster black hole.

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SpaceX

SpaceX launches its 90th orbital flight of 2023

(SpaceX)

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Dec. 7 in what was it's 90th mission of the year. The Falcon 9 rocket, making its 9th flight, carred 23 new Starlink satellites into orbit.

Full Story: Space (12/6)

Search for Life

Could we detect life signs from Saturn moon Enceladus?

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus seem to be the tendrils of a vast subsurface ocean — and have scientists curious if their fluid might carry life signs, organic molecules. But if scientists want to study those organic molecules, they'll need to find a careful way of collecting them without destroying them.

Full Story: Space (12/7)