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NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon

'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli launching on Blue Origin NS-28 | Space Quiz! Which of these is closest to the Milky Way galaxy? | SpaceX and Blue Origin picked to deliver rover, lunar habitat

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November 22, 2024

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The Launchpad

'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli launching on Blue Origin NS-28

(Emily Calandrelli)

Blue Origin will launch its ninth space tourism flight on this morning. The mission, NS-28, is scheduled to lift off during a window that opens today at 10:30 a.m. The six-person crew includes Emily Calandrelli, an MIT-educated engineer, best-selling author and science communicator who hosted the Netflix show "Emily's Wonder Lab," as well as "Emily's Science Lab" on YouTube.

Full Story: Space (11/21)

Space Quiz! Which of these is closest to the Milky Way galaxy?

Learn the answer here!

Large Magellanic Cloud

Andromeda Galaxy

Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Carina dwarf galaxy

SpaceX and Blue Origin picked to deliver rover, lunar habitat

(SpaceX/Blue Origin)

NASA is keeping its foot on the gas for the space agency's Artemis program, announcing plans to assign demonstration missions for the two vehicles it has picked to land astronauts on the moon.

Full Story: Space (11/21)

Skywatching

Night sky, November 22, 2024: What you can see tonight?

(Chris Vaughan/Starry Night)

The northeastern sky on November evenings hosts the bright constellations of Perseus and W-shaped Cassiopeia, with the very bright star Capella positioned well below them. The sky between Perseus and Cassiopeia hosts the Double Cluster, a pair of bright open star clusters that together cover a finger's width of the sky. They make a spectacular sight in binoculars (orange circle) or a telescope at low magnification.

Full Story: Space (11/22)

Spaceflight

SpaceX shows Starship in new Artemis mission images

(SpaceX)

SpaceX and NASA have released new artwork detailing how the company's Starship rocket might ferry Artemis astronauts to the surface of the moon. The renders show a variety of maneuvers and steps that SpaceX's reusable Starship vehicle will be required to perform as part of NASA's current plan for the Artemis 3 moon mission, currently slated for no earlier than 2026.

Full Story: Space (11/21)

Science & Astronomy

Star imaged in detail outside the Milky Way for the 1st time

(ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.)

Astronomers have captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time. The team brought the vast red supergiant star designated WOH G64 into focus using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). WOH G64 is located a staggering 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite dwarf galaxy companion of the Milky Way. Astronomers have known of the existence of this star for some time, and it has earned the nickname the "behemoth star" because it is an incredible 2,000 times the size of the sun.

Full Story: Space (11/21)

SpaceX

SpaceX's 6th Starship launch looked amazing from the ISS

(NASA / Don Pettit)

SpaceX's monstrous, 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship rocket launched Tuesday evening (Nov. 19), lifting off from SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). The spectacle was watched by tens of thousands in surrounding cities and towns, streamed by millions, and witnessed by a few astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Full Story: Space (11/21)

Telescopes & Binoculars

$500 off our top-rated smart telescope: Unistellar eQuinox 2

(Future)

With Black Friday almost upon us, new deals are landing daily now and this is an excellent offer that gives 20% off the impressive Unistellar eQuinox 2 telescope. The eQuinox 2 is our top-rated smart telescope and it's now available with a $500 saving which reduces the price from $2499 to $1999. There have been a couple of brief flash sales when the Equinox 2 has been cheaper for a few days, but otherwise, this deal matches the best offer prices seen this year.

Full Story: Space (11/20)