NASA supercomputer finds giant spiral structure in Oort Cloud

Private moon lander launches with NASA Lunar Trailblazer | NASA supercomputer finds giant spiral in Oort Cloud | Katy Perry is going to space! Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com |  Web Version February 27, 2025 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE The Launchpad (Space.com / Josh Dinner) Private moon lander launches with NASA Lunar Trailblazer Hey, Space Fans! It's officially "Moon-day" with SpaceX's successfully launch of a new private moon lander for Intuitive Machines. But there's more to this mission than just one moon probe. A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Athena, Intuitive Machines' 2nd moon lander, last night alongside a small hopping robot, a tiny commercial lunar lander and NASA's Lunar Trailblazer to seek out moon water. Plus, Astroforge's Odin asteroid recon probe and an Epic Aerospace orbital tug. Check it out. Read More (Robert Lea (created with Canva)) NASA supercomputer finds giant spiral in Oort Cloud The moon may be close to home, astronomically speaking, but things get weird way out in the Oort Cloud and now we've got proof. A NASA supercomputer has found a vast spiral-shaped structure made of billions of comets at the edge of our solar system that are arranged much like our own Milky Way galaxy! Here's what the simulation found. Read More (Samir Hussein/Getty Images) Katy Perry is going to space! Getting more down to Earth, it turns out that being a superstar is literally out of this world. Katy Perry is headed to space. Blue Origin announced today that Perry is one of six women it will launch on the historic first all-female space crew later this year. Perry and a team of celebrity scientists, journalists and luminaries will lauch this spring on a suborbital New Shepard rocket. Read More Skywatching (Nasa/Getty Images) See Mercury at its best in the night sky We now have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many astronomy guide books refer to as the most difficult of the naked-eye planets to see: Mercury. Now through mid-March, this somewhat overgrown version of the moon will have an evening appearance about as favorable as we ever get. Here's how. Read More Spaceflight (Roscosmos) Russian launching 'birthday candle' to ISS for cosmonaut Speaking of launches, Russia is celebrating one of its own today with the Progress MS-30 mission to the International Space Station. The ship, carrying tons of fresh supplies, is also celebrating the 100th birthday of famed cosmonaut Pavel Belyayev. Find out why. Read More Science & Astronomy (Robert Lea (created with Canva)) James Webb Space Telescope hunts for dark matter The James Webb Space Telescope is barely 4 years into its mission, but scientists are already trying to use it to solve one of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos: What's the deal the dark matter? Read More SpaceX (SpaceX) SpaceX launch delay for Starship Flight 8 SpaceX is on a tear with rocket launches this week, but we're going to have to wait a bit longer for one highly anticipated flight. The company's Starship Flight 8 test mission will now fly no earlier than March 3, that's a 3-day delay. Read More (Space.com / Josh Dinner) Another 21 Starlink satellites fly with SpaceX One thing that wasn't delayed last night was SpaceX's latest Starlink fleet. The company launched 21 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida just hours after a different Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intuitive Machines moon lander in back to back flights! Read More On This Day in Space (Langkawi National Observatory, MYSA/MOSTI) J.S. Hey discovers radio emissions from the sun! On Feb. 27, 1942, a British physicist named James Stanley Hey accidentally found out that the sun emits radio waves. Hey was working for the Army Operational Research Group in the middle of World War II. His job was to find ways to stop the Germans from jamming British radars. Hey received reports that anti-aircraft radars were experiencing severe noise jamming. In other words, foreign radio-frequency signals were interfering with the radars' ability to operate. When he investigated the signals, he realized that they weren't coming from Nazis — they were coming from the sun! More specifically, they were coming from an active sunspot. Read More   Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036