 | | Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version | | | |  | Big test under way for Artemis 2 moonshot | | |  | | (NASA/Jim Ross) | You shouldn't necessarily expect everything to go smoothly today. Fueling up a giant rocket is a tricky operation, after all — especially when one of the propellants is liquid hydrogen, whose constituent molecules are tiny. | |  | | (X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/Á Bogdán; JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/P. Edmonds and L. Frattare) | Scientists have observed the most distant and thus earliest galaxy cluster ever seen coming together. The infant cluster, or protocluster, was assembling itself just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. | | |  | February's full "Snow Moon" has risen, dazzling stargazers with an incredible performance as it climbed over the eastern horizon below the stars of the constellation Leo. Read on to see spectacular photos. | |  | | (serikbaib/Getty Images) | Groundhog Day is today, but it wasn't always this way. It used to be Candlemas, my friends... | | |  | | (Time Magazine) | The Artemis 2 feature, entitled "Back to the Moon," delivers engaging context and provides contrasts and comparisons to Apollo 8. That 1968 NASA mission was the first crewed flight to orbit the moon and return safely, and helped pave the way for Apollo 11's lunar landing in July 1969. | | |  | | (NSF/ AUI/ NSF NRAO/ B.Foott) | Arp 220, located about 250 million light-years from Earth, is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy (meaning it shines as bright as one hundred or more Milky Way galaxies) formed by the ongoing merger of two spiral galaxies. Here's what its discovery means. | | |  | | (NASA/SpaceX) | SpaceX needs to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station to replace those brought home in a medical evacuation, but when the Crew-12 launch will fly depends on when NASA's historic Artemis 2 moonshot gets off the ground. | | |  | | (Kim Snaith) | If you've ever wanted a droid of your own, but can't visit a galaxy far, far away, you're in luck. We got our hands on this Lego BB-8 kit and have a full review to see if it's strong in the Force or falls to the Dark Side. | | |  | | (PNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks) | Arizona skywatchers got more when they bargained when a comet photobomped a beautiful sunset. Learn more aout this stunning Kitt peak observatory photo here. | |  | | (National Museum of the U.S. Air Force) | For today's space history minute, we look way back to the heyday of the Space Race when the U.S. Air Force launched a top-secret spy satellite called Keyhole 7-36, or KH-7 for short. Take a look! | | | | Stay up-to-date on all things space science, news, and entertainment by subscribing to our newsletters. | |  | | | | | | | Future US LLC © | | Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 | | | | |
