 | | Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version | | | |  Happy Monday, Space Fans! We may have missed Valentine's Day, but the sun didn't forget and will give the Earth a dazzling show on Feb. 17 with an annular "Ring of Fire" solar eclipse. So we'll kick today off with a great guide on what time the eclipse will begin from our own Daisy Dobrijevic. Once you get your eclipse fix, see what else we're tracking. Like how SpaceX shared the love with the ISS in a Valentine's Day docking, a weird 'sun goddess' particle and some awesome new Star Wars Lego sets for the new Mandalorian movie and more! Keep looking up! Tariq Malik Editor-in-Chief, Space.com | | |   | | (Created in Canva Pro/Future) | Did you know? Every eclipse is part of a predictable pattern — and they almost always arrive in pairs during a short and recurring window known as an eclipse season. As we prepare for tomorrow's eclipse, here's why it's the start of a cosmic twofer. | | | | | | By the way, we'll have live updates on the solar eclipse as it happens here, so don't miss out! | |  | | (Photo by SADIQ ASYRAF/AFP via Getty Images) | Wondering exactly how the solar eclipse will happen on Feb. 17? We've got you covered with this explainer of all the stages. | | |  | | (NASA) | It's always great to make a connection on Valentine's Day, even in space. And that's what happened at the International Space Station over the weekend when SpaceX's Dragon Freedom ferried four astronauts to the orbiting lab! Here's how it happened. | | |  | | (Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige) | In 2021, scientists detected Ameratsu, the "sun goddess" particle, by the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. Now they want to know where it came from. | | |  | | (SpaceX) | Astronauts weren't the only thing SpaceX launched in the last few days. The private space company launched 53 Starlink internet satellites on two Falcon 9 rockets, one from California and the other from Florida, in back-to-back flights! | | |  | | (MGM) | We'll move now from space fact to scienc efiction, as Amazon's plans for a new "Stargate" show has us excited, but a bit confused. Be sure to lock in your chevrons for this one. | | |  | | (Lego) | And from a galaxy far, far away, Lego is definitely excited for the new Star Wars Mandalorian and Grogu movie and has 5 new sets to prove it. These new sets, announced over the weekend, include a new Razor Crest! What? | | |  | | (ESO/G. Vecchia) | This new photo reveals how construction is progressing on the Extremely Large Telescope's 80-meter-tall (260-foot) protective dome in Chile, which will one day host a 39-m (128-ft) concave primary mirror four times larger than anything ever built. | |  | | (NASA) | We'll end today's dispatch with look back to Feb. 16, 1948. It was on that day that Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper found a new moon around Uranus (no jokes, please). See how Miranda was found. | | | | 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 | | | | |
