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Happy Friday, space fans
And Happy Halloweekend! 'Tis the season for scares, and we're starting off with an exoplanet investigation by JWST that revealed a world so hellishly hot there is no chance that any life could survive its scorching temperatures. Speaking of Halloween, new Hubble and JWST images reveal new, ghoulish looks at the haunting Cat's Head Nebula, complete with the cat's glowing red "eye." Sadly, I'm ending on a devastating note as yesterday, we learned of the passing of Patrick Stewart, an iconic actor whose work performing the role of Captain Jean Luc Picard will forever leave an imprint on all of us.
Check out what's going on in space below:
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Patrick Stewart, the distinguished British actor of stage and screen, passed away Wednesday (Oct. 28) in Los Angeles at the age of 86.
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Early risers across the U.S. could catch a glimpse of China's mysterious Shenlong spacecraft with the naked eye.
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Virgin Galactic's first "Delta-class" space plane, the newly named Apeiron, lifted off for the first time on Thursday (Oct. 29) — beneath the wings of its carrier aircraft.
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Two zombie exoplanets that rose from the grave to shuffle through the gory remains of their fellow planets may just agree with these immortal words from horror maestro Stephen King.
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Just in time for Halloween, we have new, ghostly views of the Cat's Eye Nebula haunting the outer reaches of the cosmos.
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The Voorhees legend continues in Crystal Lake, but Jason X remains the Citizen Kane of this franchise.
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And that's it for our space update today.
I hope that you have a space-y, spooky Halloween weekend. Do you have any space-related Halloween costumes planned? Will you look up and try to spot a Halloween fireball? If you have any space-y fun this Halloween, as always, we'd love to hear about it. And, of course, we will be spending a great deal of this weekend rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation and Picard, reminiscing about the many amazing years we got to share this Earth with the incomparable Patrick Stewart.
Looking into the near future, NASA will debut their new air show Max Power, which Space.com will be reporting live from in Florida. And soon after, SpaceX will conduct its next test flight for Starship. This 15th test flight will be a critical next step toward the vehicle's role in NASA's Artemis III mission. And if all goes according to plan, Starship could be a major part of future crewed lunar landings. But we will have to wait and see. To follow closely along and stay up to date with all things space, you can now get Space.com right in the palm of your hand with our new app available now on iOS and Android.
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Chelsea Gohd
Content Manager, Space.com
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