Launches: Surprise rollout for Artemis 1

Home

/

Launches: Surprise rollout for Artemis 1

August 16, 2022 Launches blog update. NASA announced on August 15 that Artemis 1 would be rolled to the launch pad, several days ahead of schedule.

Dave Adalian

August 16, 2022

Jupiter and the moon, August 16, 17 and 18 mornings

Jupiter and the moon grow farther apart in the sky as the moon's lit face shrinks in size. Watch the moon recede from Jupiter on August 16, 17 and 18, 2022.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

August 16, 2022

Freya the walrus killed, social media erupts

Freya, a young female walrus, had been lounging in the sun in an Oslo, Norway fjord for weeks. But, on August 14, Norway's fisheries directorate killed her.

Deborah Byrd

August 15, 2022

EarthSky’s Launches blog has moved

Launches blog for August 23: NASA tweets that Artemis 1 is still slated for launch August 29 ... And gives the nod to a private space station concept.

Dave Adalian

August 15, 2022

Moon near Jupiter, August 14 and 15 mornings

Catch the waning gibbous moon near Jupiter on the mornings of August 14 and 15, 2022. If you have binoculars, look for Jupiter's Galilean moons.

Marcy Curran

August 13, 2022

Did giant meteorite impacts create the continents?

Scientists studying the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia have found evidence that the continents got their start from giant meteorite impacts.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

August 12, 2022

Saturn and Jupiter frame the moon, August 12

Catch the waning gibbous moon between Saturn and Jupiter overnight on August 12-13, 2022. You can see the trio all night until dawn brightens the sky.

Marcy Curran

August 12, 2022

Wow! See a galactic collision in stunning detail

Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have captured a stunning new image of a galactic collision of 2 galaxies 60 million light-years away.

Paul Scott Anderson

August 12, 2022