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Launches: Orbital debris studies to receive NASA funding
NASA said this week it intends to fund 3 university-based research proposals over the coming year, on the issue of orbital debris.
Deborah Byrd
September 13, 2022
Launches: Mammoth BlueWalker 3 satellite heads to orbit
AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 communications satellite successfully launched to orbit on September 10, 2022. Astronomers are concerned.
Dave Adalian
September 13, 2022
Webb detects sand clouds for brown dwarf
Webb detects sand clouds in the atmosphere of a star-planet hybrid object known as a brown dwarf. Another 1st! Read why it's important.
Paul Scott Anderson
September 13, 2022
Starlink satellites can look like a plume or train of light
Have you seen a plume of light soaring through the sky? Or maybe a group of bright dots crossing the night sky together? It's probably Starlink.
Lia De La Cruz
September 12, 2022
Planetary heist: Massive stars steal planets
Scientists are explaining why massive stars could have distant, Jupiter-size planets: They might steal them from stellar nurseries in a planetary heist.
Kelly Kizer Whitt
September 8, 2022
Asteroid Juno at its best now, around opposition
Asteroid Juno reached opposition on September 7, 2022. As the full moon wanes early next week, you can try to spot Juno in the darker sky.
Kelly Kizer Whitt
September 8, 2022
Launches: The Owl Spreads Its Wings on September 15
Rocket Lab's next launch - The Owl Spreads Its Wings on September 15, 2022 - will mark several milestones for the aerospace company.
Dave Adalian
September 7, 2022
Tarantula Nebula and baby giant stars in new Webb image
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, revealing stellar nurseries and protostars.
Kelly Kizer Whitt
September 7, 2022
Launches: A new northern spaceport, plus a tracking facility
A private Canadian company will build a new northern spaceport in Nova Scotia. And the U.S. will get a new satellite tracking facility in Alaska.
Dave Adalian
September 6, 2022
Webb directly images its 1st exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its 1st image of an exoplanet, or a world outside our solar system. The planet's name is HIP 65426 b.
EarthSky Voices
September 1, 2022
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