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- NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contractby Tiernan P. Doyle on 21 February 2025 at 10:35 pm
NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch Services II
- NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Programby Tiernan P. Doyle on 21 February 2025 at 9:32 pm
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. The award made under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract,
- Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscapeby Monika Luabeya on 21 February 2025 at 8:36 pm
The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Tarantula Nebula is the most productive star-forming region in the nearby universe, home to the
- NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Next Commercial Moon Launchby Roxana Bardan on 21 February 2025 at 8:22 pm
Carrying NASA science and technology to the Moon as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission is targeted to launch no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26. The mission will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s
- NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Stationby Briana R. Zamora on 21 February 2025 at 7:43 pm
NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture.
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- Omegon’s Advanced X N 152mm Dobsonianby Steve Ringwood on 13 February 2025 at 11:09 am
A new series of Dobsonians are now available from Omegon. Steve Ringwood took the 152mm-aperture model for a spin, and found that as an all-rounder, it handled expertly.
- Euclid Unveils a Breathtaking Einstein Ringby Astronomy Now on 13 February 2025 at 8:38 am
The ESA’s Euclid telescope captured a stunning Einstein ring around NGC 6505’s core, formed as the galaxy bends and magnifies light from a distant background galaxy through gravitational lensing.
- The Sun’s magnetic field is about to flipby Astronomy Now on 11 February 2025 at 12:18 pm
The Sun’s magnetic field flips every 11 years, marking solar maximum, its most active phase, with intensified solar events, unlike Earth’s relatively stable magnetic field.
- Globular NGC 2419 is far out!by Mark Armstrong on 11 February 2025 at 11:30 am
NGC 2419 appears as a faint globular cluster in Lynx, though in reality it’s a massive and luminous object that’s a distant outlier of our Milky Way Galaxy.
- ‘Half-Goldilocks’ world found going in and out of its habitable zoneby Keith Cooper on 11 February 2025 at 11:14 am
A bizarre exoplanet whose orbit takes it from the frozen wastelands of its planetary system to the inner edge of its habitable zone is challenging astronomers’ concepts of what kinds of planets can potentially support life.