• More Files to be Released, But This Time it’s UFOs

    Preview in new tab Not to be outdone by former president Obama, who let it slip that he believes in UFOs, President Trump is now promising to release all of those hidden UFO files. Of course, this is likely just another distraction from the Epstein files, which are currently causing the defenestration of top political…

  • Pic of the Week: A Protostar in the Cepheus A Region

    This week’s image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows the star-forming region Cepheus A in the constellation of Cepheus. This region is about 2,400 light-years away. Here is more from NASA about this region: The high-mass star-forming region Cepheus A hosts a collection of baby stars, including one large and luminous protostar,…

  • Movie: In the Blink of an Eye

    On February 27th, a new movie called In the Blink of an Eye premieres on Hulu. It sounds like an interesting story told in three parts over thousands of years from primitive human life all the way to travel to a new planet. You can see the outline for yourself in this trailer. While I…

  • More Satellites Planned by Iran

    Just as we deal with more and more satellites from SpaceX, Amazon, Europe, and the Chinese, creating an increasing amount of orbital pollution, we now have to contemplate Iran adding thousands more satellites to this number. According to the Tehran Times, Iran is looking to create its own internet satellite system similar to Starlink. Hassan…

  • Space Stories: NASA Probes the Northern Lights, India Announces New Telescopes, and Titan May Be a Moon Merger

    Here are some recent space-related stories of interest. —Space.com “NASA Launches Twin Rocket Missions from Alaska to Study Mysterious Black Auroras“ NASA launched two rockets from Alaska this week to learn more about the electrical “circuitry” within auroras, the colorful light shows that occur when solar wind collides with Earth’s atmosphere. The missions saw two suborbital…

  • Space Quote: An Odd Solar System

    “The paradigm of planet formation is that we have rocky inner planets very close to the stars, like in our solar system…This is the first time in which we have a rocky planet so far away from its host star, and after these gas-rich planets.” -Statement by Thomas Wilson, an assistant professor in the department…

  • Carnegie Astronomy Lecture Series

    If you are stuck inside with the winter weather and looking for something to do, you can either head to sunny California to attend the March Carnegie Astronomy Lectures Series at The Huntington in San Marino or watch them on YouTube. This will be a series of four lectures. On March 2nd, the first lecture…

  • Launch of Crew-12 to ISS Goes Without a Hitch

    The International Space Station’s (ISS) Crew-12 is safely on its way. As NASA Administrator Isaacman noted: With Crew-12 safely on orbit, America and our international partners once again demonstrated the professionalism, preparation, and teamwork required for human spaceflight. The launch carried NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot,…

  • Pic of the Week: Another View of the Milky Way

    The image above was released late last year. It shows the Milky Way galaxy in radio-color captured by astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). All of this was part of the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) and GLEAM-X (GLEAM eXtended) surveys conducted over 28 nights in 2013 and 2014 as…

  • When is the Next Starship Launch?

    Mr. Musk seems to move like a weather vane regarding where SpaceX is going next, but whether SpaceX is heading for the Moon or Mars it still needs a functioning Starship. First the confusion. For all of Musk’s ongoing criticism of a Moon mission, it appears he is finally focusing on Artemis III. On Sunday,…