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The Boeing Starliner capsule that will fly the company’s Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2023. (Image credit: Boeing/John Grant)
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Earth, as seen from nearly a million miles away by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. (Image credit: NASA)
Read More About NASA's efforts to study our planet.
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If you are an early riser in the hours before dawn and live in a dark sky area, you may have seen a bright band of light in the South East sky. That is the center of our Milky Way Galaxy rising.
As the coming months lead to August, the Milky Way will rise in the South East earlier and earlier until it becomes visible as it gets dark.
Read more about our galaxy and where we are located within it.
I will be at sea soon away from the lights of land with the Milky Way easily visible. I hope to get pics to share with you.
Sky Guy in VA
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An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle.
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NASA will evaluate and select the new LTV and "NASA will acquire the LTV as a service from industry. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, milestone-based Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract with firm-fixed-price task orders has a combined maximum potential value of $4.6 billion for all awards."
Japan's space agency JAXA and NASA have signed an agreement to carry NASA astronauts aboard JAXA's new "Lunar Cruiser" that is being developed by JAXA and Toyota.
Exciting times for lunar exploration....
Sky Guy in VA
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Get all the information on this exciting discovery.
There will be more black holes found, that is for sure!
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new downloadable e-book in the Hubble Focus series, called “Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe.” This e-book highlights the mission’s recent discoveries about two mysterious components of our universe, known as dark energy — an unexplained cosmic pressure that’s speeding up the universe’s expansion — and dark matter, an invisible substance detectable only by seeing how it gravitationally influences visible matter.
