WOW OH WOW WEBB! LOOK AT THIS JWST PIC!!!

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FROM NASA:

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These observations show the top of the "horse's mane" or edge of this iconic nebula in a whole new light, capturing the region’s complexity with unprecedented spatial resolution.

Webb’s new images show part of the sky in the constellation Orion (The Hunter), in the western side of a dense region known as the Orion B molecular cloud. Rising from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33, which resides roughly 1,300 light-years away. 

Get full details here.

This latest WEBB pic is incredible. Here is my pic of the Horsehead Nebula taken in visible light with my @Unistellar eV2 scope.

Credit: Greg Redfern Unistellar eV2 scope

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Near-Earth asteroid was blasted from a crater on the moon, study finds

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Meet the lunar crater Giordano Bruno. It’s 13 miles (21 km) wide and located on the moon’s far side. This mosaic image of the crater is from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC)/ NASA/ GSFC/ Arizona State University.

Get the low down on a piece of the Moon that became a Near-Earth Asteroid.

There have to be pieces of the Earth that are asteroids too as well as "meteorites on the Moon from Earth".  Why? Because our planet has had impact craters that blasted LOTS of material out into space.

Future astronauts and space missions to the Moon and Asteroid Belt will discover these ancient Earthroids (my term).

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BOEING STARLINER CLEARED FOR MAY 6 LAUNCH

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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)

Mark your calendars for May 6, 10:34 PM EDT to tune in for the scheduled launch from Kennedy Space Center.

More details here  and here.

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FULL PINK MOON TONIGHT

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HAPPY EARTH DAY 2024

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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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WHERE ARE WE IN OUR MILKY WAY GALAXY?

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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

NASA PICKS 3 COMPANIES TO ADVANCE MOON MOBILITY FOR ASTRONAUTS

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An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle.

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NASA has selected three companies to develop plans for the new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for Artemis astronauts. 

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....

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