While many of us on Earth were craning our necks, trying to get a glimpse of the so-called "Christmas Star" earlier this week, a robotic spacecraft orbiting the moon was able to swing its camera around for an out-of-this-world photo of the celestial event.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) got a photo of "The Great Conjunction," which is when the big gas planets of Jupiter and Saturn get so close in the sky they appear to meld into one bright object from far away. A similar planetary conjunction may have been what gave rise to the phenomenon of what some call The Star of Bethlehem or The Christmas Star.
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NASA probe snaps 'great conjunction' photo of Jupiter and Saturn from the moon | Space
A moon-orbiting probe got a stunning up-close view of the " great conjunction " of Jupiter and Saturn from Earth's rocky satellite.
Monday (Dec. 21), Jupiter and Saturn appeared closer in the night sky than they had in about 800 years during what's known as a "great conjunction." People all around the globe watched and photographed the planets, which looked almost like a single, bright "star" in the sky. However, us Earthlings weren't the only ones who got a celestial show.
Santa Claus snags FAA license for commercial mission to space station | Space
In May, SpaceX became the first company ever to launch astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). That mission, a test flight known as Demo-2 , sent NASA's Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the orbiting lab for a two-month stay.
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Then, last month, Elon Musk's company launched Crew-1 , its first operational astronaut mission to the station under a $2.6 billion contract with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Crew-1 carried four spaceflyers — NASA's Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japan's Soichi Noguchi — to the ISS for a regular six-month stint.
Manifestation Magic Reviews - Alexander Wilson Music Audio App v2.0 Does It Work?
Manifestation Magic is a collection of audio and eBook files that show people the energy orbiting process. For some users, it might, at first, be overwhelming. However, energy orbiting is a mechanism that causes frequencies in brainwave training to change negative perspectives. Although an individual might believe that the whole world is often distressed, Alexander says that the biggest problem is in their heads.
Manifestation Magic features audio files that enable users to create positive energy in the frequency. Yeah, users are not only going to get positive energy but infuse it into people around them.
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NASA concerned about space's growing trash problem
2020 has been a banner year for the space industry with a record number of 31 launches from Kennedy Space Center and five more in Virginia and California.
With more stuff going to space, there's also more trash in space -- nearly 6,000 tons -- and it's becoming a major problem.
NASA says low-Earth orbit is a space junk yard filled with millions of pieces of rockets, spacecraft and satellites flying at speeds up to 18,000 miles per hour – almost seven times faster than a bullet.
Space weather in Proxima's vicinity dims hopes of habitable worlds | Space | EarthSky
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The researchers published their peer-reviewed findings in The Astronomical Journal on December 9, 2020.
Hubble Space Telescope image of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the sun. Read more about this image . Image via ESA/ Hubble/ NASA.
These astronomers worked with CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder ( ASKAP ) telescope in Western Australia and the Zadko Telescope at the University of Western Australia, as well as other instruments. Tara Murphy of the University of Sydney helped lead the study.
Today in history: Dec. 24 | National News | dailyprogress.com
The Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve telecast, a nd more events that happened on this day in history.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe as part of Operation Overlord.
In 1980, Americans remembered the U.S. hostages in Iran by burning candles or shining lights for 417 seconds — one second for each day of captivity.
Galactic Bromance: This Heavenly Duo Travel The Universe Together, Unbound By Any Star | Science
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