by rmil2k | May 13, 2024 | News
In February 2022, SpaceX and entrepreneur/philanthropist Jared Isaacman (commander of the Inspiration4 mission) announced they were launching a new program to “rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities” while supporting important charitable and humanitarian...
by rmil2k | May 13, 2024 | News
The effects of space weather extend out across our entire Solar System, but this is a simulation of where everything starts: the sudden, violent, emergence of a ‘flux rope’ out of the Sun’s magnetic field and into the solar wind. In the process flux ropes may bring...
by rmil2k | May 12, 2024 | News
SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink satellites tonight (May 12), adding to its huge and ever-growing broadband megaconstellation.A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force...
by rmil2k | May 12, 2024 | News
There’s a major planetary lineup coming to the early-morning sky, with the Moon joining in several times next month. And things are already getting started — you can go out for yourself and see tomorrow morning. First, though, let’s look at why such lineups occur. If...
by rmil2k | May 12, 2024 | News
Supermassive black holes are central to the dynamics and evolution of galaxies. They play a role in galactic formation, stellar production, and possibly even the clustering of dark matter. Almost every galaxy has a supermassive black hole, which can make up a small...
