March 29, 2024

Blue Origin Explosion, CAPSTONE Problems, Space Diamonds

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Uh oh, NASAs CAPSTONE objective is having issues, A New Shepard Flight stops working, Betelgeuse was recently yellow, and naturally, another incredible new image from Webb.

CAPSTONE Missions Has More Problems

NASA CAPSTONE objective experienced problems throughout a course correction manoeuvre. NASA was able to put CAPSTONE into safe mode.

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Blue Origins New Shepard flight NS-23 ended up suddenly. It suffered an in-flight abnormality with the booster. Simply around Max Q point, there showed up changes to the exhaust. After that, the escape system on the capsule began and carried it far from the booster. The flight was uncrewed, so nobody was injured. But it is fascinating how the occurrence will affect the area tourist service of Blue Origin.
More about the New Shepard explosion.
Betelgeuse Was Yellow, Not Red, Just 2000 Years Ago

If youve invested time checking out a telescope, youre familiar with the Orion Nebula. Itll be among the first astrophotography images you take. This huge star-forming complex is right next door, astronomically speaking, filled with countless recently forming stars. Every space telescope and ground observatory has recorded photons from the Orion Nebula, and now its Webbs turn. Obviously, the magnificent James Webb Space Telescope didnt disappoint with its analysis of the Orion Nebula, revealing formerly hidden stars shrouded in clouds of gas and dust and seeing through thick nebulosity to show its subtle functions.
More about the Orion Nebula by JWST.
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Astronomers were fortunate to enjoy as an enormous coronal mass ejection from the Sun struck the European Space Agencys Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The storm passed Venus just as the spacecraft used the world for a gravitational help maneuver.
More about Solar Orbiter.
Wow! Super-Detailed Images of the Sun

Blue Origins New Shepard flight NS-23 ended up suddenly. It is interesting how the event will affect the space tourist business of Blue Origin.
Astronomers were fortunate to watch as a huge coronal mass ejection from the Sun struck the European Space Agencys Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Every space telescope and ground observatory has captured photons from the Orion Nebula, and now its Webbs turn. Of course, the magnificent James Webb Space Telescope didnt disappoint with its analysis of the Orion Nebula, exposing previously hidden stars shrouded in clouds of gas and dust and seeing through thick nebulosity to show its subtle functions.

This week we have an incredible image of the Sun by the Daniel K. Inouye solar telescope in Haleakala in Maui. Even on a scale of simply our Solar System.
More about insane Sun images.
Conventional Webb Treat for Desert

More about CAPSTONE.
Blue Origin Had an Anomaly in Flight

Planetary researchers believe the conditions are so severe inside Uranus and Neptune that it rains diamonds. The extreme temperature and pressure glue carbon atoms together into diamonds. These get heavy and fall into the planets interiors, where the increasing temperatures melt them into particles again and rise closer to the surface area. Now scientists have recreated the conditions inside these worlds in the lab, creating diamonds for a split second.
More about diamond rain.
Solar Orbiter Hit By a Coronal Mass Ejection

We understand that Betelgeuse is a rather unique star. They found points out of Betelgeuse in historic documents dating back to 2000 years ago. Which gives a strong hint about Betelgeuses age and advancement.
More about Betelgeuse changing colour.
Raining Space Diamonds. In A Lab