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Hubble Space Telescope Black Hole Star Donut
Another day, another perplexing Hubble Space Telescope observation. This time, the space telescope observed a star’s final moments, classified as AT2022dsb, in which it passes near a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy. Its outer gasses are then pulled into the black hole’s gravitational field and shredded as tidal forces pull it apart.

Zero-G Indicator Snoopy Astronaut NASA Artemis I Mission
Photo credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
ESA has Shaun the Sheep for their missions, while NASA’s Snoopy astronaut plush has just returned from the Artemis I mission. This zero-gravity indicator flew aboard Orion after being unpacked from his specially designed transport case. The beagle was secured inside Orion during the journey to the Moon and back to prepare for crewed missions.

James Webb Space Telescope Dusty Ribbons NGC 346
Another day, another incredible James Webb Space Telescope image, and this time, we see the star forming dusty ribbons in dwarf galaxy NGC 346. This dynamic region is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) around 200,000 light-years from Earth. It was of particular interest due to the conditions and amount of metals withing the SMC that resemble those seen in galaxies billions of years ago.

NASA James Webb Space Telescope First Exoplanet LHS 475b
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and confirmed its first exoplanet, a rocky Earth-sized world that orbits another star, classified as LHS 475 b. This planet measures in at 99% of Earth’s diameter and is a few hundred degrees warmer than Earth, so if clouds are detected, it could be more like Venus, which has a carbon dioxide atmosphere.

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO 133 Day Time-Lapse sun
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) didn’t capture a fiery slithering snake, but it did image the Sun in 4K over 133 days. Researchers then compiled the images into an amazing time-lapse video captured with various instruments aboard the SDO spacecraft, including the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), which takes images every 12 seconds at 10 different wavelengths of light.

NASA Earth Image NOAA-21 VIIRS Instrument Satellite
Lincoln Laboratory’s TerraByte Infrared Delivery System will beam data at 100Gbps, while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s NOAA-21 satellite uses its Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) to capture global visible and infrared observations of land, ocean, as well as atmosphere parameters at high temporal resolution. It began collecting data on December 5th as it passed over the East Coast of the United States and transmitted the first images of Earth.