Latest Space Breaking News: DESI releases largest 3D map of the universe to date Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-desi-largest-3d-universe-date.html Summary: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the mysterious driver of our universe's accelerating expansion. Today, the DESI collaboration released a new collection of data for anyone in the world to investigate.

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | SPHEREx & PUNCH 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-03-12T03:10:12Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions involving the birth of the universe, and the subsequent development of galaxies. It also will search for water and organic molecules – essentials for life as we know it – in regions where stars are born from gas and dust, known as stellar nurseries, as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with SPHEREx. It consists of four suitcase-sized satellites, which will focus on the Sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) and how it generates the solar wind. The spacecraft also will track coronal mass ejections – large eruptions of solar material that can drive large space weather events near Earth – to better understand their evolution and develop new techniques for predicting such eruptions. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2025-01-31): The Variable Nebula NGC 2261 The interstellar cloud of dust and gas captured in this sharp telescopic snapshot is seen to change its appearance noticeably over periods as short as a few weeks. Discovered over 200 years ago and cataloged as NGC 2261, bright star R Monocerotis lies at the tip of the fan-shaped nebula. About one light-year across and 2500 light-years away, NGC 2261 was studied early last century by astronomer Edwin Hubble and the mysterious cosmic cloud is now more famous as Hubble's Variable Nebula. So what makes Hubble's nebula vary? NGC 2261 is composed of a dusty reflection nebula fanning out from the star R Monocerotis. The leading variability explanation holds that dense knots of obscuring dust pass close to R Mon and cast moving shadows across the dust clouds in the rest of Hubble's Variable Nebula.

🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME** 📅 **Date**: 2025-01-14 🕒 **Time**: 09:12Z UTC 📖 **Description**: Fast, thin CME to the NW in SOHO LASCO C2/C3 and STEREO COR2A. The source appears to be on/just beyond the NW limb around N16, as field line movement and thin filament ejecta deflecting northward from this area beginning around 2025-01-14T08:48Z in SDO AIA 171/195/304 and GOES SUVI 171/284/304. #SpaceWeather #CME

🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME** 📅 **Date**: 2025-01-14 🕒 **Time**: 02:48Z UTC 📖 **Description**: This CME is visible to the southeast in SOHO LASCO C2/C3 and STEREO A COR2 imagery. The leading edge is faint and becomes too diffuse to observe in later imagery. The source is related to a filament eruption visible over the southeast limb which begins to erupt, deflecting eastward, starting around 2025-01-14T02:00Z. #SpaceWeather #CME

🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME** 📅 **Date**: 2025-01-14 🕒 **Time**: 02:24Z UTC 📖 **Description**: Fast, thin CME to the NW in SOHO LASCO C2/C3 and STEREO COR2A. The source appears to be on/just beyond the NW limb around N15, as field line movement and thin filament ejecta deflecting northward from this area beginning around 2025-01-14T01:56Z in SDO AIA 171/195/304 and GOES SUVI 171/284/304. #SpaceWeather #CME

🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME** 📅 **Date**: 2025-01-14 🕒 **Time**: 00:48Z UTC 📖 **Description**: This CME is visible to the southwest in SOHO LASCO C2/C3 and STEREO A COR2 imagery. The source is related to a filament eruption centered near S35W45 which begins to erupt around 2025-01-13T23:50Z as seen in GOES SUVI 304 imagery. A faint opening of field lines is visible over the southwest limb at this time in GOES SUVI 171 imagery as well. #SpaceWeather #CME

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The estimated operational cost of Starship is $67 per kilogram of payload. How does this drastically reduce the price of cargo launches compared to competitors? Title: The Starship Price Revolution: How $67 per Kilogram Redefines Space Cargo Costs In the rapidly evolving landscape of space exploration, SpaceX's Starship isn't just a milestone—it's a revolution in cost efficiency. With an estimated operational cost of just $67 per kilogram of payload, Starship is poised to profoundly transform the economics of launching cargo into orbit and beyond. How does this efficiency compare to its competitors? And what does it mean for the future of space access? Let’s find out. Cost Analysis: What Makes Starship So Affordable? In the space launch industry, traditional options have long been dominated by established operators, with costs often exceeding $10,000 per kilogram. For example, rockets like United Launch Alliance's Atlas V or Boeing's Space Launch System (SLS) have historically charged high prices, imposing significant financial burdens on satellite operators, research institutions, and commercial enterprises. What sets SpaceX apart? A multifaceted strategy to reduce costs underpins Starship's affordability: Reusability: The cornerstone of SpaceX's cost-saving strategy is its commitment to reusability. While most rockets are single-use, Starship is designed for multiple reuses. By recovering both the first stage and the entire spacecraft, SpaceX can drastically cut the expenses of building new components for each launch. Mass production: Efficient manufacturing allows SpaceX to produce Starship at lower costs. Through advanced techniques and innovative materials, the company can scale production while keeping costs down. Payload capacity optimization: Starship is designed to carry large payloads, enabling more efficient use of fuel and resources. This high capacity offsets operational costs, significantly lowering the price per kilogram compared to smaller, less efficient rockets. Competition in the New Era of Launch Costs The implications of Starship’s $67 per kilogram cost are immense. Such a drastic reduction in launch costs opens up endless opportunities. New companies can afford to send satellites into orbit, research institutions gain the means to conduct space experiments, and innovators can launch new technologies with reduced financial risk. Let’s compare these costs to those of competitors: Ariane 5: Historically over $10,000 per kilogram. Atlas V: Over $18,000 per kilogram. Ariane 6: Estimated costs between $9,000 and $11,000 per kilogram, depending on payload. These figures highlight how Starship’s competitive price not only benefits SpaceX but disrupts the entire industry, forcing other operators to reassess their pricing models and explore new cost-reduction strategies. Democratizing Space But the financial implications of Starship’s affordability go far beyond the numbers. By drastically lowering launch costs, SpaceX is democratizing access to space—a goal deeply aligned with the company’s broader mission. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will find it easier to compete in the orbital market. Universities will undertake research missions previously deemed unaffordable. Startups will test new technologies without financial strain, fostering innovations critical to our future. This democratization of space could also catalyze a new wave of creativity and entrepreneurship, where visionary companies pursue projects like satellite internet constellations, lunar mining, and even interplanetary exploration. A Bright Future Looking ahead, Starship’s cost efficiency creates fertile ground for a flurry of activity in low Earth orbit and beyond. With a $67 per kilogram price tag, SpaceX is enabling an environment where new ideas can flourish, and our collective aspirations for space access become ever closer to reality. In conclusion, SpaceX’s Starship isn’t just a spacecraft; it’s a paradigm shift that will redefine the economics of space travel. With reduced launch costs, the doors of opportunity are wide open, heralding a new era where the final frontier is more accessible than ever. Get ready—the future is taking off and is within everyone’s reach.

The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars. It has a height of 25 km, Mount Everest is 'only' 8.8 km tall. Via :- @galaxies

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Dolomites Credit & Copyright: Alessandra Masi

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The Rosette Nebula - 5200 light years... 📸 : Vakho Khutsishvili, @vk.astroph /IG

International Space Station passing in front of the Sun 149.6 million kilometers apart. Image credits: @raineelc

Surface of comet 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 📷 Rosetta spacecraft / ESA

The Sun on the first day of the year. Happy 2025 everyone! #newyear2025 #sunspots #thesun

At 4207 meters above sea level on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, photographer Andrew McCarthy set out on a challenging climb. His goal was to capture a rare sight, Saturn slipping behind the moon. From the peak of the dormant volcano, he finally witnessed and photographed the stunning event, bringing a piece of the cosmos down to earth. 📸 :- Andrew McCarthy, @cosmic_background /IG

Dragon’s 6 missions helped provide an ongoing human presence on the @Space_Station, flew humans to the highest altitude within Earth’s orbit in 50+ years, and supported our first EVA with the Polaris Dawn crew

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