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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

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This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission (William Anders/NASA via AP, File)
September 20, 2024, 10:17 am
Asteroid set to temporarily become Earth’s ‘second moon’
Tiny asteroid will be pulled in by gravity between Sep. 29 and Nov. 25, however will not be discernible via basic telescopes; celestial object expected to return only in 2055
By ToI Staff
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by Jared Isaacman, September 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 13, 2024, 12:39 am
High above the Earth, Jewish tech entrepreneur performs first ever private spacewalk
‘Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world,’ says Jared Isaacman after popping out of capsule to test SpaceX’s new spacesuit
By Marcia Dunn
In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP)
August 24, 2024, 9:41 pm
NASA says SpaceX to retrieve two astronauts because of risks with Boeing capsule
Having entered orbit for what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams now set to return to Earth only in February
By Marcia Dunn
Illustration of the sunshade being developed by Cool Earth at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in northern Israel. (Youtube screenshot)
July 31, 2024, 9:57 pm
Israeli scientist proposes massive space sunshade to cut global temperatures by 1.5ºC
Yoram Rozen, head of Technion’s Space Research Institute, seeks $15 million to launch prototype; ‘If we can’t show that it can work technologically, then nobody else will do it”
By Sue Surkes
The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
May 11, 2024, 7:57 am
Intense solar storm causes spectacular northern lights displays across the globe
Auroras seen in skies of US, north Europe and Australasia as result of most powerful solar storm in over 20 years; changes to Earth’s magnetic field could cause power disruptions
By Issam Ahmed
A mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. (NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) - HubbleSite: gallery, release. Public domain)
March 27, 2024, 11:10 pm
Israeli scientists become first to chronicle earliest stages of supernova
Astronomers from Weizmann Institute observe a star in nearby galaxy Messier 101 explode and believe it left behind a new black hole
By Ari Rabinovitz
This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Jan. 28, 2024, claims to show a satellite carrier being launched at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's rural Semnan province (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
January 28, 2024, 10:44 am
Iran launches 3 satellites into orbit together as West grumbles over program
Launch marks first successful use of two-stage Simorgh rocket, week after separate flight condemned by West over fears technology could be used to carry nukes
By Agencies
This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, claims to show a rocket with a capsule carrying animals as it is launched from an undisclosed location into orbit, Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
December 6, 2023, 12:43 pm
Iran claims to send animals into space to prepare for human missions
Western countries suspicious Iranian space program could be used for military purposes
By AP
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin landed in Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA)
September 28, 2023, 7:42 pm
Three astronauts return to Earth after stuck over a year in space
American Frank Rubio sets NASA record, with trio stuck aboard the ISS for 191 days more than intended due to damaged return capsule
By ToI Staff
This June 2023 image provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute shows the planet Saturn and three of its moons, from left, Enceladus, Tethys and Dione, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. In infrared, the planet appears dark because sunlight is absorbed by methane in the atmosphere. (NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Saturn Team via AP)
July 1, 2023, 8:19 am
Saturn’s rings glow bright in Webb Space Telescope’s latest cosmic shot
In NASA’s infrared picture, planet appears dark because sunlight is absorbed by atmosphere’s methane, while icy rings shine
By Marcia Dunn
An image of the galaxy Centaurus A, released by NASA for Black Hole Week. Credit: X-ray: (IXPE): NASA/MSFC/IXPE/S. Ehlert et al.; (Chandra): NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: ESO/WFI; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Schmidt
May 5, 2023, 12:20 pm
NASA releases stunning visuals each day for ‘Black Hole Week’
US space agency presents animation comparing sizes of objects in solar system with the massive stars, posts images of galaxies hosting mysterious giants
By Michael Horovitz
A bright meteor is seen over Israel's skies, April 15, 2023. (Courtesy of Ofer Gabzo via the Israeli Astronomical Association; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 15, 2023, 6:59 pm
Unusually bright meteor seen over Israel, as some report hearing blast
Israeli Astronomical Association says bolide visible over country’s center and north for several seconds; unclear if any pieces survived fiery descent
By ToI Staff
This image provided by NASA shows the star Wolf-Rayet 124, center, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope in June 2022. A surrounding nebula is made of material cast off from the aging star in random ejections, and from dust produced in the ensuing turbulence. The telescope captured the rare and fleeting phase of the star on the cusp of death. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team via AP)
March 16, 2023, 7:51 am
Webb telescope captures star going supernova on cusp of death
WR-124, star 30 times as massive as our sun, photographed shedding dust and gas into space in its final throes before expected explosion
By Marcia Dunn
Images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500-800 million years after the Big Bang. One of the sources (bottom left) could contain as many stars as our present-day Milky Way, but is 30 times more compact. (NASA via AP)
February 23, 2023, 1:40 pm
In paradigm shift, Webb telescope spots ‘monster’ galaxies formed in early universe
Scientists thought it was an error when they saw super bright dots, indicating fully mature galaxies just 600 million years after Big Bang, suggesting previously unknown fast track
By Marcia Dunn
Illustrative -- Astronomers prepare their telescopes, Aug. 10, 1999 near Truro, England (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)
December 29, 2022, 8:22 am
All planets in solar system visible in night sky simultaneously
Spectacular astronomical event sees all eight planets only 1.5 degrees apart Wednesday and will reach conjunction, their closest point, on Thursday night
By ToI Staff
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