Use the Moon to find Antares and the Teapot, spot brilliant Venus, welcome the equinox, and see the Harvest Moon near Saturn and Neptune. Sept. 14-20: Use the Moon to find Antares and the Teapot; dark skies may reveal the Milky Way center Sept 18: Venus reaches peak brilliance for this evening appearance Sept. 22:
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On Aug. 24, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida began installing the four RS‑25 engines in the core stage of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will carry the Artemis III crew into low Earth orbit in 2027. Each RS‑25 engine has a unique serial number that records its detailed flight
An image captured with the Hubble Space Telescope shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/IAA, University of Basque Country/JHU It is a single data point, but enough to send a shiver down physicists’ spines. Some time in 2023 or 2024, a detector containing 10 tonnes of ultra-pure
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