Almost a thousand years ago, skywatchers in China noted the appearance of a brand-new "guest" star. We now know it was a supernova (exploding star), and its remnant - nicknamed the Crab Nebula - has been imaged in exquisite detail with #JWST! More info at www.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Latest Blogpost from NASA on the Lucy Mission and it's first encounter with an asteroid. Dinkinesh will be the first of 10 asteroid encounters for the spacecraft. blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2023/11...

UPDATE on the Talking Space Web Presence. - Our Webmaster has indicated that the hosting service may have solved the issue ( a faulty DNS record was entered by the host )and that the site should be up soon as the DNS record propagates through the internet. Fingers crossed.

AURA is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Lotz as the new Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute! AURA manages STScI on behalf of NASA. Read more: ow.ly/uVZO50Q32il

*Tap* *Tap* *Tap* Is this on? The Talking Space Podcast has arrived on BlueSky! Will be providing insight and commentary on the spaceflight news of the day. Hope you'll come on board, it will be an interesting ride!