Space Archive

According to NASA: “Coronal mass ejections are immense eruptions of plasma and energy from the Sun’s corona that drive space weather.” You can find out more about the probe’s mission and see the uncompressed, unedited version on NASA’s website.

Ars Technica reports that Blue Origin may conduct a flight test of its reusable New Shepard rockets skyward next month. It’s been just over a year since the catastrophic failure of its NS-23 mission, when its uncrewed capsule safely ejected as the rocket exploded.

Musk drew on the money last October and paid it back, with interest, in November, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s not clear why he borrowed the money. It’s an awful lot! SpaceX had $4.7 billion in cash and securities on hand at the end of last year, WSJ reports.

In this episode of Bloomberg’s The Big Take podcast, former Verge space reporter Loren Grush recounts the careers of some of the first women to graduate from NASA’s astronaut training program, including Sally Ride, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon.

The agency’s space-based Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of a new crater in the region Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, estimates is where its Luna 25 lander crashed, according to a NASA blog post on Thursday.

NASA’s telescope is now studying the 168,000-light-year-distant Supernova 1987A, which was discovered almost 40 years ago and has been observed ever since. NASA’s blog says training the James Webb Space Telescope on it has already borne fruit.