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Yesterday, NASA held its Ignition event, featuring a series of announcements regarding its space program. Announcements were expected in connection with the Artemis program, to clarify the agency's intentions regarding the return of astronauts to the Moon. From this perspective, the intention that was announced is to accelerate the pace of missions, also in order to build a permanent base on the Moon.
An article submitted for publication in "Astronomy & Astrophysics" reports the results of an astronomical study that used a hybrid technique to examine the Vela Supercluster. A team of researchers combined redshifts with the distances and peculiar velocities of galaxies to obtain a complete portrait of it, a result that was previously impossible due to its location, hidden by the Milky Way's so-called zone of avoidance.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2026/03/12/a-hybrid-technique-to-examine-the-vela-supercluster/
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A little while ago, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft ended its CRS-33 (Cargo Resupply Service 33) mission for NASA splashing down smoothly off the coast of California. The Dragon left the International Space Station about 12 hours earlier. The Dragon spacecraft had reached the International Space Station on August 25, 2025.
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An article accepted for publication in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters" reports the detection of a megamaser generated by HATLAS J142935.3–002836, a galaxy undergoing considerable activity due to a galaxy merger that also led to an intense star formation. A team of researchers used the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect the maser emissions.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft docked with the Harmony module of the International Space Station, completing the first part of its Crew-12 mission that began with its launch about 34 hours earlier. Andrey Fedyaev, Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir, and Sophie Adenot join the Expedition 74 crew.
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A little while ago, SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in its Crew-12 or SpaceX Crew-12 mission. After almost exactly ten minutes, it successfully separated from the rocket's last stage and went en route to carry out its mission.
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Yesterday, the Chinese #Menghzou #spacecraft, launched on the Long March 10 rocket's first stage, completed a suborbital flight test. The #rocket conducted its own test, with a controlled splashdown, as part of the development of a reusable launch system. At the end of the test, the Menghzou splashed down as well, but in its case, it was also recovered. Thisis a step forward toward Chinese crewed Moon missions.
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An article accepted for publication in the "Open Journal of Astrophysics" reports evidence that the galaxy MoM-z14 is the most distant known so far. A team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT used the James Webb Space Telescope as part of the “Mirage or Miracle” (MoM) survey. The results confirm that we see MoM-z14 as it was about 280 million years after the Big Bang.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2026/02/04/galaxy-mom-z14-sets-new-distance-and-age-record/
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A few hours ago, the Shenzhou 20 spacecraft landed after spending 270 days docked at the Chinese Tiangong space station, where it arrived on April 24, 2025. The Shenzhou 20 departed the station about nine hours earlier and landed at a site called Dongfeng in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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A little while ago, SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft completed its Crew-11, or SpaceX Crew-11, mission for NASA with a successful splashdown. Aboard were astronauts Zena Cardman, Michael Fincke, and Kimiya Yui, and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, who had arrived at the International Space Station on August 2, 2025, as part of Expedition 73/74.
Massimo Luciani