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Mission Highlight: Vega C launches KOMPSAT-7 for South Korea The mission highlight this week is the launch of the KOMPSAT-7 Earth observation satellite by Arianespace. The launch, flight VV28, is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 1, from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana aboard a Vega C rocket at 12:21 p.m. EST. The Vega C is class="more-link" href="https://www.ast...
Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian CelestronTorrance, California Celestron’s Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian is a 4-inch f/4 reflector. It comes with two eyepieces, a finder scope, and a Moon filter. The assembled unit weighs 5.3 pounds (2.4 kilograms), and the optical tube measures 14.2 inches (361 millimeters) long. $179.951-310-803-5955www.celestron.com D80-FCD100...
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of December 3 to watch the Moon pass by the Pleiades star cluster. Also known as M45 and the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades is one of the brightest deep-sky objects. So, even with the Moon nearby, it will stand out class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/o...
On Dec. 1, 2020, the Arecibo telescope collapsed. The Puerto Rico facility had already suffered two cable failures – one in August and one in November – and engineers had predicted that the increased load would be too much for the remaining cables. The National Science Foundation announced on Nov. 19, 2020, that, as the class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/toda...
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 30: Watch Titan reappear Jupiter is the object you’ll want to be watching this evening, as Ganymede prepares to transit along with its shadow. About an hour before that event starts, Ganymede and Europa line up as the two moons pass class="more-link" href="https://www.astron...
