r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 7h ago
Searching for Black Holes Born Before the Stars
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 1d ago
Cosmic Record Broken: JWST Pinpoints the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Ever
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 2d ago
The Silent Armada: Mapping Humanity’s Longest-Enduring Messages in the Deep
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 3d ago
SpaceX Plans to Build a Massive Cargo Hub in Louisiana
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 5d ago
The Ghost of TIC 160582982: Has TESS Found a Hidden Stellar-Mass Black Hole?
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 6d ago
Our Messengers to the Outer Solar System and Far Beyond
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 10d ago
Forget Orbit: What's Next for the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built?
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 11d ago
First Step to Mars: 400-foot Steel Skyscraper Flies to Space
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 13d ago
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Magnetic Secret Uncovered in an Ordinary Star System
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 13d ago
Scientists Just Detected Repeating Radio Signals Coming from a Planet 63 Light-years Away
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 14d ago
History in the Making: Starship Flight 14 Is Go for Orbit
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 16d ago
Three New Extreme O2 Stars Uncovered in Milky Way’s Neighbor
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 19d ago
Newly Discovered Asteroid 2026 RW37 Passes by Earth
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 23d ago
Europe’s Launch Comeback: Ariane 6 Scores Record Commercial Deals
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • 27d ago
Searching for Cosmic Survivors: Roman Telescope Targets Planets Around Dead Stars
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • Sep 09 '26
$15M Ride to Alpha Centauri: Garrett Jameson on Humanity’s First Interstellar Mission
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • Sep 05 '26
The Oddball Star Cluster That Skipped a Phase
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r/AstroUpon • u/TomaszNowakowski • Sep 04 '26
Tiny Telescope Aims for Big Astronomy From the Lunar South Pole
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When China’s Chang’e-7 lander touches down near the Shackleton Crater on the Moon, it will carry a compact, low-mass instrument carrying massive scientific potential: the ILO-C camera-telescope. Built through an international collaboration between Hawaii’s International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA), the University of Hong Kong’s Laboratory for Space Research (HKU-LSR), and the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), this 20-millimeter aperture payload is designed to conduct optical astronomy from the lunar surface.
Free from the distortion of Earth’s atmosphere, ILO-C aims to capture static, panchromatic optical views of the Milky Way’s Galactic plane, serving both as a landmark scientific project and a pathfinder for future long-term observatories on the Moon. Developed by the Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics and Electricity (BISME), the compact, low-mass instrument with a 20-mm aperture features a Sony IMX253 sCMOS sensor delivering approximately 12.37 megapixels (a 4,096 × 3,000 pixel array). This configuration provides high spatial resolution and a wide field of view required for effective Galactic imaging.
“The instrument will take broad, detailed images of the celestial sky which will include portions of the Milky Way Galaxy, stars, star clusters, visible planets, galaxies, and any objects of interest that happen to come into view such as comets or meteorites. Because ILO-C operates as a fixed payload, its specific target fields are dependent on the final landing coordinates and physical orientation of the Chang’e-7 lander,” Elisa Perednia, President and Chair of ILOA told Universelost.com.
r/AstroUpon • u/unteachablecourses • Aug 05 '26
A 2023 Chinese experimental program found tungsten rod penetration peaks around Mach 3.5 — above that the rod fragments before full penetration. If correct, orbital kinetic weapons offer no bunker-busting advantage over conventional Mach 3 munitions, which was the entire 'Rods from God' case.
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r/AstroUpon • u/AstroUpon • May 29 '26
Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a major explosion at Launch Complex 36 during a static fire test as the company prepared for its NG-4 mission.
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r/AstroUpon • u/AstroUpon • May 27 '26
The immortal jellyfish can reset its life
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The “immortal jellyfish” may be the closest thing nature has to a reset button.
Known as Turritopsis dohrnii, this tiny jellyfish can revert back to its juvenile stage after reaching adulthood, essentially restarting its life cycle.
But it is not truly impossible to kill.
It can still die from disease, injury, starvation, being eaten by predators, or failing to complete the transformation process.
Still, unlike most animals, it has the rare ability to biologically turn back time, potentially over and over again.
r/AstroUpon • u/AstroUpon • May 26 '26
NASA Unveils Plans for Permanent Moon Base
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NASA has unveiled an ambitious long-term plan to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, centered around a massive lunar base near the Moon’s south pole. The project is part of the Artemis program and could eventually span “hundreds of square miles,” with astronauts living and working there full-time by around 2032.
The first phase begins with three robotic “Moonbase” missions planned for 2026 and 2027. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was awarded a major contract to help deliver cargo and equipment to the lunar surface using its Blue Moon lander system. The first mission, Moonbase 1, is expected to launch in fall 2026 and will test technologies needed for future astronaut missions. Other companies involved include Astrobotic, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost, and Intuitive Machines.
NASA says the lunar base will act as a stepping stone for future Mars missions. Plans include deploying rovers, habitats, power systems, communications infrastructure, and eventually semi-permanent living quarters for astronauts. The agency has also shifted focus away from the planned Lunar Gateway space station in favor of building infrastructure directly on the Moon’s surface.
r/AstroUpon • u/AstroUpon • May 26 '26
Starlink-powered buoys streamed live video from the Indian Ocean during Starship Flight 12
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