The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a glimpse of the Horse Head Nebula and the galaxies behind it. Starliner is preparing for a Monday launch. No, those aren't giant spiders on Mars. Residents of the southern hemispehre are getting a look at the "Devil Comet". And a CME could be arriving at Earth on Saturday. 

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There's a lot of dust talk this week as a Moon mission is in the works with dust guards ready to deal with dust on the Moon. Plus NASA is planning ahead for Artemis missions with large cargo crates that will be sent for future missions. Ingenuity is getting a new job on Mars that will allow it to continue in service. Plus, NASA is communicating with Voyager 1 again. 

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NASA has learned the hard way that not everything burns up on rentry. Starliner is a step closer to a test launch in early May. A nova and the "devil comet" are both in the night time sky for viewing. And a massive black hole has been discovered in the Milky Way. 

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Amateur astronomers learned a few new terms from the "Sheldons" of atronomy. NASA has entered into a partnership with JAXA that will put Japanese boots on the Moon. China's space program seems to have more in mind than exploration. And the worlds biggest digital camera in complete. 

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This week we talk about the eclipse and everying you need to know.. plus an update on Starliner and a potentially massive discovery on Mars.

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JWST has discovered deep space alcohol and other life chemicals near a protostar. Roscosmos has successfully launched after last week's last second scrub. Boeing's Starliner may launch soon but not before May. NASA is optimistic that it will resolve its Voyager 1 computer issues and scientists are learning more about the impact of the DART mission. 

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A Soyuz launch scheduled to travel to the ISS was scrubbed twenty seconds before liftoff. SpaceX plans to launch later today with cargo for the ISS. SpaceX has also announced that they could be launching Strship again in six weeks. Budget cuts for NASA means they will be forced to shut down the CHandra X-Ray Observatory. And a study of an impact on Mars produced more than 2 billion secondary craters. 

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SpaceX celebrated its founding anniversary with a successful launch of Starship into space. Japan's first attempt at launching a commerical rocket into space explosed seconds after launch. 35 years ago, a CME brought darkness from the Sun. Plus, JWST has had another win while studying deep into our solar system. 

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SpaceX continues to make things look easy after launching and docking the Crew 8 to the ISS while prepping the 3rd test for the Starship. The Curiosity Rover is climbing through time on the surface of Mars. Orion's hatch has a design flaw and could cause delays. And astronomers have discovered a moon orbiting Uranus and two moons orbiting Neptune.

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ILM's Odysseus is going to sleep but sunlight could still wake it up. SpaceX was forced to cancel a launch due to weather but decided to launch a different rocket instead. A glancing blow CME could graze the Earth this weekend. A baby star's planet-forming disk has 3 times more water than Earth's oceans. And NASA's DART strike on Dimorphos has some new data.

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