"...The issue has already made it difficult for the craft to point its solar panels at the Sun to generate electricity and may now scupper the planned touch-down."

Peregrine lander: Propulsion failure threatens US Moon mission

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67915696 

The lander is expected to run out of fuel in about 40 hours, the firm said shortly after 17:00 GMT on Tuesday."

US Moon mission has no chance of soft lunar landing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67929439 

"Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire have discovered a gigantic, ring-shaped structure in space. It is 1.3bn light-years in diameter and appears to be roughly 15 times the size of the Moon in the night sky as seen from Earth. Named the Big Ring by the astronomers, it is made up of galaxies and galaxy clusters. They say that it is so big it challenges our understanding of the universe."

Huge ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67950749 

https://twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1748086368738197808?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet 

 I saw that yesterday evening and wondered what it was.

A CME IS HEADING FOR EARTH: Yesterday, a magnetic filament on the sun erupted, hurling a CME almost directly toward Earth. Forecast models say it should arrive during the late hours of Jan. 22nd, sparking minor (G1) to moderate (G2) geomagnetic storms with auroras in northern Europe and northern-tier US states.

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

SOLAR RADIATION STORM:

"Energetic protons from the sun are striking the top of Earth's atmosphere today following a strong solar flare during the early hours of Jan. 29th. This is called a "radiation storm," and it is currently a category S2 event. Such a storm can cause elevated levels of radiation in airplanes flying over Earth's poles and unwanted glitches in the electronics of Earth-orbiting satellites."

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

A sunspot so big it can be seen from Mars is turning toward Earth today. Visible through ordinary eclipse glasses, the behemoth has a mixed-polarity magnetic field that poses a threat for X-class solar flares. Any such eruptions in the days ahead will be squarely Earth-directed. Full story

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

Full story https://spaceweather.com/ 

Also see:

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJMR08UD-NM 

Fireball spotted in sky over Lincolnshire and Yorkshire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lincolnshire-68345843 

Spotted fireballs? Whatever next? Maybe there'll be a striped one.

I can see where you are coming from DEW! 🙄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNBY7iKtpI 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68346725 

The light we see from that has taken 12bn years to reach us 

🤯

The scale of the universe really boggles my brain. If our planet was the size of a grain of sand, the Milky Way would, to the same scale, still be over 46m km across. 

And there are between 2 and 20 trillion galaxies in the universe.

In this article,  they mention a neutron star. It's so dense that just one teaspoon of it would weigh 10m tonnes. And it's 100m times brighter than the sun.

https://spaceweather.com/images2024/27feb24/farside.jpg 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

The human mind cannot comprehend such a scale.

And yet some humans, smaller than the tiniest bacteria on that grain of sand (on that scale), think they can explain the origins of the universe using a tiny shiny thing floating just above that grain of sand.

When you think of it on that scale, how much do we really know ? We know a lot on our own scale, but how much of the science wrapped up in the universe have we discovered ? Virtually nothing in my opinion.

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

Bloody Norah! Have a look folks. 21.210 hrs. If you have dark skies you might spot something.

https://youtu.be/_Kg-INYVuJo 

"AN "SAR STORM" OVER THE BALTICS: Earlier this week, a CME hit Earth's magnetic field. The impact ignited a widespread display of SAR arcs over the Baltics and Russia. Glowing with some of the purest red light nature can produce, these arcs look like auroras but are produced by a completely different process."

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Interesting and I have not come across SAR before.

MAN-MADE NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS:

Last week, sky watchers in Texas witnessed a bright display of noctilucent clouds (NLCs). This should be impossible. Naturally-occurring NLCs don't appear until late spring or summer--and almost never in Texas. However, these clouds were not natural; SpaceX made them. Full story @ https://spaceweather.com/