ASTRONOMY NEWS - January 5, 2024

📰 ASTRONOMY NEWS

🗓 Edition of January 5, 2024 🚀

📌 Focus on Aerospace Technology

🕕 Recent Updates 🌌

🗺 Global Space Exploration News

🗓 Friday, January 5, 2024

⏳ 5th day of the year

🌖 Moon Phase: Last Quarter on January 3, New Moon on January 11, First Quarter on January 17, Full Moon on January 25

☀ Last X-class solar eruption: 12/31/2023 (X5.0) [swpc.noaa.gov]

☀ Last M-class solar eruption: 01/04/2024 (M3.8) [spaceweatherlive.com]

🌪️ GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY:

No significant new geomagnetic activity events reported.

🛰️ SPACE HIGHLIGHTS:

• NASA - 2024 Innovative Concept Studies: NASA selects Phase I awardees for funding innovative ideas. [nasa.gov]
• NASA - Send Your Name to the Moon's Surface: NASA invites the public to send their names aboard the VIPER lunar rover. [nasa.gov]¹
• NASA - ULA and Astrobotic Artemis Robotic Moon Launch: Coverage set for the Artemis lunar robotic mission launch. [nasa.gov]

🚀 ROCKET LAUNCH CALENDAR:

Jan 8: United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur - Vulcan Certification Mission [spacecoastdaily.com]

Jan 17: SpaceX Falcon 9 - Axiom Space Axion Mission 3 [spacecoastdaily.com]

Jan 29: SpaceX Falcon 9 - NG-20 Mission [spacecoastdaily.com]

🌟 CELESTIAL OBSERVATION:

Jan 8: Antares 0.8°S of Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 10: Mars 4.2°N of Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 12: Mercury at Greatest Elongation [starlust.org]

Jan 13: Moon at Perigee [starlust.org]

Jan 14: Saturn 2.1°N of Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 17: First Quarter Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 18: Jupiter 2.8°S of Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 20: Pleiades 0.9°N of Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 24: Pollux 1.7°N of Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 25: Full Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 27: Mercury 0.2°N of Mars [starlust.org]

Jan 27: Regulus 3.6°S of Moon [starlust.org]

Jan 29: Moon at Apogee [starlust.org]

Jan 31: Moon at Descending Node [starlust.org]

¹Send your name to the Moon: [https://www3.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-viper/]

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