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The flight of the 11th #Starship itself also went completely to plan it seems: deploying all dummy 'satellites', relighting an engine and reentry and controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean despite deliberate damage and hard maneuvers. Full screencaps and four more in https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3m34hq2qcmc2q

NASA’s #Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has also achieved its target orbit, positioning the spacecraft to capture the first repeated observations of the ultraviolet glow from Earth’s outer atmosphere, the geocorona: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/2026/01/12/nasas-carruthers-geocorona-observatory-reaches-target-orbit/ - the achievement was confirmed following its third and final orbital maneuver, a 2-minute thruster fire, on Jan. 8; the spacecraft has now entered its intended halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, a position of gravitational balance approximately 1 million miles from Earth.

CANUCS/Technicolor Data Release - Imaging, Photometry, Slit Spectroscopy, and Stellar Population Parameters: #GalaxyCluster in Technicolor: https://aasnova.org/2026/01/12/featured-image-galaxy-cluster-in-technicolor/

After a three-and-a-half-month journey, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe or #IMAP has finally reached its destination, a strategic location between the Sun and Earth where it will begin its groundbreaking mission to study the edge of our solar system and advance our knowledge of space weather on Feb. 1: https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/260112-imap-arrives-l1

Scarp-fronted deposits record the highest water level in Mars’ Valles Marineris: #Mars was half covered by an ocean: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/mars_was_half_covered_by_an_ocean/index_eng.html

As #Crew11 prepares to depart from the space station, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke just handed command of Expedition 74 aboard the orbital complex to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqvpXwHTztY

A persistent bow shock in a diskless magnetised accreting
white dwarf: #ShockWave around dead star: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2601/

The second #PSLV launch in a row has ended in failure, at almost the same time during the burn of the 3rd stage as the last one: https://x.com/Dillonshrop06/status/2010579794191401168 - so far ISRO hasn't explained anything.

There was something for everyone in the recent #TwilightMission launch: it created a sky show in Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWw8jl3Hcx0 in addition to one (https://scicomm.xyz/@PlanetariumBochum@mastodon.social/115879073481829171) over Europe.

Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth’s dynamo: #moon is eating up molecules from Earth’s atmosphere: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/science/moon-stealing-earth-atmosphere-magnetic-field