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Astrophysics

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has released its latest deep field image, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). More...

Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/ASI mission, has uncovered important new information regarding blazars, supermassive black holes feeding off of surrounding material. More...

Heliophysics

The Parker Solar Probe will make its 15^th perihelion pass of the Sun, at a distance of 0.06 AU, on 17 March 2023.

ESA's Solar Orbiter will reach its 6^th perihelion, at 0.29 AU, on 10 April 2023.

The ASO-S mission to study solar flares and CMEs launched on 08 October 2022.

Lunar and Planetary Science

The JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) launched successfully on April 14 at 12:14 UTC (8:14 a.m.EDT) from Kourou, French Guiana, to begin its 8 year cruise to Jupiter and eventually go into orbit around Ganymede.

Twelve new moons of Jupiter have been discovered, bringing the total number of Jovian satellites to 92 and surpassing Saturn, with 83. For more, see the Carnegie Science article and the Jovian Satellite Fact Sheet.

A new asteroid has been added to the itinerary of the Lucy mission. It will fly within 450 km of asteroid 1999 V57 on 1 November 2023. For more information, see the 25 January NASA press release.