🚀 Hubble Finds New Celestial Object

🌌 Hubble finds new Cloud-9 object

💰 NASA secures $24.4 billion

🔥 Hot gas changes cosmology

⭐ Betelgeuse wake reveals star

🚀 Canada spaceport gets approval

A team using the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope identified a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud, considered a primordial building block of a failed galaxy.

Named Cloud-9, its neutral hydrogen core is 4900 light-years in diameter, containing gas equal to 1 million solar masses but dominated by an estimated 5 billion solar masses of dark matter.

This provides a rare window into the dark Universe, suggesting many other small, dark matter-dominated structures exist and offering new insights into early galaxy formation, according to team member Andrew Fox.

House and Senate appropriators released a final appropriations bill for NASA, largely rejecting steep cuts proposed by the administration and securing the agency’s key operational funding.

The minibus package provides $24.438 billion, allocating $7.25 billion for science, $920.5 million for space technology, and $7.783 billion for exploration, including the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

While restoring most science missions, the bill does not support the existing Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, instead allocating $110 million to a Mars Future Missions account to preserve its technology.

An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers investigated SPT2349-56, a massive galaxy cluster existing just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, revealing an unexpectedly energetic environment.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they measured the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in cluster SPT2349-56, finding its intracluster gas was five times hotter than models predicted for its age.

This suggests supermassive black holes heated the cluster much earlier than thought, potentially upending current models of galaxy cluster evolution and formation, according to co-author Dr. Scott Chapman.

Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) confirmed the existence of a companion star, named Siwarha, orbiting deep within the extended atmosphere of the red supergiant Betelgeuse.

Using NASA's Hubble, they detected a wake of dense gas confirming the companion's influence and resolving the mystery of the star's long, 2,100-day secondary period.

This provides direct evidence explaining Betelgeuse’s recent dimming and offers a front-row seat to watch how giant stars shed material before going supernova, according to lead author Andrea Dupree.

Aerospace company NordSpace received provincial approval to advance construction on its Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), set to become Canada’s first purpose-built commercial orbital launch site in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Located at 46 degrees north latitude, the site supports launch inclinations from 44 to 105 degrees and will host the Tundra rocket, capable of delivering 500 kg to low Earth orbit.

This milestone positions Canada for sovereign launch capabilities, reducing reliance on foreign providers for national security and commercial satellites, a true national imperative according to CEO Rahul Goel.