SpaceX is targeting Sunday, January 24 for launch of Transporter-1, SpaceX’s first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 22-minute launch window opens at 10:00 a.m. EST, or 15:00 UTC. Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission, the ANASIS-II mission, a Starlink mission, and launch of Dragon’s 21st cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. On board this launch are 133 commercial and government spacecraft (including CubeSats, microsats, and orbital transfer vehicles) and 10 Starlink satellites – the most spacecraft ever deployed on a single mission. The Starlink satellites aboard this mission will be the first in the constellation to deploy to a polar orbit.

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Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! **************************************** Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are some specific ways you can help: ► Subscribe FREE to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest ► Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! ► Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx – follow and subscribe! ► Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx ► Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast ► Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx ► Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/X8rw4vv ► Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - https://www.wshcrew.space/ Don't forget to like and subscribe! Plus we love being shared out to new people, so tweet, comment, review us... all the free things you can do to help bring science into people's lives. #AstronomyCast #Science #SpaceJunk

We are holding a VIRTUAL meeting this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Schedule: 6:30 PM: Board meeting (Webex only) 7:30 PM: YouTube goes live / Introductions 7:35 PM: In the News, In the Sky 7:50 PM: Officers' reports, Special Interest Groups 8:00 PM: Observing Reports, Ask an Astronomy Question 8:15 PM: Short talk 8:30 PM: Informal discussion 8:45 PM: Feature talk If you'd like to join the Webex session to speak and share your video if you wish, please email [email protected] If you're just joining the YouTube stream, go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC12jUX4Gmweg6fTtUuqa8CQ/live In order to comment on the YouTube stream, you must have a Google Account and a YouTube channel. Here are guides to setting both up: Google Account: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/161805 YouTube Channel: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1646861 Main Talk: This talk will reveal discoveries from the Curiosity rover’s journey and the next steps for exploring this intriguing planet. The 1-ton Curiosity rover has been trekking toward the 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp for nearly three years. Its ChemCam laser instrument, operated from downtown Los Alamos, has acquired more than 10,000 chemical observations and several thousand images along the way. Now, Perseverance is on its way to the Red Planet and new discoveries await. --- The views expressed in presentations are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent, and should not be attributed to, the Warren Astronomical Society.

New giant telescopes will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects with unprecedented sensitivity. The Arecibo Telescope may have tragically collapsed last year, but it doesn’t mean the end of the era of giants in astronomy. Giant ground-based telescopes currently being built will get their first light this decade. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) are revolutionary telescopes that will transform humanity’s view and understanding of the universe. They will provide new observational opportunities in nearly every field of astronomy and astrophysics. These new instruments will observe in wavelengths ranging from the near-ultraviolet to the mid-infrared, allowing astronomers to address fundamental questions ranging from understanding star and planet formation to unraveling the history of galaxies and the development of large-scale structures in the universe. We invited two astronomers whose careers are strongly related to two of these telescopes to discuss their potential and the status of these projects. Rebecca Bernstein is the Chief Scientist for GMT, a next-generation extremely large telescope with seven segmented mirrors that will be 25.4 meters in diameter, making its resolving power more than ten times that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Christophe Dumas is the Observatory Scientist and Head of Operations at the TMT. With its 30 m prime mirror diameter, TMT will be three times as wide, with nine times more area, than the largest currently existing visible-light telescope in the world. Both giant telescope that will allow us to see deeper into space and observe cosmic objects with unprecedented sensitivity. These scientists will discuss the need for large telescopes in today’s modern astronomy, the challenge of building these telescopes and their enclosures, which are rotating buildings, twenty-two-stories tall, and the and instruments for them, which are the size of a European flat. This conversation will include a description of the international consortium’s role in providing political and financial support for the projects. They will also tell us what to expect from these giants and when they will be ready to open their eyes and observe the cosmos. Christophe Dumas joined the TMT in July 2015 as TMT Observatory Scientist and Head of Operations. Previously, he was in charge of the science operations of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope in the Atacama desert of Northern Chile. His scientific interest is in studying the physical/chemical characteristics of small primitive solar system bodies and how they can inform us about the formation of planetary systems at large. To this end, he mainly uses ground-based infrared spectrophotometry techniques in coordination with high-angular resolution/contrast adaptive optics instrumentation. Christophe earned a degree in engineering from Supelec in 1992 and a PhD in Astrophysics in 1997 from the University Denis Diderot in Paris. Rebecca Bernstein combines observational astronomy with developing new instruments and techniques to study her objects of interest. Her research has included high resolution spectroscopy of stars and extragalactic star clusters to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. She also studies the stellar components of galaxy clusters and is engaged in various projects related to dark matter and dark energy—the invisible matter and repulsive force that make up most of the universe. Bernstein has been involved in numerous other instrument projects. She is currently on the faculty of the Carnegie Observatories and the Chief Scientist for the GMT project, an international consortium where she provides technical and scientific leadership for the design and construction of the telescope.

What if there was a museum that contained every type of life form in the universe? A place that includes the possible forms alien life might take, from the eerily familiar to the utterly exotic, ranging from the inside of the Earth to the most hostile corners of the universe. This place does not yet exist but it has been digitally created by Melodysheep. Join us on Wednesday Jan. 20 at 10am PST for a special SETI Live with John D. Boswell, aka Melodysheep, a filmmaker, composer, VFX artist, known for his YouTube series named Life Beyond. John will sit down with SETI Institute Senior Astronomer, Franck Marchis, to discuss his recent video named the Museum of Alien Life which already had 7.3 million views on YouTube. John will explain the motivation for this video, the science behind it, the process to make it, and of course the creative content. We recommend you watch the video before the SETI Live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDYazipjSI&t=651s&ab_channel=melodysheep https://www.melodysheep.com/ If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #SearchforLife #AreWeAlone

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, January 20 for its seventeenth Starlink mission, which will launch 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center. The instantaneous window is at 8:02 a.m. EST, or 13:02 UTC. The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting this mission previously flew on seven other missions: the SXM-7 mission in December 2020, launch of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission in June 2019, launch of Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission in March 2019, and four Starlink missions. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean. One half of Falcon 9’s fairing previously supported a Starlink mission and the other previously supported two.

Dr. Raja Guhathakurta, University of California–Santa Cruz The cosmos contains many mysteries that intrigue even the most experienced researchers. The interplay between known and unknown constantly shifts and aligns. For example, there lies a hidden connection between dark matter, the Periodic Table of elements, cosmic inflation, and Schrödinger's Cat. Other confounding conundrums include galaxy cannibalism, black holes, gravitational lensing, and gravitational waves. Join Dr. Raja Guhathakurta of University of California–Santa Cruz as these dark secrets of the universe are revealed and explored. Recorded live on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. More information: www.stsci.edu/public-lectures

Join Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay for a live episode of Astronomy Cast. We'll record our 30-minute show, and then stay tuned for them to answer questions! Remember the good old days, where there were only a few thousand living and dead satellites? Those days are long over. We're now entering an era where there will be tens of thousands of satellites, not to mention the spent rocket boosters and other space junk. What kind of a risk do we face and what can be done about it? Next episode: TBD This video was made possible by the follow Patreon members: David ACUT-Patron Joe Hook Aurora Lipper Catherine McCabe Jeanette Wink Birko Roland Andrew Poelstra David Truog Brian Cagle TheGiantNothing Venkatesh Chary Burry Gowen Jordan Young THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela **************************************** Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are some specific ways you can help: ► Subscribe FREE to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest ► Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! ► Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx – follow and subscribe! ► Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx ► Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast ► Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx ► Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/X8rw4vv ► Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - https://www.wshcrew.space/ Don't forget to like and subscribe! Plus we love being shared out to new people, so tweet, comment, review us... all the free things you can do to help bring science into people's lives. #AstronomyCast #Science #SpaceJunk

AAS 237 Press Conference: Galaxies & Quasars II Thursday, 14 January 2021, 12:15 pm ET Welcome Haley Wahl (Astrobites Media Intern) Three's a Crowd: Triple Galaxy Collisions & Their Impact on Black Hole Accretion Adi Foord (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University) The Deep Images of Mergers (DIM) Project Duilia de Mello (Catholic University of America) Magnetic Highway: Channeling the M82 Super Wind Jordan Guerra Aguilera (Villanova University) Magnetic Chaos Hidden in the Whirlpool Galaxy Alejandro Borlaff (NASA Ames Research Center & Universities Space Research Association) Q&A

For years, engineers have had to deal with "the tyranny of the fairing," that anything you want to send into space has to fit into the protective nosecone on top of the rocket. A field of advanced design has been looking for new ways to improve our engineering, using the centuries-old artform to dream bigger. Host: Brian White, Public Services Office, NASA/JPL Co-Host: Thalia Rivera, Public Outreach Specialist, NASA/JPL Speaker(s): Manan Arya, Technologist, NASA/JPL Lizbeth B. De La Torre, Creative Technologist, NASA/JPL Original Air Date: January 14, 2021

Blue Origin will be conducting the 14th flight of its New Shepard launch vehicle on the NS-14 mission. Blue Origin eventually aims to enable people (with a good amount of money) to purchase a ticket on a suborbital flight. This will be the inaugural flight of the fourth New Shepard booster – the very rocket that will soon carry humans. New Shepard only has the ability to launch on a suborbital trajectory with an apogee of 119 km (74 miles) – their record. Want to learn more?!? Read our Prelaunch Preview - https://everydayastronaut.com/ns-14-new-shepard/ 00:00 - Intro 02:50 - Prelaunch Preview 07:40 - Blue Origin Webcast Starts 21:09 - Hold Begins 41:27 - Countdown Resumed 52:49 - T Minus 1 Minute 53:49 - Liftoff 01:00:47 - Booster Landing 01:03:45 - Capsule Landing 01:12:00 - Q&A  -------------------------- Want to support what I do? Consider becoming a Patreon supporter for access to exclusive livestreams, our discord channel and subreddit! - http://patreon.com/everydayastronaut Or become a YouTube member for some bonus perks as well! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uKrU_WqJ1R2HMTY3LIx5Q/join The best place for all your space merch needs! https://everydayastronaut.com/shop/ All music is original! Check out my album "Maximum Aerodynamic Pressure" anywhere you listen to music (Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, etc) or click here for easy links - http://everydayastronaut.com/music I'm the cohost of an awesome podcast where we talk all about current technologies and how they shape our future! http://ourludicrousfuture.com or here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/ourludicrousfuture

Are we too Earth-centric when we search for alien life? Life and the planetary bodies on which it can thrive may be much more diverse than we can imagine. Our Solar System and the exoplanets discovered so far provide us with a first glimpse of what is possible. Seth Shostak explores with Dirk Schultze-Makuch. If you like SETI Live, or just like science, support the SETI Institute! We're a non-profit research institution whose focus is understanding the nature and origins of life in the universe. Donate here: https://seti.org/donate Learn more about the SETI Institute and stay up-to-date on awesome science: - Subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/SETIInstitute/ - Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/setiinstitute - Listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science http://www.bigpicturescience.org/ - Subscribe to our newsletter https://seti.org/signup - Buy merchandise from Chop Shop https://www.chopshopstore.com/collections/seti-institute/SETI Don't forget to like and subscribe! Ring the bell for notifications of when we go live. #SETILive #SearchforLife #AreWeAlone

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page. This week we are excited to welcome Alberto Caballero, host of the Exoplanets YouTube channel, to the Weekly Space Hangout. In November 2020, arXiv published his (non-peer reviewed) paper in which Alberto indicates he has narrowed down the source of the August 1977 WOW! signal, and has potentially identified the star where it originated. Alberto Caballero is a science communicator and host of The Exoplanets Channel (https://www.youtube.com/theexoplanetschannel). He also coordinates the Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project (https://exoplanetschannel.wixsite.com/home/setiproject), a program intended to find habitable exoplanets, and the SETI Project, aimed at finding extraterrestrial intelligence. You can read Alberto's paper on arXiv here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090 and/or read more about his work in this December 2, 2020, EarthSky.com story: https://earthsky.org/space/source-of-wow-signal-in-1977-sunlike-star-2mass-19281982-2640123 **************************************** The Weekly Space Hangout is a production of CosmoQuest. Want to support CosmoQuest? Here are some specific ways you can help: ► Subscribe FREE to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/cosmoquest ► Subscribe to our podcasts Astronomy Cast and Daily Space where ever you get your podcasts! ► Watch our streams over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/cosmoquestx – follow and subscribe! ► Become a Patreon of CosmoQuest https://www.patreon.com/cosmoquestx ► Become a Patreon of Astronomy Cast https://www.patreon.com/astronomycast ► Buy stuff from our Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/people/cosmoquestx ► Join our Discord server for CosmoQuest - https://discord.gg/X8rw4vv ► Join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew! - http://www.wshcrew.space/ Don't forget to like and subscribe! Plus we love being shared out to new people, so tweet, comment, review us… all the free things you can do to help bring science into people's lives.

Join us with author, AAVSO member, and astronomer Robert Bucheeim as we journey into the colorful world of spectroscopy. TAIC website: https://www.theastroimagingchannel.org/ TAIC Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1329722943877857/ To Donate to TAIC https://tinyurl.com/Donate-to-TAIC #astrophotography

Join our local astronomy club once again for another live stream for the Astronomical Society of South East Texas (ASSET)! We are a non profit group of amateur astronomers from Beaumont, TX and the surrounding communities. Normally we host a once a month meeting at the Beaumont ISD Planetarium but due to the pandemic, we are meeting online from our homes. Join us as we explore the night sky! Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/astrosetx/