Scientists say we were caught in a black hole’s bull’s-eye
Nine months ago, astronomers observed a flash that they said came from a mysterious object that flared with the brilliance of a trillion suns, located 8.5 billion light-years from Earth.

Now they say they've figured out what that object was.

In a pair of studies published by Nature and Nature Astron
https://cosmiclog.com/2022/11/30/scientists-say-we-were-caught-in-a-black-holes-bulls-eye/
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Capstone probe settles into a strange lunar orbit
Four and a half months after it was launched, a nanosatellite called Capstone has begun circling the moon — in a peculiar type of orbit where no probe has gone before.

The complex path, known as a near-rectilinear halo orbit, is the same type of trajectory that NASA hopes to use for crewed mi
https://cosmiclog.com/2022/11/14/capstone-probe-settles-into-a-strange-lunar-orbit/
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