Summary
This week’s space-themed slideshow is a two-for-one special, as last Friday’�s edition didn’t go out. United Launch Alliance launched its final Delta IV Heavy rocket on April 9. It marked the end of the Delta family of rockets, which emerged in the early 1960s. The recovered stanchion came from NASA flight support equipment used to mount ISS batteries onto a cargo pallet, which performed an uncontrolled reentry on March 8. No one was hurt, but the incident highlighted the increasing danger posed by falling space debris. SOHO-5008 captured images of April 8 eclipse and comet SOHo-500 8. Chinese astronomer Lin Zixuan captured no less than six objects in a single image. Hubble Space Telescope image captures jets emerging from a newly forming star within the FS Tau multi-star system. European Space Agency has unveiled a mockup of a mock-up of the future Lunar I-Hab. NASA photographer Jim Ross earned first place in the People category of the NASA Photo of the Year 2023 contest. The image shows the English Channel and the North Sea surrounded by bright city lights.