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April 16, 2019April 16, 2019

Despite the Crash, SpaceIL is Going Back to the Moon with Beresheet 2

Israel's Beresheet lunar lander took a selfie and an Earthie on its way to the Moon. Image Credit: Israel Space Agency, SpaceIL.

Beresheet, the unlikely lander built with donations to a non-profit group, crashed into the Moon. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a historic accomplishment in its own way. Now SpaceIL, the non-profit behind Beresheet, wants to send another lander to the Moon.

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Near the end of 2019, astronomers watching the red giant Betelgeuse noted how much the star had dimmed, continuing to steadily fade for months.

It’s a variable star, and it’s known to get dimmer and brighter, but the big surprise is that it’s still continuing to dim, recently passing magnitude 1.56 and still getting dimmer. This is unprecedented in the decades that astronomers have been watching the star.

The world’s biggest telescopes are on the case, and the European Southern Observatory released dramatic new images of Betelguese, resolving features on the star’s surface and surrounding area showing how it’s dramatically changed over the course of 2019.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo

https://twitter.com/betelbot/status/1228395402245890048

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2003/

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/vlt-instr/sphere/

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1640a/

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2003b/

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2003a/

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2003d/

https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/vlt-instr/visir/

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