News and notes (part III)

• Japanese commercial spaceship doesn't land safely on the Moon
  • Go to 01:09:20 for the dramatic part
• The dwarf planet Quaoar has ANOTHER ring
  • The first one was announced earlier this year Morgado et al., Nature, 614, 239 (2023)

    

  • The second one was just found last week
    • popular science summary
    • Pereira et al., A&A (accepted) 2023
• Will astronomers build a gigantic fluidic mirror in space?
• A (barely) total solar eclipse on April 20
  • Watch video recorded of the event in Australia
• What can we learn from the failure (so far) of SETI?
  • Short interview with one of the authors

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