<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Good morning all,</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""> I returned from Norway and Denmark late Thursday. It was awesome…the kids in both countries are wonderful…this was my 7th visit to Norway and 3rd to Denmark. Everyone in both counties has been so supportive, so kind…so many help me and are get the kids psyched for the presentation….I spoke with over 2,000 students… after an evening presentation with university students a group of us went to dinner and watched the landing of InSight on Mars…</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">I hope you were able to see it as well as share it with the kids…it was an amazing accomplishment….a 7 month mission…culminating with a very tricky entry through Mars’ atmosphere and then landing….for those who watched it gives us an indication of what it will be like when people try to go to Mars…being aware, once there, they will have to stay for 23 months before the planets are close enough to return. </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">While InSight has been the primary focus there have also been supply ships to the International Space Station and in December and crew will head to the ISS...which is critical on keeping humans on the ISS…remember the last crew launched to the ISS had a major malfunction destroying the rocker, creating a ballistic reentry of the crew…thankfully with no injuries…the current crew must return Jan 5th, if this launch is not successful it will be the first time in over 18 yers there have not been human presence on the ISS…</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">we
have to remember to always do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the
present, make each day special, let those we care about most know, smile and
have fun…:-) :-) </font><span style="font-size: large;" class="">love ya, Gabe</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <font size="4" color="#ff2600" class="">tusen takk Norway & mange tak Denmark for two amazing weeks….</font></div><div class=""><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><div id="1543593149764" tabindex="3" class="img-zoom-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"></div></div><figcaption class="fig-cap" id="nointelliTXT" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fig-desc" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="30E955D0-31D6-4B58-A920-AC5ABAA2C76D" src="cid:57F161A0-9BFB-4981-B23A-E26E52C21DFF" class=""></div><div class="fig-desc" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">at dinner, while watching InSight...</div><div class="fig-desc" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="769A146C-A39F-41C6-A55F-9A45483D7A23" src="cid:F5079262-4388-47C7-BCBE-AA8F943E494D" class=""></div><div class="fig-desc" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div class="fig-desc" style="font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="70%" align="left" class="devicewidth" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: auto; margin: auto; padding: 0px; width: 375px; caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center !important;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="margin: auto; padding: 0px;" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" class="mobile-td-size" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: auto; margin: auto;"><tbody class=""><tr class="hide"><td height="5" style="margin: auto;" class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="left" valign="middle" class="hed-top" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px;"><strong class=""><a href="http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=8214dedf7a53a3409c1483207ec178dde0a163b6f44665ce51b1674772081d95c98be4a24a607d9cd638d910ec620220fe31080a54298355891eb6ccb47ab4f6" style="color: rgb(0, 151, 242); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold;" class="">What's Next for NASA's New Mars Lander?</a><br class=""><br class=""><font color="#0097f2" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 22px;" class=""><a href="https://www.space.com/42541-mars-insight-lander-success.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20181127-sdc" class="">https://www.space.com/42541-mars-insight-lander-success.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20181127-sdc</a></span></font><br class=""></strong><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><div id="1543593711814" tabindex="4" class="img-zoom-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img class="lazy z-loaded loaded pure-img" big-src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4MS8wNzYvb3JpZ2luYWwvaW5zaWdodC1tYXJzLWxhbmRlci1kaWFncmFtLWFsbC1hYm91dC1zcGFjZS5qcGc/MTU0MzEyNDQ3Mw==" data-src="https://img.purch.com/w/640/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4MS8wNzYvaTAyL2luc2lnaHQtbWFycy1sYW5kZXItZGlhZ3JhbS1hbGwtYWJvdXQtc3BhY2UuanBnPzE1NDMxMjQ0NzM=" alt="A diagram of NASA's InSight Mars lander and its science instruments to look inside the Red Planet." style="margin: 0px; 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line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;">Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech - Adrian Mann/Tobias Roetsch/Future Plc</cite></figcaption><strong style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; color: rgb(0, 151, 242); font-weight: bold;" class=""><br class=""></strong><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font size="5" class="">NASA TV to Air Next International Space Station Crew Launch, Docking</font></h1><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto 2em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/45924436172_6522365898_k.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left)," title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="6E2FD962-D4D8-4A91-ACC9-96365515FB78" src="cid:D9ADB88C-C3EF-4607-91E8-EEB1B6016812" class=""></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">I</span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">n the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 58 crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) pose for pictures Nov. 20 in front of their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft.</span></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Credits: NASA/Victor Zelentsov</span></div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Three space travelers, including two astronauts on their first flight, are scheduled to launch to the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/station" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">International Space Station</a> on Monday, Dec. 3 for a six-and-a-half month mission. Live coverage will air on NASA Television and the agency’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/live" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">website</a>. <span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class="">At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/anne-c-mcclain" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Anne McClain</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class=""> of NASA, David Saint-Jacquesof the Canadian Space Agency, and Oleg Kononenkoof Roscosmos are preparing to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft Dec. 3 at 6:31 a.m. EST (5:31 p.m. Kazakhstan time). </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">Following a six-hour journey making four orbits of Earth, the crew will dock the Soyuz to the station’s Poisk module at 12:35 p.m. to begin their mission on the orbital laboratory. It will be the first flight for both McClain and Saint-Jacques and the fourth for Kononenko. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class="">Less than two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open, and the current crew, Expedition 57 Commander </span><a href="https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Alexander_Gerst" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Alexander Gerst</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class=""> of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA Flight Engineer </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/serena-m-aunon-chancellor" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Serena Auñón-Chancellor</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class=""> and Roscosmos Flight Engineer </span><a href="http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=201" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Sergey Prokopyev</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class="">, who have been in orbit since June, will greet them. </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">Kononenko, McClain and Saint-Jacques will officially become the Expedition 58 crew when Gerst, Aunon-Chancellor and Prokopyev depart the station for home Dec. 20. </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">Coverage of the Expedition crew’s launch and docking activities are as follow (all times EST):</span></font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><strong style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Monday, Dec. 3</font></strong></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font size="4" class="">5:30 a.m. – Soyuz MS-11 launch coverage (launch at 6:31 a.m.)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font size="4" class="">11:45 a.m. – Docking coverage (docking scheduled for 12:35 p.m.)</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font size="4" class="">1:45 p.m. – Hatch opening (expected at about 2:35 p.m.) and welcome coverage</font></li></ul><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">A full complement of video of the </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html" style="text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">crew’s pre-launch activities</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> in Baikonur will air on NASA TV in the days preceding launch beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 27. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class="">The crew members will continue work on </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">hundreds of experiments</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center;" class=""> in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard the International Space Station, humanity’s only permanently occupied microgravity laboratory. </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have worked closely with Russian space officials and station program partner Roscosmos to move forward on plans to launch the crew, completing a series of reviews including the station program’s Flight Readiness Review. Station program officials will continue to follow the usual prelaunch process with Roscosmos to ensure the safety of the crew during its upcoming launch. McClain and Saint-Jacques also expressed confidence in the reliability of the Soyuz rocket and the partners’ efforts for a successful launch. </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter at: </span><strong style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font color="#428bca" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="http://instagram.com/iss" class="">http://instagram.com/iss</a></span></font> </strong><span style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">and </span><strong style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font color="#428bca" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station" class="">http://www.twitter.com/Space_Station</a></span></font></strong></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=6a2ebfe7b062e2743f2b1ac3bc7047ac50958633f909dd70b43df19e294dfaa76cd9dfcd639ee8c53444118be865872ed53d9296226521575499b428b2759320" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; color: rgb(0, 151, 242); font-weight: bold;" class=""><strong class="">Epic Crash of Neutron Stars Creates 'Hypermassive Magnetar'</strong></a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><div id="1543594740253" tabindex="3" class="img-zoom-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img class="pure-img z-loaded" big-src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4MC83ODkvb3JpZ2luYWwvbGlnby1tZXJnaW5nLW5ldXRyb24tc3RhcnMuanBn" alt="Epic Crash of Neutron Stars Creates 'Hypermassive Magnetar'" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; display: block; cursor: zoom-in;" apple-inline="yes" id="2CE4B1AE-5DB3-4171-83FE-646532878F1C" src="cid:60FA2FDC-81FE-4E7C-8304-8AB83B5CCD13"><div id="1543594740253-3" class="img-zoom-sub" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; width: 0px; position: fixed; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; transition: height 0.2s ease-in-out, width 0.2s ease-in-out; cursor: zoom-out;"><img class="img-zoom" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; z-index: 10003; max-width: 98%; min-width: 30%; max-height: 98%; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="0A2C3E01-D6DD-4EB8-992C-CCA55487E700" src="cid:53C89C20-9618-4F57-9E19-9AF84660DAB0"></div></div></div><figcaption class="fig-cap" id="nointelliTXT" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">An artist's illustration of two merging neutron stars. Astronomers spotted gravitational waves and light emitted by such an event in August 2017.</div><cite class="fig-credit" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;">Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet</cite></figcaption></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="article-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class=""><font size="4" class="">The historic neutron-star crash that astronomers observed last year didn't generate a black hole after all, at least not initially, a recent study suggests. </font><span style="font-size: large; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">In October 2017, researchers announced that they had detected both light and gravitational waves — the ripples in space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago — emanating from the</span><span style="font-size: large; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.space.com/38469-gravitational-waves-from-neutron-stars-discovery-ligo.html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" class="">merger of two superdense stellar corpses</a><span style="font-size: large; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: large; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">known as neutron stars. </span><span style="font-size: large; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">This epic collision — called GW170817, because it was first spotted on Aug. 17, 2017 — marked the beginning of the era of "multimessenger astrophysics," astronomers said. This term refers to the study of a cosmic object or phenomenon using at least two different types of signals. [</span><a href="https://www.space.com/38472-neutron-star-crash-gravitational-waves-discovery-pictures.html" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" class="">Neutron-Star Crash: A Gravitational Waves Discovery in Pictures</a><span style="font-size: large; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; text-align: center;" class="">]</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><p class="rtecenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://click.emails.purch.com/?qs=6a2ebfe7b062e2746fc38f05bccf28f5efeb5187207af31fa6109a90fe56693f692e66baf5227477dfd03c16a847206563d82cf4d0988a7ca9b3fccf2fe402e6" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; text-align: -webkit-left; color: rgb(0, 151, 242); font-weight: bold;" class=""><strong class="">Voyager 2 Creeps Closer to the Edge of the Solar System</strong></a></p><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><div id="1543595049923" tabindex="3" class="img-zoom-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><img class="pure-img z-loaded" big-src="https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA4MC83OTMvb3JpZ2luYWwvdm95YWdlci0yLWFydC5qcGc=" alt="Voyager 2 Creeps Closer to the Edge of the Solar System" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; display: block; cursor: zoom-in;" apple-inline="yes" id="EC052965-E817-4E8C-89B9-E736CCD49488" src="cid:680DF80F-F690-4FF6-AF23-C5337695DA30"><div id="1543595049923-3" class="img-zoom-sub" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; width: 0px; position: fixed; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; transition: height 0.2s ease-in-out, width 0.2s ease-in-out; cursor: zoom-out;"><img class="img-zoom" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; z-index: 10003; max-width: 98%; min-width: 30%; max-height: 98%; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="2A76B886-5E6D-4042-9ACB-4B0FFC00D8A9" src="cid:D43452FB-449C-4E4B-9B30-9A53838C16D7"></div></div></div><figcaption class="fig-cap" id="nointelliTXT" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">An artist's depiction of the Voyager 2 probe traveling through our solar system.</span></div><cite class="fig-credit" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><br class=""></cite></figcaption><div class="pr-contacts" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: FreeSans, Arimo, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(91, 91, 91); caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91);" class=""><font size="4" class="">Going, going — nope, it's still just going, NASA says of its Voyager 2 probe, which the agency realized was approaching the edge of the solar system back in <a href="https://www.space.com/42040-voyager-2-approaching-solar-system-edge.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" class="">early October</a>. <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2018/11/14/excitement-increases-as-voyager-2-sees-a-decrease-in-heliospheric-particles/" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" class="">In a statement</a><span style="text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">released yesterday (Nov. 14), NASA shared additional data from the probe that gives engineers a sense of where the spacecraft currently is in relation to the solar system. </span><a href="https://www.space.com/17693-voyager-2.html" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;" class="">The Voyager 2 probe</a><span style="text-align: center; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">, which launched in 1977, swung past the gas giants of our solar system, making this spacecraft the only device to gather detailed data about Uranus and Neptune. Then, its mission complete, Voyager 2 barrelled on, out toward the edge of our solar system.</span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="magnify-wrapper iZoom img-zoom-in" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(91, 91, 91); color: rgb(91, 91, 91);"><div id="1543593149764" tabindex="3" class="img-zoom-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><br class=""><div id="1543593149764-3" class="img-zoom-sub" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; width: 0px; position: fixed; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; transition: height 0.2s ease-in-out, width 0.2s ease-in-out; cursor: zoom-out;"><img class="img-zoom" apple-inline="yes" id="DFEAFB4A-F3E7-49AF-A2FF-CDB38BD5C1FE" style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; z-index: 10003; max-width: 98%; min-width: 30%; max-height: 98%; left: 0px; right: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px;" width="1282" height="689" src="cid:F8EDC1BF-BE2C-4E55-A13E-C12D25E4DDD6"></div></div></div><figcaption class="fig-cap" id="nointelliTXT" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(211, 211, 211); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><br class=""></div><div class="fig-desc" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;"><br class=""></div></figcaption></figcaption></div></body></html>