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WO DAYS FROM ULTIMA THULE: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on Ultima Thule, a mysterious object 4 billion miles from Earth. On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, New Horizons will swoop three times closer to Ultima Thule than it flew past Pluto in 2015. "The anticipation is palpable now: we are on the verge of an important scientific exploration almost 20 years in the making and, in many ways, unlike any other ever attempted," says the mission's principal investigator Alan Stern. Stay tuned for live coverage despite the US government shutdown.

Climate Change

218 zero sunspot days in 2018

UV index dropping

The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018, and the sun’s ultraviolet output has sharply dropped. New research shows that Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding.

“We see a cooling trend,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/09/27/the-chill-of-solar-minimum/