The black hole may be lurking at the heart of a globular cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy some 6,000 light-years away from Earth. Tuesday, May 23, 2023: The Hubble Space Telescope may have found a rare medium-sized black hole. – Tereza Pultarova Hubble may have found a rare medium-sized black hole The LEGO astronauts will now be put up as a prize in a draw in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for those who buys and register a new LEGO set.

Two cameras filmed the experiment throughout the ride, one monitoring the crew compartment, the other, attached to a boom, filming a view of the entire platform. According to space architect Tomas Rousek, the team had to make sure that none of the astronauts fell off the roof-less shuttle during the early stages of the platform's descent. The landing platform then returned to Earth under a parachute. The balloon took the mini-spacefarers to the altitude of 21 miles (34 kilometers) where it burst. The shuttle was designed by a team of space architects and engineers from Slovakia and the Czech Republic passionate about inspiring future generations to learn about space, according to the website Czech Crunch. The Legonauts took off from a small airport in Slovakia, seated on a 3D-printed space shuttle-like platform made of a sturdy but lightweight carbon composite material. Wednesday, May 24, 2023: One thousand LEGO astronauts traveled to the edge of space on a stratospheric balloon last weekend and returned safely to Earth on a specially designed landing platform. – Tereza Pultarova LEGO sends 1,000 astronauts to space and lands them safely in a mini space-shuttle The plane successfully landed at Spaceport America in New Mexico about 1 hour and 15 minutes after take off. After its release from the mothership, the spaceplane continued to the edge of space, to the altitude of 50 miles (80 kilometers), treating its eight passengers to about three minutes of weightlessness. The Thursday flight saw Virgin Galactic's twin-fuselage mothership Eve carry the VSS Unity spaceplane to an altitude of roughly 50,000 feet (15,000 meters).

That flight, however, deviated from its approved path during its return to Earth, prompting an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration due to concerns the mishap may have put other aircraft at risk. The flight was the fifth suborbital sortie for Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane and the first since July 11, 2021, when Virgin Group founder Richard Branson was one of the passengers. It’s the home of a super massive black hole, the first black hole ever imaged by planet Earth’s Event Horizon Telescope.Thursday, May 25, 2023: Virgin Galactic has successfully completed a test flight that will pave the way for the company to commence commercial space tourism operations. Of course giant elliptical galaxy M87 dominates the Virgo cluster. Near the middle of the chain lies an intriguing interacting pair of galaxies, NGC 4438 and NGC 4435, known to some as Markarian’s Eyes. M84 and M86 are recognized as part of Markarian’s Chain, a visually striking line-up of galaxies on the left side of this frame. Prominent here are Virgo’s bright elliptical galaxies Messier catalog, M87 at bottom center, and M84 and M86 (top to bottom) near top left. About 50 million light-years distant, the Virgo Cluster is the closest large galaxy cluster to our own local galaxy group. Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster are scattered across this nearly 4 degree wide telescopic field of view. This awesome snapshot was captured by astrophotographer Abdullah Al-Harbi using a cooled, back-illuminated QHY 268M astronomy camera and Askar FRA600 astronomy telescope, mounted on an iOptron CEM-40 tripod. Dominating this galaxy cluster is the giant elliptical galaxy M87. This cluster also includes bright Messier galaxies such as M84 and M86 which are part of the Markarian’s Chain. According to NASA, the Virgo cluster is the nearest cluster of galaxies and contains over 2000 galaxies. Today’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is a snapshot of the Virgo cluster of galaxies located about 50 million light-years away. Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the Universe bound by gravity and astronomers can use them to measure important cosmological properties, according to NASA. Most galaxies exist in groups or clusters with dozens or hundreds of members, and these cluster galaxies are all in constant motion, pulled and twisted by their neighbour’s gravity. Galaxies which exist in the vastness of space, consist of various celestial objects such as stars, clouds of dust, and gas, all of which are bound together by gravity.

Nasa picture of the day