In this week's edition of space news from Ad Astra:

- Intuitive Machines IM-1 update coming soon!
- Near miss: A piece of Russian space junk almost collided with a NASA spacecraft
- Dwarf galaxies might have made the universe transparent
- A massive sunspot has been sending solar flares towards Earth
- Japan’s SLIM moon lander survived the lunar night!
- Crew-8 will head to the ISS this week
- Three new moons were discovered in our solar system
- We know why Starship’s second test flight failed

Thumbnail image credit: NASA/SDO (picture is of a CME, not a solar flare)

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - Possible collision between NASA's TIMED and Russia's Cosmos 2221
02:32 - Dwarf galaxies played a big role in reionization
06:05 - Sunspot AR 3590
07:32 - SLIM is awake again
08:55 - New moons of Uranus and Neptune
10:11 - FAA closes investigation into Starship's second launch

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