The year in space: Why 2022 was a pivotal year for exploration and discovery

Space fans had much to celebrate in 2022.

showing stars and galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago. The Webb telescope also captured towering “cliffs” of gas and other never-before-seen features of a star-forming region known as the Carina Nebula, and a huge expanding shell of gas around a dying star..

NASA's megarocket makes its way toward Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Nov. 4.Over the course of the 26-day Artemis I mission, the spacecraft orbited the moon and snapped detailed images of the lunar surface. The capsule also carried a set of mannequins equipped with sensors to gather data about radiation exposure and other conditions of deep space travel.

A spacecraft built by a private Japanese company called ispace also launched into space on Dec. 11 on a mission to become the first commercial venture to land on the lunar surface. The so-called Hakuto-R mission is now on a monthslong journey to the moon, and it's expected to arrive in the spring. Ispace is attempting to make history by landing the first privately funded craft on the moon.

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