China's Groundbreaking Rocket Catch, Cosmic Quasars, and Remembering Wally Funk | A Weekend Wrap

Astronomy Daily S05E138 — Weekend Space and Astronomy News Wrap — Saturday, 11 July 2026 China nets a rocket booster from the sea for the first time ever, we remember space pioneer Wally Funk, and we recap the week's four biggest stories: Euclid's 31 ancient quasars, mystery metal spheres on a Queensland beach, JWST's unexplained substance on Titan and Pluto, and New Horizons waking from hibernation at the solar system's edge. In This Episode • China's Long March 10B rocket achieves the world's first-ever sea-net booster recovery, on its maiden flight • Remembering Wally Funk (1939–2026), the oldest woman ever to fly to space • Euclid space telescope uncovers 31 ancient quasars, including two new distance records • Mystery metal spheres wash up on a Queensland beach — identified as rocket debris • JWST finds a mysterious, unidentified substance on both Titan and Pluto • New Horizons wakes from 321-day hibernation, 5.9 billion miles from Earth • Skywatching: the Moon, Mars and the Pleiades line up before dawn


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