It's the July 4th long weekend edition! Anna and Avery bring you the four biggest space stories of the past five days plus two brand new stories: the Swift rescue mission's LINK spacecraft finally launches successfully, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins its historic 10-year sky survey from Chile, a G2–G3 geomagnetic storm brings aurora chances for the holiday weekend, a recap on a promising nearby habitable-zone super-Earth, a stunning new James Webb 'cosmic fireworks' image released for America's 250th birthday, and a rare close conjunction between Mars and Uranus visible before dawn today.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Swift rescue mission — LINK launches at last
03:30 Vera Rubin Observatory begins decade-long sky survey
07:00 Aurora alert — G2–G3 geomagnetic storm for July 4
10:00 Recap: potentially habitable super-Earth 25 light-years away
12:30 JWST's July 4 gift — cosmic fireworks in FS Tau
16:00 Mars and Uranus in rare close conjunction
20:00 Closing
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