Hey! Did you hear what happened yesterday?

Guess what? The news was buzzing yesterday about something super exciting in space! The Guardian, a big newspaper, had a headline asking, "There’s a new space race – will the billionaires win?" Pretty cool, right? It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie!

Let's break it down!

So, what's this "new space race" all about? Well, imagine back in the old days, countries like the USA and Russia were competing to be the first to send people to the moon or launch satellites. That was the original space race! Now, it's like we're having a sequel, but this time, it's not just governments. Some really rich folks, you know, billionaires, are getting into the game big time! They're building their own rockets and spaceships, dreaming of sending tourists to space or even building colonies on other planets. It’s a super exciting time, with lots of new ideas and technologies popping up!

NASA's Pick of the Day

Okay, get this! While all that space race stuff is happening, NASA also shared an absolutely breathtaking picture from right here on Earth yesterday. Imagine standing at an ancient, mysterious place called Stonehenge in the United Kingdom. It’s got these giant stones that people put there over 4,500 years ago!

Yesterday was a super special day called a "solstice." Think of it like this: our amazing planet Earth is always spinning and zooming around the Sun. Sometimes, the Sun looks like it's taking a really long trip south in our sky, reaching its absolute lowest point before it starts its journey back up. That exact moment is the solstice! For folks in the Northern part of the world (like where Stonehenge is), it marks the official start of winter – hello, longest night of the year! And for our friends in the Southern parts, it's the start of summer – yay, sunshine!

The photo NASA showed was taken at Stonehenge, capturing our gigantic, glowing Sun – which is like a 4.5 billion-year-old super star – setting perfectly between those ancient stones. It's wild because even though our Earth has wiggled and wobbled a tiny bit over thousands of years (that's called "precession," like a spinning top that slowly tilts), those ancient builders somehow knew exactly where to place those stones so the Sun would still put on this amazing show today. Pretty cool, right? It just shows how smart and connected to the cosmos people were, even way back then!