In astronomy news: do protoplanets form like smarties, the brightest object ever discovered, the Event Horizon Telescope zooms in on a jet around a blackhole, gravastars as an alternative to blackholes, Euclid has started it’s science mission, images of Jupiter’s moon IO, methane on dwarf planets, Saturn’s death star moon Mimas may have a subsurface ocean, asteroids with water and planets in the Orion Nebula. In space news: Moon landing updates from the JAXA SLIM and Intuitive Machine missions, ESA ERS-2 satellites to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere, Astroscale's Adras-J mission launched to clean up space debris by chasing it, Japan's New H3 Rocket Successfully Blasts Off, the Osiris Rex final haul and the LISA mission has been given the go ahead.