An asteroid tracker says the object is likely the 3rd stage of a Chinese rocket that sent a test sample capsule to the moon and back in 2014, but China says the junk isn’t theirs.
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James Webb Space Telescope: An astronomer on the team explains how to send a giant telescope to space – and why
The James Webb Space Telescope was launched into space on Dec. 25, 2021, and with it, astronomers hope to find the first galaxies to form in the universe, will search for Earthlike atmospheres around other planets and accomplish many other scientific goals. I am an astronomer and the principal investigator for the Near Infrared Camera – or NIRCam for short – […]
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How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first galaxies of the universe
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on the 24th of April, 32 years ago. It’s an impressive milestone especially as its expected lifespan was just 10 years. One of the primary reasons for the Hubble telescope’s longevity is that it can be serviced and improved with new observational instruments through regular space visits. When Hubble, or […]
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination, 1.5 million km from Earth. Here’s what happens next
All of Webb’s major spacecraft deployments, including the unfurling of the primary mirror and sunshield, were completed on January 8.
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The James Webb Space Telescope will map the atmosphere of exoplanets
Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, are found at distances very far from Earth. For example, the closest exoplanet to us, Proxima Centauri b, is 4.2 light years away, or 265,000 times the distance between the Earth and the sun. To the naked eye, the planets in the solar system appear as bright […]
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Space station remains at high risk from debris from Russian weapons test
NASA and the State Department have condemned the missile strike, saying it also puts satellites and China’s space station at risk.
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Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star
The collision was more than one billion light-years away.
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NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’
The Perseverance rover will spend the next two years exploring the dry river delta and drilling into rocks that may hold evidence of life.
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Two black holes merged into a size astronomers have never before seen
The first ever discovered intermediate black hole, which is 142 times the mass of the sun, formed in a violent collision about 7 billion years ago.
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launches first manned test flight to space station
The flight ends a nine-year launch drought for NASA, which retired the space shuttle in 2011.