by rmil2k | Jul 5, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Back to Article List Win an 8-inch Celestron telescope by recounting your favorite skygazing tale. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Bianchi (The Johns Hopkins University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) In the autumn of 2002, I had a...
by rmil2k | Jul 5, 2023 | News
[ad_1] On Saturday, July 1st (Canada Day!), the ESA’s Euclid space telescope lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. This next-generation astrophysics mission will spend the next few weeks flying to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange Point, where it will spend the next six...
by rmil2k | Jul 5, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Science & Exploration 03/07/2023 1303 views 45 likes Taking into account the extreme conditions spacewalk suits must withstand to protect our astronauts, participants were challenged to design a suit that is instantly recognisable for ESA astronauts. The...
by rmil2k | Jul 5, 2023 | News
[ad_1] A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows that when it comes to galaxies, appearances can be deceiving.The picture shows a serene-looking orange-red galaxy, but this cosmic spiral of gas, dust, and stars hides a violent past representing the...
by rmil2k | Jul 4, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Clusters and nebulae come together to create shining July evenings. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly In his 1888 book Astronomy With an Opera-Glass, Garrett Serviss wrote: “The Milky Way, streaming down out of the northeast, pours, in a luminous flood, through...
