by rmil2k | Jul 8, 2024 | News
[ad_1] On Saturday 29 June, thousands of visitors made their way to ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), as part of the very first ESA open day to be held in the UK. ECSAT is located at the Harwell Science and Innovation...
by rmil2k | Jul 8, 2024 | News
[ad_1] The space environment is harsh and full of extreme radiation. Scientists designing spacecraft and satellites need materials that can withstand these conditions.In a paper published in January 2024, my team of materials researchers demonstrated that a...
by rmil2k | Jul 8, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Friday, July 5Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not perfectly circular, such that our planet sits marginally farther from the Sun in July and closer to it in January. Today, Earth reaches aphelion, that farthest point from the Sun, at 1 A.M. EDT. At that time, we...
by rmil2k | Jul 7, 2024 | News
[ad_1] It looks like a distant ring with three sparkly jewels, but the Webb telescope’s (JWST) most recent image is really the view of a distant quasar lensed by a nearby elliptical galaxy. The telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) looked at the faint apparition...
by rmil2k | Jul 7, 2024 | News
[ad_1] The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured a rare, cloud-free image over the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira in the North Atlantic Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more.Lying off the northwest...
