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[ad_1] HOUSTON — On a humming museum floor, I came face-to-face with a NASA astronaut in the shadow of the moon.I was next to an image of Jessica Watkins, who in 2022 completed the first long-duration mission by a Black woman astronaut. (She flew on SpaceX's Crew-4...
[ad_1] JUICE launches to Jupiter and its moons. A new JWST image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Machine learning cleans up the Universe, and improves images of a black hole’s event horizon. Terran 1 is dead, long live Terran R. JUICE Launch JUICE is on its way to...
[ad_1] This pair of images captures the rotation of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer’s solar arrays during their deployment after launch on 14 April.The images were taken by Juice monitoring camera 1 (JMC1), which is located on the front of the spacecraft and looks...
[ad_1] Skywatchers, set your alarm clocks. Early tomorrow morning (that is, after midnight tonight), the moon and Saturn will make a close approach in the night sky, an event known as an appulse.Of course, the moon and Saturn won't physically be very close to one...
[ad_1] Astronomers have used machine learning to sharpen up the Event Horizon Telescope’s first picture of a black hole — an exercise that demonstrates the value of artificial intelligence for fine-tuning cosmic observations. The image should guide scientists as they...
[ad_1] Watch a replay of the launch broadcast for ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice.Juice was launched into space on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 14 April 2023, on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter. It will make detailed observations of...
[ad_1] This image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field was taken by the Near-Infrared Camera on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The Webb image observes the field at depths comparable to Hubble — revealing galaxies of similar faintness — in just one-tenth as much...
[ad_1] Spaceflight takes a serious toll on the human body. As NASA’s Twin Study demonstrates, long-duration stays in space lead to muscle and bone density loss. There are also notable effects on the cardiovascular, central nervous, and endocrine systems, as well as...
[ad_1] Science & Exploration 13/04/2023 2182 views 47 likes Data from ESA’s star-mapping Gaia spacecraft has allowed astronomers to image a gigantic exoplanet using Japan's Subaru Telescope. This world is the first confirmed exoplanet found by Gaia’s ability to...
[ad_1] Carl Sagan, the acclaimed astronomer, astrophysicist and author who introduced a whole generation to the wonders of the heavens with his bestselling "Cosmos" science book and TV series and made saying the phrase "billions and billions" so much fun, is getting a...