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heic2404 — Photo Release 14 March 2024 The giant planet Jupiter, in all its banded glory, is revisited by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in these latest images, taken on 5–6 January 2024, that capture both sides of the planet. Hubble monitors Jupiter and...
Back to Article List Meet the newest featherweight champion: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf about 300 times smaller than the Sun. An image of star cluster IC 348, captured by Webb’s NIRCam. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and K. Luhman (Penn State University)...
Climate change is arguably the single greatest threat facing the world today. According to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), average global temperatures are set to increase between 1.5 and 2 °C (2.7 to...
Applications 14/03/2024 23 views 0 likes ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite has passed its environmental test campaign with flying colours – meaning that the satellite has been declared fit for liftoff and its life in the harsh environment of space.This new...
Starship's third-ever test flight is officially on for Thursday morning (March 14).The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today (March 13) that it has awarded a launch license for the mission. "The FAA determined SpaceX met all safety,...
The astronauts of Apollo 12 — Alan Bean, Pete Conrad, and Dick Gordon — experienced a solar eclipse while returning home from the Moon. Their spacecraft flew through Earth’s shadow, allowing them to capture this image on their 16mm motion picture camera....
If you, like me, have dabbled with telescope making you will know what a fickle friend light can be. On one hand you want to capture as much as you can (but only from the object, not from nearby lights) and want to reflect or refract it to the point of...
After more than 6 months on the International Space Station, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen returned to Earth, marking the end of his Huginn mission. It was his second mission to the Space Station and his first long-duration, where he was the pilot of Crew-7,...
A NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying a small ocean world will carry with it a metal plaque etched with the ripples created by the many ways humans say "water."The Europa Clipper Vault Plate was revealed by NASA on Friday (March 8) at the opening session of...
Back to Article List The American astronomer’s most famous claims have long since been debunked. But his legacy lives on in the observatory that bears his name. Percival Lowell, born into wealth and influence, had an outsized role in shaping views of the solar...