Four and a half months after the James Webb Space Telescopethe day of Christmas launchengineers have achieved near-perfect alignment of its complex optical system, paving the way for final instrument calibrations and the release of the first demonstration science images in July, officials said Monday. “I am delighted to report that the telescope alignment has … Read more
Four and a half months after the James Webb Space Telescopethe day of Christmas launchengineers have achieved near-perfect alignment of its complex optical system, paving the way for final instrument calibrations and the release of the first scientific demonstration images in July, officials said Monday. “I am delighted to report that the telescope alignment has … Read more
The £240million mission is set to take place in September as new technology is being developed to launch a half-ton spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos similar to the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up New £240m NASA mission set to take place in September ( Image: Getty Images/RF Science Photo Library) NASA is about to … Read more
Yimei Zhu and Junjie Li at the 3 MeV Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Instrument at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Accelerator Test Facility. This instrument acts as a high-resolution stroboscopic “camera” to follow the trajectories of atoms. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Imagine a computer that can think as fast as the human brain while using very little energy. … Read more
Scientists studying the underside of the world’s largest ice cap in Antarctica have discovered a lake the size of a city. The lake, called Lake Snow Eagle, sits in a mile-deep canyon in the highlands of Antarctica’s Princess Elizabeth Land, a few hundred miles from the coast. The area of the lake is approximately 370 … Read more
Comparison of an image from the Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument of the Large Magellanic Cloud and an earlier image of the same view using the Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (left), NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (right)
Scientists are set to unveil something “groundbreaking” about the center of the Milky Way this week, and it could involve our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. On Thursday morning, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration will hold a press conference to announce what has been teased as “groundbreaking … Read more
A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is between the full moon and the sun. The eclipse will begin when Earth’s shadow appears on the Moon at 10:27 p.m. Sunday evening. it’s also the Flower Moon, a name given to the full moon in May because “flowers are springing in abundance across North America this month.” … Read more
On a fateful day around 66 million years ago, a 7.5 mile wide (12 kilometer) space rock crashed into Earth, setting off a series of events that ended the age of the dinosaurs . From a dinosaur perspective, it’s one of the unluckiest days of life on Earth, and a new special is piecing together … Read more
InSight’s Spectrogram of the Great Martian Earthquake: This spectrogram shows the largest earthquake ever detected on another planet. Estimated at a magnitude of 5, this earthquake was discovered by NASA’s InSight lander on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ETH Zurich. Download picture › Estimated at a … Read more