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  Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2023 Every giant was once a baby, though you may never have seen them at that stage of their development. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has begun to shed light on formative years in the history of the universe that have thus far been beyond reach: the formation and assembly of galaxies. For the first time, a protocluster of seven galaxies has been confirmed at a distance that astronomers refer to as redshift 7.9, or a mere 650 million years after the big bang. Based on the data collected, astronomers cal ... read more |
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Potential Failure Modes of SpaceX's StarshipBethesda, MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2023 On April 20, 2023, a little after 9:30 A.M. eastern time SpaceX's new Starship system lifted off from the company's southeast Texas spaceport. This was an historic event because the Starship is the ... more  
Wanted: new ideas to live off Moon resourcesParis (ESA) Apr 21, 2023 Making use of the very first resources of another world would be a major feat for our species, bringing us closer to living in space to stay. But reaching such a milestone will take sustained invent ... more 
CAPSTONE Demonstrates Crosslink Capability with Lunar Reconnaissance OrbiterWashington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2023 The CAPSTONE mission team has provided an update on the spacecraft's operations since performing the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) insertion maneuver on November 13th, 2022. The spacecraft has ... more 
Starship moves fast and breaks thingsStarbase TX (AFP) Apr 23 2023 Flying chunks of concrete, twisted metal sheets, craters blasted deep into the ground: the thunderous power of SpaceX's first test flight of Starship - the biggest and most powerful rocket ever buil ... more |
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SpaceX rocket explosion rained brown debris on nearby parks, townWashington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2023 Even as SpaceX said its Starship "flight termination system" worked as designed, Thursday's spectacular launch failure in Texas also revealed another potential issue with the program locally: explosive debris. ... more  
TESS celebrates fifth year scanning the sky for new worldsParis (ESA) Apr 20, 2023 Now in its fifth year in space, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) remains a rousing success. TESS's cameras have mapped more than 93% of the entire sky, discovered 329 new worlds a ... more  
SuperBIT balloon telescope releases 1st research imagesWashington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2023 The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) that launched on a scientific super pressure balloon April 16, 2023, local time from Wanaka, New Zealand, captured its first research images f ... more 
Goddard team builds, tests calibrator for NASA's Roman Telescope in record timeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 A vital subsystem for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, and installed in the spacecraft's Wide Field Instrument (WFI). Called th ... more |
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SwRI-led team observes Australian eclipse in preparation for 2024 US eclipseSan Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2023 Scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) led a team in the unique Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) experiment to image the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, during ... more  
Defying gravityWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 21, 2023 Surely it has ever happened to you to shake an open bag of mixed nuts. Have you noticed that after such a procedure, the largest nuts in the mixture - Brazil nuts - float to the top? The phenomenon ... more 
Clouds for your eclipse? NASA experiment will fly kite to rise aboveGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 Imagine you traveled thousands of miles to see a total solar eclipse, but as the Moon began moving in front of the Sun, the sky grows cloudy, blocking your view of the unique celestial spectacle. ... more 
Metal-poor stars are more life-friendlyGottingen, Germany (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 Stars that contain comparatively large amounts of heavy elements provide less favourable conditions for the emergence of complex life than metal-poor stars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institu ... more |
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NASA marks Hubble's 33rd anniversary with detailed star-formation imageWashington DC (UPI) Apr 20, 2023 NASA astronomers marked 33 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope Thursday by releasing a high-quality image of the NGC 1333 star-forming region. ... more 
Building telescopes on the Moon would transform astronomyLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organised by multiple space agencies - and increasingly by commercial companies - are set to visit the Moon by the end of this deca ... more  
General Atomics completes commissioning of space environmental testing chambersSan Diego CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2023 General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) reports that the Thermal Vacuum Chamber commissioning has been completed at the company's Centennial, CO space system development facilities. T ... more  
NASA releases agency strategy for planetary defense to safeguard EarthWashington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 To help guide NASA's efforts over the next decade, the agency has released its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan. For three decades, NASA has engaged in studying near-Earth objects (N ... more |
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ESA's technical centre expandsNoordwijk, Netherlands at ESA Paris (ESA) Apr 21, 2023 The current expansion of ESA's technical heart, nestled beside North Sea dunes on the Netherlands coast, as seen from the air. The European Space Research and Technol ... more 
Musk forms X.AI artificial intelligence companySan Francisco (AFP) April 15, 2023 Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday. ... more  
Northrop Grumman's S.S. Sally Ride departs International Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2023 Northrop Grumman's autonomous Cygnus spaceship will leave the International Space Station on Friday morning carrying away more than 8,000 pounds of trash from the orbiting laboratory, ... more  
Hey Percy, look at those bouldersPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2023 This past week, Perseverance has been exploring the top of the western fan in Jezero crater. Scientists have been waiting a long time to examine, up close, one of the terrains observed in this area: ... more |
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