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Behold: The Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’
Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by Hubble in 2010.
Read MoreDark Matter Remains Elusive – For Now
The first run of a new dark matter experiment turns up nothing — but that still tells us something. The post Dark Matter Remains Elusive – For Now appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreNASA will unveil the James Webb Space Telescope’s 1st science photos this week. Here’s how to watch.
After half a year of in-space commissioning work, NASA will release the first science images from its next-generation space observatory in July. Here’s how you can tune in to the historic event for free. The James Webb Space Telescope carries four cutting-edge instruments designed to examine everything from solar system objects to distant, old galaxies formed in the early universe only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The instruments are roughly halfway through their mode checks as the observatory continues clicking through milestones smoothly in deep space…
Read MoreOn This Day In Space: July 10, 1962: 1st private space mission launches
On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live television from Europe to the United States. This was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Telstar 1 in Pictures: Legacy of 1st TV Communications Satellite Related stories: Two days after the launch, Telstar 1 transmitted the world’s first transatlantic television signal. This demonstrated that transmitting information via satellite was feasible. Telstar transmitted images of President John F. Kennedy, singer Yves Montand from France, sporting events, Mount Rushmore, and the…
Read MoreWatch SpaceX launch 46 satellites and land a rocket at sea Sunday evening
SpaceX will launch 46 satellites and land a rocket at sea on Sunday (July 10), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 46 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday at 9:39 p.m. EDT (6:39 p.m. local California time; 0139 GMT on July 11). Watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company (opens in new tab). Coverage will begin about 10 minutes before liftoff. If all goes…
Read MoreHubble Spots a Merging Galactic Gem
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion.
Read MoreJames Webb Space Telescope will heat up studies of our solar system’s ‘ice giants’
NASA’s next-generation space telescope has a blue-eyed special among its solar system observations. The James Webb Space Telescope will soon turn its attention to two intriguing “ice giants” — Uranus and Neptune — after releasing its first operational images on July 12. Webb’s sharp eyes and deep-space location will be especially valuable in ferreting out details about these two worlds, given only a single spacecraft (Voyager 2) cruised by them briefly in the 1980s. Since then, scientists have been forced to use numerous telescopes to keep tab on the weather…
Read MoreCatch the moon shining next to the blood-red star Antares on Sunday
Look up to the southern sky on Sunday (July 10) to see the waxing gibbous moon shining brightly next to the luminous red star Antares. The pair will be close enough to share the view in a pair of binoculars, as demonstrated by the green circle in the image above. You’ll also be able to catch the duo using a low magnification telescope. “Antares will sparkle two finger widths” to the lower right of the moon, according to geophysicist Chris Vaughan, an amateur astronomer with SkySafari Software who oversees Space.com’s…
Read MoreGallery: James Webb Space Telescope’s 1st photos
An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Fine Guidance Sensor reveals hundreds of distant galaxies. (Image credit: NASA, CSA, and FGS team) NASA will unveil the first science-quality images from its next-generation James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday (July 12). You can watch the event live here on Space.com courtesy of the agency beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT). As highly anticipated as these images will be, they aren’t the first photos from the massive space observatory. The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as JWST or…
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