This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08 contains the most strongly magnified galaxy known in the universe’s first billion years: the Sunrise Arc, and within that galaxy, the most distant star ever detected. In this image, the Sunrise Arc appears as a red streak just below the diffraction spike at the 5 o’clock position.
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Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected
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Commander Moonikin Campos Goes Sledding
In this image from April 2023, NASA’s Moonikin Campos enjoys a quiet moment during acceleration sled testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Read MoreChina launches Fengyun-3F meteorological satellite to orbit
China has added a new satellite to its fleet of meteorological spacecraft. A Long March 4C rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Aug. 2 at 11:47 p.m. EDT (0347 GMT; 11:47 a.m. Beijing Time on Aug. 3). Orange smoke from the rocket’s hypergolic propellant billowed out upon ignition, with purple exhaust pushing the rocket into blue skies. Insulation tiles, used to keep propellant at optimum temperatures, fell from the rocket as it climbed. Aboard was the Fengyun-3F satellite, which joins the China Meteorological…
Read MoreWatch SpaceX launch 15 Starlink satellites to orbit tonight
SpaceX plans to launch 15 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 7), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at 11:57 p.m. EDT (8:57 p.m. local California time and 0357 GMT on Aug. 8). Watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company. Coverage is expected to begin about five minutes before launch. Related: Starlink satellite train: How to see and track…
Read MoreAll the ‘Star Trek’ news we found from San Diego Comic-Con 2023
It seems like we’ve only just managed to get past the pandemic and yet now there’s a whole heap of fresh problems facing the convention scene. We are of course talking about the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which are further compounded by the Streaming Wars™. What does all of this boil down to? Well, San Diego Comic-Con 2023 (SDCC) was a significantly smaller-scale affair than previous years. No Marvel or DC or HBO, and Amazon Prime cancelled a whole bunch of events. Even William Shatner cancelled his Hall H talk.…
Read MoreNASA Sets Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station
NASA will provide live coverage beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 9, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to begin about 10:45 a.m., and last up to seven hours.
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Testing New Wheels for the Moon
In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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