Friday, July 8, 2022

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Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), or K2 for short, is currently soaring through the skies at speeds of around 615km/sec and it will make its closest approach to Earth on Thursday July 14. An exciting time for astronomers and stargazers, as this is one of the ...
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Space.com
The James Webb Space Telescope will soon turn its eyes to the solar system's king, the gas giant Jupiter. Jupiter is a complex system full of mysteries, hosting realms of questions concerning the nature ...
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Space.com
The latest instrument to be tested, calibrated and verified by the mission team was the telescope's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). This instrument has four key modes, which the team officially confirmed are ready to ...
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The Verge
Let's get it in the schedule as soon as we can so we can continue,'" Friedman, the lead commissioning scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute, or STScI, tells The Verge. "And that was a tricky business.".
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CNN
(CNN) Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new species of dinosaur, with disproportionately short arms like those of Tyrannosaurus rex. A fossil of Meraxes gigas, as the new dinosaur has been called ...
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Space.com
A citizen scientist used old telescope data to find a trove of binary star systems that include what are sometimes dubbed "failed stars." These stars, also known as brown dwarfs, are mysterious objects with more than 12 times the mass of Jupiter and ...
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CNET
The JWST team has completed 15 of 17 "modes," or checkpoints, on the road to booting up the telescope. Why it matters. Successful testing means we're still on the path to receiving the first JWST images on July 12. It's almost time.
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Space.com
Magnify your vision with binoculars or a telescope and those round blemishes multiply rapidly. The moon is covered by impact craters large and small, evidence of a violent history of bombardment by celestial bodies like comets and asteroids.
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Phys.Org
Two studies published in the journal Science by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany in collaboration with colleagues in China have discovered natural cellular molecules that drive critical plant ...
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Gizmodo
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has seen amazing things since it launched over sixteen years ago. It has cruised by Jupiter, peeked at erupting volcanos on Io, and most famously, zipped past Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
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