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The Physics of the James Webb Space Telescope

There's truly one other good motive to make use of infrared gentle for the JWST: It's tough to get an unobstructed view of...

Ariel Shapiro - January 7, 2022

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Astronomers Discover a Strange Galaxy Without Dark Matter

Three years in the past, Filippo Fraternali and his colleagues noticed a half dozen mysteriously diffuse galaxies, which seemed like sprawling cities of...

Ariel Shapiro - January 7, 2022

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To Study the Next Earth, NASA May Need to Throw Some Shade

The HabEx group has proposed a 4-meter telescope paired with a coronagraph and a star shade 52 meters in diameter. (“Having both a...

Ariel Shapiro - January 4, 2022

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The James Webb Space Telescope Finally Prepares for Launch

More not too long ago, some astronomers and astrophysicists have argued that NASA ought to rename its new flagship observatory. In a March...

Ariel Shapiro - December 23, 2021

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NASA Tries to Save Hubble, Again

Jeletic and his group additionally strive to anticipate potential mishaps. For instance, they discovered that the skinny wires Hubble’s gyroscopes depend upon steadily...

Ariel Shapiro - November 10, 2021

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What Causes Gamma-Ray Bursts? Their Ultrabright Flashes Hold Clues

In July 1967, on the peak of the Cold War, American satellites that had been launched to search for Soviet nuclear weapons assessments...

Ariel Shapiro - July 18, 2021

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NASA Might Put a Huge Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon

The universe is always beaming its historical past to us. For occasion: Information about what occurred lengthy, lengthy in the past, contained...

Ariel Shapiro - June 15, 2021

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The Arecibo Observatory Was Like Family. I Couldn’t Save It

Management adjustments at Arecibo additionally signaled that the observatory nonetheless had a future. In 2011, SRI International—the storied nonprofit analysis group that developed...

Ariel Shapiro - May 18, 2021

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