In early June, the main body of NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft completed construction and was shipped to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California soon after. The arri… [+6778 chars]
Photo by Guillermo Ferla on Unsplash The famousJames Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is gigantic. Its primary mirror is 6.5 m (21 ft 4 inch) across, so you could park a Ford F-150 pickup truck on it wi… [+103 chars]
Sometimes the discovery of new physics demands insane levels of energy. Big machines. Fancy equipment. Countless hours of sifting through reams of data. And then sometimes the right combination of m… [+3707 chars]
The remains of Europes largest ever land-based hunter which measured more than 10 metres long and lived 125 million years ago have been found on the Isle of Wight. Several prehistoric bones belongin… [+2362 chars]
<li>Jahani, S. & Jacob, Z. All-dielectric metamaterials. Nat. Nanotechnol.11, 2336 (2016). ADS CAS Article Google Scholar </li><li>Kamali, S. M., Arbabi, E., Arbabi, A. & Faraon, A… [+5931 chars]
NASAs James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been hit by a micrometeoroid, which has damaged one of ... [+] the 18 beryllium-gold segments that makes up its main 6.5-meter mirror. getty NASAs James… [+3021 chars]
Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have been formed in space, scientists. Pristine material from … [+2266 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured its largest near-infrared image to date, spanning an area of sky eight times greater than usual for the venerable old space telescope. Its an image and demons… [+3537 chars]
In the summer of 2020, the world was enthralled with the Comet Neowise, which only makes an appearance every 6,800 years. Brennan Gilmore was so enthralled that it kicked off a passion for astrophoto… [+2018 chars]
A software glitch has caused the delay of Psyche, a NASA mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid. Two small probes are being included in the launch, but the postponement means they might not be able… [+5061 chars]
NASA's Europa Clipper mission is one step closer to starting its journey to Jupiter's icy moon. The main body of Europa Clipper is an aluminum cylinder that clocks in at 10 feet (3 meters) tall an… [+1642 chars]
Autocorrelation for spontaneous radiation Prior to the spontaneous radiation from the tandem undulator, we first consider the spontaneous radiation from a single undulator. Figure 1a shows the inter… [+13766 chars]
