Hello, lovelies, and welcome to your favorite space news breakdown. This week, it’s mostly planets and geopolitics, with relatively little launch news. Shall we? SpaceX Next Crew Launch Delayed By D… [+7414 chars]
On December 25th, 2021, after many years of waiting, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched to space. In the sixth-month period that followed, this next-generation observatory unfurle… [+8156 chars]
Glowing dust in the center of NGC628 spiral galaxy (Photo: NASA / ESA / CSA / Judy Schmidt, CC BY 2.0) The team from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has only released a handful of official pho… [+3137 chars]
An astrophotographer has taken a 107-hour long exposure of the Helix planetary nebula known as the Eye of God. Officially dubbed NGC 7293, the nebula is a nearby cloud of gas and dust located in the … [+2296 chars]
While the EMIT instrument can measure the spectral signature of light from such materials as vegetation, rocks, snow and ice, and human-made surfaces, its primary mission, beginning in August, will b… [+582 chars]
Astronomers have created the largest ever 3D map of 1 million distant galaxies otherwise obscured by the Milky Way's dwarf galaxy neighbors, the Magellanic Clouds. The Magellanic Clouds are irregul… [+3407 chars]
Astronomers have created the largest ever 3D map of 1 million distant galaxies otherwise obscured by the Milky Way's dwarf galaxy neighbors, the Magellanic Clouds. The Magellanic Clouds are irregul… [+3407 chars]
Quick switch. When “pumped” with an ultraviolet laser pulse, the microwire (light gray strip) acts as a microcavity containing quasiparticles called exciton polaritons that form a Bose-Einstein conde… [+6354 chars]
The nanoindentation technique allows researchers to perform local maps of mechanical properties, which are important to understand the mechanics of artificial and natural structures29,30,31,32,33,35,… [+11603 chars]
Is there now at long last some plausible theoretical basis for the molecular origins and carriers of at least some of the most prominent so-called 'UIE' (Unidentified Infrared Emission) bands that ha… [+3605 chars]
Scientists discovered that a fourth of the progenitor cells in the testis are murdered by phagocytes, despite the fact that these cells are not doing anything wrong. University of Haifa research has… [+4821 chars]
ByKyushu UniversityJuly 29, 2022 More than a million individuals in Japan are believed to suffer from hikikomori, and research over the last ten years has suggested that the disease is spreading int… [+2953 chars]