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Look! Astronomers catch two protostars building the ingredients for life
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array recently imaged a pair of very young protostars — newborn stars in the first few hundred thousand years of their lives, still feeding on a nearby disk of gas and dust that surrounds the…
SpaceX launches first mission for Starlink Gen2 constellation – Spaceflight Now
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China leads in 4 frontier scientific areas
China leads the world in four out of 11 frontier areas of academic research, with major improvements to clinical medicine, astronomy and astrophysics in the past five years, according to the annual report released…
Webb telescope promises new age of the stars
The James Webb Space Telescope lit up 2022 with dazzling images of the early universe after the Big Bang, heralding a new era of astronomy and untold revelations about the cosmos in years to come.The most powerful observatory sent into…
Meet dearMoon crew of artists, athletes and a billionaire
A group of nine people plan to fly a unique mission around the moon.Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced on Dec. 8, 2022 the nine crew members, including himself, who would orbit the moon in a SpaceX Starship. The flight date…
Tom Marsh obituary | Astronomy
Tom Marsh, the founding professor of the astronomy and astrophysics group at Warwick University, who has died aged 60, was a world-leading expert on compact binary star systems, two stars closely orbiting around each other. It is…
The 7 most spectacular images from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year
Little more than a week had passed since Independence Day celebrations, but the crowd that had gathered at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was as excited as any audience at a fireworks…
VU researchers to study white dwarf stars with the Hubble telescope – Chicago Tribune
Valparaiso University Professor of Physics and Astronomy Todd Hillwig, Ph.D., is the sole American researcher involved in an international project using the Hubble Space Telescope to learn more about the universe. Hillwig received a…
Astronauts embark on spacewalk to boost ISS power
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Inside NASA’s monumental effort to deliver the first Webb Telescope images
On June 15, Klaus Pontoppidan was about as relaxed as a sleep-deprived project scientist in charge of a $10 billion telescope could be.Pontoppidan’s team at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore had been assigned to…