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The James Webb Space Telescope is still snapping its first pictures of Solar System planets, and the latest batch could be particularly useful. NASA and the ESA have shared early images of Mars, taken on September 5th, that promise new insights into the planet’s atmosphere. Data from the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) is already offering a […]
The time has finally come to say goodbye to Kepler, the spacecraft that exceeded expectations throughout its mission and has so far confirmed more than 2,600 planets outside of our solar system. In March, NASA warned that Kepler’s end might be nearing as it was running very low on fuel, and scientists running the spacecraft […]
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI On Friday, NASA is destroying its Cassini spacecraft at Saturn to prevent contaminating the planet’s moons. The fireball in Saturn’s clouds should be visible to telescopes in space or on the ground. NASA can’t use the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the probe’s destruction, but astronomers on the ground might catch a glimpse of […]
Current space telescopes are… big. You can’t really avoid it given the need for giant lenses and bulky sensors. Lockheed Martin wants to fix that — the aerospace firm has just released the first images from SPIDER (Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance), an optical instrument that promises pictures as sharp as what you’d […]
At any given moment, there are approximately a zillion crowdfunding campaigns on the web. Take a stroll through Kickstarter or Indiegogo and you’ll find no shortage of weird, useless, and downright stupid projects out there — alongside some real gems. In this column, we cut through all the worthless wearables and Oculus Rift ripoffs to round […]
