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James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 'Phantom Galaxy' picture looks like a wormhole
A fresh image based on brand-new deep-space data appears to show a wormhole spinning before our very eyes. The appropriately named "Phantom Galaxy" glows eerily in a new image by Judy Schmidt based on James Webb Space Telescope data collected nearly a million miles away from our planet using the observatory's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI).
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Webb begins hunt for the first stars and habitable worlds
The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun. Here is a look at two early projects that will take advantage of the orbiting observatory's powerful instruments.
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Perseverance is Searching for the Perfect Landing Spot for the Upcoming Sample Return Mission
NASA’s car-sized Perseverance (Percy) Mars rover has been had at work carrying out its science campaign in Jezero Crater on the Red Planet, but it’s equally been busy scouting for sites for NASA’s planned Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, which is a joint mission with the European Space Agency.
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Motorless sailplane for exploring Mars soars like albatross
The huge success of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has proven it’s possible to explore other planets from the air, and researchers are working on a variety of flying craft concepts for future planetary missions. To fill in our knowledge of Mars between rovers on the surface and orbiters in space, researchers from the University of Arizona have proposed an experimental sailplane that operates without a motor and that could sail through the Martian air for days at a time.
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How cold is space? Physics behind the temperature of the universe
Though sci-fi movies would have us believe that space is incredibly cold — even freezing — space itself isn’t exactly cold. In fact, it doesn’t actually have a temperature at all. Temperature is a measurement of the speed at which particles are moving, and heat is how much energy the particles of an object have. So in a truly empty region space, there would be no particles and radiation, meaning there’s also no temperature.
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Cloned mice created from freeze dried skin cells in world first
Researchers have created cloned mice from freeze dried skin cells in a world first that aims to help conservationists revive populations of endangered species. The breakthrough paves the way for countries to store skin cells from animals as an insurance policy, as the cells can be used to create clones that boost the species’ genetic diversity if they become threatened with extinction in the future.
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NASA begins switching off Voyager instruments after almost 45 years
Scientific American reports that NASA is preparing to wind down the Voyager mission, which has endured for over ten times its original projected length. By powering down...
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Ingenuity Mars helicopter bags prestigious aviation award
The team behind NASA’s plucky Ingenuity helicopter has collected another award for the aircraft’s groundbreaking achievements on Mars. The helicopter hovered into the history books in April 2021 when it became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet. In recognition of its success, the National Aeronautic Association presented NASA’s team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with the prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on June 9. JPL tweeted several photos from the event:
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Europe will launch a 'lurking' probe in 2029 to watch for an interstellar comet
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a unique comet-chasing mission in 2029. The mission, called Comet Interceptor, was approved on Wednesday (June 8) at ESA's Science Programme Committee meeting. It will be a collaboration between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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What is the Best Radiation Shielding for the Surface of Mars?
A new study takes a look at potential methods for radiation shielding that could inform the creation of Martian habitats
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Scientists Think They Know What Causes Mars's Planet-Encompassing Dust Storms
Seasonal dust storms are well-known on Mars, and they can sometimes cover the entire planet. The dust storms got so intense in June 2018 that they hid most of the planet's surface, prompting NASA to lose touch with Opportunity, which proved catastrophic for the world-record-breaking rover.
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A mysterious intergalactic force is pushing against the Milky Way
It sounds like the premise of a bad sci-fi movie: There's some mysterious entity, beyond the boundaries of our galaxy, that is pushing against us with incredible force. We don't know exactly what it is, and we don't know how long it's been there. But we do know its name: the dipole repeller.
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An upset to the standard model
Over the past 60 years, the standard model (SM) has established itself as the most successful theory of matter and fundamental interactions—to date.
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Now you can hear what your voice would sound like on Mars
NASA has created an online tool that simulates how you’d sound on the red planet. That’s right: You can drop your own Mars bars in a round of interstellar karaoke.
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Our universe was made by aliens in a lab, theorises Harvard scientist
Ever considered the notion that everything around you was cooked up by aliens in a lab? Theoretical physicist and former chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, Abraham ‘Avi’ Loeb, has proposed a wild – if unsettling – theory that our universe was intentionally created by a more advanced class of lifeform.
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Tiny laser-propelled spaceships could travel to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond
Miniature spaceships the size of cellphones could fly across the solar system using sails propelled by lasers, which would allow the tiny spacecraft to reach much faster speeds — and, potentially, much more distant destinations — than conventionally powered rockets, a new study finds.
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Astronomers Locate the Source of High-Energy Cosmic Rays
Roughly a century ago, scientists began to realize that some of the radiation we detect in Earth’s atmosphere is not local in origin. This eventually gave rise to the discovery of cosmic rays, high-energy protons and atomic nuclei that have been stripped of their electrons and accelerated to relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light). However, there are still several mysteries surrounding this strange (and potentially lethal) phenomenon.
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Seemingly harmless plant is a carnivore with flowers that eat insects
A plant that grows in bogs along the west coast of North America has been spotted using its flowers to eat insects – until now, researchers had no idea it was carnivorous
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Galileo Project: scientists to search for signs of extraterrestrial technology
A team of scientists will embark on a new international research project led by Harvard University to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life by looking for advanced technology it may leave behind.
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The jaw-droppingly high, out-of-this-world carbon footprint of space tourism
The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On July 11, Branson ascended 80 km (49 miles) to reach the edge of space in his piloted Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spaceplane, while Bezos’ autonomous Blue Origin rocket launched today on July 20, coinciding with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Although Bezos launched later than Branson, he set out to reach higher altitudes — about 120 km, or 74 miles.
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