Advanced Space selected for two NASA SBIR Phase I Awards
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
Rocket Lab inks new deal to launch HASTE mission from Virginia
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
A frosty anniversary weekend for Curiosity: Sols 3909-3911
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
InSight study finds Mars is spinning faster
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
India's moon mission takes another big step
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
Ingenuity flies again after unscheduled landing
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
Space-based quantum science lab keeps getting better
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
Accurate measurement of Permittivity advances radio telescope receivers
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
AVS leverages optimum coverage of EUTELSAT 65 West A satellite over Brazil
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
Astra Space optimizes workforce to support sustainable long-term business plan
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
DISH Network Corporation and EchoStar Corporation to Combine
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
Deep Space communications to get a laser boost
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:25
NASA scientific balloons take to the sky in New Mexico
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:24
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program will take flight with eight planned launches from the agency's balloon launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, flying scientific experiments to a near-space environment via a football-stadium-sized NASA balloon.
The 2023 fall balloon campaign window opens August 10 and features 24 payloads led by teams of scientists, engineers, and students.
"Our annual Fort Sumner campaign is always our most ambitious and packed with cutting-edge science developed from teams here in the United States and around the world," said Debbie Fairbrother, Scientific Balloon Program chief at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
One mission on deck is the Exoplanet Climate Infrared Telescope (EXCITE). The mission features a suborbital astronomical telescope developed to study Jupiter-type exoplanets orbiting other stars.
Earendel and the Sunrise Arc in the galaxy cluster WHL0137-08
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 13:00
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08, and at the right, an inset of the most strongly magnified galaxy known in the Universe’s first billion years: the Sunrise Arc. Within that galaxy is the most distant star ever detected, first discovered by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star, nicknamed Earendel, to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous. Stars of this mass often have companions. Astronomers did not