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First James Webb Space Telescope image shows 'deepest' view of the universe ever
After 14 years of development and six months of calibration, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to embark on its mission to probe the depths of our universe.
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SpaceX's latest Starship booster test ends with an explosion
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket explodes and catches fire
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Hadron collider scientists discover three subatomic particles never seen before
Beneath the Swiss Alps lives the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator and recently scientists found three new subatomic particles never seen before. NBC News’ Jacob Ward is joined by Yale University physics Professor Dr. Sarah Demers to discuss how this week’s discovery could help researchers learn how the universe was born and what the future looks like.
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SpaceX continues to mark new milestones as a private company, and that has spurred investors' appetite for publicly traded space stocks.
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Nasa releases first set of full colour James Webb photos
The first full color images from Webb are the result of more than 20 years and $10 billion of engineering and work.
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The solar system could collapse because of a passing star, scientists predict
Scientists have warned that if a passing star moves Neptune’s orbit by just 0.1 per cent, the resulting chaos could cause the other planets in our solar system to collide. The research, presented in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests that a “stellar flyby” - a relatively common occurance in the universe - could be enough to sent the other planets crashing into each other. It is possible that if Mercury and Jupiter’s perihelion - the point at which the planets reach closest to the Sun - fall in sync, two possibilities could occur.
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Here Are My Personal Opinions About A Bunch Of The Galaxies We Can See In That Cool New Photo Of Space
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‘The start of something wonderful’: First full-color images from James Webb telescope, curated in Baltimore, to be released Tuesday
Lately, the hallways at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have been filled with a few more smiles than usual. Giddy excitement is in the air, anticipating the public release this week of the first significant, full-color images to come from the James Webb Space Telescope, said Susan Mullally, deputy project scientist for the telescope. Staff at the institute, which operates ...
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'The majesty that's out there': NASA unveils deep-space images
STORY: Breathtaking images of deep space taken by a telescope orbiting almost one million miles from earth were unveiled by NASA on Tuesday.The first full-color, high-resolution pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to peer farther than ever before with greater clarity to the dawn of the universe, were hailed by NASA as milestone marking a new era of astronomical exploration.Here's NASA Administrator Bill Nelson:"It's clear that Webb represents the best of NASA. It maintains our ability to propel us forward, for science, for risk-taking, for inspiration."The debut image was a "deep field" photo of a distant galaxy cluster, revealing the most detailed glimpse of the early universe recorded to date.But's not just an array of color. It's a glimpse back in time to the origins of, well, perhaps everything.Here's NASA scientist Jane Rigby:"And so, galaxies like that one right there, this little red guy, what is that? Well, Webb got spectra, to figure out what those galaxies are made of, and this is that one. We're seeing it as it looked 13.1 billion years in the past, less than a billion years after the big bang. And we're seeing the elements of oxygen and hydrogen as well as neon. This is how the oxygen in our bodies was made. In stars, in galaxies, and we're seeing that process get started."Other images included closeups of gas and dust clouds left by stellar explosions that form incubators for new stars, and a cluster of galaxies known as Stephans Quintet.And apart from the imagery, NASA presented Webb's first spectrographic analysis of a Jupiter-sized exoplanet more than 1,100 light years away, which led to this exciting discovery:"What you're seeing is the tell-tale signature, the chemical fingerprint of water vapor in this atmosphere, in the atmosphere of this specific exoplanet."Built to view its subjects chiefly in the infrared spectrum, Webb is about 100 times more sensitive than its 30-year-old predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope.One thing the scientists repeatedly underscored on Tuesday was that Webb appeared to be performing better than they'd anticipated, and that the findings were more wondrous than they'd expected.Several expressed being overcome with emotion at the interstellar sights."The universe has been out there. We just had to build a telescope to go see what was there. A very similar feeling of, of, maybe, people in a broken world managing to do something right, and to see some of the majesty that's out there."
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The Independent
Japan unveils artificial-gravity Moon base plans
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There's an enormous comet heading toward Earth this month. Here's how to watch it pass by
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SEE: NASA releases never before seen images of our Universe from James Webb Space Telescope
VIDEO: NASA releases never before seen images of our Universe from James Webb Space Telescope
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SpaceX Analyzes Explosion During Rocket Booster Test
Elon Musk’s SpaceX sustained an apparent setback during a test of one of its rocket boosters, with a video showing a fiery explosion under the vehicle.
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MarketWatch
NASA shows off new cosmic views, including baby stars, dancing galaxies
A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five galaxies in a cosmic dance. The splendors of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released Tuesday from NASA’s powerful new telescope.
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NBC News
Compare photos from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images revealed new details of the cosmos, peering farther into space than the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Engadget
President Biden will reveal the first James Webb Space Telescope image today at 5PM ET
NASA has decided to reveal the first James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image today rather than waiting until tomorrow as planned.
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This galaxy was already grown-up and spinning 13.3 billion years ago!
A galaxy so distant we see it practically at the edge of the observable Universe has been seen to act like a more fully grown galaxy: Observations show it’s rotating, spinning in a way similar to our own Milky Way, despite us seeing it as it was just 500 million years after the Big Bang! The galaxy is called MACS1149-JD1 — or just JD1 for short — and its light took about 13.3 billion years to reach us. Given the Universe is only about 13.8 billion years old, we see this galaxy as it was when it
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The Independent
Scientists create ‘artificial intelligence baby’ that can learn common sense
Scientists have created an artificial intelligence that is able to think and learn like a baby. The system is able to grasp the basic common sense rules of the world in the same way as humans can, the researchers who create it say. The breakthrough could not only help advance AI research but also the ways we understand the human mind, scientists say.
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The Conversation
What do molecules look like?
A nanographene molecule imaged by noncontact atomic force microscopy. Patrik Tschudin/gross3HR/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. What do molecules look like? – Justice B., age 6, Wimberley, Texas A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your food. They vary in size, but ar
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The Wall Street Journal
‘Ultimate Space Telescope’ Review: Pictures of Space
A PBS documentary explains how the James Webb Space Telescope, whose first images have just been released and is the most powerful instrument of its kind ever, came to be.
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Washington Post
NASA unveils images from James Webb Space Telescope
NASA on July 12 released multiple images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope, which the agency said it’s more powerful, and able to see further into the depths of space and time.
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What These Dazzling James Webb Telescope Images Mean for Space
This glimpse into the history of the universe will usher in a "new phase of scientific discovery"
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CBS News Videos
NASA releases deep space images taken by James Webb Space Telescope
NASA released the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, reveling never-before-seen parts of our universe. Anna Frebal joins CBS News to discuss how these images could change the the way scientist learn about space.
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CNW Group
MDA AWARDED CONTRACT BY YORK SPACE SYSTEMS
MDA Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced it has been awarded a contract from York Space Systems. The contract will see MDA design and build Ka-Band steerable antennas for satellites to be produced by York Space Systems.
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NASA’s Webb Telescope is about to give us new images of outer space
The James Webb Space Telescope will offer unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae and a faraway giant gas planet.
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The Independent
Russia may be building a giant laser to shoot down satellites, report says
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Watch as NASA unveils the first photo from the James Webb Space Telescope
Watch as NASA unveils the first photo from the James Webb Space Telescope
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SpaceX suffers fiery setback after booster rocket bursts into flames
A booster rocket for a SpaceX burst into flames during testing on Monday. No one was injured, but it could complicate Elon Musk’s goal of launching the rocket into orbit this year.
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TechCrunch
Nanoracks and Gitai team up for second space robotics demo aboard the ISS
Nanoracks and Tokyo-based space startup Gitai are teaming up for a second technology demonstration on the International Space Station, a mission that could bring the Japanese startup one step closer to commercializing its autonomous in-space robotics. The two companies will be testing Gitai’s autonomous robotic system, dubbed “S2,” which will operate outside Nanoracks’ Bishop Airlock, the first fully private airlock to be attached to the ISS. Gitai completed its first demonstration of the autonomous robotic arm “S1” last year in the airlock, where the robot executed two common crew tasks: assembling structures and panels and operating cables and switches.
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Reuters
Tests in Space: Ericsson, Qualcomm, Thales expand 5G horizon
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson, French aerospace group Thales and U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm plan to work jointly to develop a satellite-driven 5G network to improve terrestrial connectivity. A 5G mobile device that can connect with satellites would make communication possible from remote corners of the planet and provide a challenge to expensive satellite phones and rival broadband internet services provided by Elon Musk's Starlink. The companies will first do simulations on the ground before carrying out tests in space, Hakan Djuphammar, head of Special Projects at Ericsson's technology arm, said in an interview.
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Reuters
Biden unveils Webb space telescope's first full-color image of distant galaxies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, on Monday released the debut photo from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope - an image of a galaxy cluster revealing the most detailed glimpse of the early universe ever seen. The White House sneak peek of Webb's first high-resolution, full-color image came on the eve of a larger unveiling of photos and spectrographic data that NASA plans to showcase on Tuesday at the Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Maryland. The image showcased by Biden and NASA chief Bill Nelson showed the 4.6 billion-year-old galaxy cluster named SMACS 0723, whose combined mass acts as a "gravitational lens," distorting space to greatly magnify the light coming from more distant galaxies behind it.
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TechCrunch
OpenAI rival AI21 Labs raises $64M to ramp up its AI-powered language services
The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models. According to a survey by John Snow Labs, 60% of tech leaders' budgets for AI language technologies increased by at least 10% in 2020. Eager for a slice of the pie, new providers have materialized in recent years claiming to bring unique language modeling capabilities to the table.
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Reuters Videos
NASA unveils Webb telescope's first full-color images
STORY: Tuesday's unveil included images of new stars and nebulae where stars are believed to have formed, colorful bubbles showing the plume of a dying star, and measurements revealing the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting a star in another solar solar systemThe first batch of full-color, high-resolution pictures, which took weeks to render from raw telescope data, were selected by NASA to provide compelling early images from Webb's major areas of inquiry and a preview of science missions ahead.The $9 billion infrared telescope, built for NASA by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, is expected to revolutionize astronomy by allowing scientists to peer farther than before and with greater clarity into the cosmos, to the dawn of the known universe.A partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, the Webb was launched on Christmas Day, 2021, and reached its destination in solar orbit nearly 1 million miles from Earth a month later.
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Tallahassee Democrat
Challenger Center presents free viewing of James Webb Space Telescope's first images
The Challenger Center will feature a livestream of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope beginning at 10:30 a.m. July 12.
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American City Business Journals
Instil Bio Life Sciences Campus in Tarzana gets $85 million loan for expansion
Instil Bio, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative cell therapies in the fight against cancer, plans to add a commercial manufacturing facility for research and cell therapy to its already operational clinical manufacturing site.
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Building Satellites in Space? Yeah, That's a Thing Now
Built with sensitive circuitry, powered by crack-able solar panels, and swathed in paper-thin sheets of gold foil, satellites built on Earth must somehow survive launch stresses of multiple Gs without shaking apart as the rockets that carry them blast into orbit. The first space company to figure that out will lead an emerging field of space-based industry, where satellites, spacecraft, and even entire space stations are constructed on-site in orbit, with no need to withstand Earth's gravitational forces -- much less the multi-G super-stress of a rocket launch. Will Redwire be No. 1?
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James Webb Space Telescope opens its eyes on the Universe
Space enthusiasts are holding their breath.
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2017-2018 Hyundai Ioniq recalled to fix same issue a second time
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