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january 05, 2022 - NASA

The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft's 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for #science operations.The sunshield – about the size of a tennis court at f...



january 03, 2022 - NASA

Over about the next two weeks, #NASA will provide broadcast coverage, a media briefing, and other updates on major deployment milestones for the #jameswebb #spacetelescope, the world's largest and mos...



december 22, 2021 - e.s.o.

Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but do not orbit a star, instead roaming freely on their own. Not many were known until...



december 14, 2021 - NOIRLab

Astronomers use Gemini Observatory and an international telescope collaboration to shed light on Sagittarius A*Astronomers have made the most precise measurements yet of the motions of stars around th...



december 14, 2021 - e.s.o.

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of the region around the supermassive black hole at the centre...



december 13, 2021 - Honda Corporate

Honda researchers develop new technology for growing atomically thin “nanoribbons” that can enable energy efficient quantum devicesScientists from #Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. (HRI-US) have syn...



december 11, 2021 - NASA

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or #ixpe, spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florid...



december 09, 2021 - NASA

December 09, 2021 RELEASE 21-168NASA Launches New Mission to Explore Universe's Most Dramatic ObjectsNASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1 a.m. EST Thursday on a Space...



december 09, 2021 - NOIRLab

Resembling a butterfly with only one wing, this glowing nebula hides a budding starThis ethereal image, captured from Chile by the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's #NOIRLab, looks ...



december 09, 2021 - NASA

NASA's #laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun's radiation lifted off at 5:19 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7The p...



december 08, 2021 - e.s.o.

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a two-star system that can be seen with the naked eye. This is the hottest a...



december 03, 2021 - NASA

NASA has awarded the Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) to Northrop Grumman of Brigham City, Utah, to build boosters for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to support nine SL...



december 01, 2021 - NASA

November 30, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-161NASA #tv to Air IXPE Prelaunch Activities, LaunchNASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the pola...



november 30, 2021 - e.s.o.

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a m...



november 23, 2021 - NASA

NASA has selected Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR) of Cologne, Germany, to provide use of its facility to support long-duration bed rest research.The $49.9 million Bedrest Studies Contra...