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The Webb Space Telescope makes the pillars of creation with new depth and clarity

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One of the most famous and impressive images in modern astronomy, which reveals huge constellations of interstellar gas and dust called the Pillars of Creation, has been rendered with greater depth, clarity and color by the James Webb Space Telescope. The new view of the plumes, when captured in 1995 by Webb’s former observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, was revealed by NASA on Wednesday, three months after revealing Webb’s inaugural set of cosmic images as it began full operations. The charming images show huge, towering plumes of dense clouds of…

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The International Space Station resumes spacewalking six months after the accident

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NASA has the green light for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station after a flight readiness review. The spacewalk has been suspended for nearly seven months since March 23 when a small amount of water was found in the helmet of ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer. “Crew safety is the highest priority for NASA and our international partners. Catherine Lueders, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, said in a press release. After Maurer’s spacewalk months earlier, the space station crew immediately took off his helmet…

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How NASA plans to return an asteroid sample to Earth

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OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first spacecraft designed to return an asteroid sample, began its two-year journey to Earth in 2021 and is now on track to deliver a sample of asteroid Bennu to our planet on Sept. 24, 2023. Here is how NASA plans to carry out a “drop- parcels” to the ground. Minute re-entry In order to make the delivery, OSIRIS-REx must approach our planet with an accurate speed and direction that will allow it to safely return the sample capsule back to Earth. “If the capsule is at a very…

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Astronaut James McDevitt, commander of Apollo 9, dies at 93

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James A. passed away. McDevitt, who led the Apollo 9 mission to test the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon. He was 93 years old. McDevitt was also the commander of the Gemini 4 mission in 1965, in which his close friend and colleague Ed White performed the first spacewalk in the United States. His images of white during a space walk have become iconic. He passed on the opportunity to land on the moon, and instead became the space agency’s program manager for five Apollo…

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NASA missions detect the “extraordinary” cosmic explosion since the birth of a new black hole

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An unusually bright and long-lasting radiation pulse swept across our planet on Sunday, October 9, according to NASA. This cosmic explosion came from a “gamma ray burst” (GRB), one of the most powerful types of explosions in the universe. As the wave of X-rays and gamma rays passed through the solar system, it turned on the detectors at NASA’s Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, Neil Gehrells Swift Observatory, and the Wind spacecraft, among other observatories. The signal originated from the direction of the constellation Sagitta and traveled approximately 1.9 billion…

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Space News Weekly Recap: Mars microbes, black hole ‘burps’, and more

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According to research published in Nature Astronomy, ancient Mars would have had an environment capable of harboring microscopic organisms underground. Elsewhere, astronomers say they witnessed a “never before” event where a black hole “burped” from stellar matter three years after consuming a star. Read about all of that and more in our weekly Space News Feed. Martian subterranean microbes Microbes that consume hydrogen and produce methane may have thrived directly beneath the surface of Mars ages ago. Although Mars may have had the conditions to harbor life once upon a…

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The James Webb Space Telescope captures curious concentric rings in space

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to reveal images that take a glimpse into the distant universe. The most recent is an image of concentric rings of dust emanating from a pair of stars, more than 5,000 light-years from Earth. Together, the pair are known as Wolf-Rayet 140, and the Webb Space Telescope captures stellar winds in this image shared by NASA. Stellar winds are streams of gas that stars blow into space. As these two stars approached each other, their stellar winds met and compressed the gas, creating dust…

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NASA targets November 14 launch date for Artemis 1 mission

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NASA has announced that it will make its next attempt to launch the Artemis 1 mission on Monday, November 15. The space agency plans to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft during a 69-minute launch window beginning on 12.07. AM EST (9.37 AM EST) that day. The spacecraft will orbit the Moon and return to Earth for the first time in a series of missions designed to return humanity to Earth’s only natural satellite. .

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NASA’s DART mission successfully changed the course of the asteroid. What’s Next?

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DART mission success “We all have a responsibility to protect our planet. After all, it is the only one we have. This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us. NASA has proven that we are serious defenders of the planet,” said NASA President Bill Nelson at Press release: “This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and all of humanity.” Prior to the crash, NASA had set a minimum definition of success as a change in orbital period of 73 seconds…

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NASA DART mission: asteroid’s path changed in first test of planetary defense system

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Today, Tuesday, the US space agency announced that the NASA spacecraft, which deliberately collided with an asteroid last month, succeeded in pushing the rocky moon from its natural course to a faster orbit, which is the first time that humanity has changed the motion of a celestial body. The $330 million proof-of-concept mission, which took seven years to develop, represents the world’s first test of a planetary defense system designed to prevent a potential meteorite collision with Earth. Results of telescope observations revealed at a NASA news briefing in Washington…

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