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Chinese Companies are Planning to Offer Space Tourism Flights by 2025 September 25, 2022
China hopes to send passengers to space by 2025 as part of their plan to secure a part of the burgeoning "space tourism" market The post Chinese Companies are Planning to Offer Space Tourism Flights by 2025 appeared first on Universe Today.
Matt Williams
Gravity Really Tangled up the Light From a Distant Quasar September 25, 2022
Way back in 1979, astronomers spotted two nearly identical quasars that seemed close to each other in the sky. These so-called “Twin Quasars” are actually separate images of the same object. Even more intriguing: the light paths that created each image traveled through different parts of the cluster. One path took a little longer than […]
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Life can Thrive Around Even the Smallest Stars September 25, 2022
By simulating the light of small stars, we now know life can survive on planets orbiting them. The post Life can Thrive Around Even the Smallest Stars appeared first on Universe Today.
Brian Koberlein
NASA’s Juno To Skim the Surface of Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa September 24, 2022
This next week will mark a scientifically valuable achievement for NASA’s Juno mission, as the pioneering spacecraft is slated to fly within 358 kilometers (222 miles) of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa on September 29 at 5:36 a.m. EDT (2:36 a.m. PDT) as part of its extended mission to explore the Jupiter system. A flyby this […]
Laurence Tognetti
JWST’s MIRI Issues, Newborn Quasar, Detecting Exoplanets with Lagrange Points September 24, 2022
James Webb is currently experiencing problems with its MIRI instrument. The problem is due to increased friction in one of MIRI’s mechanisms in the Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy (MRS) mode. The observatory is otherwise healthy, but the team decided to stop observations using MRS mode until they find a solution. A quick TLDR version of the most […]
Anton Pozdnyakov