Spacewatch: James Webb telescope finally ready for launch0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 7, 2021
Successor to Hubble has been hit by delays and a ballooning budget since work began on it in 1996

Successor to Hubble has been hit by delays and a ballooning budget since work began on it in 1996

It’s not quite a star, and it’s not quite a planet — but it’s soaring through the Milky Way, much closer than we thought.

Excerpt from the August 28, 1971 issue of Science News

Radio telescopes have uncovered quasars and pulsars, and offered up the first pic of a black hole

Most of Mars is extremely inhospitable to life, but there may be a workaround. The areas near the entrances to caves should, in theory, be shielded from some of the harmful radiation that bombards the planet’s surface.

A new study’s “treasure map” suggests that a planet several times more massive than Earth could be hiding in our solar system, camouflaged by the bright strip of stars that make up the Milky Way.

The photo captures a relatively uncommon phenomenon called a Herbig-Haro object.

Cambridge astronomers identify new hycean class of habitable exoplanets, which could accelerate search for life

Science and technology ministry’s funding arm proposes five-year project on building ‘ultra-large spacecraft’ to aid exploration and stay in long-term orbit

Our solar system is home to some unusual places we could potentially migrate to if Earth were to die.



