NASA employees yesterday, January 11, officially announced that the James Webb Space Telescope discovered its first exoplanet – a planet that is located in another star system. The new space object was named LHS 475 b and it is very similar in physical characteristics to the Earth – the diameter of the new planet is only […] More
Astronomers have discovered a strange afterglow in the sky. To do this, they had to analyze 200,000 archival images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and make tens of thousands of measurements as part of the ambitious SKYSURF project. Ultimately, scientists ruled out light from stars, galaxies, planets and other objects, but a faint, barely noticeable glow […] More
NASA does not stop trying to launch the SLS launch vehicle with the Orion spacecraft to the Moon as part of the Artemis I mission . Two weeks are allotted for repairs and new tests. The next launch date for the rocket is September 23rd. NASA engineers fenced off the repair site and covered it with a tent to prevent damage […] More
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, which have filled low-Earth orbit, interfere with the study of dangerous objects such as asteroids and comets , scientists said . The study was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters . As part of the mentioned study, the negative impact of devices on the work of astronomers was assessed. Scientists assessed the impact of Starlink devices on about […] More