Astronauts share beautiful images of Soyuz launch taken from space

Astronauts share beautiful images of Soyuz launch taken from space

Cristoforetti shared two images on Twitter with the caption, “We had a spectacular view of the Soyuz launch! Sergey, Dmitry and Frank will come knocking on our door in just a couple of hours… looking forward to welcoming them to their new home.”Hines shared four images with the caption “Ever wonder what a [rocket] launch […]

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The lonely work of picking the universe’s best astronomy pictures

The lonely work of picking the universe’s best astronomy pictures

After the image flashes up on the projector, a few quiet beats tick by, punctuated only by a soft “wow.” Everyone is processing. Then more “wows” bubble out, and people are talking over one another, laughing. Suddenly two astronomers, Amaya Moro-Martin and Karl Gordon, are out of their chairs, sticking their noses closer to the […]

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He fixed NASA’s giant space telescope, reluctantly

He fixed NASA’s giant space telescope, reluctantly

In 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope, the beleaguered project to build an instrument that could gaze back to the earliest stars in the universe, appeared to be going off the rails. Again. The pieces of the telescope and its instruments were complete, but they needed to be assembled and tested. The launch date was […]

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NASA to release first colour images from James Webb Space Telescope on July 12

NASA to release first colour images from James Webb Space Telescope on July 12

NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-colour images and spectroscopic data in a televised broadcast from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The broadcast will begin at 10.30 AM EDT on July 12 (8 PM IST). How to view the […]

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