Thursday, September 29, 2022

DART asteroid impact seen by James Webb and Hubble space telescopes

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September 29, 2022
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The Launchpad
SpaceX, NASA to study possible reboost mission to Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope (NASA/Getty Images)
NASA and SpaceX announced today that they're conducting a feasibility study about potentially using a Dragon spacecraft to boost the orbit of, and also possibly service, the Hubble Space Telescope. Listen to their announcement here and see our full story tonight!
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NASA's DART asteroid impact seen by James Webb Space Telescope. (Hubble, too!)
(Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jian-Yang Li (PSI), Cristina Thomas (Northern Arizona University), Ian Wong (NASA-GSFC); image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI))
The James Webb Space Telescope and its older counterpart Hubble photographed the impact of NASA's asteroid-smashing DART probe into the space rock Dimorphos on Sept. 26. Here are the amazing first views!
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Webb Space Telescope spots 'Sparkler Galaxy' that could host universe's 1st stars
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The first science-quality image revealed from NASA's newest space telescope contained a hidden treasure in the form of a sparking distant galaxy surrounded by dense clusters that could contain some of the universe's first stars.
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Science & Astronomy
Astronomers discover traces of 'super-supernovas'
(NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine)
Astronomers may have found the chemical traces of the one of earliest stars - born when the universe was just 100 million years old - that exploded in a "super-supernova." Here's what we know.
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Ingenuity Mars helicopter notches 33rd Red Planet flight
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has taken flight again, staying aloft for nearly a minute this past weekend on its 33rd extraterrestrial sortie. Ingenuity, which is a part of NASA's life-seeking Perseverance rover mission, took to the skies of Mars on Saturday (Sept. 24), achieving a flight of just over 55 seconds.
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Asteroid-smash aftermath: Why Europe is sending a probe to DART-battered Dimorphos
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission will arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos more than four years after NASA's DART probe slammed into one of its two space rocks.

By that time, all the dust generated by the experimental collision will have settled, allowing Hera and its two companion cubesats to turn the Didymos duo into the best explored space rocks in the universe.
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SpaceX
Hurricane Ian delays SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut launch again, to Oct. 5
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Hurricane Ian has pushed SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA back by at least another day. The mission, called Crew-5, mission is now scheduled to lift off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida no earlier than Oct. 5, NASA officials announced in a blog post Wednesday evening (Sept. 28).
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Spaceflight
Astronaut looks inside eye of Hurricane Ian from space
Expedition 68 astronaut Bob Hines of NASA captured footage of the weakening, yet still forceful, hurricane from the International Space Station.

"This storm is HUGE! That's the Mississippi River and New Orleans on the left. It covers the entire Florida peninsula! We could see through the eye just as it was making landfall. Praying for the safety of everyone dealing with #HurricaneIan," Hines tweeted Wednesday.
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3 Russian cosmonauts land on Soyuz capsule after 195 days on space station
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Three cosmonauts returned safely from the International Space Station, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after six and a half months in orbit.

Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, all with the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos, touched down aboard the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft(opens in new tab) at 6:57 a.m. EDT (1057 GMT or 4:57 p.m. local time) on Thursday (Sept. 29).
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Telescopes & Binoculars
Nikon Z9 camera review for astrophotography
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The Nikon Z9 is a mirrorless powerhouse, one of the top-performing digital cameras ever made and delicious overkill for astrophotography and landscapes.
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