NASA unveils new James Webb Space Telescope photo of single star | Eugene Parker, astrophysicist namesake of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, dies at 94 | Mars helicopter Ingenuity will keep flying through September
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The next great observatory is sharpening its vision and well on the way to cracking mysteries of the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope has met every optical parameter engineers needed and is cleanly delivering light to its instruments.
Ingenuity's flying days on Mars have been extended once again. As part of this extension, Ingenuity will also sport some special upgrades that will allow the 4-pound drone to do even more daring flights.
In a CNN report published on Tuesday, Kelly said that NASA had requested that he and other former agency astronauts stop such feuds, as they could damage the International Space Station partnership.
Ukraine could be a space technology superpower but the country is held back by "Stalin-esque" attitudes that treat experts like peasants, says American aerospace engineering student Aaron Harford, who chose Ukrainian capital Kyiv for his Ph.D. studies four years ago.
The International Space Station is now ready for the addition of an upgraded solar array after two NASA astronauts completed a nearly seven-hour spacewalk on Tuesday.
A star-charting spacecraft spotted NASA's James Webb Space Telescope while both were working in deep space. The spacecraft were 620,000 miles apart in deep space and 1 million miles from Earth.
The new image shows the "eye" of a galaxy called NGC 1097, which is located 48 million light-years away from Earth. NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy, which puts it in the same category as the Milky Way.
"We weren't really expecting to see this decline, for the ice to be this much thinner in just three short years," Sahra Kacimi of the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said of the new research.
So, why in the name of the cosmos am I LARP-ing Albert Einstein as a 1950s-stye doo-wop group?! Well, I wanted to make you smile in these very tense times. Also, Einstein is awesome.
