The Most Spectacular Fireworks Can’t Out-Glitter the Milky Way

Posted by Maggie on July 2, 2022 in From the editors

When the Grand Finale finishes and the acrid smoke clears the stars will still twinkle above.

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Chris Young: NASA just launched a tiny cubesat. Here’s why it’s a huge step for space exploration: The historic mission just launched atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster.

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Inverse: THE WEBB TELESCOPE IS ALREADY EXCEEDING NASA’S EXPECTATIONS – Here’s how the JWST has performed ahead of our first official photos in July.

NASA IS SCHEDULED to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. They’ll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb — the largest space telescope ever built – begins collecting scientific data that will help answer questions about the earliest moments of the universe and allow astronomers to study exoplanets in greater detail than ever before. But it has taken nearly eight months of travel, setup, testing, and calibration to make sure this most valuable of telescopes is ready for prime time. Marcia Rieke, an astronomer at the University of Arizona and the scientist in charge of one of Webb’s four cameras, explains what she and her colleagues have been doing to get this telescope up and running…