Astronomers have found these two distant galaxies in the same small part of the sky. They estimate that the person on the right dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang.Credit: JWST GLASS Survey NASA/CSA/ESA/STScI; Pascal Oche / University of Geneva NASA built the state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope to look into the …
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The campaign to bring samples from Mars to Earth will now include two small helicopters. NASA officials involved in the Mars Sample Return (MSR) effort announced today (July 27) that they plan to redesign the mission, abandoning a previous concept that called for the European Space Agency (ESA) to “bring the craft” that would touch …
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We probably all killed a spider Or two in the past, but what if this spider’s corpse could be redirected into something useful? Well, researchers at Rice University of Texas think they can, and they’re pioneering “microbes” by injecting dead spiders with air for use in grabbing small objects. When Daniel Preston, a professor of …
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As Perseverance searches the site of an ancient lake that existed billions of years ago, it collects rocks and soil. This material is important because it could contain evidence of past microorganisms that would reveal whether life existed on Mars. Scientists will have the opportunity to use some of the most advanced tools around the …
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The mysterious discovery of a concentrated piece of the rare mineral quartz in the Gale Crater region of Mars by the Curiosity rover in 2016 was finally explained by researchers. A team of planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) believe that the concentrated portion of …
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If you think spiders are scary when they are alive, just wait until you see what they can do when they are dead. A team of engineers at Rice University in Texas has succeeded in resurrecting dead spiders to act as a mechanical clutch. This is correct. As evidence that we are permanently separated from …
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Called a neutron star, the dense, crumbling remains of a massive star weigh more than twice the mass of our sun, making it the heaviest neutron star known to date. The object rotates 707 times per second, which also makes it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way. The neutron star …
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The Long March 5B shortly before its launch on July 24, 2022.picture: Liu Huayu (AP) Experts predict that the giant core stage of the recently launched Long March 5B rocket will crash to Earth within days, but the exact location is still impossible to guess.. Long March 5B missile Exploded on July 24 From the …
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26 July 2022 The device seeks to answer old questions as it uncovers new cosmic mysteries what or what: The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sensitive ever launched, can peer into the boundaries of the known universe. The US Postal Service will celebrate this remarkable device with the James Webb Space Telescope …
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