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☆ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just snapped the clearest image of Neptune's rings in 33 years
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
New infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope show detailed views Neptune's rings. Neptune's rings taken in infrared by the James Webb Space Telescope, right. On the left is a composite of two images of Neptune's rings taken by Voyager 2. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, wrote about Webb's Neptune images on Twitter Wednesday. The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera image of Neptune and its rings.
☆ The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
  + stars: | 2022-08-28 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has made revolutionary achievements in astronomy. The new James Webb Space Telescope is popular, but Hubble has skills, like capturing visible and ultraviolet light, that Webb doesn't. "The Webb Space Telescope is good news for astronomy, and good news for the Hubble Space Telescope as well, since Webb and Hubble enhance and complement each other's unique capabilities," Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told Insider. A globular cluster NGC 6540 in the constellation Sagittarius, which was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. A deep field image from the Hubble space telescope, left, and a deep field image from the James Webb Space Telescope, right.
☆ Why this professor is using $50,000 of his retirement savings to realize his childhood dream and fly into space
  + stars: | 2022-08-21 | by ( Urooba Jamal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
He finally will realize his dream in 2024 via World View, which offers more affordable space flights. "It's a cliche for people to say it's a childhood dream, but it is a childhood dream," Cokinos told Insider. This is a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that other space tourism operators charge. For Cokinos, World View's flight cost will easily be absorbed from his decades' worth of retirement savings. World View's capsule is designed to optimize views and includes personal viewing screens for each passenger.
☆ Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin paid $8 million to fly to space with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin — but will donate his seat to a New York schoolteacher, report says
  + stars: | 2022-05-10 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin paid $8 million for a seat on a Blue Origin space flight. The $8 million Griffin paid represents a $20 million price drop from the first ticket sold for a crewed Blue Origin spaceflight — although one of the passengers on the first flight was Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Blue Origin didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. A Blue Origin ticket includes training days, on-site accommodation at Astronaut Village in the Texas desert, and the actual flight itself, Insider previously reported. On Monday, Blue Origin announced the passengers for its fifth crewed launch to the edge of space.
☆ Telescopul Hubble s-a defectat: unul din computerele de la bord, din anii 80, dă erori; Anunțul NASA
  + stars: | 2021-06-18 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md   time to read: +1 min
Sursa foto: ProfimediaTelescopul Hubble s-a defectat: unul din computerele de la bord, din anii 80, dă erori; Anunțul NASANASA încearcă să repare telescopul spațial Hubble, probabil cel mai cunoscut instrument de observare a spațiului cosmic, care s-a defectat din cauza unei probleme apărute la un computer de la bordul acestuia, datând din anii 1980. Telescopul spațial Hubble, care în 2020 a marcat 30 de ani de orbită, a fost oprit duminică, după apariția unor probleme la unul dintre computerele telescopului, datând din anii 1980. Echipa de operațiuni a telescopului suspectează că problema ar putea fi cauzată de un modul de memorie degradat. Duminică, computerul principal al telescopului a încetat să mai primească semnale de la un alt computer și a trimis un mesaj de eroare către sistemul de control de pe Pământ, transmite Digi24. La începutul activității sale, oamenii de știință au descoperit o eroare la sistemul de control al direcționării observatorului și probleme cu forma oglinzii sale principale.
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☆ The December solstice is here. Here's how it works and why it starts winter and summer at the same time.
  + stars: | 2018-12-21 | by ( Marianne Guenot | Shayanne Gal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The 2022 winter solstice happens on Wednesday 21 December at 4:48 p.m. It is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere but the summer solstice in the southern. This is due to Earth's tilted axis as it orbits around the sun. How the December solstice worksThe winter solstice is the point when the sun will stay closest to the horizon all day. At that point, the sun's most direct rays reach the Tropic of Cancer, summer starts for the northern hemisphere, and winter begins for those south of the equator.
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