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Spaceflight 🚀spaceflight@spacey.space
2025-04-28

#ESA #Hubble #SpaceTelescope 🔭 images of #Mars taken December 2024. Thin #water-ice ❄️ clouds are apparent in ultraviolet light esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/

Dr. John Barentine FRASJohnBarentine@astrodon.social
2025-04-23

"Our results show that if these [satellite] constellations are completed, one fourth of Hubble's images will be contaminated, while the space telescopes SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will have 94% of their exposures affected."

researchsquare.com/article/rs-

#Satellites #Astronomy #SpaceTelescope

2025-04-17

#K218b #Space #Astronomy #Life #Earth #ExtraTerrestrialLife #JWST #Telescope #SpaceTelescope #CambridgeUniversity #NASA #Planets #Planets #SpaceTravel #Science
Just a follow up on the article from the BBC I posted earlier today. It contains a few small updates regarding current and imminent space missions, and our ongoing search for extraterrestrial life. “Dragonfly” sounds very interesting, as do the missions to Europa…
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8jwj

2025-04-17

#K218b #Space #Astronomy #Life #Earth #ExtraTerrestrialLife #JWST #Telescope #SpaceTelescope #CambridgeUniversity #NASA #Planets #Planets #SpaceTravel #Science
Very interesting, but don’t build your hopes up we’ll ever get there. The fastest thing we’ve currently built is the Parker Solar Probe, which travels around 430,000mph. To travel 700 trillion miles at the same speed, we’re talking around 186,000 years…

Telescope finds promising hints of life on distant planet bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vk

Dr. John Barentine FRASJohnBarentine@astrodon.social
2025-03-24

New JWST image just dropped.

This object is called Herbig-Haro 49/50. It's the outflow of a still-forming star hidden from view to the lower right of the orangish cone of material oriented diagonally in this image.

As stars form they eject excess matter in the direction of their poles of rotation. That material encounters the interstellar medium in the vicinity and lights up in response. "Like the wake of a speeding boat, the bow shocks in this image have an arc-like appearance as the fast-moving jet from the young star slams into the surrounding dust and gas."

Purely by coincidence, the outflow lines up with a distant background galaxy, which is the circular pinkish/blue object at upper left.

More info about the image: science.nasa.gov/missions/webb

#Astronomy #Stars #StarFormation #Astrophysics #JWST #SpaceTelescope

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. Like the wake of a speeding boat, the bow shocks in this image have an arc-like appearance as the fast-moving jet from the young star slams into the surrounding dust and gas. A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object with a more distant spiral galaxy in the background. Herbig-Haro 49/50 gives researchers insights into the early phases of the formation of low-mass stars similar to our own Sun. In this Webb image, blue represents light at 2.0-microns (F200W), cyan represents light at 3.3-microns (F335M), green is 4.4-microns (F444W), orange is 4.7-microns (F470N), and red is 7.7-microns (F770W). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
2025-03-19

The Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxies in a first data drop.

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses.

During a six-year mission, Euclid will image about one-third of the sky to illuminate how dark matter and dark energy behave on cosmic scales.

mediafaro.org/article/20250319

#Euclid #Space #ESA #DarkMatter #SpaceTelescope #Science

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