Friday, March 25, 2022

James Webb Releases Sharpest IR Image Ever Taken From Space

03/25/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

James Webb releases sharpest IR image ever taken from space
NASA/STScI

Another alignment milestone has been reached, and the telescope is outperforming expectations.

6" Saturn Globe 
A large solar storm could knock out the internet and power grid — an electrical engineer explains how
Svein-Magne Tunli (tunliweb.no/Wikimedia)

Every few centuries the Sun blasts Earth with a huge amount of high-energy particles. If it were to happen today, it would wreak havoc on technology.

Eugene Parker, groundbreaking solar physicist, dies at 94
NASA/Kim Shiflett

Parker virtually created the field of heliophysics in the 1950s and was the first living person to have a space mission named in his honor.

 Lightsail technology billows into the future
Masumu Shibata, courtesy of Breakthrough Initiatives

Alpha Centauri seems almost within grasp as promising research soars into reality.

Ask Astro: Are the planets' average distances from the Sun changing?
Wikimedia Commons

Are any of the planets’ average distances from the Sun changing? Is Neptune moving away to fit Bode’s law?

The Sky this Week
Jeff Bryant (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you.

Coal mine sky
John Vermette from Tucson, Arizona

The Milky Way fills the sky over Coal Mine Canyon near Tuba City, Arizona. This image is a panorama made of 36 shots. The landscape was photographed during the blue hour — the 30 minutes or so after sunset — and the sky was captured later that night.

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