ScientistPankaj: Behold! The James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 1st science images are here.

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Behold! The James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 1st science images are here.

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July 12, 2022

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The Launchpad

Behold! The James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 1st science images are here

(NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

On Tuesday (July 12), NASA released some of the James Webb Space Telescope's first stunning images and data from during a live event.

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Perseverance rover scouts for Mars Sample Return mission landing sites

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is scouting for landing sites that could one day be used by spacecraft that will fly the rover's many Martian rock samples back to Earth.

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This monster black hole is spinning much more slowly than others. Scientists want to know why

(X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Cambridge/J. Sisk-Reynés et al.; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA; Optical: PanSTARRS)

Typically, black holes spin really fast - near the speed of light. But astronomers have noticed that one monster black hole is spinning much more slowly than most smaller black holes.

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POLL QUESTION:

The James Webb Space Telescope's first images and data released today show that exoplanet WASP-96b in fact DOES show signs of what, as opposed to what was previously thought?

Learn the answer here!

Life

Hydrocarbons

A rocky core

Clouds and water vapor

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Amazon Prime Day

Save hundreds on the Sony Alpha A7 III this Amazon Prime Day

(Sony)

If you're hoping to find one of the top cameras on the market with a chunky discount attached, this early Amazon Prime Day deal is exactly what you're looking for.

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	Join us at The British Library, Saturday 16 July! The countdown is on for a fantastic line-up of children's authors to come together at The British Library, live on stage, Hear from Sharna Jackson, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Emma Carroll, Rob Biddulph, Phil Earle and more. Book now.

Science & Astronomy

Pluto's moon Charon sports a red polar cap that forms as seasons change

(NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/South-west Research Institute)

Scientists have figured out why Pluto's moon Charon wears a red cap. New laboratory work shows that the color results when ultraviolet light and the solar wind interact with hydrocarbons and turn them into a soup of organic compounds dubbed tholins.

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SpaceX

Fireball briefly engulfs SpaceX's huge Starship booster during test

(SpaceX via Twitter)

A fireball erupted at the base of Booster 7 - a prototype of Super Heavy, the huge first stage for SpaceX's next-gen Starship deep-space transportation system - during a test Monday (July 11) at the company's Starbase facility in South Texas.

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Spaceflight

Watch Rocket Lab launch US spy satellite early Wednesday

(Rocket Lab)

A Rocket Lab Electron booster carrying the NROL-162 satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will launch early Wednesday morning (July 13), and you can watch the action live.

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Technology

A NASA telescope aboard a high-altitude balloon will float over the South Pole to study a 'star-killer'

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

ASTHROS is not a space telescope or a ground-based telescope but something in between, hovering in the stratosphere. By flying on a high-altitude balloon, ASTHROS will be able to see things space telescopes cannot.

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Entertainment

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' first season finale is a labor of love and worthy of a perfect 10

(Paramount Plus)

It's finally here, 10 seemingly super-short weeks after the very first episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and already we've arrived at the season finale. And holy smokes, it does not disappoint.

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