Friday, July 1, 2022

The Voyager Probes Are Not Fully Powering Down ... Yet

07/01/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

The Voyager probes are not fully powering down ... yet
NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA plans for the missions to continue into the 2030s.

6" Saturn Globe 
New fast radio burst challenges what astronomers know about these powerful phenomena
Diana Robinson/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Astronomers studying strange radio signals recently discovered one that repeats, has a persistent presence in the sky, and originated in a galaxy much closer than it should have.

JWST prepares for science work
NASA/STScI via Flickr

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped it would.

Space and Beyond Box

Check out the space-themed subscription box created by the team behind Astronomy magazine! This quarterly collection of 6-8 full-sized items has over an $80 value in each box. Explore our universe with a new topic in each box.

China's ambitious plan to find the first Earth 2.0
Aleksandr Kukharskiy/Shutterstock

Despite several high-profile missions to find an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star, astronomers have failed to spot one. Now the Chinese are launching their own space telescope to hunt for Earth 2.0.

Ask Astro: How did the Big Bang start from the size of a pinhead?
Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after Bicep2 Collaboration

How is it possible, with all the matter in the universe, that the Big Bang started from a single, tiny point?

OBSERVING

The Sky this Week
Greg Allegretti (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Beacon of freedom
Chirag Upreti from The Bronx, New York

This image shows the trail of the 28-percent-illuminated crescent Moon as it set behind the Statue of Liberty on Sept. 21, 2020. Atmospheric refraction leads to a gradual color change and increased waviness of its bottom edge as the Moon descends towards the horizon. This image was made from 567 exposures.

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