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Saturn’s moon Enceladus is famous for its plumes that spray water into space. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has watched the biggest known plume so far, spanning thousands of miles, and studied how they feed a huge water “donut” around Saturn.Conti… Continue reading 6,000-mile plume spurts from icy moon into water “donut” around Saturn
Today if you want to reproduce a big schematic or a mechanical drawing, you just ask it to print or plot from the CAD model. But back in the day, …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Blueprints and Other Wall Art
A new, Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 90 light-years away from us. In astronomical terms, that’s right next door. What’s more, it might be capable of supporting life.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Exoplanet, TESS, Spitzer, v… Continue reading New Earth-sized planet discovered, and it may be able to support life
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor on an object in the asteroid belt, a region of the solar system where it wasn’t known to survive. The new observations also reveal something missing unexpectedly.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, S… Continue reading Webb confirms water in weird comet, but something else is missing
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected water vapor near a planet in another system, which could mark the first direct detection of a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere. But there’s a big if hanging over the find.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, S… Continue reading James Webb may have detected water vapor in rocky planet’s atmosphere
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured spectacular new infrared images of the planet Uranus revealing new details of the ice giant’s atmosphere over the north polar region, its ring system, and multiple moons.Continue ReadingCategory: Space… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope sends back spectacular images of Uranus
Operational only since July 2022, the James Webb Space telescope has already provided the world with astounding images of the universe. This includes new finds like “impossibly massive” galaxies and the most comprehensive profile of an exoplanet’s atmo… Continue reading Webb telescope spots mysterious ‘Green Monster’ in supernova image
Researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the innermost planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system, shedding more light on the ability of planets like these to support life.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: TRA… Continue reading James Webb sheds more light on exoplanets’ ability to support life
Sad news in the tech world this week as Intel co-founder Gordon Moore passed away in Hawaii at the age of 94. Along with Robert Noyce in 1968, Moore founded …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 26, 2023
Even though Venus is the closest planet to Earth, there’s still a lot we don’t know about it, especially when it comes to its galactic-scale history. Was it once habitable? Did it ever have water? Was the atmosphere ever different than the toxic cockta… Continue reading The galactic hunt for a planet in the Venus Zone has begun