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Hubble has spotted the most distant single star ever seen, about 12.9 billion light-years from Earth. The light from this star was emitted not long after the Big Bang, and has been magnified by a foreground galaxy and stretched out by the expansion of … Continue reading Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, near dawn of universe
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has now reached a major milestone. Astronomers report the discovery of the 5,000th exoplanet – with potentially hundreds of billions left to find.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Exoplanet, Plan… Continue reading NASA confirms discovery of 5,000th exoplanet – with billions more to find
Well, that de-escalated quickly! It was less than a week ago that the city of Shenzhen, China was put on lockdown due to a resurgence of COVID-19 in the world’s …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 20, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped its first in-focus image. The milestone comes after the mission team spent the last few weeks aligning its mirrors, and the telescope is now set to meet or even exceed its original science goals. It was also r… Continue reading James Webb snaps first in-focus image – and photobombs another spacecraft
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has become something of a celebrity here on Earth, and rightfully so. After decades of development, the $10 billion deep space observatory promises to …read more Continue reading Put a Little Piece of the James Webb on your Wall
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first images of space. What looks like a smeared starfield is actually the same star snapped 18 times, as the mirror segments try to align themselves to focus on the star. The craft also took a selfie of its… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope snaps first images – a star and a selfie
If you need evidence that our outwardly peaceful little neck of the solar system is actually a dangerous place, look no further than the 40 newly launched Starlink satellites that …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 13, 2022
We end up covering a lot of space topics here on Hackaday, not because we’re huge space nerds — spoiler alert: we are — but because when you’ve got an …read more Continue reading Working Model Reveals Amazing Engineering of Webb’s Mirror Actuators
After all the fuss and bother along the way, it seems a bit anticlimactic now that the James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its forever home orbiting around L2. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 30, 2022
After a 30-day journey, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached its destination at the Lagrange 2 (L2) point about one million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. At 2:00 pm EST, it fired its main engines for 297 seconds to alter its veloci… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope reaches deep-space destination