An asteroid twice the size of the Empire State Building, a skyscraper in New York City, USA, is rushing towards Earth, which has been on our radar for decades, giving us plenty of time to calculate its path and ensure that it will not collide with our planet when it approaches Earth on Tuesday, January … Read more
Launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in Guyana on December 25, the James Webb space telescope successfully completed its deployment in space on Saturday through its main mirror. “Mirror, mirror… deployed! Webb has taken its final form. Over the next 6 months or so, the space telescope will cool, calibrate its instruments and prepare to … Read more
NASA reports that the rover stopped temporarily storing samples after debris partially blocked the bit carousel (the device that stores drill bits and passes sample tubes for internal processing). The rover encountered the anomaly on December 29, but the mission team had to wait until January 6 to send a command to extract the drill … Read more
A computer animation shows the unfolding of the space telescope Scientists hope that the recordings will provide information about the time after the Big Bang, among other things. (Photo: AP) Washington According to the US space agency NASA, the last step in preparation for the commissioning of the “James Webb” space telescope has been carried … Read more
Published on : 08/01/2022 – 18:14 The James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the final stage of its deployment on Saturday. It will now have to reach its final orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope is now ready to explore the cosmos. A little more than five months before his … Read more
Arrive Hubble telescope To another major milestone this month, NASA revealed that its iconic 31-year-old telescope had spent a billion seconds in space, and the space telescope was deployed from the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990, when it was 340 miles above the Earth’s surface. According to the British … Read more
Prepared by: Mustafa Al-Zoubi The US space agency “NASA” announced that the “veteran” Hubble Space Telescope has completed one billion seconds of work by the beginning of the new year. The scientists said: Since Hubble began working, for more than 3 decades, it has provided us with groundbreaking scientific discoveries and iconic images of space. … Read more