The next great observatory is improving its vision and is going well on its way to unraveling the mysteries of the Universe. NASA has announced that the James Webb telescope has completed the fourth and fifth stages of its alignment … Read More
The head of Russia’s space agency warned that new sanctions imposed on his country could have the potential “to destroy our cooperation” on the International Space Station. After President Joe Biden announced new sanctions Thursday that “will degrade their (Russia’s) … Read More
An observatory in Germany has been transformed into a massive R2-D2 by a German professor. Dr. Hubert Zitt, a professor at Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences, is an expert in electrotechnology and… Star Wars. Despite the fact that Zitt only … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was launched last December, has been progressively powering up its instruments and unfurling its sun shield, and is now aligning its mirrors in preparation for operation. Within a few months, the most powerful … Read More
A new telescope designed to peer into the twisted X-ray Universe has just returned its first imaging data. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA-Italy Space Agency collaboration, focused its attention on one of the Milky Way’s most famous … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first star (though not quite tonight) – and even taken a selfie, NASA announced on Friday. The steps are part of a months-long process of aligning the observatory’s massive golden mirror, which … Read More