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principia-scientific.com
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| | I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS...
| | www.astronomy.com
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| | As companies like SpaceX continue to rush satellites to orbit, the streaks they create in astronomical images are becoming problematic.
| | www.space.com
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| | Frequencies of light invisible to the human eye reveal a vast amount of information about our universe. But it took decades for scientists to learn how to view this hidden cosmos.
| | seanelvidge.github.io
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| The sun is unleashing powerful outbursts that could strike Earth, but these events are far more common-and much less worrisome-than some hyped headlines suggest (redirect to SciAm)