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After today, the James Webb telescope will never see direct sunlight again

After today, the James Webb telescope will never see direct sunlight again

It’s time for the next – super exciting – step: unfolding the sun visor. It’s been almost a week since took to the skies the most powerful observatory ever built. The James Webb telescope was origami folded to fit an Ariane-5 rocket. And now, as the telescope flies through the vast universe, are there more and more pieces taking place. …

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New space telescope should be usable for longer than expected

New space telescope should be usable for longer than expected

When it launched last Saturday, its intended orbit was accomplished with such precision that “Webb” used far less fuel than NASA had expected, writing the US space agency today. “The observatory has sufficient fuel to conduct scientific activities in space for well over a decade.” NASA hoped to use the space telescope for at least five years, which is to …

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Powerful James Webb telescope deployment in full swing

Powerful James Webb telescope deployment in full swing

The boost has started. Because as the space telescope flies through the vast universe, thousands of parts have to be unfolded correctly and in the correct order. Last Saturday, Christmas Day, the time had come: the launch of the long-awaited James Webb telescope. And with success. Because despite the many setbacks that the telescope has had to endure in recent …

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The best camera smartphone of 2021

The best camera smartphone of 2021

In the past, many people still had a camera, a “compact” copy or much larger, with a lens horn. Since the arrival of the smartphone, the first category has certainly almost died out and an SLR or system camera is really something for the amateur. This makes sense, because you can now take excellent photos with a smartphone. Expensive models …

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James Webbs Mid Infrared Instrument – Background

James Webbs Mid Infrared Instrument - Background

“The largest space observatory in history will have an ultra-cool camera on board: the MIRI instrument.” This wrote NASA recently on the Twitter account of his own Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Let us leave it to the Americans to draw attention to their scientific projects and to inform the general public about them in an attractive way. However, it would have …

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life has bravely endured here for nearly 6,000 years!

life has bravely endured here for nearly 6,000 years!

That life can thrive in such extreme conditions – in darkness and at very low temperatures – is a total surprise. The lion’s share of the Antarctic coast is surrounded by pack ice or ice floes: large, floating expanses of ice fed by glaciers and attached to the land. Together, they cover nearly 1.6 million square kilometers of water and …

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Japanese billionaire returns to Earth after a trip to the space station: “It’s easy to pee” | Abroad

Japanese billionaire returns to Earth after a trip to the space station: "It's easy to pee" |  Abroad

Maezawa landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan with cameraman Yozo Hirano and cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin. The footage shows them emerging from the Soyuz capsule they landed in. Russian space agency Roskosmos confirms that astronauts are doing well. Billionaire Maezawa announced in 2018 with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the Japanese would be making space travel around the moon …

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Win the Storytel Reader with 3 months of free Storytel

Win the Storytel Reader with 3 months of free Storytel

It’s almost the holidays and you take the time to read or listen to a good book. If this sounds like you, then you should definitely participate in today’s AW Giveaway. Storyteller With the Storyteller you can read e-books and listen to audio books. This way you can listen to an audiobook in the car on the road and continue …

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NASA space probe hits the sun (13 million kilometers away)

NASA space probe hits the sun (13 million kilometers away)

The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft likely made contact with the sun’s atmosphere as early as April of this year. It took a few months for this data to arrive on Earth, and then it took a few months for it to be confirmed. This writing foreign media. Compared to the moon landing “Like landing on the moon, ‘touching’ the sun …

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