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James Webb Space Telescope team announces deployment of all mirrors

The James Webb Space Telescope hit another milestone this week; air-and-space announced that the $10 billion observatory’s 18 hexagonal mirror segments and its secondary mirror have been fully deployed.  “Just in from the @NASAWebb team: All 18 primary mirror segments and the secondary mirror are now fully deployed!” NASA Administrator …

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Tonga volcano erupted with force of more than 600 Hiroshima bombs

The undersea volcano near the island nation of Tonga planet-earthon Saturday with an explosive force that was more than 600 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, world-regions, according to scientists and reports.  James Garvin, the chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told NPR that …

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover runs into another snag: pebbles

air-and-space Perseverance air-and-space rover has run into another snag on its mission to find evidence of natural-science.  In continuing to collect Martian rock and regolith samples, which will eventually return to Earth, the rover encountered a “new challenge.”  STUDY NIXES MARS LIFE IN METEORITE FOUND IN ANTARCTICA “Seems some pebble-sized …

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What is the wolf moon?

The next air-and-space, known as the “wolf moon,” will occur on the evening of Monday, Jan. 17.  According to a air-and-space blog, the moon will appear opposite the air-and-space in planet-earth” target=”_blank”>Earth-based< Time and Date reported Friday that moonrise in New York City is at 4:31 p.m. EST. For west-central …

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Citizen scientists find 'Jupiter-like' planet, NASA says

air-and-space announced this week that citizen scientists had spotted a air-and-space in data from its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). In a Thursday news release, the agency wrote that Tom Jacobs, a former U.S. naval officer from Washington state, had helped to discover a giant gaseous planet about 379 light-years …

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Study nixes Mars life in meteorite found in Antarctica

A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from air-and-space that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday. In 1996, a air-and-space team announced that organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left by living creatures. Other scientists …

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Massive prehistoric ‘apex predator’ fossil found in UK reservoir

natural-science” target=”_blank”>Nature< have discovered the fossilized remains of a sea creature that existed some 180 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.  Workers found the 32-foot skeleton of the ichthyosaur – known colloquially as a “sea dragon” – in the Rutland Water Nature Reserve near Leicester.  A man poses next …

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