... erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the limb of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. NASA/ESA/W Sparks Water vapour...
... Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moonwalk on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and helping to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope as a mission specialist on the STS-31 mission in 1990. Author and NASA historian Ken MacTaggart looks back at the...
... spaceflight, three successful missions to Mars, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and a record US$12.4 billion investment of private capital in the space ecosystem, an increase of more than 60 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, the key...
... our Galaxy – Sagittarius A*. These two international radio telescopes have now been joined by the Atacama Large Millimetre/... normal – up to 2000 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope – which is crucial for detecting an object that does ...
... of the “Campaign 9” of the Kepler 2 mission, also known as the K2C9 program, which involves the recovered Kepler space telescope working in conjunction with ground-based observatories to find possible events suitable for observations on larger...
... Low-Frequency Array, or LOFAR – a vast radio telescope network spread out over Europe – to pick-up radio ... the size of the mirror tucked away on aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is around 2.4 metres. Depending on the wavelength or frequency of...