Virgin Galactic lays off staff as it focuses on next-generation suborbital vehicle
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 23:37
Space Force procurement chief to ‘double down’ on reforms
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 22:00
Lynk Global starts initial direct-to-device services in Solomon Islands
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 21:20
Detecting gravitational waves with an interferometric seismometer array on the lunar near side
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 20:58
Glimpses of the 'galactic zoo': The five new Euclid images
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 14:48
The first images from Europe's Euclid space telescope released Tuesday range from a well-known nebula to never-before-seen galaxies 10 billion light years away, illustrating its wide-lens view of the universe.
Here are the five images—described by Euclid scientist Jean-Charles Cuillandre as "a range of objects from the galactic zoo in terms of diversity, colors and shapes"—starting with the closest to Earth and moving out into the cosmos.
Horsehead Nebula
A giant red horse seems to rear its head against a background of swirling stars, some still being formed in a stellar nursery.
The Horsehead Nebula—also known as Barnard 33—is 1,375 light years away.
The horse's head is in fact dark clouds in front of ultraviolet radiation coming from Sigma Orionis, which is the eastern star on the belt of the Orion constellation.
Designing a space bioprocessing system to produce recombinant proteins
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 13:30
Euclid’s first images: the dazzling edge of darkness
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 13:00
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ESA is releasing the first full-colour images of the cosmos captured by its recently launched space telescope Euclid. Follow live a broadcast of the reveal on Tuesday 7 November at 13:15 GMT / 14:15 CET. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky. Five images show that the telescope is ready for its mission to create the most extensive 3D map of the Universe yet and uncover some of its hidden secrets.
Euclid’s view of spiral galaxy IC 342
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 12:15
Over its lifetime, our dark Universe detective will image billions of galaxies, revealing the hidden influence that dark matter and dark energy have on them.
Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 12:15
This incredible snapshot from Euclid is a revolution for astronomy. The image shows 1000 galaxies belonging to the Perseus Cluster, and more than 100 000 additional galaxies further away in the background, each containing up to hundreds of billions of stars.
Euclid’s view of the Horsehead Nebula
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 12:15
Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion.
Euclid’s view of globular cluster NGC 6397
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 12:15
This sparkly image shows Euclid’s view on a globular cluster called NGC 6397. Globular clusters are collections of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by gravity.
As first Vulcan flight nears, new space plane Dream Chaser preps for launch No. 2
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 09:45
The Sierra Space Dream Chaser looks like a mini space shuttle, and it's gearing up for its first trip to space atop United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2024.
The uncrewed spacecraft is designed for now to take cargo to the International Space Station, having won a NASA contract to join SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for commercial resupply missions.
The first nearly complete version of Dream Chaser is named Tenacity, and is set to leave Sierra Space's Louisville, Colorado, production facility to begin its journey to the Space Coast. Its first stop, though, will be to NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, for a battery of environmental shakedown tests in the coming weeks.
"Today we have arrived at a profound milestone in both our company's journey and our industry's future—one that has been years in the making and is shaped by audacious dreaming and tenacious doing," said Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice during an event heralding the completion of what is planned to be a fleet of Dream Chasers.
Just like the space shuttle, it will launch from Florida and land in Florida.
