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Earliest-known 'dead' galaxy spotted by Webb telescope
Scientists said on Wednesday that Webb has spotted a galaxy where star formation had already ceased by roughly 13.1 billion years ago, 700 million years after the Big Bang event that gave rise to the universe. Many dead galaxies have been detected over the years, but this is the earliest by about 500 million years.
- wow holy shit TIL that the Milky Way is still producing stars, roughly 7 per year. https://www.skyatnig…_niko
- which makes sense because of the nebulas within it but in my head star formations happened billions of years ago_niko
- grafician0
- SPACEX CONFIRMS LOSS OF STARSHIP AT END OF THIRD TEST FLIGHT (Reuters)grafician
- What a ride...grafician
- Yet another of Elon's 100 million dollar rockets down the toilet. But a huge success!!!utopian
- ...and yet still half the development cost of the SLS, for a more complex platform, that's actually hit three milestones.
But sure, mElOn bAd. *rolls eyesNairn - You're like all those kids on Reddit who spend their lives bleating on about JK Rowling wondering why she's so obsessive.. whilst they obsess over her.Nairn
- utopian2
Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after ‘poke’ from Earth
Engineers have sent a “poke” to the Voyager 1 probe and received a potentially encouraging response as they hope to fix a communication issue with the aging spacecraft that has persisted for five months.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are venturing through uncharted cosmic territory along the outer reaches of the solar system.
While Voyager 1 has continued to relay a steady radio signal to its mission control team on Earth, that signal has not carried any usable data since November, which has pointed to an issue with one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers.
A new signal recently received from the spacecraft suggests that the NASA mission team may be making progress in its quest to understand what Voyager 1 is experiencing. Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth at about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away.
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Mindbending Mondays
- Bluejam0
Event Horizon Telescope captures stunning new image of Milky Way’s black hole
https://arstechnica.com/science/…