Asteroid 2024 YR - How the powerful James Webb Space telescope is helping NASA monitor space rock
On the Webb telescope, 18 hexagonal mirrors combine to form a massive primary mirror that is 21 feet (6.5 meters) across. The ...
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James Webb Telescope To Refine 2024 YR4 Asteroid Size Estimate
Astronomers say the asteroid, estimated at 40-90 m (131-295 ft.) in diameter, could impact Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. “It is ...
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NASA's James Webb Telescope reveals secrets of 'waterworld' planet
The exoplanet, discovered in 2009, remained elusive due to dense clouds. Now, scientists have peered through with the James ...
Beryllium Market Size to Worth USD 263.26 Million by 2033 | Straits Research
The global beryllium market size was valued at USD 176.54 million in 2024 and is estimated to grow from USD 184.55 million in ...
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Will an asteroid collide with Earth? How the Webb telescope will track 2024 YR4
the James Webb Space Telescope. In a blog post Monday confirming that the telescope would observe the near-Earth asteroid − known as 2024 YR4 − the European Space Agency (ESA) said the ...
NASA’s Webb Just Found Something Unexpected Beyond Neptune
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...
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James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world
The difference matters in the case of impact The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to be pointed at asteroid 2024 YR4 to ...
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Fears of giant asteroid smashing Earth increase as NASA upgrades collision chances
Space scientists at the world-famous agency calculated the odds in January of the 100-metre-wide giant rock called 2024 YR4 ...
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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time
New data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph ... The objects range in size, with diameters less than tens of miles to 1,500-mile-diameter dwarf planets.
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Astronomers Reveal Our Best Glimpse Yet of Planets Being Born
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...