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2 dni temu · For one thing, the Triangulum galaxy (M33), pictured, is much bigger than the tiny grain of rock at the head of the meteor. For another, the galaxy is much farther away -- in this instance 3 million light year s as opposed to only about 0.0003 light seconds.
1 mar 2024 · Nearly 20 years passed before another woman flew in space. In January 1978, NASA announced the selection of 35 new astronauts including six women for the space shuttle program. In response, the Soviet Union secretly selected a group of nine women cosmonauts in 1980.
31 mar 2024 · Current leaders across the space industry share wisdom and advice as we reflect on the achievements of women in space during Women's History month.
12 lip 2022 · Webb can observe light from the universe’s very first stars and galaxies that formed 13.5 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, and track those stars and ...
25 kwi 2019 · Now scientists believe that dark energy, which functions like negative gravity, or antigravity, will push galaxies apart at an ever-increasing rate, until not even light from other galaxies will be moving fast enough to reach us.
By observing light from faraway cosmic objects, the Hubble Space Telescope is like a time machine. Light takes time to reach Hubble, because it travels great distances. That means images captured by Hubble today, show what the objects looked like years ago!
potw2426 — Picture of the Week. Channelling light from starbursts. 24 June 2024: The focus of this week’s Hubble Picture of the Week is the blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, located in the constellation Centaurus around 11 million light-years from Earth.
