Amazing Miniaturized 'SIDECAR' Drives Webb Telescope's Signa

Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to some electronics being built for the James Webb Space Telescope that will convert analog signals to digital signals and provide better images of objects in space when they're sent to scientists on Earth...

The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was

Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought.Proving not all science requires big, expensive apparatus, Professor Gaensler and colleagues. . .

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The end is near...

sussex.ac.uk — New calculations predict that the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun in about 7.6 billion years unless the Earth's orbit can be altered.
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Super-speed Internet satellite blasts off in Japan

edition.cnn.com — Japan launched a rocket Saturday carrying a satellite that will test new technology that promises to deliver "super high-speed Internet" service to homes and businesses around the world.
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Backdropped by a blue and white Earth

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NGC 4676: Colliding Galaxies

apod.nasa.gov — These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as " The Mice" because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other. They will probably collide again and again until they coalesce.
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Pentagon Confirms Satellite Shooting Success

nbc5i.com — The Pentagon said its analysis of spy satellite debris shows that last week's shootdown was successful in hitting the spacecraft's fuel tank and destroying the hazardous chemical.
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