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Hubble telescope's bigger, more powerful successor to soar
By MARCIA DUNN
Today
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair’s breadth of the dawn of the universe. And it's finally on the brink of flight.
It will be the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever to leave the planet, elaborate in its design and ambitious in its scope. At a budget-busting $10 billion, it is the most expensive and also the trickiest, by far, to pull off.
Set to soar after years of delay on Friday, the James Webb Space Telescope will seek out the faint, twinkling light from the first stars and galaxies, providing a glimpse into cosmic creation. Its infrared eyes will also stare down black holes and hunt for alien worlds, scouring the atmospheres of planets for water and other possible hints of life.
“That’s why it’s worth taking risks. That’s why it’s worth the agony and the sleepless nights,” NASA's science mission chief Thomas Zurbuchen said in an interview with The Associated Press.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he's more nervous now than when he launched on space shuttle Columbia in 1986.
“There are over 300 things, any one of which goes wrong, it is not a good day," Nelson told the AP. "So the whole thing has got to work perfectly.”
The Webb telescope is so big that it had to be folded origami-style to fit into the nose cone of the European Ariane rocket for liftoff from the coast of French Guiana in South America. Its light-collecting mirror is the size of several parking spots and its sunshade the size of a tennis court. Everything needs to be unfolded once the spacecraft is speeding toward its perch 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away.
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What a fucking time to be alive…just amazing. Good for them fishies. Some day billions of years from now the fish will be keeping us in bowls…and this is how it started.
Today would have been Betty White's 100th birthday. In her honor, please donate $5 (or more) to your local animal rescue which was a cause she very much supported.
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Boxes kept coming from a mystery donor. An obituary revealed her name. By Theresa Vargas December 23, 2023 at 11:00 ET In the weeks leading up to Christmas last year, piles of packages from strangers arrived daily at the Virginia home of Susan Thompson-Gaines. It was her third year of running a gift-giving project out of her house, an effort that involves her placing a desk in her yard, encouraging children to write letters to Santa and granting their wishes by buying and wrapping items on their lists. The first two years, it was a neighborhood effort. But last year, she expanded it to give others a way to provide gifts for the more than 200 children who wrote letters. She created an Amazon Wish List, and as people across the country learned about the project, they started clicking away. That’s when the first package from E. A. Raven arrived.
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This made me cry while I was smiling. I wish that good news stories were profiled a lot more. Positivity breeds more of the same. As someone I admire greatly says, "Go out and do something nice for someone else today."
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair’s breadth of the dawn of the universe. And it's finally on the brink of flight.
It will be the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever to leave the planet, elaborate in its design and ambitious in its scope. At a budget-busting $10 billion, it is the most expensive and also the trickiest, by far, to pull off.
Set to soar after years of delay on Friday, the James Webb Space Telescope will seek out the faint, twinkling light from the first stars and galaxies, providing a glimpse into cosmic creation. Its infrared eyes will also stare down black holes and hunt for alien worlds, scouring the atmospheres of planets for water and other possible hints of life.
“That’s why it’s worth taking risks. That’s why it’s worth the agony and the sleepless nights,” NASA's science mission chief Thomas Zurbuchen said in an interview with The Associated Press.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he's more nervous now than when he launched on space shuttle Columbia in 1986.
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“There are over 300 things, any one of which goes wrong, it is not a good day," Nelson told the AP. "So the whole thing has got to work perfectly.”
The Webb telescope is so big that it had to be folded origami-style to fit into the nose cone of the European Ariane rocket for liftoff from the coast of French Guiana in South America. Its light-collecting mirror is the size of several parking spots and its sunshade the size of a tennis court. Everything needs to be unfolded once the spacecraft is speeding toward its perch 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away.
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Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest living person, turns 119
Good for her...
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Scientists in Israel train goldfish to drive on land
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That is excellent!
By Theresa Vargas
December 23, 2023 at 11:00 ET
In the weeks leading up to Christmas last year, piles of packages from strangers arrived daily at the Virginia home of Susan Thompson-Gaines.
It was her third year of running a gift-giving project out of her house, an effort that involves her placing a desk in her yard, encouraging children to write letters to Santa and granting their wishes by buying and wrapping items on their lists. The first two years, it was a neighborhood effort. But last year, she expanded it to give others a way to provide gifts for the more than 200 children who wrote letters. She created an Amazon Wish List, and as people across the country learned about the project, they started clicking away.
That’s when the first package from E. A. Raven arrived.
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Here's the link to the wishlist for The Little Yellow Pantry is anybody wants to send something
Amazon.com
This made me cry while I was smiling.
I wish that good news stories were profiled a lot more. Positivity breeds more of the same.
As someone I admire greatly says, "Go out and do something nice for someone else today."