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The James Webb Space Telescope has covered more than three-quarters of its intended path
More than two weeks after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, it has flown over 1,126,540 kilometers from Earth, more than three-quarters of its total path. Prior to this, JWST had successfully deployed a secondary mirror, which is a key element of its working optics. The space telescope will then deploy the primary…
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Ocean physics fit to explain Jupiter’s atmospheric vortices
Thanks to images transmitted by the Juno satellite, oceanographers have been able to establish amazing similarities in the movement of water flows in the Earth’s oceans and dense gas flows in the vicinity of Jupiter’s poles. A team of researchers from the University of California Institute of Oceanography were able to prove that moist convection…
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Astronomers have caught a phenomenon that was previously predicted only theoretically – the passage of one star through the system of another
During the invasion, the “violator” caused disturbances in the protoplanetary disk of the “victim” and pulled out some of the dust and gas from it, creating an extended tail. The double star Z Canis Major, which was “attacked”, is located at 3750 sv. years from the Earth, and the age is estimated at 300 thousand…
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The Tunguska meteorite turned out to be a weighty curiosity
The Tunguska meteorite is a celestial body that fell in Siberia in the Podkamennaya Tunguska valley in 1908. This phenomenon is strange, first of all, because the search expeditions that have repeatedly worked at the crash site since the 1920s have not been able to find the remains of the meteorite itself. All that remained…
