How One Camera Changed NASA and How We Saw the World

Published 1 year ago in Science. Submitted by Geekster

The photographs that came from the Apollo missions have become some of the most famous and influential ever taken but these were done with mostly just one make of camera that only came about due to one of the early Mercury astronauts taking a low price commercial camera on board …
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WEIGHT COMPARISON

Published 1 year ago in Science. Submitted by Geekster

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WEIGHT COMPARISON

Published 1 year ago in Science. Submitted by Geekster

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I took a 6-hour exposure at the location of JWST's recent guide camera image and compared them.[8k]

Published 2 years ago in Science. Submitted by thundersnow

The recent JWST guide camera's test image looks really similar to Hubble's deep fields, which are my favorite. I decided to take a long exposure to the same target to see what my telescope can see and compare it to JWST's image. I found one really faint galaxy 26-32 million light…
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Why is the Sun Slowing Down?

Published 2 years ago in Science. Submitted by Geekster

The outer layer of the sun is slowing down, something we've known for decades but haven't been able to figure out until now.

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