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Long-awaited data from the James Webb Space Telescope is now allowing astronomers to look further back in time and discover galaxies from the early universe. Results shared Monday (Jan. 9) at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in …

Spaceflight Now

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:50 p.m. EST (0450 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, with 40 OneWeb internet satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live …

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SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket is getting ready to fly again. The Falcon Heavy has launched four times to date, most recently on Nov. 1, 2022. That flight, for the U.S. Space Force, was the first in 40 months for the heavy lifter.

Space.com

A nearby galaxy merger harbors two monster black holes that appear to be the closest pair ever detected in multiple wavelengths, according to a new study. The two galaxies, collectively known as UGC 4211, are located just 500 million light-years from …

Space.com

SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket has flexed its muscles ahead of a planned liftoff this weekend. SpaceX just performed a “static fire” test with the Falcon Heavy at Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, lighting up the rocket’s 27 …

The Weather Channel

The first full moon of the year rises behind the 15 July Martyrs bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. The first full moon of the 2023 is also known as the “wolf moon.” (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) …

Space.com

An observer captured the fiery return to Earth of a failed Virgin Orbit rocket on Monday evening (Jan. 9). That rocket was the first stage of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne vehicle, which lifted off from England’s Spaceport Cornwall beneath the wing of the …

CNN

Astronomers spotted the pair while using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array of telescopes, or ALMA, in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, to observe two merging galaxies about 500 million light-years from Earth.

Phys.Org

The most human-looking of the three, named Commander Moonikin Campos in deference to the late Arturo Campos who helped NASA bring the Apollo 13 crew safely back to Earth, was joined by two partial-body mannequins named Zohar and Helga.

Phys.Org

An international team of scientists collaborating within the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat has achieved a breakthrough in quantum research—the first detection of excitons (electrically neutral quasiparticles) in a topological insulator …