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The Planetary Society

Get ready for a journey across the rivers of our Solar System in this week’s Planetary Radio. Sam Birch, an assistant professor at Brown University, explores what we know about the alluvial rivers of Earth, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Titan.

Space.com

The first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released July 12, 2022. In the year since then, the deep-space imaging probe has captured some of the most remarkable stellar photography humanity has every laid eyes on.

The Washington Post

The James Webb Space Telescope was designed to tunnel deeper into space and farther back in time than any previous observatory, with the audacious goal of seeing the very first galaxies that lit up the young universe. Creating pretty pictures was …

Space.com

It’s all related to a balance in the torques created by thermal tides in Earth’s atmosphere and the gravitational tides emanating from the moon. As we know, the moon’s gravity pulls on Earth’s oceans, …

Space.com

The new JWST image features the closest star-forming region to Earth, the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. Though a small and relatively peaceful stellar nursery, the powerful telescope’s visualization represents a chaotic close-up of the region located 390 …

Space.com

The revolutionary ground-based telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert, will provide Earth’s largest view of the cosmos. Comments (0). Newly released stunning images show that the Extremely Large Telescope is now halfway complete. The images taken in June …

Space.com

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a diverse menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, a new study reports. Organic compounds are molecules composed of carbon, and often include other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, …

CNN

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the closest star-forming region to Earth, located 390 light-years away. The release of the image marks the first anniversary since the …

Space.com

As new senior project scientist for the telescope, Rigby brings a lot to the table. She holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from University of Arizona, as well as degrees in physics and astrophysics from Penn State.

SpaceNews

WASHINGTON — Vast Space has brought in a former NASA astronaut and SpaceX official to serve as an adviser for its plans to develop commercial space stations. Vast announced July 11 that it has appointed Garrett Reisman as a human spaceflight adviser.