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Added on the 25/12/2021 17:02:33 - Copyright : AFP EN
The James Webb Space Telescope releases a new wave of cosmic images, heralding a new era of astronomy. They reveal details about the atmosphere of a faraway gas planet, a "stellar nursery" where stars form, a "quintet" of galaxies locked in a dance of close encounters, and the cloud of gas around a dying star. IMAGES
The James Webb Space Telescope's vital parts pass the last super-cold simulator check before integration into the telescope itself.
United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s brand new Vulcan rocket, carrying NASA’s first Peregrine Lunar Lander by private firm Astrobotic Technology, blasts off successfully for the first time from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. IMAGES
Chandrayaan-3 blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. IMAGES
SpaceX's Starship blasts off from the company's spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas on the first test flight of the spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond. IMAGES
The European Space Agency's JUICE space probe successfully launched on a mission to discover whether Jupiter's icy moons are capable of hosting extraterrestrial life in their vast, hidden oceans. The rocket was launched from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana and its trajectory is "nominal", i.e. in line with what is expected, according to the teams on site. IMAGES