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Complex planetary nebula traced by Webb
Saturday, August 9, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of glowing gas expelled by a low-intermediate mass star late in its life, can come in all shapes and sizes. Most planetary nebula present as circular, elliptical, or bi-polar, but some st...
NASA testing AI to make satellites smarter
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by Richard Harris
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California is testing a new artificial intelligence-driven technology known as Dynamic Targeting, which enables satellites to autonomously decide where to focus their scientific observations in real time. This innovation allows spacecraft to a...
Argon III filter for the miniCAM8
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Unlike more common narrowband filters, Argon III filters penetrate deeper into the less-explored parts of the emission spectrum, making faint ionization fronts and structural asymmetries more apparent. In a recent review of the QHY miniCAM8, Nico from Nebula photos focused in on a rarely talked abou...
NASA team installs solar panels on roman space telescope observatory
Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently installed the solar panels onto the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This installation marked one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield, the panels ar...