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33m ago
I know fake/AI channels are the trend for youtube in general, not just space content, but It kind of blows my mind how many fraudulent channels are free to operate however they like. A channel called "Outer Space" is currently broadcasting "live" a video of the 2023 Axiom 2 launch on a loop for over 12 hours now. The channel has 83k subscribers and has been posting for 3 years. Does YT just not care anymore?
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Reddit » Space
33m ago
Under recent budget proposals NASA would be shutting Chandra down in about 3 years. While it's is 25 years old and has had multiple system failures it still has some good years left in its life. Baring a critical failure in the next few years why could NASA give or sell control of the spacecraft over to someone else like the ESA or JSA? It's already up there, the costs of the telescope is already paid for so I see no reason to let it go to waste. Even if no other countries want it maybe a university or team of universities could take over even on a dimmished capacity. Even getting 50%, 20% or ..read more
Reddit » Space
3h ago
An international team of researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to obtain the first direct observations of gas and dust feeding a nascent planetary system with raw material for planet formation. They were able to view the proto-stellar envelope of one star, HL Tau.
Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2de9
Story: https://www.uvic.ca/science/home/news/current/james-webb-space-telescope-takes-its-first-images-of-forming-planetary-systems.php
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11h ago
I really hope this happens.
submitted by /u/slowburnangry
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