🚨NASA'S NEXT GREAT TELESCOPE WILL SURVEY THE UNIVERSE AT A SCALE HUBBLE NEVER COULD For more than 30 years, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos, but most of the sky still remains unexplored. That is where the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope comes in with roughly the same sensitivity we associate with Hubble, but a field of view around 200x larger. A survey that would take Hubble a century could be completed by Roman in around a month. https://t.co/LpWImgJDS3 In that same...

🚨JWST HAS DETECTED "SEMI HEAVY WATER" ON AN ALIEN WORLD The James Webb Space Telescope has found evidence of HDO, sometimes called semi heavy water, in the atmosphere of WASP-39b, a scorching gas giant around 700 light years away. HDO is water in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the heavier isotope deuterium. By measuring its abundance, scientists can now begin reconstructing where a planet formed, what material it accumulated and how its atmosphere changed over time. The inferre...

🚨NASA: "WE ARE ONE MISSION AWAY" FROM KNOWING IF LIFE EXISTS ELSEWHERE NASA's next great space telescope is being designed to do something no previous observatory was built specifically to achieve, and that's to directly photograph rocky, potentially habitable planets around nearby stars and analyse their atmospheres for signs of life. The problem is that an Earth like planet can be 10 billion times fainter than the star beside it. Blocking most of that glare isn't enough. Even microscopic i...