"The first major task of its scientific career will be to conduct a 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) projectcreating a jaw-droppingly detailed movie of the cosmos around us that researchers hope could help them understand the solar system, the Milky Way and the universe's mysterious dark matter and dark energy. During a first-light event in June, scientists revealed the product of just 10 hours of observationsimages that seem to zoom forever,"
"This stunning image comes from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows delicately nested spirals of material thrown out over some 700 years by a celestial system called Apep. Apep includes two so-called Wolf-Rayet stars, which are bright, massive stars that eject huge amounts of material for a few million years before they collapse into a black hole or neutron star, depending on their size. Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant."
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory achieved first light and will undertake a 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to create an extraordinarily detailed cinematic map of the sky. Initial ten-hour observations produced images filled with galaxies and gas clouds, demonstrating the observatory's deep, wide-sky capabilities. The James Webb Space Telescope imaged Apep, revealing nested spirals of material expelled over about 700 years from a system containing two Wolf-Rayet stars and a massive supergiant, illustrating extreme stellar mass loss. Blue Origin's New Glenn launched carrying NASA's twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft, marking a heavy-lift, reusable vehicle flight that advances planetary and heliophysics exploration.
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