Page 79 - Double Asteroid Redirection Test News Today

Nessie purists taking aim at webcam sightings, a feast served to ghosts in Thailand, and NASA's mission to redirect an asteroid were among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.

From the editorial: Scientists aren’t flawless or all-knowing, but they deserve more trust than those who impugn their expertise and motives for the sake of demagoguery. Whether the threat is from space, or a virus, or humanity’s own environmental shortsightedness, the solution is to trust the science — and to reject the know-nothing extremism that afflicts too much of a nation’s politics today.

By targeting two asteroids instead of one in NASA's DART mission, humanity's first planetary defense test, the U.S. space agency greatly reduced the experiment's cost.

PARIS: The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their initial images of a spacecraft deliberately crashing into an asteroid, marking the first time the two most powerful space...

PARIS, France -- The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their first images of a spacecraft deliberately smashing into an asteroid, as astronomers indicated that the impact looks to have been much greater than expected. This screengrab made from NASA live feed on September 26,

DART’s direct impact was not captured by one but two space telescopes and the images are so cool.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at an Australian hairdresser who is teaching others in her profession how to have meaningful climate change discussions, and explore the energy potential of Canada's volcanoes.

US space agency NASA hailed the milestone of both its orbital telescopes viewing the same event simultaneously, and said the observations would help scientists... 30.09.2022, Sputnik International

When large asteroids hit the Earth, they trigger mass extinctions and climate chaos. But could an asteroid destroy the planet entirely?

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