NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci) lacks the rockstar name recognition of places like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cape Canaveral, or Kennedy Space Center, but that may be about to change. STSci is the mission operations center for the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and as it comes on line, its findings are…
James Webb Space Telescope, (Part 2)
22nd March 2022James Webb Space Telescope
01st March 2022At some point, you may have overheard your physics nerd friends (everyone has a couple of those, right?) talking about ‘red shift’ and wondered if it was some kind of code for their secret geopolitical leanings. Luckily, there is no need to go all McCarthyist on them; red shift is a key concept in astronomy….
More Quantum Stuff
13th January 2022As promised in our last article, we’re going to continue clarifying the terms that are so present in mainstream press coverage of the latest developments in physics. To select today’s topic, I polled the other reporters here at the Planetary Broadcast Network to see if any of them had burning questions about physics buzzwords. I…