Hubble has taken somewhat of a backseat since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began taking its first high resolution images of deep space last month. The first images shared by NASA from the newest space telescope were truly awe inspiring. But the space agency does not want you to forget one of its predecessors, the Hubble telescope, which has been inducing oohs and ahhs with its photos of space since its launch and deployment by the space shuttle Discovery in 1990.

One of the images that enamored viewers seven years ago, was recently shared by NASA on its Instagram feed once again. The image captured a sweeping bird’s-eye view of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), and is the sharpest large composite ever taken of the Milky Way’s neighbor. Even though Andromeda resides over 2 million light-years away, Hubble showed its photographic prowess to resolve individual stars in a 61,000 light-year-long stretch of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disk.

Researchers have reported the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting Ross 508 near the inner edge of its habitable zone.

August is ‘looking pretty good’ for the historic Artemis I mission, says Draper’s Pete Paceley.

An immense amount of work goes into programming the manual astronaut override for NASA’s upcoming crewed Artemis missions. As Pete Paceley, principal director of Civil and Commercial Space Systems at Draper, points out on a call with IE, “we don’t want them to ever have to use manual control — but it’s necessary from a safety standpoint.”

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Principal director of Civil and Commercial Space Systems at Draper Pete Paceley told us that August is ‘looking pretty good’ for Artemis I mission.

An international team of researchers has observed part of the formation of a dwarf galaxy, helping to explain how they evolve from a dwarf state to maturity. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes finding evidence of maturation in such galaxies.

Prior research has shown that there are dwarf galaxies in the universe. Such galaxies are typically made up of just a few billion stars, as compared to mature galaxies such as the Milky Way, which have 200 to 400 billion stars. Prior research has also suggested that some dwarf galaxies might evolve to become more mature galaxies, but how that might happen has not been clear. In this new effort, the researchers focused the AstroSat space-based telescope on several blue compact dwarf galaxies, which are calculated to be approximately 1.5 to 3.9 billion light-years from Earth. The team then used the ultraviolet imaging telescope aboard AstroSat, which is India’s first multi-wavelength space telescope, to look for evidence of star formation activity.

Prior efforts to observe star formation in dwarf galaxies have been hindered by their low luminosities, small size and the low mass of the objects they contain. These problems have been overcome with AstroSat due to the high resolving power of its telescope and because of its ability to capture multiple wavelengths of light at the same time, and also because it was fitted with UV deep field imaging technology.

The countdown now begins for China’s next uncontrolled rocket reentry in October.

China’s Long March 5B rocket crashed into the Indian Ocean in an uncontrolled reentry over the weekend. * NASA’s Bill Nelson criticized China’s space practices, citing a “risk of loss of life and property”. * China will launch another Long March 5B to orbit in October.

China’s Long March 5B rocket core stage reentered Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday, July 24.