ESA and NASA will be broadcasting live as #Webb is launched into space on Ariane 5 #VA256 from Europe's Spaceport at 12:20 GMT/13:20 CET, 24 December.
📺 Find out how to watch (EN/FR/ES) on #ESAwebTV and #YouTube 👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live #WebbFliesAriane
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📺 Find out how to watch (EN/FR/ES) on #ESAwebTV and #YouTube 👉 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live #WebbFliesAriane
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UPDATE: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope completed its Launch Readiness Review & is safe atop its Ariane 5 rocket.
However, the weather in French Guiana isn’t looking good.
Launch is now no earlier than Dec 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20 UTC).
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However, the weather in French Guiana isn’t looking good.
Launch is now no earlier than Dec 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20 UTC).
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Behold — ✨The World’s Largest Holiday Ornament ✨
On top of the world’s most powerful telescope are 18 hexagonal-shaped mirrors made of gold and beryllium that will allow NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to #UnfoldTheUniverse and observe galaxies over 13 billion light-years away.
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On top of the world’s most powerful telescope are 18 hexagonal-shaped mirrors made of gold and beryllium that will allow NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to #UnfoldTheUniverse and observe galaxies over 13 billion light-years away.
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Here’s your ride NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will take to #UnfoldTheUniverse.
The Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket rolled out today to the launchpad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Liftoff is set for Dec. 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20 UTC): https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingall
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The Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket rolled out today to the launchpad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Liftoff is set for Dec. 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20 UTC): https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingall
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Which one is the coolest planet in our solar system
Anonymous Quiz
56%
Neptune
27%
Uranus
11%
Saturn
7%
Jupiter
Which one is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Anonymous Quiz
34%
Mercury
53%
Venus
4%
Earth
9%
Mars
NASA announced that the 5,000th exoplanet was discovered, providing a massive foundation for its continued search for alien life.
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Fly your name around the Moon!🌕
Artemis I will be the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a long-term human presence at the Moon for decades to come.
Tap the link below and add your name to have it included on a flash drive that will fly aboard Artemis I!
https://go.nasa.gov/37j06iK
Artemis I will be the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft. Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a long-term human presence at the Moon for decades to come.
Tap the link below and add your name to have it included on a flash drive that will fly aboard Artemis I!
https://go.nasa.gov/37j06iK
Dogs see the invisible magnetic fields surrounding the Earth due to the Cryptochrome molecule in their eyes. This sense allows a dog to find their owners and homes when they've gotten lost many miles from home.
The Pacific ocean (165 millions km²) is wider than the planet Mars (144,8 millions km²) and more than 4 times the size of the moon (38 millions km²)
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The image taken by the JWST compared to one taken by Hubble, of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723.
It's a gravitational lens, showing us the light of galaxies that are far behind the cluster in arcs around it.
12.5 hours of exposure for Webb
2 weeks for Hubble
It's a gravitational lens, showing us the light of galaxies that are far behind the cluster in arcs around it.
12.5 hours of exposure for Webb
2 weeks for Hubble
These 4 Factors Can Explain Why So Many People Are Rejecting Science's
1. Distrust in the information source
As mentioned above, lack of trust in the information source comes up time and time again as one of the key reasons people don't accept scientific information.
Legitimate and robust scientific debate can also confuse people who are not familiar with the scientific process, further damaging trust when it spills into the public domain.
To combat these trust issues the researchers suggest highlighting the communal nature of science and emphasizing the wider, prosocial goals of research. Honestly acknowledging other people's positions and any drawbacks in your own, rather than brushing them away, can also go a long way to better establishing trust, the team explains.
"Pro-science messages can acknowledge that there are valid concerns on the other side, but explain why the scientific position is preferable," says Philipp-Muller.
2. Tribal loyalty
The way our thinking is wired as an obligatorily social species makes us very vulnerable to sometimes blindly believing those we identify with as part of our own cultural group – no matter how much education we have had. This phenomenon is called cultural cognition.
"Work on cultural cognition has highlighted how people contort scientific findings to fit with values that matter to their cultural identities," write Philipp-Muller and colleagues.
Political polarization and social media have only enhanced this. For example, conservatives are more likely to believe scientists that appear on Fox News, and liberals are more likely to trust those on CNN.
"Social media platforms like Facebook provide customized news feeds that means conservatives and liberals can get highly varied information," explains Philipp-Muller.
To combat this we need to find common ground, create information that's framed for specific target audiences, and collaborate with communities holding anti-science views, including people traditionally marginalized by science.
3. Information goes against personal beliefs
The internal conflicts created by information that challenges our social or personal beliefs such as morals and religion, lead to logical fallacies and cognitive biases such as cognitive dissonance.
"Scientific information can be difficult to swallow, and many individuals would sooner reject the evidence than accept information that suggests they might have been wrong," the team wrote in their paper. "This inclination is wholly understandable, and scientists should be poised to empathize."
So key strategies to counter this include showing an understanding of the other person's viewpoint.
"People get their defenses up if they think they are being attacked or that you're so different from them that you can't be credible," says Petty. "Find some places where you agree and work from there."
Counterintuitively, increasing someone's general scientific literacy can actually backfire, because it provides the skill to better bolster their pre-existing beliefs. Increasing scientific reasoning and media literacy skills, prebunking, or inoculating people against misinformation are advised instead, as is framing information in line with what matters to your audience and using relatable personal experiences.
4. Information is not being presented in the right learning style
This problem is the most straightforward of the four bases – a simple mismatch in how information is being presented and the style best suited to the receiver. This includes things like preferring abstract compared to concrete information, or being promotion or prevention focused.
Here, Philipp-Muller and team suggest making use of some of the same tactics that anti-science forces have been using. For example, like the technology and advertising industry, researchers should be using metadata to better target messaging based on people's profiles according to personal online habits.
1. Distrust in the information source
As mentioned above, lack of trust in the information source comes up time and time again as one of the key reasons people don't accept scientific information.
Legitimate and robust scientific debate can also confuse people who are not familiar with the scientific process, further damaging trust when it spills into the public domain.
To combat these trust issues the researchers suggest highlighting the communal nature of science and emphasizing the wider, prosocial goals of research. Honestly acknowledging other people's positions and any drawbacks in your own, rather than brushing them away, can also go a long way to better establishing trust, the team explains.
"Pro-science messages can acknowledge that there are valid concerns on the other side, but explain why the scientific position is preferable," says Philipp-Muller.
2. Tribal loyalty
The way our thinking is wired as an obligatorily social species makes us very vulnerable to sometimes blindly believing those we identify with as part of our own cultural group – no matter how much education we have had. This phenomenon is called cultural cognition.
"Work on cultural cognition has highlighted how people contort scientific findings to fit with values that matter to their cultural identities," write Philipp-Muller and colleagues.
Political polarization and social media have only enhanced this. For example, conservatives are more likely to believe scientists that appear on Fox News, and liberals are more likely to trust those on CNN.
"Social media platforms like Facebook provide customized news feeds that means conservatives and liberals can get highly varied information," explains Philipp-Muller.
To combat this we need to find common ground, create information that's framed for specific target audiences, and collaborate with communities holding anti-science views, including people traditionally marginalized by science.
3. Information goes against personal beliefs
The internal conflicts created by information that challenges our social or personal beliefs such as morals and religion, lead to logical fallacies and cognitive biases such as cognitive dissonance.
"Scientific information can be difficult to swallow, and many individuals would sooner reject the evidence than accept information that suggests they might have been wrong," the team wrote in their paper. "This inclination is wholly understandable, and scientists should be poised to empathize."
So key strategies to counter this include showing an understanding of the other person's viewpoint.
"People get their defenses up if they think they are being attacked or that you're so different from them that you can't be credible," says Petty. "Find some places where you agree and work from there."
Counterintuitively, increasing someone's general scientific literacy can actually backfire, because it provides the skill to better bolster their pre-existing beliefs. Increasing scientific reasoning and media literacy skills, prebunking, or inoculating people against misinformation are advised instead, as is framing information in line with what matters to your audience and using relatable personal experiences.
4. Information is not being presented in the right learning style
This problem is the most straightforward of the four bases – a simple mismatch in how information is being presented and the style best suited to the receiver. This includes things like preferring abstract compared to concrete information, or being promotion or prevention focused.
Here, Philipp-Muller and team suggest making use of some of the same tactics that anti-science forces have been using. For example, like the technology and advertising industry, researchers should be using metadata to better target messaging based on people's profiles according to personal online habits.
Approximately 73% of the mass of the visible universe is in the form of hydrogen. Helium makes up about 25% of the mass, and everything else represents only 2%. Most of the atoms in our bodies and Earth are a part of this small portion of the matter of the universe
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NASA’S MEGAROCKET IS ABOUT TO BLAST OFF TOWARD THE MOON
Here’s a cheat sheet for the Artemis I mission
The moment is almost here. NASA is about to launch its next-generation rocket for the first time and send it hurtling out beyond the Moon. It’s going to be a wild time, but honestly, there’s been a lot going on here on Earth, too — and if you’re anything like me, you might be in the market for a quick refresher on what exactly is going down when NASA’s next big thing blasts off. Consider this your SLS cheat sheet as NASA gears up for its big launch on August 29th.
Here’s a cheat sheet for the Artemis I mission
The moment is almost here. NASA is about to launch its next-generation rocket for the first time and send it hurtling out beyond the Moon. It’s going to be a wild time, but honestly, there’s been a lot going on here on Earth, too — and if you’re anything like me, you might be in the market for a quick refresher on what exactly is going down when NASA’s next big thing blasts off. Consider this your SLS cheat sheet as NASA gears up for its big launch on August 29th.