The China National Space Administration released a video showing its concept for a future lunar base, which it says it will have set up by 2045, writes Space.
The China Global Television Network appears to have blurred out the Shuttle in the video on YouTube.
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently produced the “sharpest infrared images to date” of the Horsehead Nebula, according to the European Space Agency.
As BBC Science Focus explains, images like this are made up of multiple composites taken at different infrared wavelengths, then shifted to the visible spectrum and combined.
Earth Month is coming to a close, but there’s still time to catch up on The Verge’s package of stories from Costa Rica on turning cattle ranches into forests, Indigenous leaders fighting for their land back, and how the country runs on nearly 100 percent renewable electricity. On the ground in Costa Rica, we found reasons to be hopeful about solutions to climate change.
They brought forests back to life in Costa Rica. Their next challenge? Restoring ecosystems in a warming world.
Paging Helen Hunt. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton to Twister, please.
The epic Saturn V and Space Shuttle Discovery didn’t come with a gantry, but Lego’s making up for it with the 3,091-piece NASA Artemis Space Launch System, coming May 28th for $259.99.
How much better is it? Here it is alongside all the other official Lego launchpad examples I could think of:
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The Verge spoke to EPA administrator Michael Regan about the agency’s new rules for power plant pollution.
One of the biggest residential solar companies announced today that it’ll lay off 1,000 people. It’s also shutting down its direct sales business and residential installation locations.
“We need to achieve financial viability, which includes simplifying our business structure, transitioning away from areas where we have been unable to sustain profitable operations, and improving financial controls,” SunPower Executive Chairman Tom Werner told employees.
[SunPower Newsroom]
Costa Rica gets more than 99 percent of its electricity from renewables — it’s still not enough.
