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Ice Clouds, a Non-Spinning Galaxy & Starship 12 | May 20
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Webb finds water-ice clouds on a super-Jupiter, a 13.7-billion-year cosmic web map reshapes formation models, and Starship's 12th flight test lifts off Wednesday. Three major space stories that challenge what we thought we knew.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has just upended what we thought we knew about gas giant atmospheres. The target was Epsilon Indi Ab, a cold super-Jupiter orbiting a nearby star.
Pull back from individual planets and the picture gets even stranger. The COSMOS-Web survey has now published a map of the universe's large-scale structure spanning thirteen point seven billion years, built from a catalog of a hundred and sixty-four thousand galaxies.
One of those early structures is now causing a specific problem. A massive galaxy called XMM-VID1-2075, formed within two billion years of the Big Bang, shows no rotation.
Closer to home, SpaceX is launching Starship's twelfth flight test on Wednesday, the twentieth of May. This one is a meaningful hardware step forward.
Three threads to keep in front of you. Whether Roman confirms the ice cloud chemistry on Epsilon Indi Ab.
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