WOW! The Morris County 4-H Rocket Team Has Made The NASA Cut!
When I was in school a hundred years ago, the only Rocket Science that was taught to us was making the types of cheap rockets that are the equivalent of fireworks. I guess that’s the best way to describe it.
You can buy them on some major retailers’ sites. But back in my day, we had to make them for science class and then see if they could fly. I can tell you that my rocket was BO BO as Hell. I lit the fuse and it exploded.
Needless to say that I did not learn much about Rocket Science from my Science Teacher that took more Cigarette breaks than an NFL game takes commercial breaks. That is a lot! My classmates and I loved that our teacher took a lot of smoke breaks, that was time for us to goof off. I think I may have gotten a D in that class or maybe an F. It’s better that I do not dabble in the Science field especially Rocket Science.
Thank God for organizations like 4- H in Morris County because they have some very very smart young people that are the only team in New Jersey to qualify for this year’s NASA Student Launch Initiative. It was recently announced that a local 4-H Rocketry Team made the NASA cut.
The NASA Student Launch Initiative has the student teams design, build, and launch a rocket and payload to Nasa specifications which is part of the Rocket Competition.
That is a galaxy far far away from my failure to launch Rocket days in school. GO TEAM Morris County 4-H!!!
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Stunning First James Webb Telescope Images Released
Carina Nebula
The final image released during the event was probably the most visually spectacular. This Carina Nebula image shows a collection of stars and gas some 8,000 light years away – relatively close. The area shows stars we’ve never seen before, and even elements that scientists have never seen before, thanks to the infrared capabilities on Webb.
Every bright dot in the image is a star, many of which are similar to our Sun, so many of them also likely have similar planetary structures nearby.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI (Click on image for high resolution version.)
The Southern Ring Nebula
The second image released was of the Southern Ring Nebula.
“The Southern Ring nebula is a planetary nebula. (Despite “planet” in the name, these aren’t planets — they’re shells of dust and gas shed by dying Sun-like stars.) The new details from Webb will transform our understanding of how stars evolve and influence their environments.”
Some stars save the best for last. The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust.
Stephan's Quintet
This image shows five giant galaxies, containing hundreds upon hundreds of billions of stars.
Four of the five galaxies visible are actually interacting with each other, while the fifth (the one on the left) is actually much closer to Earth, so is nowhere near the others.
There are 150 million pixels in this image, and it’s actually a composite of about 1,000 image files.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI (Click image to see high resolution image.)
The First Image - Webb's First Deep Field
The first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been released, and it’s a stunning look at a cluster of galaxies from 4.6 billion years ago. (Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
“If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image. Imagine — galaxies galore within a grain, including light from galaxies that traveled billions of years to us! Why do some of the galaxies in this image appear bent? The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a “gravitational lens,” bending light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, magnifying them.”
Webb's Deep Field
This image is a remarkable showcase of the Deep Field from the first Webb image, but in different waves of light.
“Compare Webb’s Mid-Infrared (L) & Near-Infrared (R) views. Lens flares? Nope, the spikes you see are when light from bright objects like stars is bent by the edges of the telescope. They’re less prominent in mid-infrared.”
