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An artist’s concept of LUVOIR, a 15-meter telescope that was an early NASA concept for a future space telescope. The newly described Habitable Worlds Telescope wouldn’t be quite as large as this.
NASA officials disclosed information about a planned next-generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, during a recent session of the American Astronomical Society,
In the session, Mark Clampin, the Astrophysics Division Director NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, offered a few details about the telescope, which could be operational in the early 2040s.
The need for such an observatory is outlined in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s decadal survey on astronomy and astrophysics, a report assembled by hundreds of industry experts that serves as a reference document for the fields’ future goals.
One of the key findings of the most recent decadal survey was the necessity of finding habitable worlds beyond our own, using a telescope tailored specifically for such a purpose. The report suggested an $11 billion observatory—one with a 6-meter telescope that would take in light at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths. (Hubble Space Telescope sees mostly in optical and ultraviolet light, while the more recently launched Webb Space Telescope images at mid-infrared and near-infrared wavelengths.)
The authors of the decadal survey suggested the Habitable Worlds Observatory as the first in a new Great Observatories program; basically, the linchpin in the next generation of 21st-century space telescopes. As Science reported, the decadal report’s suggestion of an exoplanet-focused space telescope falls somewhere between two older NASA proposals, telescope concepts named HabEx and LUVOIR.
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Exoplanets are found with regularity; it’s finding worlds with conditions that can host life as we know it that’s tricky. Webb has spotted exoplanets and deduced aspects of their atmospheric chemistry, and other telescopes (even planned ones, like the Roman Space Telescope) are turning their gaze toward these alien worlds.
Unlike other telescopes—both operational and those still on the drawing board—the planned Habitable Worlds Observatory would look specifically for so-called Goldilocks planets, worlds with conditions that could foster life.
The search for extraterrestrial life is a relentless goal of NASA. The Perseverance rover on Mars is collecting rock samples on Mars to learn, among other things, whether there’s any evidence for ancient microbial life in a region of the planet that once was a flowing river delta. (An environment, it’s important to note, that scientists believe was similar to that where Earth’s first known life materialized.)
Beyond Mars, scientists harbor hope that future probes can poke around for signs of life in the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa or the methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan.
But those are just venues—and hostile ones, compared to Earth—within our solar system. Missions like TESS and the Kepler Space Telescope have detected thousands of exoplanets, but the fraction that are Earth-like is vanishingly small.
Like the Webb telescope, the future observatory will be located at L2, a region of space one million miles from Earth that allows objects to remain in position with relatively little fuel burn. (By saving fuel, the missions’ lifespans are prolonged.)
As reported by Science, Clampin said that the Habitable Worlds Observatory would be designed for maintenance and upgrades, which Webb is not. That could make the next observatory a more permanent presence in NASA’s menagerie of space telescopes.
Hubble was famously serviced by humans in low-Earth orbit multiple times, due to a number of mechanical snafus and issues that have arisen over the telescope’s 32-year tenure in space.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory repairs and upgrades (which would take place a million miles from Earth—a little far for human repairs) would be done robotically, more in the style of a Star Wars droid than a hand from the IT department.
Space News reported that NASA will imminently begin seeking out nominations for people to join the Science, Technology, Architecture Review Team (START) for the new observatory. The first phase of the observatory’s development is slated for 2029.
In November, Clampin told a House subcommittee that the Webb telescope had suffered 14 strikes from micrometeoroids—very small bits of fast-traveling space rock that can damage the telescope’s mirrors. Clampin said the NASA team was “making some operational changes to make sure we avoid any future impacts,” and the telescope was slightly repositioned to reduce the risk of future strikes.
One of the telescope’s mirror segments was damaged by a micrometeoroid strike, but an analysis by the team found the telescope “should meet its optical performance requirements for many years.”
Of paramount importance to the astronomical community is that the budget and timeline of the new observatory stay on track. The Webb project was years late and way over budget. Space News reports that some scientists are calling for an expedited timeline that could see the Habitable Worlds Observatory launch by 2035.
The ball is well and truly rolling on the telescopes of the future. The question is how Sisyphean the roll of the ball will be.
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What a goal this is! Fernandes beats Rico to a header out on the United right. The ball sails infield to Ronaldo, who plays a perfectly weighted ball down the inside-left for Garnacho. The young Argentinian, running at full tilt, takes a touch to enter the box, then whistles an unstoppable shot across Remiro and into the top right. Wow!
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Real Sociedad: Remiro, Gorosabel, Le Normand, Pacheco, Rico, Mendez, Zubimendi, Merino, Marin, Sorloth, Carlos Fernandez. Subs: Sola, Illarramendi, Zubeldia, Elustondo, Zubiaurre, Guevara, Navarro, Turrientes, Gonzalez, Marrero, Karrikaburu, Magunacelaya.
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Last week, Manchester United did this …
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… which means they’ve qualified for the knockout-round play-offs of the Europa League at the very least. But if they want to get straight through to the last 16, and avoid a knockout tie with a team freshly cashiered from the Champions League, they have to win in San Sebastian tonight … and beat Real Sociedad by two clear goals. Kick-off is at 5.45pm GMT. It’s on!
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Key events
22 min: Merino has a dig from the edge of the United box. The ball’s deflected out for a corner on the left. Real play it back for Zubimendi, who shovels a directionless pass forward that sails harmlessly out for a goal kick.
20 min: United now need just the one more goal to top Group E and avoid all the big names dropping out of the Champions League. On the touchline, Sociedad coach Imanol Alguacil makes his feelings known via the medium of demonstrative tantrum.
18 min: There’s a quick VAR check. Was Fernandes offside when he headed the ball away from Rico? Nope! The goal stands. It’s Garnacho’s first for Manchester United. What a time to score it!
GOAL! Real Sociedad 0-1 Manchester United (Garnacho 17)
What a goal this is! Fernandes beats Rico to a header out on the United right. The ball sails infield to Ronaldo, who plays a perfectly weighted ball down the inside-left for Garnacho. The young Argentinian, running at full tilt, takes a touch to enter the box, then whistles an unstoppable shot across Remiro and into the top right. Wow!
15 min: Gorosabel strides down the right and whips in a cross. Sorloth is lurking, waiting to crash a header home, but Martinez is positioned perfectly and smacks a clearing header back upfield instead.
14 min: Garnacho tears down the left, cuts infield, and tries to find Ronaldo on the other flank. A poor pass whistles out for a goal kick, and he’d have surely been better shooting, but this young winger generates palpable excitement whenever he gets on the ball. A bundle of energy and smooth skill.
12 min: Merino tries to release Rico down the inside-left channel but there’s a little bit too much juice on the pass. Goal kick. It’s been an open game so far, even if it’s not quite yet sparked into life.
11 min: Ronaldo falls over again, and cops plenty of abuse in doing so. His record of 13 goals in his last seven appearances against La Real may have something to do with the reception he’s getting from the home faithful.
9 min: Ronaldo attempts to chest the ball down on the edge of the Sociedad box. He falls over, claiming to have been tugged by Le Normand, but there was next to nothing in the challenge. While Ronaldo complains, Garnacho keeps going and whips a low ball through the six-yard box from the left. But there’s nobody making the run.
7 min: Marin wriggles away from a couple of Manchester United challenges in the centre circle. His attempt to release Sorloth down the right is unceremoniously nixed by Shaw’s no-nonsense intervention, but the home fans enjoyed that little burst of skill.
5 min: Merino slips a pass down the inside-left channel to release Carlos Fernandez into the United box. Fernandez lashes high and hard into the side netting, and the flag goes up correctly for offside anyway.
3 min: Rico dances his way down the inside-left channel and nearly breaks into the United box. He overruns the ball, allowing Lindelof to shepherd it out for a goal kick. United haven’t had much of a sniff yet.
1 min: A brisk start for the hosts, as Marin makes good down the left. He’s got a lot of time and space in which to work, so United are relieved to see the youngster hoick carelessly out for a goal kick.
United get the ball rolling. Sociedad have lost two of their last three matches, while United are unbeaten in eight. That should give Erik ten Hag’s men hope as they chase the two-goal victory they need for top spot, La Real’s much healthier goal difference the sticking point.
The teams are out! La Real and United emerge from the tunnel to a sodden Anoeta, the heavens having been open for most of the afternoon in San Sebastian. The hosts play in their blue and white stripes, while United sport third-choice highlighter green. We’ll be off in a couple of minutes!
Erik ten Hag speaks to BT Sport. “We have to cover more games. Marcus Rashford had an injury a couple of weeks ago, and with so many games coming, he is important for us. We have to keep him going and in this form, and fresh. Donny van de Beek is back. We have some problems in the front line, and this is his moment. He has to take this moment. I know he can do it from the number ten position, playing between the lines, cutting behind, a good counter press, so I want to see it. Victor Lindelof has a really good combination with Lisandro Martinez, he dropped out for one game through illness and now he is back. We know what to do tonight. We have to bring tempo, and have a plan. We have an idea with Marcus Rashford at the end of the game, how to deal with that.”
Manchester United make three changes to the XI selected to start the 1-0 win over West Ham on Sunday. Victor Lindelof, Donny van de Beek and Alejandro Garnacho replace Harry Maguire, Marcus Rashford and Anthony Elanga, all of whom drop to the bench.
Real Sociedad name a vastly different starting line-up to the one selected at Old Trafford back in September. Robin Le Normand, Diego Rico, Pablo Marín, Alexander Sørloth and Carlos Fernández are in; Aihen Muñoz, Takefusa Kubo, Umar Sadiq, Aritz Elustondo and former Manchester City man David Silva are not.
The teams
Real Sociedad: Remiro, Gorosabel, Le Normand, Pacheco, Rico, Mendez, Zubimendi, Merino, Marin, Sorloth, Carlos Fernandez. Subs: Sola, Illarramendi, Zubeldia, Elustondo, Zubiaurre, Guevara, Navarro, Turrientes, Gonzalez, Marrero, Karrikaburu, Magunacelaya.
Manchester United: de Gea, Dalot, Lindelof, Martinez, Shaw, Casemiro, Eriksen, Bruno Fernandes, van de Beek, Garnacho, Ronaldo. Subs: Maguire, Rashford, Malacia, Fred, Pellistri, Wan-Bissaka, Dubravka, Elanga, McTominay, Shoretire, Vitek, Iqbal.
Referee: Georgi Kabakov (Bulgaria).
Preamble
Last week, Manchester United did this …
… which means they’ve qualified for the knockout-round play-offs of the Europa League at the very least. But if they want to get straight through to the last 16, and avoid a knockout tie with a team freshly cashiered from the Champions League, they have to win in San Sebastian tonight … and beat Real Sociedad by two clear goals. Kick-off is at 5.45pm GMT. It’s on!
In his haste to avoid two extra Europa League fixtures, Mikel Arteta may now have to bring out the big guns for one more. This was Arsenal’s worst performance of the season by some distance and, while it is hardly time for alarm bells, a wake-up call had been coming.
They never got going against a motivated PSV Eindhoven who were transformed by a masterclass in centre-forward play from the half-time substitute Luuk De Jong and it leaves the visitors’ manager with an unwelcome dilemma.
The subject of tiredness has been a creeping theme in Arsenal’s season, largely because of Arteta’s insistence on fielding strong sides in unremarkable Group A. It had brought them a 100% record up to this point and a draw here would have meant a potential night off against FC Zürich next Thursday. While Arsenal have already qualified for the knockout stage, winning the group would mean they bypass a dicey play-off in February, a round in which Juventus and Barcelona await.
A starting lineup featuring Gabriel Martinelli, Martin Ødegaard, Granit Xhaka, William Saliba and Aaron Ramsdale should have been strong enough to complete the task. Instead Arteta was obliged to fling on Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Jesus and Thomas Partey in fruitless pursuit of salvation as their night disintegrated. It did not work and the concern now is that he may have to deploy at least some of them against Zürich, three days before they visit Chelsea.
That Swiss assignment at the Emirates should pose few problems and a win would guarantee top spot. But Arteta must decide how many chances to take at a time when flat second-half performances are becoming a trend. They had flattered to deceive at Bodø/Glimt, Leeds and Southampton; a result like this felt around the corner and it is reasonable to wonder whether, and why, an element of their early-season freshness might be missing.
“It’s the end of a long run and now it’s time to reset and analyse what happened,” Arteta said. “PSV deserved to win, no question, we were nowhere near our level today. We didn’t have the threat and aggression we’ve been playing at and that is worrying.” It was true from kick-off. PSV needed this more, a fact borne out by their exuberant post-match celebrations.
Aaron Ramsdale (right) shouts in frustration after Joey Veerman breaks the deadlock for PSV. Photograph: Kieran McManus/Shutterstock
They knew a win could secure them a knockout place if Bodø/Glimt failed to beat Zürich and two late goals from the Swiss side sealed a perfect night. Ruud van Nistelrooy’s players had, save for the schemer Xavi Simons, not impressed in defeat at the Emirates but were greatly improved here. Simons had an early shot saved by Ramsdale, who was deployed due to Matt Turner’s groin injury, while both he and Cody Gakpo had first-half goals chalked off for narrow offsides.
Yet they did not look capable of mounting sustained pressure until De Jong, the 32-year-old who was scoring in La Liga for Barcelona last season, came on and made everything stick. PSV began the second period at speed but thought they had squandered a chance when Gakpo raced through and shot across goal, the ball running out of play on the far side.
David Moyes looked back on a job well done after West Ham eased into the last 16 of the Europa Conference League with a 1-0 win over Silkeborg.
Already guaranteed a place in the knock-out stages, the Hammers needed just a point to be sure of topping Group B and avoiding a two-legged play-off in February.
A first-half penalty from Manuel Lanzini (pictured) ensured they maintained their perfect record in Europe this season with a seventh win from their seven matches in total.
“I thought we had a lot of the ball and controlled the game for long periods,” said Moyes. “The biggest thing tonight was that we didn’t get many goals. We’ve been bemoaning that, not being clinical, but in the main we deserved the victory.
“To be through already is hugely important with the way the season’s going. It’s great credit to the players over the last two years, to win the group last year and this year.”
Moyes was able to finally hand a debut to Nayef Aguerd, the Morocco defender signed for £30m in the summer, who suffered an ankle injury in pre-season.
“I didn’t tell him he was starting until today,” added Moyes. “But he’s a good athlete and he’s in good shape. He’s not got enough match practice but the game worked out well for him. He passed it well, got in a few races, made a few challenges. It was a really good opening game for him.”
The only concern was the absence of England World Cup hopeful Jarrod Bowen, with Moyes revealing the forward has an ankle injury which he hopes is not too serious. PA Media
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David Moyes looked back on a job well done after West Ham eased into the last 16 of the Europa Conference League with a 1-0 win over Silkeborg.
Already guaranteed a place in the knock-out stages, the Hammers needed just a point to be sure of topping Group B and avoiding a two-legged play-off in February.
A first-half penalty from Manuel Lanzini (pictured) ensured they maintained their perfect record in Europe this season with a seventh win from their seven matches in total.
“I thought we had a lot of the ball and controlled the game for long periods,” said Moyes. “The biggest thing tonight was that we didn’t get many goals. We’ve been bemoaning that, not being clinical, but in the main we deserved the victory.
“To be through already is hugely important with the way the season’s going. It’s great credit to the players over the last two years, to win the group last year and this year.”
Moyes was able to finally hand a debut to Nayef Aguerd, the Morocco defender signed for £30m in the summer, who suffered an ankle injury in pre-season.
“I didn’t tell him he was starting until today,” added Moyes. “But he’s a good athlete and he’s in good shape. He’s not got enough match practice but the game worked out well for him. He passed it well, got in a few races, made a few challenges. It was a really good opening game for him.”
The only concern was the absence of England World Cup hopeful Jarrod Bowen, with Moyes revealing the forward has an ankle injury which he hopes is not too serious. PA Media
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The danger looked to have passed but Eddie Nketiah, who could learn numerous things from De Jong on this evidence, was beaten too easily to Kieran Tierney’s throw-in up the line and Arsenal were now in trouble again. De Jong rolled Rob Holding too easily outside the area and was able to tee up Joey Veerman, arriving on the run, for a swept first-time finish that cranked up an already feverish atmosphere.
“The moment something went wrong we just went down and didn’t know how to react,” Arteta said. The final blow was applied eight minutes later and it was a sobering moment for Ramsdale in particular. He missed his punch from Gakpo’s left-sided corner, Holding having failed to connect when jumping alongside him, and the ball could ping off a more determined De Jong’s head into the vacant goal.
Arsenal could point to smart saves demanded of Walter Benítez by Nketiah, once early on and again towards the end, and a wayward volley by Martinelli before the interval. But they were sluggish with their 70% share of possession and lax in the duels when out of it; there was no point dressing up their display as anything better and Arteta must now cajole them into finishing the job next week.
“They have been exceptionally good and playing at a level that probably no one expected,” he said. “Now it’s down to me to get the best out of them.”
An eerie new video allows us to hear what NASA’s Juno spacecraft experienced as it made a flyby of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa last month.
The 11-second-long audio track expresses variations of plasma frequency, using data collected by Juno over 90 minutes as it made a flyby of Europa on Sept. 29. Converting this data into sound — data sonification — allows us to hear the variation of frequency of the plasma waves observed by Juno near Europa as the plasma density changes.
The plasma wave detections were made by the Juno Waves instrument in the frequency range of 50 to 150 kHz and the data collected during the flyby will help reveal more about Europa, according to a NASA statement.
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A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa captured by NASA’s Juno mission during its Sept. 29 close flyby at the moon. The spacecraft was 945 miles (1,500 kilometers) above the moon’s surface when the image was taken. (Image credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing by Björn Jónsson CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
The Waves instrument was designed to help scientists understand the interactions between Jupiter’s atmosphere, magnetic field and magnetosphere, as well as to understand Jupiter‘s auroras.
But it can also be useful for learning more about Europa, which scientists think has a large subsurface ocean. Measuring the changes in density of charged particle gas, or plasma, surrounding Europa can provide insight into the moon’s magnetic field and, in turn, clues about the structure of the moon’s interior.
The emissions reveal that plasma density near Europa ranged from about 60 to 120 electrons per cubic centimeter, but with a very brief peak near 300 electrons per cubic centimeter right at Juno’s closest approach to Europa, according to NASA.
Juno entered orbit around Jupiter in July 2016. The flyby is part of an extended mission that began in 2021. Juno made a flyby of Ganymede in June 2021 for which NASA also created a cool audio clip.
Juno will also fly by the volcanically active Io, the closest-in of the Galilean moons, in late 2023 and early 2024 as Jupiter’s immense gravity pulls Juno closer to the planet with each orbit of the spacecraft.
