Space debris from the SpaceX Dragon capsule crashed in the mountains of North Carolina. I had to go see it (video)

a large black piece of fiberglass covered in metal bolts and plates lies on the ground beside a trail leading into a forest. mountains can be seen rolling in the distance

Space flight doesn’t usually come to mind when you think of the quiet, green mountains of North Carolina. It is true that, in the early 1960s, NASA built the (now defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and … Read more

The James Webb Space Telescope finds a dusty skeleton in the closet of this starburst galaxy

A gif showing three views of a galaxy. The final image in the gif combines the previous two images.

Dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the star of the show The James Webb Space Telescopehis latest cosmic portrait. Located 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, NGC 4449 has a lot in common with our own. Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), orbiting satellite galaxy Milky Way. Both are small and … Read more