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What’s Holding Up New Omicron Vaccines?

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All the vaccines we use to ward off SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, share one crucial feature: they were designed to protect against its ancestral form, which surfaced in Wuhan, China, more than two years ago. Today’s virus, however, is not the same as it once was. SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving, with successive variants … Read more

The James Webb Space Telescope is fully deployed. So what’s next for the biggest observatory off Earth?

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Work for the James Webb Space Telescope is just beginning. On Saturday (Jan. 8), the new observatory, the largest space telescope ever built, successfully unfolded its final primary mirror segment to cap what NASA has billed as one of its most complicated deployments in space ever. The Webb mission team is now turning its attention … Read more

Celestron telescopes & binoculars deals: Cyber Monday discounts & what’s in stock

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If you’re hunting for a Celestron telescope, or even binoculars, then this guide will help you to choose a high-quality instrument destined to offer years of high-quality skywatching, while making the most of discounts.  Celestron, alongside Meade Instruments, Orion, Vixen and Sky-Watcher, is one of the most popular telescope companies around with a plethora of … Read more

’29 days on the edge:’ What’s next for NASA’s newly launched James Webb Space Telescope

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NASA’s next big space observatory is finally aloft, but it’ll be a while before it starts its highly anticipated science mission. The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana yesterday (Dec. 25), kicking off a long-delayed, potentially transformative mission to study the early universe, nearby exoplanets and … Read more