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	Science Daily update ⋅ January 23, 2022
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	Spaceflight Now Webb closes in on destination with critical mirror alignment on tap Spaceflight Now Thirty days outbound from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope will slip into its parking orbit a million miles away Monday, an ideal spot to scan the heavens in search of faint infrared light from the first generation of stars and galaxies. Flag as irrelevant
	Alaska Public Media News Should we be wearing masks outside again? NPR Given how contagious the omicron variant is, we wondered whether we should all still be wearing masks outdoors. We talk to some experts for advice. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's well established that if you're outdoors, your chances of being infected with ... Flag as irrelevant
	CBS News Webb space telescope nears its destination almost a million miles from Earth, ready for critical mirror alignment CBS News Once aligned and its instruments calibrated, Webb will be 100 times more powerful than Hubble, NASA says — so sensitive to infrared light that it could detect the faint heat of a bumble bee as far away as the moon. Flag as irrelevant
	Popular Science NASA's James Webb telescope is about to arrive at an exceptional point in space Popular Science The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is approaching its new home. On January 24, it will arrive at a point in space that scientists call Lagrange point 2, or L2. This is the technical name for a delicate gravitational tipping point. Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Can nonhuman animals drive other animals to extinction? Livescience.com Some animals are capable of interspecies decimation if humans put them in the wrong place and they become invasive — species that cause ecological or economic damage to their non-native environment. For example, Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) from ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com Ruins of bustling Roman town discovered in UK Livescience.com Archaeologists have uncovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of an Iron Age village that grew into a bustling ancient Roman trading town — an archaeological gem with more than 300 Roman coins, glass vessels and water wells — in what is now ... Flag as irrelevant
	Mashable Scientists detect something really unexpected beneath Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mashable "When you look at Enceladus and Europa, there's clearly an engine in these moons that is running," Alyssa Rhoden, a planetary scientist who researches ocean worlds, told Mashable. "When you look at Mimas it's the opposite — it can't possibly be an ocean ... Flag as irrelevant
	Alaska Public Media News Coronavirus FAQ: What's the risk of catching omicron outdoors? Alaska Public Media News (Of course, football games have been postponed this season because of COVID outbreaks, but the study's authors believe that players were more likely spreading it in locker rooms and other shared indoor spaces.) Outdoor ... Flag as irrelevant
	SlashGear Here's what would really happen if an asteroid was going to hit Earth SlashGear Fast points out that it's important for us to locate asteroids before they do pose a threat, because an asteroid impact would be a preventable natural disaster. NASA has a department called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office which ... Flag as irrelevant
	Screen Rant NASA Is Going To Chase An Asteroid Using A Solar Sail Screen Rant NASA will use a miniaturized spacecraft pulled by a sail to chase a bus-sized asteroid. This mission combines two new NASA passions, space sails and asteroids. Space sails are particularly interesting for NASA because they can propel a spacecraft ... Flag as irrelevant
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