The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/space)
Today TWH presents three science stories from around the world, including the banning of cruel animal traps in Wales, new images of Saturn from the James Webb space telescope, and new research into octopus sleep habits.
Auroras are becoming more frequent as we enter the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. An event tonight may result in the aurora borealis being visible as far south as southern Oregon and northern California, Denver, Kansas City, and Cincinnati as well as the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Parliament of the World’s Religion’s Declaration for the Dignity and Human Rights of Women is re-circulating; due to overwhelming crowd sizes, Salem, MA is asking visitors to leave their cars at home and arrive by train, ferry, or broom; Mountain Rose Herbs announces winners for “Grants 4 Plants” program; burial site of a priestess of Aphrodite found in Russia; and more news
NASA announces a new mission to explore the distant planet Uranus.
The launch and deployment of the JWST has been in the making for over a decade. TWH spoke with Dr Scott Rohrbach, a JWST ISIM Optical Systems Engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center about the project.