Researchers estimate that an additional 16 to 24 hours of JWST observations could provide the data needed to reach this five-sigma benchmark.
President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi among several leaders congratulated the Crew-9 astronauts, including Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams, as they safely returned to Earth on Wednesday.
PM Modi said that Space exploration is about pushing the limits of human potential, daring to dream, and having the courage to turn those dreams into reality.
A video shared by NASA captures the dramatic moment when the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft touched down in the ocean.
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with NASA’s Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, have returned to Earth after a lengthy journey that turned a planned eight-day mission into a nine-month in space.
The Trojan asteroids are trapped in orbits around the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter, either far ahead of or behind the giant planet.
Before its encounter, NASA had defined a minimum successful orbit period change of Dimorphos as change of 73 seconds or more. This early data show DART surpassed this minimum benchmark by more than 25 times.
Hubble has been operating since 1990, about 540 kms above Earth in an orbit that is slowly decaying over time.
Researchers think that a galaxy's corona is a remnant of the primordial cloud of gas that collapsed to form the galaxy billions of years ago.
The US space agency has met all objectives for the launch, including the key hydrogen leak threat which has resulted in two failure attempts.
