Technology News: From Space Missions to AI Breakthroughs, January 2024

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NASAs C-130 Delivers GUSTO Payload to Antarctica

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NASAs Wallops Flight Facility C-130 aircraft delivered the agencys Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on Oct. 28, 2023. The GUSTO mission will launch on a scientific balloon in December 2023.

NASA: Exciting!! Seeing Sagittarius C in a New Light

Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia)

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASAs James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains intriguing needle-like structures that lack any uniform orientation.