In 2009, NASA determined that the cost of adding a single launch per year was $252 million (in 2012), which indicated that much of the Space Shuttle program costs are for year-round personnel and operations that continued regardless of the launch rate. Not only did the weekend take make back the entire movie budget ($63 million), but it it was also more than what the original Austin Power’s movie made in it’s original run, which was around $56 million. Using data from the Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to look at the V Hydrae star system, the team behind the work tracked the blobs back to 1986. The study, led by Nasa’s Raghvendra Sahai, ran from 2002 to 2004 and for two years from 2011, and was published in the Astrophysical Journal. The James Webb Space Telescope is already providing detailed and unique observations concerning galaxies in its first five months of operations, according to astronomers. Also on the agenda is observations of an exoplanet called WASP-96 b, although JWST won’t be offering an image of the distant world.

To assist with exoplanet work, telescope scientists use complex models for interpretation. James Webb Space Telescope data continues to stun. Karl Gordon, an astronomer at Space Telescope Science Institute, said of the science team’s earliest looks at the James Webb Space Telescope’s data. Incredible images of Jupiter and its auroras shine in fresh new images from the James Webb Space Telescope created by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt, based on Webb data. Meanwhile, amateur image processors are digging into early observations, turning data into works of art, like a spiraling galaxy that looks like a wormhole. Laura Kreidberg, director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Germany who was involved in the observations, said in a statement. “I’ve been really enjoying getting to know my fellow interns, and also getting that professional development alongside technical skills,” said Oberlander, who plans on returning to UCLA to earn her master’s degree and learn more about optics, electromagnetics, and space exploration.

NASA also had more camera views of the shuttle during liftoff to better monitor foam shedding. The James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared camera (NIRCam) probed a planet-forming disk around a red dwarf star known as AU Microscopii or AU Mic. The brown dwarf is called VHS 1256 b and orbits two small red dwarf stars, 72 light-years from Earth. The telescope’s ambitious mission in deep space includes taking measurements of the chemical compositions of the intriguing stars, galaxies and nebulas it sees, like these fresh images of baby stars in the Orion Nebula released earlier this week. Lurking deep in the mid-infrared, dust clouds loom in blue in front of a reddish background, and the stars are blotted out. These zones are full of dust and best visible in infrared light, which can peer through that. It is best known for monitoring a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica.

An incredible image of Neptune’s rings and moons has been hailed as one of the best of a generation. Scientists are also trying to figure out strange concentric rings around a faraway star, called WR140. Umm, one thing that NASA does with supercomputers is figure out where Near Earth Objects are going to end up in a hundred and fifty years so that we know if we need to be trying to nudge them in a different direction to keep it from hitting earth and wiping out humanity. But scientists are already looking ahead the observatory’s second year, which begins next summer, since the telescope is out-performing the expectations researchers planned this year’s work around. The big reveal of James Webb Space Telescope images is today! EDT (1630 GMT), during which scientists and officials will answer more questions about the newly released images. 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT): NASA officials and scientists will hold a news conference. Discovery touched down successfully on July 17, 2006, at 09:14 (EDT) on Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center. 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT): Individual release of each new image. NASA TV’s live coverage of the Crew-1 mission’s return has concluded, and a post-splashdown news conference is scheduled for 5 a.m.