Archive for September 1st, 2022

LABOR DAY ISSUE ~ 1946

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The American Weekly was a Sunday newspaper supplement published by the Hearst Corporation from November 1, 1896, until 1966.

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PLANET OUTSIDE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM SEEN

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(Fox News) – NASA on Thursday shared an image taken by the
James Webb Telescope showing the first-ever direct image of
a planet outside our
solar system. 

NASA says the exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant, meaning
it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable. The image
can be seen through different bands of infrared light.

Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy
at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, who led the observations, called the images a "transformative moment, not
only for Webb but also for astronomy generally."
 

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The James Webb Space Telescope.


The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on 25 December
2021 on an
Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, and
arrived at the Sun–Earth
L2 Lagrange point in January 2022.

The telescope is the successor of the Hubble as NASA’s flagship
mission
in astrophysics.

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PASSENGER JET SHOT DOWN ON THIS DAY

The wreckage of Korean Air Lines Flight 007
The wreckage of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.     
    
    
    
   

On September 1, 1983,Soviet jet fighters intercepted a Korean
Airlines passenger flight in Russian airspace and shot the plane
down, killing  269 passengers and crew-members. The incident dramatically increased tensions between the
Soviet Union
and
the United
States.      
       

    

      
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