Mastodawn

Can you say giant S_IT SHOW!

Turmoil resulting from "seismic shifts in NASA Management and in the Federal government has caused "sweeping workforce losses and operational instability throughout 2025", and has led to the cancellation of one of NASA's most important upcoming astrophysics missions to launch a next generation x-ray telescope.

The project has lost more than 20 personnel with key expertise as a result of NASA's Deferred Resignation Program and endless management reorganizations to "align" with the 2026 presidential budget request. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-project-leader-blames-next-generation-x-ray-telescope-cancellation-on-agency-mismanagement #NASA #Mismanagement #USGov #BudgetCuts #AXIA #Space #SpaceCraft #XRayTelescope #Astrophysics #Fail #ShitShow

ᴄᴏʀʀᴀᴅᴏ May 3, 2023

#Study using #XRaytelescope indicates that #darkenergy is uniformly distributed in #space and #time

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-x-ray-telescope-dark-energy-uniformly.html

Study using X-Ray telescope indicates that dark energy is uniformly distributed in space and time

When Edwin Hubble observed distant galaxies in the 1920s, he made the groundbreaking discovery that the universe is expanding. It was not until 1998, however, that scientists observing Type Ia supernovae further discovered that the universe is not just expanding but has begun a phase of accelerating expansion. "To explain this acceleration, we need a source," says Joseph Mohr, astrophysicist at LMU. "And we refer to this source as 'dark energy,' which provides a sort of 'anti-gravity' to speed up cosmic expansion."