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An image released by NASA on July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared light by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo/JTA-NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI-Handout via Xinhua)
Posted inOpinion

The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick and JTA July 19, 2022

Back in December, human beings, a weird variety of uniquely frail, lithe and hairless monkeys, launched into space a new, $10 billion dollar telescope, 21 feet in diameter and, like […]

A rendering of the greenhouse-like module headed to the International Space Station (left) and some hummus (right). (Illustration/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inFood, Bay Area, Jewish Life, News

Can you grow hummus on the moon? This Israeli at Stanford is going to find out.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 1, 2021
Daniel Shorr (far right) and other members of Stanford’s Student Space Initiative escort a rocket he built (Photo/Courtesy Daniel Shorr)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Tashlich in spaaaaaaaacce: Send your sins to the heavens on Stanford rocket

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 21, 2019
(From left) United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and U.S. astronaut Jessica Meir at a press conference in Star City, outside Moscow, Sept. 5, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Kirill Kudryavtsev-AFP-Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael, U.S., World, News

Jewish and Arab astronauts head to space together

by JTA September 25, 2019September 25, 2019
An artist’s rendering of Israel’s SpaceIL lunar spacecraft (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inBay Area, News

South Bay talk covers Israel’s moon shot

by Rob Gloster November 2, 2018November 8, 2018
Mission specialist Judith Resnik, the first Jew in space, sending a message to her father from the shuttle Discovery on its maiden voyage, Aug. 30, 1984. (Photo/NASA-Space Frontiers-Getty Images)
Posted inJewish Life

6 fun facts about ‘Jews in Space’ from N.Y. exhibit

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten March 21, 2018March 20, 2018

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