James Webb Space Telescope launches

Including Asian and Mesopotamian observations shows that systematic solar knowledge did not begin with the European telescope.

The chapter compares how the Sun, Moon, Venus, Pleiades and other celestial figures are gendered across diverse African societies.

The publication discusses relationships among Moon phases, menstruation, fertility, agriculture and social expectations.

Examples from different regions cannot stand for an entire continent with many languages, histories and knowledge systems.

Focusing on women changes which practices and interpreters become visible in the historical record.

NASA, ESA and CSA collaborated on the telescope and its scientific instruments.

The launch sent Webb toward its distant observing location near the Sun–Earth L2 point.

After launch, the observatory still had to unfold, align and calibrate before routine science.

A composite image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 was shown publicly.

The image shows arcs of distant galaxies magnified by foreground cluster mass.