NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Takes Giant Leap Toward Unveiling the Universe
The Roman Space Telescope is nearing completion with its recent integration into the launch spacecraft. This sets the stage ...
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See Mars at its best and closest this weekend — no telescope required
As Mars approaches opposition this month, it will become a dazzling spectacle in the night sky. See it at its best now, or ...
Hidden Stars Halfway Across the Universe: The Webb Telescope’s Stunning Discovery
Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...
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From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb telescope has found in just 3 years
Themiya Nanayakkara receives funding from Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. Ivo Labbe receives funding from Australian Research Council in the form of a Future Fellowship.
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NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)
It's a cosmic "whodunnit." Probing a distant galaxy like a "cosmic crime scene" with the Hubble Space Telescope after a "tip-off" from the Chandra X-ray telescope, NASA scientists have discovered ...
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NASA space telescopes give Christmas Tree Cluster a festive makeover (photos)
NASA combined data from Chandra and James Webb Space Telescope. The X-ray data from Chandra reveal the young stars within the cluster in red, while the infrared data from Webb show clouds of dust ...
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James Webb telescope uncovers massive 'grand design' spiral galaxy in the early universe — and scientists can't explain how it got so big, so fast
Here’s how it works. Researchers just found an unexpected galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The large swirl of stars is known as a grand-design spiral galaxy, and its ...
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The world's largest space telescope just got an unexpected new role: asteroid hunter
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks. A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb ...
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The first shocking images of the new James Webb Space Telescope
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one ...
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NASA telescopes capture a cosmic wreath for the holidays
The image, using data taken by several space telescopes, shows a star cluster called NGC 602, located in a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Small Magellanic Cloud. The image ...
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Amateur Astronomers Detect Voyager 1 Using Vintage 1950s Telescope After Glitch
Communicating with the farthest human-made object is challenging due to its extremely faint signals, but a telescope designed to detect weak, low-frequency emissions from deep space can still pick ...
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A New View of a Distant Spiral
Day 16 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a new view of a distant spiral. This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy NGC 628 in a new light. The galaxy ...