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NASA's Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

How do environmental factors affect the star formation process? To help answer this question, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope examined the fringes of our Milky Way galaxy. Webb’s near- and mid-infrared imaging capabilities enabled scientists...
12-Sep-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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NASA's Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo

Hubble and Chandra have uncovered a pair of supermassive black holes that are just 300 light-years apart. They are buried deep inside the heart of a pair of colliding galaxies that will eventually merge to make a bigger black hole.
9-Sep-2024 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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NASA's Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars' Escaping Water

A Martian mystery: What happened to the water that once covered the Red Planet? Scientists know some of it went deep underground, but what became of the rest? Hubble and MAVEN teamed up to help scientists understand the history of water on Mars.
5-Sep-2024 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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NASA’s Webb Reveals Distorted Galaxy Forming Cosmic Question Mark

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were surprised to find a distant, red galaxy distorted into the shape of a question mark. A specific, rarely-seen type of natural gravitational lens is causing the galaxy to appear multiple...
4-Sep-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils

The universe may seem static, only capable of being captured in still frames, but that is far from the truth. It is actually ever-changing, just not on timescales clearly visible to humans. NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope will bridge this...
29-Aug-2024 10:10 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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New Horizons Spacecraft Measurements Shed Light on the Darkness of the Universe

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft measured the feeble background glow that comes from myriad galaxies filling the universe. The finding has settled a long-standing mystery about the source of background light.
28-Aug-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren't Too Big for Their Britches After All

Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope began science operations in July 2022, breathless headlines proclaimed that observations of distant galaxies were “breaking theories of cosmic evolution.” Astronomers had found galaxies that appeared...
26-Aug-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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NASA's Webb Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away

If alien astronomers in a nearby star system had a telescope like NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and they pointed it toward our solar system, then Jupiter might look very much like this new Webb image of the exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab. It is...
24-Jul-2024 10:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI): Nearly 400 years after Galileo first observed the heavens through a telescope, we continue to seek answers to age-old questions about the universe. And while the technology has evolved over the centuries, the inquiry remains essentially the same: What's out there, where did it come from, and what does it mean?

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