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Amazing James Webb Space Telescope's View Of Carina Nebula
See amazing imagery of the Carina Nebula as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Amber Straughn explains. Credit: NASA ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...
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Summer school at Vatican Observatory offers unique opportunity for young scientists
The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.
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NASA finds a planet disintegrating faster than astronomers thought possible
Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.
On this date: Kennedy announces James Webb as NASA Administrator
On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...
NASA's Webb telescope threatened with budget cuts. They would hit hard.
"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...
James Webb Validates Hubble’s Calculation of the Universe’s Expansion
Through the lens of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, scientists are zeroing in on the Hubble Constant, a vital ...
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Have We Really Detected Dyson Spheres?
Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer and director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, ...
Peculiar icy objects in outer reaches of the Milky Way perplex astronomers
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's 'big sky images' issued on stamps in Big Sky, Montana
The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...
Autopsy shows woman found atop Chicago-area medical center died of hypothermia from cold exposure
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A 28-year-old patient dressed only in a medical gown and found unresponsive on the roof of a Chicago-area medical center died of hypothermia as a result of cold exposure, ...