NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...
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James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they'll likely turn into exoplanets
Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...
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'Bull's-eye!' Hubble telescope spots record-shattering 9-ring galaxy — and the cosmic 'dart' that smashed through its center
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...
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Oberwerk’s binoculars is really a pair of 5-inch refractors
What if you could find binoculars big enough to qualify as small telescopes? Get ready for the BT–127XL–SD apochromatic ...
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Telescopes Paint Stunning View Of Galaxy Cluster With Black Hole Jets
Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...
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Bates at Night: A visit to the historic Stephens Telescope
Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...
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Webb Telescope spots ‘cosmic question mark’ that mirrors a young Milky Way
Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...
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"Bullseye" galaxy and its nine beautiful rings captured by Hubble
A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.
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Dennis Mammana: Stargazing Through Time As Venus Puts On Its Celestial Show
I hope you got a chance to see the moon nuzzled up to Venus on Feb. 1, and perhaps even checked out the pair through binoculars. Now, with the moon gone ...
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Australian Telescope Upgrade Helps Astronomers Hunt for Fast Radio Bursts
An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) at 10 times their typical efficiency. By sifting through billions of ...