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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 ...
EP astronomical satellite provides new insights into early universe
China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an ...
Inside the Milky Way's satellite galaxy: Hubble captures mesmerising Tarantula Nebula footage; watch it here
Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...
Viasat one of four companies selected by NASA for $4.8B satellite contract
The program’s overall contract is worth up to $4.82 billion and over the next five years, Viasat will have a piece of that ...
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Starlink satellites: Facts, tracking and impact on astronomy
Astronomers were used to sometimes seeing satellites, but now it's an order of magnitude more and they're going to be showing up very commonly in observations from ground-based telescopes.
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Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image)
Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth. But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a ...
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Curious Iowa: Why does North Liberty have a radio telescope?
North Liberty’s best kept secret looks like a giant satellite dish nestled in a wooded area between North Liberty and ...
8 most beautiful images of space shared by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ...
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China Focus: EP astronomical satellite provides new insights into early universe
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite has, for the first time in human history, detected soft X-ray signals from an explosion in the early universe, opening a ...
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University of Arizona will help send commands, interpret data for NASA's Pandora satellite
The University of Arizona will contribute to a NASA space mission to study the atmospheres of planets outside of our solar ...