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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Watch How: Jupiter Spins In Animated Hubble Space Telescope Observations
Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according to ESA/NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simo ...
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Why NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could be the ultimate exoplanet hunter
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
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2025 US stamps – Betty White, ssssnakes & a bit of love
The 2025 US stamps offer up a lot of familiar faces, among them Betty White. We’ll always miss her.
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 ...
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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 ...
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Chinese space station gears up for astrophysics
For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...
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Hubble's Famous M31 VAR! plate
Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope ... of the first Cepheid variable star in M31, which established beyond any doubt that M31 was a separate ...
Looming Budget Cuts Threaten Webb Telescope’s Groundbreaking Science
Astronomers warn that proposed changes to the space observatory's operational budget could decrease the amount of ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
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Unusual spiral quasar seen dancing with a companion
This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.