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6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth
Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This ...
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 ...
Hubble reveals unusual globular clusters in ultra-diffuse galaxy FCC 224
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...
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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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Hubble's Famous M31 VAR! plate
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
Step Into the Future: NASA’s Synthetic Universe Brings Roman’s Vision to Life
Scientists have created over a million simulated cosmic images using the power of supercomputers to anticipate the capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope. These synthetic images allow ...
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 ...
New U.S. Postal Service stamps feature vivid images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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NASA’s Hubble shows off sparkling Tarantula Nebula, where the biggest stars are born
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...
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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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Space photo of the week: Galaxies teeter toward collision in the sparkling depths of Virgo
An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.