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NASA will give a Hubble Telescope status update on June 4. Should we be worried?
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We’ll get an update about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (June 4), and it could be a pretty big deal. On June ...
Euclid space telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars wandering the Perseus cluster (images)
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Using the Euclid space telescope, scientists have discovered a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars drifting through a massive cluster of thousands of ...
Massive cradle of baby stars revealed in new space telescope images
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A massive cradle of baby stars has been observed in new detail by a European space telescope, ...
Webb telescope uncovers merger of two massive black holes from early universe
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black ...
Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image)
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To write that the Hubble Space Telescope is legendary would be an understatement. In the 34 years this telescope has been in ...
NASA suspends Swift gamma-ray space telescope operations
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NASA has officially halted science observations conducted by its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Don’t worry, though. The space telescope, which observes some ...
The James Webb Space Telescope’s targets over the next year include black holes, exomoons, dark energy — and more
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The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced which astronomy proposals have been selected to be given time with the James Webb Space ...
NASA’s SPHEREx mission aims to map 450 million galaxies and 100 million stars
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A new extraordinary NASA mission aims to map the sky in unprecedented detail and color. Construction has started on SPHEREx, a new ...
Shimmering galaxies revealed in new photos by European space telescope
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists on Tuesday unveiled the first pictures taken by the European space telescope Euclid, a shimmering and ...
‘Bones’ of cosmic hand revealed in creepy NASA X-ray telescope views (video, photo)
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NASA’s newest X-ray space telescope has captured a ghostly view of a stellar explosion whose remains resemble a skeleton hand in deep ...