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The Interstellar Visitor Hurtling Toward the Center of Our Star System Is Unimaginably Ancient, Scientists Say
Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS came from interstellar space, blowing through the ...
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James Webb Space Telescope celebrates 3 years of science with dazzling 'toe beans' image of Cat's Paw Nebula
The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...
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What is space and what’s floating about in it?
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
NASA's Webb telescope captures images of new stars forming in Cat's Paw Nebula
New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.
Webb scratches beyond the surface of the Cat's Paw for third anniversary
To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...
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Big Bang Echoes Hint Earth Might Be At the Center of a 2 Billion Light-Year Void
At the recentRoyal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England, groundbreaking new evidence was ...
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Why scientists are so excited about the newfound interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (op-ed)
Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...
NASA's asteroid target practice may not have been the success we thought
There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...