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The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
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SpaceX's Fram2 mission captures 1st human X-ray in Earth orbit
In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we ...
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This new telescope lens could be a game-changer for space imagery
Though still only in the prototype stage, this flat lens could one day be used on space telescopes, and perhaps even on amateur telescopes. Engineers and astronomers at the University of Utah have ...
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NASA's SPHEREx space telescope releases its first images on mission to map millions of galaxies
A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx ...
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Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...
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This New Telescope Can Negate 'False-Positives' Of Alien Life Within Hours
ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) sits at the peak of Cerro Armazones. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, could potentially search for alien life ...
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A world of diamonds? NASA James Webb Space Telescope discovers a gem-rich planet five times larger than Earth
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e ... 55 Cancri e’s extreme orbit and heat turn it into a lava world The most compelling aspect of 55 Cancri e is its incredibly ...
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Euclid space telescope unveils new images of galaxies billions of light years away
NEW YORK (AP) — A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies. READ MORE: A cradle of baby stars revealed in new ...
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NASA's Newest Space Telescope Blasts Off to Map the Entire Sky and Millions of Galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon ... "Given what we know about the star they orbit, that likely indicates they formed via core accretion, which for planets ...
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Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxies in first data drop
Extraordinary images from the Euclid space telescope have captured 26 million galaxies, some as far off as 10.5 billion light years. Euclid was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA ...
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No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Less than 45 minutes later, the Falcon 9's upper stage released SPHEREx into a polar orbit at an altitude of ... observatory like the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb's primary mirror spans ...