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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, New Horizons, Earth, Exploration, Solar System, Research, News Release, PlutoPluto Revealed: Five New Science Papers Highlight Discoveries by New Horizons
Pluto is a tiny world in the outer fringes of the Solar System; for many decades it was only a mere speck of light in even the best telescopes, with only vague hints of surface features. Then, in July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, the first time ever that humanity would get […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, New Horizons, Earth, Exploration, Europa, Solar System, Research, Kuiper Belt, Pluto, EnceladusNew Horizons Discovers Methane ‘Snow’ on Pluto’s Mountain Peaks
As the data from New Horizons continues to come in, we are learning more about what an incredible little world Pluto really is, with tall mountains of rock-hard water ice, as well as glaciers and vast icy plains composed of nitrogen ice. In some ways, these features are visually reminiscent of similar ones on Earth, and […] More
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets
NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars — less than half the distance between Earth and our moon. More
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Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet
Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat. That is the situation on a weird, wobbly world found by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. More
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Finds Source of Magellanic Stream
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy. More
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NASA’S Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory’s launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. More
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Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon—a result of Einstein’s general theory of relativity—in binary, or double, star systems. More
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Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova
More than two decades since its launch, the Hubble Space Telescope continues to inspire awe and astonishment, most recently by identifying the farthest supernova to date of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil—nicknamed “SN Wilson,” in honor of World War I-era President Woodrow Wilson—exploded more than 10 billion years ago and lies […] More
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Gemini Planet Imager: New Telescope Will Photograph Distant Worlds
For those who wonder about alien worlds out there, this is an exciting time of discovery. The number of exoplanets found so far is now well into the thousands and rapidly growing. The one downside—if you can call it that—is that these planets, with just a few exceptions, have been discovered by methods other than […] More
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NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes In a Suspected Binary Protostar
PASADENA, Calif — Two of NASA’s great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light. More
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in Uncategorized, News, NASA, Science, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope, Mike Killian, Space Exploration, USA, Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomy, gravitational lensing, European Space Agency, TechnologyHubble And Spitzer Telescopes Combine Efforts To Discover Most Distant Object Ever Seen
Astronomers have identified a new candidate for the title of “most distant object ever seen in the universe”. By combining the power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers identified the object as a small far-away galaxy only 600 light-years wide, a tiny fraction of the size of our own 150,000 light-years wide Milky […] More
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Life-Nurturing Asteroid Belts May Be Rare
Asteroid belts similar to the one around the Sun, but not ones that are much sparser or denser, might be crucial to the appearance of life on any Earth-like worlds. If they are, then inhabited planets like our own might be a rarity. That’s the conclusion of astronomers Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from […] More