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Wandering celestial bodies provide a glimpse into the formation of stars and planets
Dec 28, 2021 (SPX)
To answer this question, Nuria Miret Roig and her collaborators targeted the Upper Scorpius young stellar association to search for these elusive planets. Star ...
Hubble Lends a Helping Hand
Dec 27, 2021 (SPX)
These missions represent a vast array of science - from planetary probes that get up close to study the intricate dynamics of the gas giants' atmospheres, to ob...
Ball Aerospace-built optics and mirror system launched aboard Webb Telescope
Dec 27, 2021 (SPX)
"It is truly an honor to be such an integral part of the next great space observatory," said Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Spa...
James Webb telescope sets off on million-mile voyage
Dec 26, 2021 (AFP)
The James Webb Space Telescope, some three decades and billions of dollars in the making, left Earth enclosed in its Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou Space Centre in...
Inside the James Webb Space Telescope's control room
Dec 22, 2021 (AFP)
From a secure control room in Baltimore, Maryland, Whitman and his colleagues will hold their breath as Webb comes online. But that's just the beginning. For th...
Five things to know about the James Webb Space Telescope
Dec 22, 2021 (AFP)
An engineering marvel, it will help answer fundamental questions about the Universe, peering back in time 13 billion years. Here are five things to know. - Gian...
A gigantic lane made of raw material for new stars
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
Hydrogen is the most widespread substance in the Universe and the main ingredient in the formation of stars. Unfortunately, detecting individual clouds of hydro...
NASA confirms December 24 telescope launch
Dec 18, 2021 (AFP)
The project, begun in 1989, was originally expected to deploy the instrument -- which will be the largest and most powerful telescope ever to be launched into s...
A quantum view of 'combs' of light
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
Each "tooth" of the comb is a different color of light, spaced so precisely that this system is used to measure all manner of phenomena and characteristics. Min...
IXPE Unfolds its Origami Boom for Science
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
The IXPE observatory features three identical telescopes, each with a mirror assembly and a polarization-sensitive detector. To focus X-rays, IXPE's mirrors nee...
China's FAST telescope detects over 500 new pulsars
Dec 17, 2021 (XNA)
Pulsars, or fast-spinning neutron stars, originate from the imploded cores of massive dying stars through supernova explosions. With their high density and fast...
Our Milky Way may be more fluffy, less wiry
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
Previous work has suggested that the Milky Way is what's known as a "grand design" spiral, with long, narrow, well-defined spiral arms. However, new research fi...
NASA's Webb Telescope will have the coolest camera in space
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
Many cosmic objects - including stars and planets, as well as the gas and dust from where they form - emit infrared light, sometimes called heat radiation. But ...
Unveiling substructures at the edge of the Galaxy
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
"Typically, this region of the Milky Way has remained poorly explored due to the intervening dust which severely obscures most of the Galactic midplane", says C...
Discovery of split photon provides a new way to see light
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The finding that the building blocks of light can exist in a previously-unimaginable split form advances the fundamental understanding of light and how it behav...
Webb space telescope launch delayed: NASA
Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)
The NASA project, launched in 1989, was originally expected to deploy in the early 2000s. But multiple problems forced delays and a tripling of the telescope's ...
A young, sun-like star may hold warnings for life on Earth
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers, including astrophysicist Yuta Notsu of the University of Colorado Boulder, published their results Dec. 9 in the journal Nature Astronomy. The ...
Webb telescope to look for first light of cosmic dawn
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
The largest and most powerful telescope ever to be launched into space, which will take over from Hubble, will "directly observe a part of space and time never ...
Webb telescope aims to answer astronomy's 'biggest questions'
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, named for a former director of the American space agency, follows in the footsteps of the legendary Hubble -- but intends to ...
James Webb Space Telescope: A giant leap towards 'other Earths'?
Dec 10, 2021 (AFP)
But outside our own solar system, other stars give warmth and light to planets and, possibly, life. Soon to offer a better look at these so-called exoplanets is...
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