While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so much …
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SpaceFeatured
Here’s How Astronomers Are Looking for Alien Life Beyond Earth
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWe have long been fascinated with the idea of alien life. The earliest written record presenting the idea …
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Space
NASA’s NEOWISE Telescope Takes 12-Year Time-Lapse Movie of the Entire Sky
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesPictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders, while movies can bring them to life. Films from …
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Space
Making Sense of the Nonsensical: Black Holes and the Simulation Library
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAfter mobilizing more than 300 scientists and engineers to establish a network of synchronized telescopes that form an …
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Space
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Primed to Lift the Haze Surrounding Sub-Neptune Planets
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesMore than half of the Sun-like star systems surveyed in the Milky Way harbor a mysterious type of …
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Technology
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision ‘Eyes’
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesNASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When …
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A team of astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at the Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has produced …
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To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope in the understanding of our Solar System, think of …
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Space
Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, Its Rings, and 2 Intriguing Moons
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesJupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system …
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Resembling a space butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colors, and intricate patterns, this striking bubble of gas …