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If you thought the planet Neptune was a deep blue color, turns out you're wrong
Neptune has long been pictured as a deep, rich blue. Researchers reprocessed NASA images to show it…
Mia Jankowicz
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Mysterious 'ghostly' shadows larger than planet Earth reappeared on Saturn's rings. NASA says it expects even more to appear soon.
NASA's Hubble telescope spotted mysterious spots on Saturn's rings that scientists have puzzled ove…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA's Webb Space Telescope shows off its most detailed image of Uranus yet, revealing storms and a 21-year-long winter in exquisite detail
Surprising details in this new portrait of the planet Uranus show why NASA's James Webb Space Teles…
Paul Squire,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a distant star die, explode, and fade away in rare, colorful detail
A star 500 times larger than the sun collapsed, exploded, and died in a supernova 11 billion years …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The asteroid NASA crashed into looks like a comet now, with a forked tail, Hubble image reveals
NASA is watching the asteroid Dimorphos closely since the DART spacecraft slammed into it. The come…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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7 Easter eggs in the images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are totally new to astronomy
An astronomer points out hidden sights in NASA's new images, from previously invisible star cluster…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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Side-by-side images from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes show why NASA spent 25 years and $10 billion
NASA's new space observatory can capture details nobody has ever seen: countless galaxies, clouds o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Side-by-side photos show how much more powerful NASA's new James Webb telescope is than Hubble
The James Webb telescope is six times larger and 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Tele…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA and SpaceX to investigate whether Crew Dragon spaceship could drag Hubble Space Telescope further from Earth
NASA and SpaceX plan to spend six months investigating whether the effort would work. It involves a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found the most distant black hole ever growing near the dawn of t…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Hubble vs. Webb: New NASA telescope reveals never-before-seen details from the early universe, within 400 million years after the Big Bang
Astronomers thought Hubble was showing them a single galaxy from the beginning of the universe. But…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Side-by-side images of the 'Pillars of Creation' show Webb's power. It captured the famous stellar nursery overflowing with stars, which Hubble couldn't make out.
Hubble took the first photo of the Pillars of Creation in 1995. Decades later, Webb captured its cl…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers Jupiter has a jet stream whipping around the planet at 320 mph, twice as fast as Earth's fiercest hurricanes
NASA scientists have discovered a 3,000-mile-wide jet stream around Jupiter's equator, thanks to th…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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A stunning photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals 3 galaxies colliding
Galaxies merging together create starbursts and supermassive black hole collisions. The new James W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Side-by-side Jupiter images show James Webb's infrared prowess. It spots auroras, rings, and faint galaxies Hubble can't see clearly.
Webb's new images of Jupiter showcase its auroras, rings, and extremely faint galaxies, which Hubbl…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Side-by-side photos of the Orion Nebula show how powerful Webb's infrared cameras are. They spot star-forming clouds and gas cocoons Hubble can't see.
A new image of the Orion Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals parts of the nebula tha…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA successfully completes unfolding of James Webb space telescope, which has been hailed as a groundbreaking achievement
The US space agency fully deployed its James Webb Telescope, including a gold-plated hexagonal mirr…
Zahra Tayeb
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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I meticulously schedule the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb, so we can capture the cosmos in ways we've never seen before
Kari Bosley became the lead mission planner for the James Webb Space Telescope despite the hurdles …