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New image from one of Earth's largest telescopes shows a 'star factory' nebula in stunning detail
The picture, of the Cone Nebula 2500-light-years away, was snapped by the European Southern Observa…
Marianne Guenot
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The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics.
Astronomers have made the largest 3-D map of our universe and it could change the way we understand…
Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-J…
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope breaks another record, discovering the smallest star-like object astronomers have ever seen
NASA's Webb telescope was able to spot an object, the smallest of its kind, from 1,000 light years …
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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China's largest radio telescope is now fully operational and hoping to find aliens
China’s first told the world about its the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in 2016.…
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James Webb telescope: How to watch NASA’s largest and most powerful space science telescope launch on Dec 24
The James Webb space telescope could help reveal what the universe looked like 14 billion years …
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Stars are being born next to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in a stunning new image by the world's largest airborne telescope
The world's largest airborne telescope — the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFI…
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Watch live as Biden reveals the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
NASA's new space telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, with the ability to peer further…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful it discovered sand storms on a planet 235 trillion miles away
NASA's Webb telescope peered at clouds on the distant "super Jupiter" planet, and detected tiny san…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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China now holds the world's last giant, single-dish telescope after the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed
China's FAST single-dish, giant telescope is the last remaining in the world. It is also the larges…
Azmi Haroun
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A telescope submerged nearly a mile underwater in the world's deepest lake is hunting for ghostly particles from space
A telescope underwater in Russia's Lake Baikal is looking for neutrinos - particles that can pass t…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets
NASA's most powerful space telescope peers across the solar system to spy new storms on Jupiter and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China says its giant 'Sky Eye' telescope may have picked up signals from alien civilizations
Chinese researchers found signals that could be from "extraterrestrial civilizations," according to…
Bill Bostock
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Astronomers spotted a distant planet in the middle of making its own moon
The disc surrounding this planet has enough dust and gas to form three moons the size of our own. T…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA completes James Webb final deployment — Here’s what’s next for the space telescope
Webb's final destination is called the second Lagrange point or L2 which is located 1.5 million …
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From war to layoffs to meltdowns to famous deaths: The year that was 2022
Russia invaded Ukraine and got suspended from the UNHRC. Massive layoffs took place at Meta, Twitte…
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840 new planets have been discovered beyond Neptune and its the single largest finding till date
We all know that the universe is vast, but we don’t know exactly how vast it is. But humans don’t b…
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The most detailed photo ever taken of a sunspot shows a dark patch bigger than Earth roiling for 10,000 miles
The sun's powerful magnetic fields create dark spots where hot gases boil up from below. Earth's la…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton platform has crashed into its disk below and destroyed the iconic radio observatory
One of Earth's key radio telescopes fell in on itself, dealing a major blow to astronomers' searche…